Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-22
New England NEWS summary,
BOSTON AND VICINITY,

BOSTON AND VICINITY,
The Boston sanitary fair closed at Music
Hail, Monday night. The unsold articles
contributed will be transferred to another hall,
anu the far opened, in day or two. The to-
TAI receipts can not be officially obtained, but
they will not fal! short of SIO0, 900.
James Campbell, who has been acquitted of
The Cooper street riot murder, was arraigned
on the 2lst, in the superior criminal court, on
four indictments for telonousIy assaulting po-
lice officers Ostrander and Windship, and for
breaking and entering the stores of I f..
Barnes and VIM. Reed 6 Son all on the riot
night l4th July last. lie pleaded not guilty to
each Indictment, and gave bail in $4,000 for
his appearance for trial
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
The town OF Newton has raised her full
quota, seventy -nne men, from the contra
bands near Fortress Monroe, and they are to
be sent lis recruits to the 9th and Doth regi-
men;s.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Dwight company at Chcopee are pre-
pairing to start up two of their mills by new
years.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Cornelius Conner fell from a door in the
fifth story of Gilbert & Co.'S wooden mill to
the ground, at Ware, on the 10th, breaking
HIS llillbo anu IfdCluIlHS HIS Skul. lie lived
but an hour and Il half afterwards
MAINE.
Spurious threcs on the Manufacturers and
Traders bank of Portland have lately boon set
alloat.
VERMONT.
The first mortgage bondholders have failed
in their efforts to get possession of the Rut-
land and Burlington railroad. 1t remains
with the second mortgages
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The receipts of the New Hampshire deIega-
ton at the sanitary fair in Boston, including
the fire engine and the Concord cash subscrip-
tons, will amount to $4,000.
The Boston and Lowell and Nashua and
Lowell railroads are going to consolidate with
each other, and with any other New Hamp-
shire companies that may elect to do So form
ing a new corporation OF $4,000, 900 capital
Among the latest spurious bills that have
been issued, is a three on the Belknap county
bank at Laconia.
CONNECTICUT.
Gen. James Lane, senator from Kansas, is
to eat his Christmas dinner in Waterbury.
Threes that have been raised from ones on
the Hurlburt bank at West Winsted, are in
circulation.
Col. Hawley writes to the Hartford Press
THAT O0U men Vi HIS TSBlIleHl tlle conn. Jtn J
will re-enlst, which is about two-thirds of
the number that could be passed if they should
offer. The colonel says he is proud Of the
9TH. The It'll Conn. ought to be proud of Col
Hawley.
block of wooden buildings, known as
Wolfes Block, situated at Mystic liver, on
the Groton side, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 18th.
The house and store near Groton, belonging
to j. l.. PrOuty, agent of transportation on
the night OF the 18th. Supposed incendiary
RHODE ISLAND.
An order was received at fort Adams few
since, for all the available men at that post,
to be sent to Chattanooga, and on the 2Sth
one company of 100 men, with bugler, tfer
and drummer, will leave under Capt A. NJ.
Brown, Lieut.. Semple, and I'd Lieut.. Head
berg. This will leave one company at the fort
for garrison duty.
A fire has been under way several days in
one of the coal storehouses Of the Provi-
dence Gas Company at Providence. The
cOmpany's steam pump has failed to extn-
guish it, and the coal will probably have to be
moved.
The valuation of real estate in South Kings
town for 1868 is 81, S67 ,725, personal property
$6l9,575. Total amount of lakes S.? ,G63.
Rate OF tax thirty nts on each 500.
Lieut. Horace Il. Mullan, formerly of the
Iroquois, has been ordered TO the Naval Aca-
denny Lieut.. Commander Edward p. Lull
has been detached from the naval academy
and ordered to the steam sloop-ot-war Brook
lyn, as executive officer.