Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-24
General News Summary


private in the COlured regiment. He has been
a slave and now well appreciates the adyan-
tages Of liberty. If the regiment contains
many men of his determination and ability,
woe to the southern regiment that meets it in
battle.
Mr.. Charles j. Boniface, awell known act
or in Boston, has become insane within few
days. He has a wife and four children de-
pendent on his labors.
Mr.. Wyzeman Marshall has leased the Bos-
ton theatre from March, 1868, till July, 1864,
the rent determined on being SIS 900.
Rev. Mr.. Fletcher has sent specimen of
the mata- mata, a mud turtle from the Amazon
river, to Prof. AgasSiz, and the latter is de-
lighted with it, as it is the first specimen ever
seen in this country.
Washington's birthday was celebrated in
Boston and adjacent cities by the usual sa-
lutes, bell-ringing, and displays of bunting
In Boston, the New England Association of
Veterans of 1872, held their semi annual
meeting, with Col. Thomas Aspinwall as
president. The following members of the as
socatiOn have died during the year John
Rich Of Boston; Asa Stone of Watertown,
aged So; sergeant Joseph Dunbar, at Wey
mouth, who was five years in the 10th L. 5.
infantry; Stephen Culver, who died in Dor
chester, aged SO, and Col Sullivan Burbank
of Lexington, who received promotion for
gallantry at Lundy's Lane.
The members of the Legislature, about one
hundred Of them, celebrated Washington's
birthday by visit to the old Pilgrim town of
Plymouth.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
building in Bedford, owned by Geo. b.
Emerson of Boston, and occupied by Chas. +.
Bradford as paint shop, took fireon Sunday,
and the stock and building were damaged to
the amount Of 5000.
ESSEN COUNTY.
Mr.. j. S. Taylor, of Lynn, who had for
some time missed postal currency and bank
bills from his money drawer, and had tried
various means to detect the thief, a few eve
nings since discovered that his g circulating
medium" had been distracted by rogush mice
to make them a warm nest beneath his ice
chest. Over $50 dollars worth, in a good
state Of preservation, was found there, besides
a good deal that had been destroyed
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Of the 18th tax division, embracing the
towns of Palmer, Monson Brimfeld, Hol-
land, Wales, and Wilbraham, for the months
Of September, October and November, Pal
mer paid more than half the tax Holland
does not have any kind of business that pays
a tax, and furnishes but three occupations
that require license. Neither does it fur
nsh taXab ql e9arrriiaagyee Palmer furnishes
towns Monsoon pays more on silver ware
than all other towns in the division. Horatio
Lyon of M0nson pays the highest tax on sill
yer ware. Wibraham furnishes more taxable
single carriages, according to its population,
than any other town.
The chronological cabinet of Amherst col
: in hp Oh
clusively to tracks. 1t now comprises three
rooms, the largest of which is 100 feet long
and 30 wide, the whole containing more than
$1,000 individual tracks, great and small
The recent additions to the cabinet by Mr..
Charles Hitchcock, inspector in zoology and
state geologist of Maine, include very fine
specimens Of skeletons of the moose and carl
bou.
An attempt is to be made in town meeting
at Amherst to abolish the school district sys-
tenn.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Nehemiah Dodge of North Adams has been
arrested by a Chicago detective, and is
charged with sending an ''infernal machine"
to one Stephen NJ. Whipple of Chicago, in
December last it being styled conspiracy
and assault with intent to commit murder
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The address of the officers of the l4th regi-
ment New Hampshire volunteers las created
quite tiuttering among the copperheads
Ihey think it is every extraordinary and
highly improper" for our soldiers in the field
to presume to address words of advice or
warning to their fellow-citizens at home
Having got ri d Of so many Of the loyal and
patriotic who have enlisted in the army, the
copperheads expected to shape matters at
fbplpSnl.rns n,,4 =,
their fire in the rear upon the soldiers, they
did not calculate upon return shot. Butwe
believe it will be found that although the sol
dIers of New Hampshire cannot vote. they have
not lost their influence as citizens Their
courage, manliness and devotion to duty puts
to shame the fickle-minded and dastardlv
wretches at home who are bawling for peace
at any price," to save themselves from the
possibility of n draft or the probability of an
increased tax.-Bost0n Journal
Some person entered the dwelling house of
Mr.. David Davis, in Plaistow, n. H., be
tween Saturday the 18th, and Thursday the
18th inst. and stole therefrom about 1925.
The money was locked up in desk drawer,
which was carefully closed and relocked by
the thief.
RHODE ISLAND.
large three story wooden building on the
corner Of Smith and Charles streets, in Prov
idence, was burned on Sunday. 1t was own
ed by Earl Z. Mason, and occupied by mar
kets and various mechanical trades. The
principal loss was suffered by VIM Emmett,
tape weaver, $1,000. John Harlow, meat
market keeper, had an insurance of $3.50
on the Peoples Insurance Company, Wor-
cester.
The examination of an old Indian burial
ground lately discovered at Newport shows
that with the remains first discovered were
buried Dutch beads and trinkets, proving the
bodies to have been buried after the colonial
ton OF Manhattan by the Dutch. The bodies
were LAID east and west. The bodies now ex-
humed with great care, are found lying pre-
c'sety north and south, with the legs appar-
entity bent under the body and surrounded or
partly so by a reddish earth. These remains
are OF very early date, possibly of the ma
tlves who were driven from the island by the
Narragansetts before its settlement by the
whites.
ex-governor Gardner, of Massachusetts,
mas bought the estate of Andrew Robson, of
Newport, for $4,000.
COPPERHEAD ITEMS.
The "copperhead" journals are denouncing
Geh. RoSecrans for the patriotic sentiments
ne uttered in his recent letter to the Ohio as
SemDly, Notwithstanding he entered the army
as an ONO democrats but Ue notice that they
nece'' deho"ace Jeff. Darts = Washington
Republican,.
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Adams Gallery, 2a3 Main Street, is now
open LOT inc reception of the public. diff dZl
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