Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-13

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The coroners jury in the case of the man
shot by the colonel of the second Massashu.
sets cavalry, adopted verdict relieving Col.
Lowell of all blame.
There is to be a new theater erected in
Boston, in the style of Wallack's, to be sit
uated between Hayward Place and Essex
street.
A visitor at the Charleston navy yard, by
the name OF Green, was killed, Friday, by the
falling of derrick.
The bodies of John Dale aad Benjamin
Davis, two of the men who deserted from
Fort Independence last Tuesday night have
dritted ashore at the fort.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The revenue tax assessed upon some of the
heaviest manufacturers of Marlboro for the
month of February was as follows r. Brig
ham & CO., $1276 60; Boyd, Corey, & Co.,
S714 %; George Houghton, 1851 "a; Boyd
& Brigham, 1892 81; A. d. Howe, S4O4 a.;
S. G. Fay, S298 H. f. A. Howe, $3Ol "a; S.
H. Howe & Co., S249 Al; E. NJ. Stone,
1928 0S; II. G. Russell, $2l9 rs.
They have had another spasm of the ''pleu-
ro' panic in Waltham, where fine stock of
COWS belonging to w. p. Child of Waltham
are said TO have become affected. Two of
the stock were killed The disease is thought
to have been brought from Albany to Brigh-
ton, where Mr.. Child had made some recent
purchases.
ESSEN COUNTY.
John Masury Esq, worthy and respected
citizen of Salem, died on the 9TH inst. He
was probably the last survlvorof the first crew
of the United States frigate Essex, built in
Salem in 1893, during the administration of
the elder Adams.
Prof. Egbert c. Smith of Bowdoin college,
has been elected to fill the place of Prof
Shedd in the chair of ecclesiastical history at
Andoyer theological seminary.
BRISTOL. COUNTY.
Several persons from Boston, representing
a large amount of capital, have purchased
farm Of thirty acres at Woods Hole for the
extensive manufacture and shipping of guano
The cooper shop adjoining the petroleum
oil works of +. r. Whitwell at Fairhaven,
was destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon.
Loss about $1,000; no insurance.
Zeno Kelley of New Bedford is now on trial
for fitting out the ship Tahmaroo as a SLAYER,
for the purpose of kidnapping Kanakas on
the coast of Africa.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The school committee of Beckett, in their
annual report, tell the following sad story of
a naughty pedagogue Had he been older
and more experienced, he would probably
have been more particular in regard to the
character of his amusements, and also in the
cnoice of his most intimate associates, and
would also have learned that kissing his
young lady pupils in open school, is an exer-
else not recognized by our common school
regulations, and one not likely to be very
highly appreciated by the people of the dis
trict."
Charles Cronk, an employee on the Housa-
tonic railroad, has child nearly six months
old which now weighs but about three pounds
When six weeks old a ladies' finger ring was
slipped over its arm up to its shoulder
Charles Sedgwick Spencer, son of T. II.
Spencer of Housatonic, aged IA, was drowned
at West Stockbridge (Williamsville,) on
Thursday of last week.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
On Thursday night, the dam above Whit
more's mill at North Sunderland gave way,
sweeping before it by the rush of all the water
above, two shops formerly occupied by the
late Samuel Tracy, carrying them with all
their contents down against Whitmore's large
grist mill, BUSTING it from its foundation, des-
troying all the machinery, with hundreds of
bushels of grain.