Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-10-12
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND yIcI'NITY

ard rockingham, Esq. OF the Post, broke bot
ties of water over her bow and gave the vessel
her designated name.
Charles Hale editor of the Boston Advcrtis.
er, sailed for Liverpool in the Persia.
! PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Two hundred and fifty sail of mackerel craft
were in sight off the Gurnet one day last
week, stretching along distance OF fifteen
miles. They were having good "catch"
some Of the vessels securing fifteen barrels Of
n.ackerel day,
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The bark Azor, Captain Burke, arrived at
New Bedford on Sunday from FayaI, Sept
Nth, bringing ON fre light all the oil landed up
tie that date by the whaling fleet, 1850 barrels
sperm.
Brig. Gen. Pierce is at his home in Free
town in feeble health,
The refined sport Of chasing CREASED pigs
was heartily enjoyed ON one OF the entertain
ments at the cattle show in Taunton. Two
women are reported as conlending for the
prize.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Hon A. IL. Bullock delivered the address
before the Barnsiable agricultural society, last
| Wednesday. The dinner table was graced by
the presence of Gov. Andrew.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
The sons of the men who have caught
WHITES III Nduluchely sEOTu 10 50 ldT come
down" as to catch Goldfish. The Inquirer
thinks when this foolish notion wears out that
Nantucket will successfully compete with
MarbIehead and Gloucester.
At the superior court at Nantucket on Mon
day, there were nO-civil cases on the docket,
and only one criminal indictment, the trial of
which was postponed. The court sat only one
hour.
MAINE.
The stUiy that one of the Maine regiments,
OF 1000 soldiers, contained but five married
men, Is ali hosh There is no truth in it,
much I" toe credit Of the young men Of that
state.
VERMONT.
MIR LA Andrews, Jr Of Nor town, raised
the present season, irom Il single white pea
bean, fifty pods, which contained 2S7 beans,
besides 20 pods which we're sheiled and cook.
ed. Allowing the same ratio for those cooked
as for those which were counted, and the pro-
duct Of the single bean will be 1913 beans-al-
most 400 fold.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A potato has been grown in North Hamp-
ton, which weighs three pounds and nine
ounces.
The town of Dunllarton has within its lin.
its no lawyer no physician, no store, no tay-
ern, and not solitary town pauper. They
have in successful operation one Baptist, one
Methodist, and one Trnitarian Congregational
church. The last named denomination have
had but two pastors in seventy years, Rev.
Walter Harris and Rev. John NJ. Putnam
Mr.. G. G. Cove, corner Of Elm and Kingsly
streets, Nashua, has a pear tree that DOssomed
three times las: year; this year il has bios
somed twice, the last time the 4th of July.
An apple tree which neglected to blossom in
the spring bossomed last week.
A hta.ly Ion
was captured in trap, at Mount Prospect,
last week. Bears are said to be 'more plenty
this season in New Hampshire, the absence of
berries in the woods forcing Brun to look into
the openings for his rations
MISCELLANEOUS.
The wife of one of the men in New York
regiment tried TO prevent his enliSting, by at
tempting to cut off the forefinger of his right
hand, while he was asleep. She very nearly
succeeded in her unpatriotic design. The man
does not intend to visit home again until alter
the war.
New England falls short of her full quota
twenty seven regiments New York lacks
forty regiments Pennsylvania, the biggest
laggard, lacks fifty regiments. These make an
aggregate of 10000 men, that these states
ought to raise within one month and put into
the field.
The cavalry and artillery, in which the army
OF the Potomac was but recently so deficient,
are now attaining formidable proportions, and
will doubtless make their marks when an OPP
portunity offers.
Texas paper says that nobody ever saw
Wlgfall drunk. But Prentice SAYS he has seen
him when he wasn't sober, by jugfulI
An aged couple OF Syracuse, n " who
took an unnecessary interest in the letters ad-
dressed TO young lady living with Them have
been arrested for taking such letters from the
post office, and gratifying their curiosity By an
advance perusal. The old folks were iayora-
bly, disposed to reading Glove letters"
CONNECTICUT
Donald Mckay, lately an officer in the ia.
nous Scotch Greys, British cavalry, celebra.
ted for their charge at the battle of Baaklava,
who served with his regiment through the
Crimean war; is enlsting men Tor the Connec-
ticut cavalry in Thompsonville.
The good old village OF Pennington witness.
ed, Wednesday, what it has not seen for more
than half century-an ordination. Rev.
Levi H. Payne was ordained and settled over
tie Congregational church there, as associate
pastor with Rev. DR.. Porter, who is eighty
years of age, and has been settled over the
church fifty five years. President Woolsey of
ale College preached the sermon. The peo.
pie of the village made the day festive one
with music and flowers, and a Thanksgiving
dinner in The Town Hall
The wife of the gallant Col Chatfeld of the
Connecticut regiment has received dispatch
saying that he is dangerously ill with dysen-
terry and not expected to live
RHODE ISLAND.
Thomas Francis Alyagher delivered an clio.
quent address in Providence, Thursday niobt
at war meeting there. He said -fIf this
great republic. cannot be upheld by the stoutest
arms and boldest hearts, there is no hone for
humanity, least of all for Ireland, which has
had from this country in the direst extremi.
ties OF the human race, sympathy and aid
But even were the Irshman deprived of all
his rights even here, this is a cause worth fight
ing Tor and worth dying for, and next to the
liberty o! ireland, the modest cause in which
TO suffer and TO encounter DEATH Let every
freshman come up TO this cause of patriotism
and truth, let him stand by it, strike for it.
die for it; strike for it, though his brother
strike against him; die Tor it, though impreea-
tlons be mingled with benedictions over his
grave. Every man is pledged to this work.
Every foreigner, by his sacred oath of ale.
glance, is bound 10 defend, by every means,
country so great, so vast, and so good.
STRAWBERRIES IN 0croBER. MIR, r. p.
| Mallory, OF West Newton has sent us a small
box OF Strawberries, picked from his garden
this morning. They are of the kind known
as Cutters Seeding" lair in size, well ri