Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-18

citizens to their armory, on the day following
a public reception, and dinner will be given
them on the green
MAINE.
The body OF man in the advanced stages
of decomposition was found floating near Port
land light, Friday afternoon. 1t is supposed
to be the body Of one Of two men who left Saco
since on an excursion, and have not
siuse been heard Of
Mrs Andrew Daily, widow lady of Bel.
mont, has but two sons, one of them minor,
both stawart young men over six feet high
and both have enlisted in the grand army,
leaving to their mother the sole care of the
farm. Her patriotic neighbors, determined
that this shall not suffer from the absence of
the boys, have turned out and taken care of
the growing crops, and will doubtless see that
the widow does not suffer while her noble sons
are fighting for the country's flag.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
j. NJ. Thompson, proprietor of the Glen
House at the White Mountains, has accom-
pished the difficult feat of driving 10 the sum-
nit of Mount Washington with a horse and
wagon. The carriage road is completed to
within mile Of the summit, but the remain
ing part of the distance was rather tough.
VIM. IL. Gilmore has sold the Journal of
Agriculture to +. b Eaton OF Manchester.
Mr.. Gilmore has long been in the newspaper
business there in the old Messenger, the Man
chester Democrat, the Union Democrat and
the Journal of Agriculture.
Matters are very busy at the Portsmouth
navy yard at present. Over HOO men are EN-.
ployed, and the disbursements are over $40,-
900 each month. Orders have recently been
received to build number of pivot gun car
riages at cost of 5000 each.
R4l.o
of the late Daniel Hayes gathered at the home
stead in Milton, on Monday, on which day the
old lady was 100 years of age. There were
nearly 300 persons present, including five of
the fifth generation. The party carried their
own provisions, and spread the tables in front
Of the house, in the shade OF some noble elm
trees which were set out by the old lady when
the road was opened to the house. Sine moved
to the homestead with her husband previous
to the celebrated dark day in 1880.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mr. S. p. Pond has invented breech load
ing ri1ed cannon, which was tested on Tues.
day down the harbor at Providence. The
breech pin is Joslin's patent, cone and rings.
The shot is conicaI, wound with cotton cord,
and weighs II ounces. The weight Of the gun
with carriage is $50 pounds, without $50. The
charge is ounces OF powder. The gun is AZ
inches in length, SO inches length of bore.
which is graduating twist. The guns are
now used by Ellsworth's Zouaves.
1t is stated that the number OF cottages rent
ed at Newport this season is eighty four or
only seven less than last year or one hun
dred and twenty eight cottages owned by sum
mer occupants, all are occupied but two.
There is, however, a great falling off OF visit
ors from the large hotels. The smaller hotels
ara INiu,, aLp I,,t
CONNECTICUT
On Thursday, the 1lth, six soldiers of the
fifth regiment, quartered at Hartford, of whom
five are said to belong to a New Haven com
pany, entered NJ. Bacon's store, in Hartford,
and called for liquor. Not getting it, they
beat him badly, and were arrested and proper
y dealt with.
Elida S Barnes, only son of Mr.. H. S.
Barnes of Fair Haven, fell overheard on the
18th inst, from the schooner Alethea, bound
for Antigua, while she was going down the
bay of New York. He was at the time furl
ing the jib, and was drowned
The body Of a Young man was found in the
river at South Windsor, Monday, in the peck
cts OF whose clothes, found upon the bank
were few dollars in money, watch, and q
banS book of deposits in the savings bank a
Pennington, in which were credited two OIL
three hundred dollars in the name OF ALDER
Richards.
On Friday night the house of p. L. Perry
| in East Bridgeport, was robbed of some SIS,
900 in notes, bank books, &C., with $40 in golC
and some silver coin.
| In Seymour, the building owned and occu
| pied by Mr.. Philo Beecher as a grocery store
Tuesday morning Loss ff3Rin 20 were burns
partly Insured.
MISCEITANEnUS
Mrs MelineauX and her husband wer
about leaving social tea party in Brooklyn
N. l., when the lady fell backward dow
some unobseryed stairs, dashed out her brains
and Mr.. M. returned home widower.
The new Arcadia has been been discovered
among the islands on the south shore of Lake
Erie. There is said to be not . doctor, law
yer, or preacher among them nor is there
sick person A more happy, healthy, pros
porous community is not to be found on the
face OF the earth.
Vanity Fair says-"The Cavil-ry of the
north is the corps of critics under the com
mand of representative Wood of the New
York News, and Maj. Gen. Greeley of the
Tribune"
Eli Thayers colony in western Virginia is
spoken of as in miserable condition" Set.
tiers are too much distracted to attend to their
crops.
In the excavations for the new Grace
Church, at jamaica, L. l., upon the site of the
old one, some very antique coffin plates were
exhumed. One of these lad the initials j.
Is. This, after a time, was interpreted to
stand for Joshua Bluomer, one of the earliest
missionaries of the church in the last cen.
fury.
The California Legislature has recently pass
Cd bill ITO prevent amalgamation of the diff
ferent races OF men. The bill makes it a ne.
nal offence for any white person to intertnarry
with any "colored person" whether of the Al.
rican or Asiatic race.
Miss Nancy A. Robinson, young lady re.
siding in Greenfield, Ohio, had her skull pen.
etrated on the 10th inst, and died soon after,
by lightning striking an old tree about fifty
feet distant from the house, throwing a piece
of wood through the window at which she
was sitting.
The wheat crop in Michigan is coming in
with splendid promise. Many fields are yield.
ing upwards of twenty-five bushels to the acre
thick, heavy, and exceedingly well filled.
Help for harvesting is scarce, and the cash
value of the staple is likely to rule iearfully
low, which is not encouraging to the producer
Personal
Hon Edward Bates has received the degree
of doctor of laws from Dickinson College, Pa.
Bishop Payne OF the Protestant Episcopal
church (white) and Bishop Burnes of the
Methodist Episcopal church lcolored) both of
Liberia, have received the title OF doctor of
divinity from Wilberforce University, Ohio.
Samuel NJ. llildreth, late assistant paymas-
tea of the N Y. Central Railroad, has been
appointed assistant doorkeeper to the house of
representatives.
Mr.. Adams, our new minister to England,
said hovp IN in IarLr hluo