Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-17
General News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY

Hon. Jonathan u, Field, president OF IHe
senate gave a reception to his associates ana
friends, at the United States Hotel, Thursday
evening. His guests were some two hundred
in number, among whom were Gov. Andrew,
chief justice Bigclow and judges Hoar ana
Chapman of the supreme court, Judges Rus
sci and Morton of the superior court, speaker
Bullock, the heads of the several state de-
partments, and other gentlemen OF emlnence
and distinctions The company were invited,
after an interchange of cOnrteses, to one OF
the dining halls, where sumptuous collation.
was provided. Gen. Butler appeared later in
the evening, and was the lion Of the hour.
The friends of Gen. Butler gave him COM
dinner at the Barker House,
Thursday afternoon. Hon. John G. Paltrey
presided at the table. Gen. Butler made a
speech of some length, giving expression to
views similar to those he has given on other
of which were greatly applaud
ed. Prof Holmes read poem, and speeches
were also made by Mr., Palfrey, +. W. Bird,
and others, keeping the company together till
about ten o'clock.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
In the case of Isaac Osgood vs. the town OF
for damages for injuries sustained
in consequence of IL defect in the road, the
referees have awarded Mr.. Osgood two hun
bred dollars, and his daughter forty dollars
the town to pay the expenses.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The December assessment of federal taxes
in Hampden county shows the following re-
suits springfield is assessed $6664; Chico
pee and Ludlow $4,000; Holyoke and West
Springfield S557I; Westheld $2273 Brim-
field, Monson, Holland, and Wales, $2l96
and Russell, Blandford, Montgomery, and
Holland, $644 Total for the fifteen towns,
S26, $40. Palmer, Wilbraham, Longmeadow,
Agawam, Southwick, and Granville. when
heard from, will probably carry the amount
for the entire county above $4,000. Some
of the largest paying individuals aud compa
MES are as follows John G. Within, Hol-
yoke, $lS24; Chicopee Manufacturing Com
pany $l594; Ames Manufacturing Company
Chicopee, $l409; Agawam Canal Company
West Springfield $764; Hampden Cotton
Company, Monson, $G49; Hampden Mills,
Holyoke, $63S; Massachusetts Arms Compa-
ny, Chicopee, $3.50; Parsons Paper Compa-
ny, Holyol1e, 1927 II; Monson Wooden Co
$444 "a Southworth Manufacturing Compa-
ny, West Springfield, $439; Hampden Cigar
Company, Westfeld, $436; Holyoke Paper
Company $43l; Chaplin & Gould, Russell
$4l7; and American Whip Company, West
field S4l4.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Company X of the torty-second regiment,
captured at Galveston, Texas, by the rebels,
in the late encounter, was composed of men
raised mostly in Ware, Barre and Hardwick,
and was commanded by Capt. George P. Da-
Wis, member of the junior class of Yale col
lege, and a native of Ware.
MAIN fs.,-. uUu2TIrs
detected and exposed at Augusta, the Other
day, to the confusion of the officer who has
charge Of drawing lots for the seats of mem.
berS of the house. One of the past unfortu.
mates, smelling rat in the box proposed tc
have the numbers counted before the drawing
commenced; the proposition was warmly
seconded when 10! more than twenty mum.
bers were found wanting, not one of them
from the back lots, but all from the dress cir
cle
VERMONT.
Benjamin Hancock of Glover, has recov-
cred Of the town Of Irasburg, damages to the
amount Of three thousand dollars and costs,
for injuries received little more than year
ago, while riding over one of the highways in
town.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
John Cate died in Alenstown Sunday
morning, aged 100 years, having been born in
1853 on the shore of the Great Bay in Green
land. He was a farmer. in moderate circum-
stances, and had derived his sustenance for
four score years from his rocky acres. Halt
a mile distant from the residence of Mr. Cate,
Daniel Davis died fifty-fve years ago, at the
age of l05. Mrs. James Hartford, daughter
of Mr.. Davis, is now living in Deerfeid, at
the age of 1922
CONNECTICUT.
The annual meeting of the state agriculture
al society was held at New Haven, Wednes-
day, and elected Ephraim H. Hyde of Stat
ford, president. The fair of last fall left
balance of three hundred dollars against the
society.
Ezra Chadwick Of Middleton, who had made
several vain attempts to commit suicide, was
drowned in the connecticut river, Wednesday,
His hat was found on ferry boat from which
he threw himself into the river.
Hartford has salted down one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars of its war debt in long
six per cent bonds at one hundred and ten to
one hundred and twelve, all taken by George
S. Robbins of New York, and the Etna insur-
ance company of Hartford. A million and
quarter in all was bid.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence Post boasts of subscriber
residing in that city, who has balhed in the
water near the head of the cove, every morn
ing during the last thirteen years-in the Win
er cutting a hole through the ice.
The small pox has broken ont with consld-
cradle violence at Newport and Middleton. 1t
IS vlrulent in its symptoms and in many cases
atal in its results.
The report submitted to the general assem-
bly, shows that the gallant state of Rhode
Island has disbursed nearly 100000 in the
-orm Of bounties and extra pay of soldiers.
Nearly 100000 has been returned to the
families OF soldiers. She has furnished for
The defence of the nation on land and sea,
1866 men. She has sent to the field thirty
Der cent more than her quota of three years
men, and most of her troops have been placed
n positions where they ably sustained her
lonor and reputation.
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