Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-06
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

By direction of the committee on pardons
of the executive council, Obed Reynolds, his
council, and the attorney general, have been
notified, that, if desired, hearing can be had
in his matter, at the council chamber on the
Both inst.
The trial of John A. Cook, charged with
being engaged in fitting out, and with volun-
tarily serving on board the SLAYER TahmGroo,
was commenced in the U. S. circuit court in
Boston, on the morning of June f.
Worthless 81 bills on the Pocasset Bank
are In circulation in Boston.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Counterfeit twenty dollar bills on the bank
of Taunton, are in circulation in New York.
son of the late Joel w. Whitney, aged
eight years, was precipitated into well thir-
ty-one feet deep, at Acushnet Village, on
June I'd, by the giving way of scuttle. The
water was six feet deep, but he succeeded in
getting out and climbing up a lead pipe to the
top. Here he stopped, not being able to reach
the opening His cries were heard, and he
was rescued from his perilous situation.
Richard Hayden of New Bedford, who re-
celved letter from the post Office in October,
1861, containing checks to the amount of
$1,000, belonging to Edward L. Baker, for
which he was sentenced to Imprisonment for Il
term of yesrs in New Bedford jail has been
pardoned by the president, he being sin an
advanced stage of pulmonary consumption"
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The Cape CodRepubican states that within
a few days the wreck of vessel foundered
and sunk off Nauset beach, Orleans, more
than two hundred years ago, and completely
buried in the sand, has again come to view
several pieces OF it, with shoes, barrel slaves,
&C., supposed to be part of the cargo, being
washed ashore, and the old hulk, by the
washing away of the sand, daily coming more
and more into view
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The new bridge now being constructed over
the Agawam river at Mittinesque will be 25
rods below the old one. 1t will be covered,
will cost $4,000, and will be completed by
the LIST of August
The Dwight Mills at Chicopee have stopped
running for the present.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
| The Wavelly paper mill at East Cumming
ton has been leased for one year to James
| Crombie of New York
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
| William S. Brooks of Stamford caught a
trout the other day which measured II inches
in length, and in girth, and weighed Ia
pounds.
Grass never looked better at this season of
the year in Berkshire county.
The farm in Seekonk, where gold was
found few weeks ago, has been leased by
DIR. Samuel Taylor for ninety-nine years.
The lessee is confident that not only gold, but
silver, lead and coal, can be dug there.
Members of the 49th have sent $4,000 by
express to Pittsfeld, for their families
A. Z. Sparts of Egremont shot four foxes
on the 18th ult., without a change of position
The town of Sheffield was visited on the af
| tprOOOn of tho LET nil Nuit a. L.:
storm, commencing about three o'clock ant
raging with great fury for nearly three quar-
tiers of an hour, breaking windows, leveline
fences. and uprooting trees. Hail stones fel
measuring l-2 inches in circumference. Il
passed from west to east over the north an(
central parts of the town. Serious damage
was done to fields of grain and gardens, anC
some fine orchards were severely injured
trees six inches through were twisted off an,
! others torn up by the roots. The lightnin,
struck IN several different places.
MAINE.
The county of Penobscot is reported to b.
entirely free from debt this year-the frs
time since its organization.
, A horse attached to a pop-beer wagon IA,
away in Portland, yesterday. The fuslad
which followed caused an alarm that the Brit
ish had taken the city.
The Portland Argus says that wild bear
are caught in some of the wards of Augusta
, Yes, and so are dearS to be seen every day il
Portland. Neither city has quite outgrowI
its rural look.-AuguSta Journal.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
7 The jury of inquest in the case of the sud
: den death of Mrs. Mary Jane Bly,, at Man
chester, N. H., have returned a verdict sub
stantially to the effect that her death wa
caused by violent abortion, and that Dr. Pag
aided in producing it.
Mr.. VIM. Pufer of Peterborough, who i
eighty two years Of age, during the past win