Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-10
General News Summary

school, Roxbury, was entered, the drawer:
broken open and small articles stolen, the
library door lock forced off and quantity o.
books carried away. search in the schoo
did not reveal the perpetrator.
The Free Public library of Boston has re.
ceived donation Of $1,000 from an associa-
ton of young men called the Franklin Club
(now dissolved), the interest to be applied an
nually to the purchase of books relative to
government and political economy
The May pay roll has been prepared at the
office of Charles Field, Esq, clerk of the
Charleston navy yard 1t appears that the
present number OF men employed is $3.50; ;
theirwages for the month amounting to Sl6l,-
100 O6.
There were eight persons baptised by i'm
mersion at the Austin street church, Boston,
June 9TH, by the paster, Rev. Mr. Gardner.
delegation ofthe city government of Phil
a delphia are in Boston on official business,
and are stopping at the Parker House.
Rev. Sumner Ellis, formerly of Lynn, COM
menced his labors on June 9TH, at the Univer-
Salst church i'll Warren street, Boston, as col
league of Rev. T. b. Thayer.
During the month of May there were 1874
army pensions granted and pension certificates
sent to the pensioner from the pension office,
Boston, as follows To invalids 1856, to Wild
ows, mothers, and orphans 7SS. Over one
hundred pensions are now granted, on an av-
erage, daily. The applications received at
| the pension office amount to over two hundred
per day.
The canker worms and caterpilars have
made sad havoc in orchards in the neighbour
hood of Boston, says the journal. In many
| districts the foliage of the apple trees is en-
| tlreIy consumed, and from many points the
| landscape looks as if contlagration had passed
| over 1t. The ornamental trees by the road
side, IN the freshness and fullness of their To-
| liage, appear in marked contrast with the bare
branches OF the fruit trees in gardens and or.
chards.
The city of Charlestown is engaged in Sc
curing pure water from Mystic Pond, which
Is said to be very pure and abundant.
The general court martial which was con-
vened at fort independence on the 18th of
February last, by order of Major General
Wool, adjourned sine die on June 9Th, after
having tried torty-three cases, a large MAORI
ty of which were for desertion.
The colored women of Ohio have had a
magnificent stand OF colors made for tine 55th
Massachusetts (colored) regiment. The flags
are four in number-two guidons, a large reg
ulation flag and regimental banner. These
are all of every best material, and the work
is splendidly executed. Upon Il silver shield,
which is attached 10 the staff of the banner, is
nv hiOltO, OOu anu 1lDGTIH- upon the |
banner ITSELF which is of heavy blue silk, are |
the words, ''Liberty or Death They will be |
presented by j. NJ. LangSton, who has been |
recruiting for the regiment.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
In Somerville, June 4th, Mr.. Tuckwell the |
carriage manufacturer of Andover, while |
riding, was thrown from his carriage, injuring |
him severely. He was tuken to his home in |
an insensible condition.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The net profit of the late fair at Lawrence |
in aid of the soldiers was S654O. 1t has been
one of the most successful of this description
of gatherings.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Nine of the eleven cotton mills at Fall Riv-
er are idle, and the linen mill has discontin-
ued operations for the present.
The sales of whale oil last week at New
Bedford were 20 barrels at SO cents per gal
Ion, 500 at IS l-2, 800 at an advance on the
latter. Sales are reported of 1870 barrels of
sperm at $l.52 per gallon.
MAINE.
The Machias Republican states that on
Thursday of last week, Mr.. David Farms
worth of Addison fell from the high bluff on
the northern end of Lade Island, at the mouth
of Pleasant river, striking on his head on the
rocks some seventy feet below, and killing
him instantly.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The faculty of Dartmouth College have
| rusticated the committee of the senior class
| for insisting on having the names of their
| classmates who are in the army printed in the
| order of exercises for commencement. The
whole senior class, in consequence, refuses
to attend recitatons, and committee has
been appointed to lay the matter before the
trustees of the college. 1t is said that if the
| Stu1pntS nj will onDlx to
some other college for leave to enter and
graduate.
-Four million feet of the spring drive OF lum-
Der have come down to Amoskeag Falls,
where the water is low, and the process of
getting logs over is retarded.
Augustus Jones, one of the numerous fam
lily OF horse thieves, was arrested in Nashua
June 9TH.
The editor of the Peterborough Transcript
in speaking of trout fishing, says he was one
OF party who few days since caught from
one hole fifteen trout that would average in
weight half pound each.
Elizabeth Coy, a maiden lady 40 years of
age, committed suicide few days since by
hanging.
CONNECTICUT.
William Steele, respectable citizen of
! East Hartford, killed his wife and infant child
by cutting their Threats with a razor as th@v
lay In bed, and completed the tragedy by tax
ing his own life, early on the morning of June
9Th. When discovered as one of the family
went to call them to breakfast, the scene in
the bedroom was horrible in the extreme The
mother lay quiet in death, with eyes Enclosed
and her left arm thrown protectingly around
the body of her infant, and the father was
stretched lifeless upon the floor, with the
bloody razor still clasped in his hand the bed,
the floor, the walls saturated and despatched
with the blood of the victims. Steele had
been subject to temporary fits of insanity,
and the jury of inquest rendered that he
committed the murder and suicide while in
sane.
The six-oared boats competed for the cham
pionship at the Yale navy regatta at New
Haven, on the afternoon of June 9Th the win
ner being the Glyuna. The Varuna had been
previously the champion.
Erastus Collins has been appointed presi-
dent Of the Hartford and Wethersfield horse
railroad company in place of E. g. Howe, re.
signed.
WORK will soon be begun upon a dam
across the Willimantic river at Willimantic,
which will be ls feet high and built of stone.