Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-19

General News summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
| There has been an extensive and serious
| ''strike" at the navy yard-the workmen be-
! ing dissatisfied. on account of the delay of the
| government in paying for past service, and
| also with the amount of wages received.
| The carpenters demand three dollars per
| day, instead of two and Il half, and refused,
Saturday morning, to answer the calling of
the roll. Many Of the carpenters, laborers,
calkers and boilers, comprising in all up
wards Of eleven hundred men, followed their
example.
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society
have purchased the estate corner of fremont
and Bromfeld streets, known as the Mont
gomery House, at the round sum Of $780,
600. They intend to remove the present
buildings, and erect new ones at a cost of
$4,000, making altogether the finest estate
for Horticultural uses In the country.
Two young women, about sixteen years of
age, of highly respectable connections, were
recently enticed from their homes in South
Boston, and taken to parts unknown. They
were traced to Canada, where the messenger
found the dead body Of the elder, and the dis
eased and almost dcstroyed body Of the
younger Of the victims.
The iye-story building, numbers 20 to 80
Haverhill street, Boston, caught fire Saturday
night. and was damaged to the amount of
$4,000 to $4,000, chiefly in the upper stories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson waS-a guest at the
American House, Niagara Falls when it was
burnt last week. He was reused by the
alarm, and succeeded in making his escape
through the smoke and flame without serious
loss.
| MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Barnabas S. Wilde, one of the oldest and
most respected citizens Of Milton, persisted,
Thursday evening, by drowning. He was
about eighty years Of age, and had been to the
depot as usual for his evening paper, when on
returning he walked into a trench and was
drowned.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The Plymouth Rock reports that Samuel
Frank, fifteen years of age, son of Antonio
Frank, broke through the ice while skating on
pond in Plymouth on Monday, 18th inst,
and before his body could be recovered life
had fed Two other boys broke through at
the same time and were rescued. On the
9th, Amelia p Raymond, thirteen wears old,
daughter of Shadrach A. Raymond, broke
through the ice ON the Halfway Pond and was
drowned.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
| We hear of several cases of diptheria with
scarlet fever, now prevalent in this city; in
one family there are six children all dan
| gerously sick with it.-NeC Bedford 1ey-
CHyy.
The American print works, which have
| been stopped for the last four or five months,
are gradually resuming operations, and will
| probably be in full operation in the course
of fortnight.-FaB Rjoer Nccs
There is unusual religious interest and ac-
tiyity in the churches of Fall River. Daily
meetings are held in the Baptist churches,
and meetings every evening in the two Meth
odist churches Of the city.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Silas T. Herring son of S. G. Herring OF
| Brimield, the great safe manufacturer, was
| killed in the battle at Murfreesboro. He was
Il sergeant in the Anderson cavalry, which dis
| gracefully reyolted on the eve Of the battle;
but young Herring with his entire company
refused to follow the mutineers, and went
bravely into the fight.
| BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
| VIM. Collins, sentenced to death for muir
| der at the United States hotel in Lenox a year
ago last summer, has had his sentence com
muted to Imprisonment. This is the wretch
who murdered his own wife with a rusty bay
onet, and tried to do the same thing with the
| officer who arrested him. His only remorse
as found in his diabolical statement after ar
rest was, that ''if he had murdered his wife's
| daughter also, he should be entirely content"
| MAINE.
Mrs Abigail Berry died in York, Me,
| few days since, at the good old age of 1913
years, I months. She was the widow of Jo-
| seph Berry, a soldier of the revolution, and
has sixty seven grand and great-grandchildren
living. She remained sensible to the last, was
active as many OF one-halt her age, and her
| eyesight good.
The Irish tavern known as the ''Bee Hive"
| in Portland containing sixteen tenements,
| and occupied by almost IA many families was
destroyed by fire Friday night. Loss s., 800.
The families were turned into the street.
VERMONT.
Diptheria is still prevailing with great IA
talty in the towns of Wheelock and Sheffield
Within the last two weeks Mr.. c. Cass of Shelf
field has buried five of his children, and the
sixth one was but just alive on Thursday last.
The three remaining members of the family
have been sick with the same disease.
CONNECTICUT.
Isaac Treby, for more than twenty-seven
years clerk in the post office at New London,
died on the l4th inst, at the age OF siXty-seveu
years. He served under the administration OF
seven poStmasters.
The historical society in New Haven has
been presented with the sword won in the rev.
olution by Col. Ozas Bronson of Walling-
ford. A ''spontoon'' carried in revolutionary
times by sergeant Elisha Hall-uncle If Ly-
man Hall, signer Of the declaration of indie
pendence-is among the relics recently re
ceived by the society.
Miss Pusey Weeks of Eastford, Loren Bos-
worths housekeeper, poisoned herself Christ
mas day. Cause supp )sed to be jealousy.
She leaves seven children.
John Adams of Eastford, while carrying an
armtul of wood across the kitchen floor, fell
and expired almost instantly. He was a man
somewhat advanced in years.
On Saturday, the 10th, Samuel Eddy, aged
l. years, while skating on Kcnnedy's pond,
felt unwell, sat down to take OFF his skates, fell
over on his side, and died almost without
struggle.
The house of Rev. L. w. Bacon, in SIAM
ford, was broken into ON Monday, llth inst,
and robbed of silver plate and money to the
amount of 5000. The rogues scraped the
ware, and rejected all that appeared to be
plated.
RHODE ISLAND.
Lewis Mann, of Fail River, aged thirty
nine years, was found dead in IWerton,
near the stone bridge, on Thursday. When
found he was entirely Invested of his clothes,
which were lying beside HIM. He died from