Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-10-03

himself by SHOWING" counterfeit fives on the
Mechanics bank, Boston, The queer" is
fimsy stuff, and by no means an imitation of
tho genuine.
CONNECTICUT.
Moses Pierce OF Norwich Town has an Isa-
bella grape vine which is known TO have been
planted in the year 1908 The first Isabella
grapes known in this country were raised in
Charleston, S. c., about the year 1872, but
this old settler antedates ii four years
The barn of Reuben Rathbone near the
fair grounds at Norwich, was destroyed by
fire on Sunday night. The seasons crop of
vegetables, lot OF vinegar, cider and native
wine, were destroyed Loss about 81 400
insured for 81, 200
Since the rebels attacked the government
the state OF Connecticut has expended in de-
Tending it, about ST ,250,000 OF this $429, 800
hsa been drawn by the quartermaster general.
The balance has gone for subsistence.
Col Ned llarand," of the eighth regiment,
lot Norwich has been presented with an ele
giant field glass by the members of Yale class
OF 1858, who were associated with him in the
"Owi Club
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. Conrad Decker, and Rebecca, his wife,
reside in the town OF HilsLlale n the for.
mer in his 1O0th year, and the latter in her
99th. They have been married II years, and
are both III comparative good health they
keep house by themselves, and have no neigh
burs within quarter OF nille. Mr.. Decker
cuiIivales his own garden and saws lis own
wood while Mrs. ID. does her own house
work, without thinking OF "hired help" al.
though she complains occasionally that she
cant go about the house as spry as size used
to-"
Two young people in Albany, who had
loved, perhaps wisely, but not according to
hp wi si,4S nj tltn nttau cd
last week. to choke themselves with charcoal
smoke The fumes OF the charcoal reused
young man Ill the room above, who found the
young man aud woman below in state OF
insenslbllity, locked IN each others arms.
They were restored to consciousness, and after
much headache and depression OF spiris-got
married.
The terrible scourge, the Asiatic cholera,
has broken out in Northern India with most
distressing effect. In one nelghbOrhUUd six
teen were attacked in the morning, and of that
number only one was alive when the shades
OF evening fell. The cholera is attributed to
the failure OF the summer crops, which have
been cut oil by the heavy rams.
Walter Washington Buchanan, Il godson of
Gen Washington, died at Greenock, Scotland,
on the 18th inst, at the age of eighty three
years. Mr.. Buchanan was baptized in Gen
WashingtOn's arms at Hanover (nOw Morris
town., New Jersey, on lie 4th OF january,
I'LL, and kosciuskO and Lafayette were pres
ent at the ceremony. lie was subsequently Il
surgeon in the United States navy
James b. Clay, the renegade son of "the
gallant Harry" was captured by Il boy not
over sixteen! Although alone in buggy he
was armed 18th two double shot guns and two
navy revoyers. But the boy oyerawed him.
and he gave up without shot!
Rev. Mr. Mute, the Unitarian pastor at
Lawrence, Kansas, was prisoner in the hands
of the rebel general, Price, ior few days,
soon after the battle at Springfield, Mo. Mr.
Mute had deem sent with dispatches to Gen.
Lyon, aud was captured on ms return, but
was soon released again, He is chaplain of
Kansas regiment, and this was the third time
he had been taken prisoner.