Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-07


The forests Of the Aroostook, whore tor
many previous winters thousands OF axes
have almost necessarily sounded, are almost
silent this season The sturdy lumbermen
are away 10 the wars, and the pines viii stand
another year. The same is To large e.'tent
true of the lumber districts OF the northwest.
During a violent rain storm at Rockland,
Me on the 25th ult., the water communicated
with the lime stored in the shed of John Bird
& Co. The shed and casks were consumed,
and nothing was left but the casks and heap
OF lime. There We're 1900 casks stored thore.
VERMONT.
Judging from the tenor OF the reports in our
Vermont exchanges of last week, the late
late storm caused more obstruction to travel
on the highways than any other that has Oc-
CURED for several years.
At jamaica VT, last week young man
named George Stocker was buried under an
immense snow drift, where he remained for
nearly two hours before he was rescued.
Mr.. Benjamin w. Pond, late of Bangor
Theological Seminary, was ordained as pastor
of the Congregational church and society in
Barton, on Tuesday Of last week.
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
The store OF Hon. Larkn d. Mason. at
South Tauworih, was burned, with its con
tents, on Tuesday night, 29lh ult. Loss $4,000
INSURANCE 5000.
The case OF Arthur Eastman VS.. Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company, tor damage arising
from uowage, has been tried, and last week
went to the jury. The verdict was in favor of
the plaintiff in the sum of S206 co.
Rev. o. d. Miller of Nashua who claims to
have been medium" for eleven years, is
out with letter renouncng Spiritualism, and
he enters his solemn protest against it, as
fraught with evil to the community.
CONNECTICUT.
81 The turf appears as a healing TO an arti
Gle in Hartford paper, speaking of the excel
lent scighing in that vicinity. Horses must
be sharp shod in that region to find turf under
the body OF snow now covering the ground
The Hartford Gas Company has reduced
the price OF gas to 81 IS per thousand feet and
furnish Seventeen candle gas" What
brilliant example Tor other gas companit s, one
OF them not thousand miles away.
Jesse Parks, about 70 years of age, living
near DanieIsonyille, while trading with ped
der, on the 18th ult., was suddenly taken i'll
and died in a few minutes.
RHODE ISLAND.
The whole number OF births in Providence
in the year 1861 was 1725-936 males and
789 females
The ladies OF Pawtucket gave the New
Hampshire battalion OF cavalry stationed there,
jolly surprise this week. They took posses
sion OF their quarters, spread generous table,
gave them concert, and last but not least
entertained them in conversation Tor a couple
of hours. Happy soldiers
The Providence Press says that the cathe.
dral OF st. Peter and ST. Paul, corner of High
and Fenner streets, took fire Thursday morn
ing, and narrowly escaped destruction. The
floor was burned through into the basement,
when the flames were extinguished.
The Rev. DIR, Halls society of Providence,
says the Press, are TO introduce the vesper
service on Sunday evenings, in his church
They will probably use service book by Rev
Drs. Osgood and Farley, now in press
MISCELLANEOUS.
Michael Sweeman, a young man in Co
bourg, Canada, undertook to guage the capac-
ity Of his cask tor beer, one night not long
since. lie had been drinking whiskey at in
tervals during the day, but concluded to fin
ish up with Il couple Of quarts OF beer. lie
persisted in the noble attempt.
An extraordinary surgical operation was
performed in New York city one day last
week. a knife blade full three inches in length
and three quarters of an inch in width was
taken out OF a sailors head, where it had re-
manned forty two days. An alteration had
occurred on shipboard, and the blade had been
driven just beneath the frontal arch and the
eyebal into the mans head. His sight was
destroyed, but be did not know the IRON was
in his head till the surgeon revealed the fact
to him.
Among the prisoners taken by the rebels
who seized the mail stage recently near indie
pendence, Mo, was Charles II. Branscomb,
secret service agent of the government, well
known in this vicinity. He was sent down TO
Prices camp at Springfield.
L i stated that brilliant idea has Just been
conceived among the nabobs of New York
three Of whom appeared or Sunday in a
church on the Fifth Avenue, having their
front teeth set with diamonds
man in Troy has dainty calf, which at.
fects linen and cotton goods as an article of
diet instead OF dry hay. The other night
the animal got to work upon the contents OF
clothes line, and swallowed his worth in
sheets, towels, shirts, pocket handkerchief,
&c. He still lives.
The enduring oder of musk is astonishing.
When Justnian, in 538, rebuilt Shat is now
the mosque Of St. Sophia, the mortar was
charged with musk, and to this very day the
atmosphere is filled with the odor
A religious malady called the clerks" pre-
walls i'll some counties in Illinois. Young la
dies have it, SO do old men and youths also.
The attacks are like epileptic fits, but are sup
posed to have divine and supernatural iniiu
ence and evaporaie in prayer. The selectmen
are c1nsternaled, and don't know what to do
about it.
The secessionists in St. Louis were badly
frightened, few days ago, by a report that
Gen. Halleck had teegraphed to the secretary
OF war, asking permission to send away dur
ing the war about five hundred of the most
noisy and troublesome of the rebels in st Lou
IS fltaf Iva t,lx, (
necessary"
Mrs. Lincoln is fond of dress and other shall
low gaities. She had great dancing party
at the White House, on Wednesday night,
which provoked the grumblers to say it is too
bad that such things should be at the capitol,
when the republic is struggling for existence
and the treasury is bankrupt
Gen. James IL. Lanes infant son died at
Quincy, ILL.,, last week, of scarlet fever. Mrs.
Lane was on her way to join her husband in
kapsas, but was unable to proceed on account
Of the sickness of the child.
A correspondent OF the American Agricul
turist writes bleeding from wound in man
or beast may be stopped by mixture of wheat
Hour and common salt in two parts, bound on
with cloth. II the bleeding be proiuse. use
a large quantity, say from one to three pints.
1t may be left on Tor hours, or even DAYS. if
necessary.
Some husbands seem to grow old very fast.
Their faces might perhaps stand the wear Of
matrlmony If it were not for the tear, thinks
Prentice.
The London Critic, in commenting upon
some proceedings in the bankruptcy court,
under the so-called "Gentleman's Act" saws
the case reminds it of the gentleman who
avoided confession that his father had been
hanged by admitting that he died on the plat.