Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-05

BOSTON AND VICINITY.


A middle aged couple named Farrell, was
arrested in Boston on the 4th, for stealing
ba!moralS and diapers from the dry goods
stores. The Traveller says the woman was
sentenced on one count, and in three other
charges, the husband being with her, the wife
was considered not guilty, and he had to stand
SIX months in the house of correction.
Hon. John S. Sleeper has gone to Wash
ington 10 contest the seat of Hon. A. Il. Rice
as representative from the Thrill district
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
A bank under the national banking act has
been started in Marlborough, with capital OF
100000. MIR. e. c. Whitney formerly of
the Lancaster bank, is to be cashier.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Gloucester fishing season Just clos
ing has been unusually prosperous The
crews used to consider $500 per man a good
result, but this lime $500 is generally the fig
ure. The Chatham folks are waking up to
the Importance of extending its fishery, and
will shortly have large fleet of vessels and
increased facilities for curing.
The dead body of an unknown man was
found on the track of the Saugus branch rail-
road, near East Saugus, on the 3D. The body
was 9adlX WFttitaftafd scnouler has been for
week confined to his house in Lynn with n
bilious fever.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
On the Sd, large barn belonging to the
eStMe of the late Jesse Perkins, Plymouth. was
burned, together with its contents, consisting
of several tons of hay, two COWS, calf, farm
wagons and quite Il large amount of imple-
ments.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Tempted by the present high prices, some
Of the farmers of Berkshire are baling their
hay for expectation, some four thousand tons
have recently been bought up in the county
by dealers from abroad.
MAINE.
The soldiers in the several camps at Ban
gor, were furnished with pies and other lux
uries on Thanksgiving day, by the ladies of
that city.
A spring of water burst out in cellar in
Portland a few days ago, threatening to
overflow the entire premises, and keeping a
steam fire engine at work all day long to
discharge it.
A man who had served fourteen months
in the rebel army was enlisted in Portland
the other day. He claimed to be ''veter-
an" an the ground that he had seen ''nine
months SERVICE" but the provost marshal
couldn't see it.
The Portland company is busily engaged in
casting large guns for the government. They
have several that weigh $4,000 pounds each.
The company is now adding new building
to its works, which is to be one hundred feet
long.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
At the accident on the Northern railroad
on the LIST, a car containing about one hun
dred persons was thrown over fifty feet EN-
bankment, and the burning fluid exploded,
killing two ladies and child. One man had
an eye torn out, and nearly thirty were hurt
or manglnd. One of the cars took fire imme-
diately.
One of the inmates of the county farm in
Belknap county, named Joel Dockham, got
up on the night of the goth ult., and lighted a
lamp in order to smoke, and by some acct
dent set fire to the bed, which soon enveloped
him in flames, burning his stomach and left
side so badly that he died upon the following
day.
On the I'd inst, Mr.. S. A. Shepard of Bed
ford shot magnificent snow owl, which
measured four feet and nine inches from tip
to tip of wings.
VERMONT.
OF one hundred and ninety-eight substitutes
and drafted men mustered into the third Yer
mont regiment, sixty eight are reported as de-
serters.
The 3D. Vermont battery, Captain Start, is
| nearly full; l26 men have been recruited.
CONNECTICUT.
A fish hawk was shot III Eastford one day
| last week, which measured feet ii inches
from the tip of each wing In its ''beak'
was found a fish that weighed pounds .
ounces.
James Brewster of New Haven, who re
Gently gave $4,000 to the orphan asylum Of
that city, has offered to build onanOther wins
to the asylum at cost of $5000
One hundred and twenty boys are now il
the state reform school at West Meriden.
Old "Darned Coat" the eccentric pedestri
an who for hall a century has travelled con
tnually through the western part OF Rhod
Island, and Windham county, Conn, int
Massachusetts, backward and forward, witt
the Consciousness of pendulum, died IN tn
road last week, in Sterling, Conn. The poo
waytarer had a history, but no one was able
draw it from him.
Patrick O'Neil, an Irishman, in the emplo
of David Moore, fell from Spaulding's dan
Norwich, on the I'd, and landed among tn
rocks and water, nearly twenty feet below
His injuries were severe.
First Lieut.. VIM. G. Fitch, of the I'd U. s
infantry, of New Haven, has been put on I'll
retired list for ill health oceasiuned by hol
orable and arduous service.
RHODE ISLAND.
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