Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-07
general News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

The statement of the detalCatiOn of Mr..
Shed, late cashier of the Bank of Mutual
Redemption, was a little highly colored as to
the amount missing, which does not appear to
exceed ten thousand dollars. Mr.. Shed had
filled many places of trust in the city where
he resided and was a member in good stand
ing of the Baptist church, from which he has
been communicated since his fall.
Wendell Phillips filled the desk of the 2Sth
Congregational society, Sunday morning, adj
vocating the establishment of a metropolitan
police. The city government of Boston, he
said, was only a standing committee appointed
by the grog shops of that peninsula, on which
no man of honor or self respect would sit.
Rev. DIR. Nicholson, rector of St. Paul's
church in Boston, has recently received gift
of twelve hundred dollars from his parishion-
ers. The Easter offerings of this church on
Easter Sunday, amounted to twenty-five hun
dred dollars.
Rev. N. NJ. Gaylord, formerly of Boston,
and who has until recently been connected
with the Massachusetts eighteenth regiment,
has resigned that position to accept that of
chaplain in one of the largest army hospitals
in Washington.
The wife of a worthy citizen in Cambridge
eloped one day last week with a conductor on
the Union horse railroad. The conductor
left behind wife and children, entirely desti-
tute.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The first national bank in Massachusetts,
under the new law-with its capital stock
fixed at $l50,00O and all subscrbed-has
been organized at Springfield with James
Kirkham as president, and the following
board of directors: Henry Morris, o. II.
Greeneaf, Samuel Norris, George E. How
ard, J. B. Wesson, w. X. Baker, James
Kirkham.
The Ames company at Chicopee recently
purchased of government contractor at New
York 1000 cap tubes, manufactured for gov
eminent muskets. They proved to be of cast
iron instead Of steel, and were part Of lot of
10000, condemned by the government in
spectors, which the same swindler still has in
the market.
RHODE ISLAND.
The brick house of J. S Remington, Esq,
in Providence, recently built, but not yet oc-
cupied was greatly damaged Sunday night by
an explosion of gunpowder, which snme vii
lain had concealed there for the purpose of
destroying the property.
CONNECTICUT.
New London is infested with burglars.
Personal.
1t is said that Garcia, the gambling Span
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NOUS sum of 100000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The mayor of New York had an intricate
matrimonial squabble before him last week for
settlement - the party consisting of two
Dutchmen and two Dutch-esses. The two
men claimed one of the women, and the two
women claimed one of the men. The mayor
gave up in despair.
One of the young women of Altoona, tired
of remaining at home, enlisted in the army
eighteen months ago, where she has since re-
manned without having her sex discovered.
She took part in three battles, and was wound
ed twice, first above the eve and then in the
arm, the latter wound compelling her to dis
close her sex.
Some days ago, planter, disguised as a
negro, having his face and hands BACKED,
was discovered attending church at Hilton
Head, by one of his former slaves, who in
formed the guard, and he was arrested. 1t is
thought there are many such spies about the
camp.
One of the fashionable club rooms in New
Orleans has been transformed into the head
quarters of a Union league, embracing all
the eminent Unionists in the city.
The London correspondent of the Boston
Traveller says every member of the house
of Earrings, except old Mr.. Bates, wants to see
the north beaten, and think the American
people have no right to be their own judges as
to what is right and proper for them to do.
Mr. George Peabody is a patriotic jeremiah,
who only laments that some one could not
hang Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, and
all the base, mschief-ma abolitionists.
To him, the browning sin of American folly
is abolitionism. A man that processes that
horrible ism is a monster too terrible for
respectable man to speak to-