Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-23
New ENGLAND views summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Some months since Mr.. James Monroe
Sawyer was fatally stabbed in the streets in
Boston by Edward Owens, while walking with
young woman named Eta Stanley-jeal-
ousy being the cause. Owens pleaded guilty
of murder in the second degree, and on the
2lst he was sentenced to the state prison for
life.
n A gentleman had two hundred and eighty
& dollars stolen from his breast pocket at the
\ great sanitary fair.
The steamship Hibernia, which arrived at
Boston from Galway Oh the goth, brought 40
steeTage passonsere. 1t 10 s"id that GiIIfu
at least will be induced to enlist in the army.
The Massachusetts humane society has pre-
scented Mrs. Lucinda b. Cutter with one of its
medals, for her heroic efforts in saving the
lives Of two boys, last summer, at Lynn.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
II. d. and Nathaniel Dwight have lately
sold about three-quarters of their estate at
Dwight's Station (Belchertown) to John Big
Glow of Boylston, for $7400. The timber is
. being transported to Boston to fill government
contracts.
z While Mr. Jesse A. Locke, of Waterfowl,
was attending services at the Baptist church
in that town, on the goth, horse and chaise
belonging to him was stolen, and has not since
been heard from.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The boiler of Messrs. Jacobs & Sons mo-
rocco factory in South Danvers, exploded on
the morning of the 22d, killing Mr.. Cutler, a
br0ther-in-law of Mr.. Jacobs, and wounding
the engineers, Charles Andrews and John
Cummings.
Rev. Mr.. Hooker, the pastor of the North
church, NewburypoIt, in consequence of ill.
health, asks disnission from his pastoral
relations
BRISTOL COUNTY.
~ Those liable to the draft in Taunton have
subscribed Slabs to aid in raising the quota
of that town.
Charles Presbrey of Weir Village recently
found some Indian bones and hair IN remov
ing earth in the vicinity of his dwelling, sup
posed to have be en- buried two hundred years
ago. Portions of the blanket in which this
''brave' was inferred also remain.
The reward of $500, which was offered for
testimony to secure the conviction of the MUIR
derer of John Bullock, has been awarded to
district attorney Maston, to whom the mat
ter was referred, and twenty other witnesses,
in sums ranging from $50 to So.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
At q meeting of the city government of
Springfield on the evening of the 2lst, orders
were passed authorizing the mayor to petition
the legislature for the right for the city to
eXpSHu glUU,UUU III OUlulHlIlS anu supplying
the city with pure water. The annual re-
ports we're all read, accepted and ordered to
be printed. $4272 has been expended by the
overseers of the poor, extending relief to 2S5
persons. Only three fires have occurred
during the year, involving loss of $780, on
which there was an insurance of $500.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Twenty car loads of corn-7500 bushels
have been received at the Greenfield depot for
Shelburne farmers within few weeks.
There is man at the Jail in Greenfield who
is kept in solitary confinement. He's the
only prisoner.
Tobacco in several instances has been sold
at South Deerfield at thirty cents per pound.
The horse jockeys of Franklin and Hamp-
shire counties had ''grand convention" at
South Deertield last week. Trading was
somewhat promiscuous, but quite lively,
Four car loads of Vermont soldiers passed
through Greenfield on the evening of the 21st,
for the army.
The town of Rome has filled up her entire
quota.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Mrs S. NJ. Gordon CT Cheshire has in her
house chair over two hundred years old 1t
was brought from England in 1861, and the
year is carved upon it. Itis still an excellent
chair, and bids fair to be used by many gen
eratiOns more.
MAINE.
The total value of the foreign exports from
Portland for the week ending December 10Th,
is S2l6,430 10; included in the shipments
were 45l, 600 pounds cut meat.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
j. C. Langley, one of The passenger con-
ductors on the Portsmouth and Concord rail-
road, has not been OFT the road single day
during his ten years service.
The great auction sale of wood and timber
on Mt Pisgah (Winchester) on the 9th,
amounted in the aggregate to $20,6l6.
Spurious threes on the Belknap County
bank, Laconia, are in circulation. 1t is thus
described Wig. large 3, female bust each
side; Washington and horse, right; black
smith on left.