Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-10

CUuSCtfS homeopathic MeulcM society WIS
held in Boston, Wednesday. The annual ad-
dress was delivered by DR.. j. Linnell OF
Worcester, and the officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows President
Daniel Holt of Lowell; vice presidents-J.
j.. Linnel of Worcester, Samuel Gregg OF
Boston; corresponding secrctary-W. f.
Jackson of RoXbury; recording secretary-
|. II. Talbot of Woburn; librarians. W MT
nev of Boston; ccnsOrs-C. Nj. Weld OF ia
maiea Plain, George Russell of Boston, Da'
vid Thayer, Boston, b. IL. West of Boston,
c. IL. Walker OF Boston.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
One of the school teachers in New Bedford
comes in for fifty thousand dollars of the pro-
perry bcqueathcd to the Ruggles family.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The Southampton lead mines have been re-
opened, under the impulse given by the scar
city and high price of lead. Work was first
begun on them as far back as 1865, when an
immense and true vein was discovered but of
late years they have been deserted on account
of the great expense of exploration.
Mrs. Hannah Waite of Northampton, aged
10 years, living alone with her daughter near
North Farms, was found dead, one morning
last week, short distance from her house.
where she had wandered during the night and
persisted.
MAINE.
The Lewiston factories are kept in opera
ton until nine o'clock in the evening-the
proprietors being DESTROYS of working up
their stock and getting the goods into the
market while the good prices rule. 1t is
in contemplation to build two more mills
OF large size, in Lewiston, during the present
season.
VERMONT.
One entire family of six persons, from Per-
kinsville, are reported to be in the United
States service-four sons being III the army,
and the father and the mother in the hos
pitals-nobly caring for the sick and wound
ed soldiers.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Thomas Chase has been chosen president,
and Edward IL. Spalding clerk, of the nation
al bank of Nashua. The bank will start with
a capital Of one hundred thousand dollars
forty thousand of which are already sub
scribed.
Three children of VIM. Il. Sargent of War
ner, under the age of ten years, having died
Of malignant scarlet fever, were buried in one
grave on the 23d ult.
CONNECTICUT.
George L. Deming, who lost both hands
while firing a salute at Hartford, in honor of
the Union triumph, has received the most lib
eral and substantial expressions of sympathy
from his fellow townsmen. 1t is proposed to
raise a fund of ten thousand dollars for himself
and family.
Mrs. Michael Brown of Hartford, was found
dead near Spring Grove cemetery, Wednes-
day morning. She was seen the night pre-
vious, crawling on her hands and knees in
the driving storm by persons who might have
saved her life.
Mrs. Mary E., wife of Joel Seymour, of
Ridgetield, was shockingly burned by her
clothes taking fire early last Friday morning.
She lived but a few hours.
Burglars have been operating in DanielSon-
vile. The store of ID. z. Birmingham was
entered and robbed few days ago of some
$50 worth of goods.
Simeon LOOMS, aged 90; Levi Meacham,
aged 95; Timothy Able, Jonathan Pease, and
Rufus Parsons, aged So and Col. Jabez King
aged 50; all went to the polls in Enfield Mon
day, and voted the Union ticket. These six
venerable men were born in Enfield, have al
way lived there, and not one of them ever
lost vote.
RHODE ISLAND.
Joseph Arnold well known and highly
respected citizen Of Providence was pros.
trated in High street, Wednesday, by rup-
to - " hlnnd vessel, and died in a few mo-
mentS.
The golden wedding of David Gale and
wife of Providence was pleasantly celebrated
on Saturday evening, by their friends and de-
scendants, including eight children and eleven
grandchildren.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Butfaloes have been lately shot within sixty
miles of st. Pauls, MIMI. The Indian mas
sacreS have rendered the region SO uninhabit-
ed, that biSons, wolves, &C., roam freely where
they have not before been seen for years.
The sensation papers have got up story
that Charles Lewis, executed last Friday, at
Trenton, N. j., for murder, confessed that
among other crimes of the deepest dye, he
had been the assassin of DR.. Burdell I'M
fortunately for the scnsationists and their ell
oquence in the weeklies and Sundays-at the
time DIR. Burdel met his doom in Bond street,
Lewis was convict in the state prison at Sing
Sing, under a convection from Columbia
county for burglary.
Col. Clarence Prentice, Of the confederate
army, son of the editor Of the Louisville Jour-
nal and another confederate, named Hargrave,
were arrested in Louisville on the 3lst ult.,
at the residence of Mr.. Prentice.
The New Albany Ledger says that some of
the farmers in southern Indiana will plant
| from ten to twenty acres each this year, and
| the prospects are that the cotton crop Of the
state will be large one.
The wines of eX- president Tyler, lately sold
at auction, brought prodigious prices in con-
federate rags. Rhenish wines sold for $40 a
bottle; old Sauterne, Min Duquensue, SlI;
Regalia Madeira, SIP; Ceylon Madeira,
Sl5 so Madeira Exploring Expedition,
SIG rs; Sherry, S15; Old Port, Sl8 10
French brandy, very old, $95 to 500 per gal
Ion.