Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-25
General News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

slant. Our commerce is by no means ex- !
hausted.
The coroner's jury in the case of William
Currier, who was killed during the recent
riot at Boston, returned verdict that he was
killed by some person unknown, outside the |
arm0ry.
A large feet of golfers arrived at Boston on
the 23d, bringing in the aggregate Il ,l72 tons
of anthracite coal, besides several cargoes of
Nova Scotia coal.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The Cambridge board of aldermen have
unanimously adopted an order providing that
no individual shall be employed directly or
indirectly, III the service ofthat city, who has
sworn allegiance to any foreign government
for the purpose of escaping the draft. 1t is
said the common council will concur in the
adoption OF the order.
A little son of Charles Ellis of East Cam
bridge, was run over by train of cars at
Lowell on the 23d inst, and had one of his
legs so badly crushed that amputation was
necessary.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A tw elve-y ear-old -dead-hcad on an excur-
sion from New Bedford to Edgartown, on the
23d inst, on being asked for his ticket, re-
piled :-"YOu must let me pass; | am the
parents of one of the band" The ticket
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Nav podt,n1 t. H. a;'I G et: ~
dnties tbis oontIaram ,rin S,.g ~ ms nGM
spirit in Mr.. Johnson He'll, who was drafted
in Bath, Me, few days ago.
battle occurred in pasture in West
port, few days since, between three cows on
one side, and a swapping turtle on the other
The proprietor of the farm was compelled
to separate the combatants.
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shnl,'sa o f 'lle -ou l''s''' anu was eh'rely
tIl' l,s.,,,'.t ms niO' "i'Su0 ho'es ny
tion ans VI "o'len ""o were there just
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ae ~ III Nreat DarrIhgtnn LOT the
r '.I e"' % % Nei'e oh 'i'c @loo' WHICH
H. lion 'ne aSel"se vi '''e county
Wv ~ sen,ielii"l' rom ne" lorK,
S'opri"s WIN llI'iy h""e VI HSrr'n""t' Shot
,I"' 'e' e"sle' winch "elsheu SIX POUNDS
t.'iu '".eo "u'iceS, anu iuedsuIcu seven leet
iiJ1i Up " up VI 's "u'spreau Why's
A0'i '' nenlpIeS lot her laureiS ana
ASH 'ila' OIGenielu man 10 give
VI. "v,',' vi us ilsh' Nu''oers are nowhere
"i''ou' 'iie wright Aha' "ia' teilS'
MAINE
Inc Aroostook Pioneer brags that IN that
trlgld zone they have had the thermometer up
to 30 deg. 1t must have melted some of the
snow still left in that climate.
is preliminary to erecting block Of
stores in Bath, Me-, ledge OF rock is being
removed, the dimensions of which are sixty
hFe by hity-t1ve feet and ten feet deep. Three
thousand tons OF stone have been hauled out,
ana thlrty-hve EGGS OF powder have been CON
suhled III biastihS. wharf mas been buIlt
one hundred feet long and 1ttV feet wide from
tue rock taken out OF TINS excavation.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
workman IN the Portsmouth navy yard Is
reported to nave confessed the murder OF
man named McfherSoh, VINO disappeared
from Rochester N. Y, two years ago.
VERMONT
Ihe e,ltor OF the Newport News, during
one week. was shown an egg weighing four
ounces Il strawberry four and halt inches
Ill circuihiviehce' trout weighing twenty
seven POUNDS, ana some Timothy stalks sixty
one ihcneS long were shown hlm-all the pro-
ducts OF tlat town.
Albert w. stone formerly OF ermont, but
more recently OF Atalanta, Ga, who was ar
rested III St Adams few weeks ago, and has
since Deen imprisoned III forts Lafayette ana
Warm, was released on the 18th inst, by |
order OF the government.
Among the exercises OF commencement |
week at Miuuleoury C"lieSe are the 1ollow-
ing August >, baccalaureate sermon by the |
president. Tuesday forenoon, an address be-
fore the PMlOmathclan society by Il. L. w hip |
pie of Boston. August II, commencement;
Thursday, anniversary OF the alumni. Ora |
tor, Rev. George N. Boardman of BinghamlI-
ton, N. Y; poet, L. II. Phelps of Orwell,
Vermont.
CoNNECTICUT.
Commencement at the State Normal |
School, at New Britain, occurred on the 22d |
inst
Isaac S. Geer, of Lisbon, while serving a |
notice OF draft in that town, on the 23d, was
met at the door by the conscripts wife, who,
after learning what his business was, very
unceremoniously and severely applied cow
hide to the person of Mr. Geer. Some other
parties were advising IN regard to the matter,
and they will doubtless be punished as the law
provides.
Mr.. George Knox was severely injured in
Danbury, on the 10th instant, by his being
caught in belt and drawn over a shaft. He
passed through a space, between the shaft
aud ceiling, of abut eighteen inches. No bones
were broken, though his body was thrown out
of shape.
The twenty-seventh Connecticut regiment
was received home at New Haven on the
22d, with general outburst of enthusiasm
and Joy.
During the thunder shower in Danbury on
the evening of the goth, ball resembling hre,
apparently about five inches in diameter, de-
seconded into the yard of Mr. Edward Hull,