Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-03
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY

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of Louisiana, arrived in Boston on the 3lst
ult.
A man named Murphy, in attempting some
time since to desert from the conscript camp
at Long Island was drowned. His body was
washed ashore on the island, and when found
had already been considerably mutilated by
the fish.
Capt. L. w. Stone, Jr., and six men of the
LIST Massachusetts regiment, arrived in Boston
on the LIST inst, to take conscripts to that reg
lment.
Secretary Chase was in Boston on the 3lst
ult.
Gentlemen of Boston who were instru.
mental in raising the 54th Massachusetts reg
iment, will at once send memorial to the
president, asking that measures be taken to
secure to the officers and soldiers of that reg
iment, captured by the rebels, the same treat
ment that soldiers of white regiments receive.
Eighty-nine conscripts from Providence, Il.
l., arrived in Boston on the LIST inst, on their
way to Long Island.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The examination of the conscripts from
Amesburg and Beverly up the 3lst, resulted
as follows: 800 had been discharged, 80 had
furnished substitutes, 10 had paid the c0mmu-
tation money, and rs had been accepted as
recruits.
David Woodbury. has been appointed post
master at South Danyers in place of Fitch
Poole, removed. Mr.. Woodbury. was indict-
ed for abstracting money from letters which
passed through the South Danvers office but
was acquitted on one indictment. While the
others were pending it was aScertained that
the robberies were committed by one d. Z.
Cate, who had obtained access to the post
Office by means OF false keys, and as a master
of WOo,ik,,r,, hn, 10
The captain of a fishing vessel in Salem
harbor intended to " dodge" the draft by
''being nonresident" but it being ascer-
tanned that he was taxed in the city, he was
obliged to come down with the three hundred.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The three young men by the name of Bar
rows, OF Wrentham, under arrest, charged
with the murder of Charles +. Knight have
been discharged from custody.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
George j. Laug, substitute broker in
Taunton, was arrested on the 30th, by an Of
ficer from New York, charged with bringing
drafted men and others liable to draft from
New York, and inducing them to enlist as
substitutes. John Smidt, German from New
York, who had refused to be sworn after en-
listing as substitute, was also arrested and
t"lsa', 81 ""stads' W tlIo same officer.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Brewster, at a town meeting, on the LIST
inst, voted to subscribe $25, 900 to the stock
in the Cape Cod Central railroad provided
the road is located north of Long and Sheep
ponds in that town.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
David Darling, of MOnson, has q venera-
bic Tom turkey, which took to a nest of
twenty-five eggs, and Matched out twenty
three young turkeys, and is now brooding
them tenderly as any maternal turkey
could. 1t is quite certain that the old COB
bier did not lay the eggs.
While Deacon Porter, of Monson, was rid
ing on the top of stage from the above place
to the cars, the horses took fright throwing
nm backwards from the stage to the ground,
inJuring his shoulder and side severely.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Two brass signal guns, taken from a British
secesh blockade runner, have been procured.
with which to fire the salute at the reception
of the 49th at Pittsield
BY little miscalcuaton, a chimney swal-
low recently inpaled himself upon the point
of lightning rod in Washington, while at
tempting to go into the chimney, but an ac-
commodatiDg boy soon released him, and he
flew away apparently uninjured.
A dozen boys, more or less, were arrested
at Pittsfield Oh the 10Th ult, for stealing candy
from freight car at the Western railroad de-
pot.
MAINE.
Rev. W. P Merrill of Portland who was
arrested in st. John, N. b., for attempting to
secure substitutes for drafted persons in the
states, was bound over on his personal secu-
rity for $500. When the case came up for
trial Mr.. Merrill forgot to appear.
On the Both ult James w. futile of Ports
II
passing counterfeit money on the City Bank,
Lynn, and the Woburn Bank.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
On the 3lst ult. barn in Exeter belonging
to man known as ''Whitehorse" Bennett was
destroyed by fire, with its contents, including
the old white horse and yoke of cattle.
The stable connected with Whitcombs Ho-
tel, at Hampton, N. H., was burned on the
3lst ult., with its contents, eighteen tons of
hay. man named Crane was burned in the
stable.
Capt. G. II. Hubbard Of Manchester, last
week caught GOO trout in Northumberland
during the short space of three days, with a
hook.
VERMONT.
A boy at Middlebury, a few days since,
playing with pistol which was not known to
be loaded, shot Hugh Maxim, porter at the
Addison House. He survived only a few
hours.
Frederic E. Woodbridge of Vergennes has
been nominated for congressman by the Union
men of the first district.
CONNECTICUT.
The corporation of Yale College, at its late
session, made the following appointments -
Rev. VIM. B. Clark was appointed Livingston
professor of divinity, but the name of the pro-
fessOrship is to be changed into that of the
Chittenden professorship; Mr. Cyrus North
rup was appointed professor of rhetoric and
English literature; Mr.. Lewis r. Packard,
now tutor in Yale College, was appointed
professor of physical and political geography
in the philosophical department, and in con-
nection with the Sheffield Scientific School;
DIR. Leonard j. Sanford was appointed pro-
lessor of anatomy and physiology in the med
zeal department, in place of Professor Charles
Hooker, deceased.
On the Both ult., two students of Yale col
iege, who had received their diplomas, broke
INTO the rooms of tutor of the college, and
lndlscrimlnately smashed his furniture.
Nineteen out of thirty substitutes who es-
caped from Grapevile Point, New Haven.
have been recaptured,
A man who knew the circumstances of the
drowning of the boy John Ward. at Hartford
on the 18th ult, had dream in which he
saw the boy clinging to post under a build
ing. Careful search was made the next Iav
and the body was found in the position in6i,