Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-18

General Tpvys summary

BIOS ION AND VICINITY.
The degree of Doctor Of Divinity was con-
ferred, at the recent commencement Of Tufts
College, upon Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, senior,
editor of the Trumpet and Freeman.
Thomas CJyne was arrested in Boston on
the l7th, for attempting to murder John Ra-
gan. 1t is reported that Coync is guilty Of the
murder of two men in New Orleans and one
in New York.
SnDDLEsEx COUNTY.
While Rev. Charles Lowe, pastor of the
Unitarian church in SOmervlle, was at com
me ncement in Cambridge, his house was
broken into and robbed of ii gold watch val
ued ut 500, and $35 in money.
A man named Brown, belonging in Name,
was run over by the cars on the 10th inst, at
West Medford Oh the Lowell railroad, crush
ing both legs seriously, and endangering his
life.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The members of the 3D. regiment have been
ordered to hold themselves in readiness to
proceed to camp Immediately on the reception
of orders to that effect.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
One night last week the house of Mr.. John
Beale Of bingham was entered by man, who
crept stealthily through window in the rear.
A daughter of Mr.. Beale was awakened by the
noise, and presented herself in the room
which the man had Just entered, and demand
ed what he wanted The man said he wanted
water She told him she knew better, and
counseled him, as he valued his personal safe
ty, to make tracks of retreat with all possible
dispatch. The villain needed the counsel
and commenced leaving with remarkable
haste.
A few days since an Irish boy, eight years
old, residing in Hanover, set fire to a small
quantity of gunpowder while his head and the
powder were SO near each other that he receiv-
ed the full benefit of the explosion in his face,
temporarily destroying his sight
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Statistics of Pttsfed for 1868; number of
polls 1891; total valuation So, 800; tax
assessment &C cents on 800.
Lieut.. Col. S. B. Sumner of Great Barring
ton, of the 49th regiment, wounded in the
shoulder in one of the attacks on Port Hud-
son, and Lieut. Tucker of the same regiment,
son of county treasurer George Tucker of
Lenox, who had leg amputed both returned
home last week, and are recovering.
An individual calling himself DIR. John II.
Garnett, and claiming to be a surgeon in the
U. S. army, stationed at Annapolis, Md, was
married IN Pittsfeld fortnight since to
young lady from Great Darlington, and few
days after left his bride, taking nearly all her
money and her gold watch, and has not since
been heard from He is reported to have a
complement OF three or four wives.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
At meeting of the Greenfield gas company
on the l4th, semi-annual dividend of per
cent. was declared.
MAINE.
Heavy firing was heard about eight miles
off Portland Light on the morning of the
18th.
The report that provost marshal Davis of
Augusta was shot is contradicted.
The house called the Union hotel, opposite
the Congregational church, Saco, was burned
on the 10Th.
Chas. Smith of Madison, has been arrested
for employing and harboriug two deserters
from the United States-service, knowing them
to be deserters. He is, of course a copper
head.
One of the conscripts in Portland went to
dentist after he was drafted, and had four
of his front teeth extracted, in order to in
capacitate him from serving his country.