Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-03-26
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a mother in Greenfield went to a rum shop
in that town, where her son had been passing
the night, and broke in with her fist fourteen
lights Of glass in the front door and win
dows
Crandall Thorn, OF Leyden, was recently
drawing water from his well, using the old
fashioned hand pole and sweep, when the snow
came from the roof of iiis house, striking him
upon the back and pitching him forward into
the well. He was eXtricaled without any Sc
rious injury.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Bradish Durham, of Savoy, rece nifty retired
to bed in usual health, and Immediately ex.
PRED. He was seventy years of age.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The secretary OF the Hampden Fire lnsur-
ance Company of Springfield has paid $500
for the recent loss by fire to the organ and
furniture OF the Union church in Portland,
Maine.
A teachers institute is to be held at Hol-
yoke ON the 3lst inst.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Col. Converse of the 9th regiment has re-
signed on account OF i'll health, and is on his
way home. Surgeon Tracy has also returned
home 10 Nashua.
RHODE ISLAND.
Henry James formerly the European cor
respondent OF the New York Tribune, has pur-
chased an estate IN Newport, and designs
making it, his permanent residence.
Mlddletown is the healthiest place in RHODE
Island, if not in the Ulited States. With
population of $50, there were only three deaths
in the year 106l--one Of old age, nearly 80,
and the other two, infants under one year
jamestown and New Shoreliam were next in
salubrity.
The second republican convention, called in
Rhode Island a few days since, has been in
definitely postponed.
The superintendent OF health in Providence
states that there are at the present time III that
city seven cases OF small pox aud vdrioloid.
Elijah Hall, a colored man, committed sui
eide i'll Newport on the 23l inst, by hanging
himself to the ralters in his garrett.
The Red God library in Newport has re.
ceived the sum of 5000 by the will OF the
late Charles B. King.
CONNECTICUT.
barn in Hartford owned by Suly j. Rath.
burn, was destroyed by fire on the 22I INST
No insurance.
The entire charge of the recruiting service
in Connecticut is to be turned over 10 Col.
Gates AT Fort Trumbull.
The grand list of Hartford foots up $24 S02,-
673, being about S6O0,OO0 less than last ear.
The depreciation is less than was expected,
considering the fall in stocks and other kinds
OF property, in const quence OF the war.
member OF the Connecticut fifth has sent
to the Hartford Courant few sprigs OF arbor
vitae, rose and geranium leaves, cut from the
rebel ambassador Mason's conservatory at
Winchester.
new rifle, firing fifteen times in fifteen
seconds, called Henry's repeating rifle, is be-
ing manufactured at New Haven. Ii carries
a solid couiual ball attached TO a metal car
fridge.
Tie rats attacked an OK in the stable of Ell.
ma Dewey OF Columbia, one night last week,
and gnawed out several square inches OF the
hide.
The Winsted Bank undertook to repudiate
Its circulation beause its vault had been rob.
bed. This course, however, has been checked
by the courts. George Bates brought sixteen
cases against the bank, before Justice in
Danbury, to recover the value of 1856 bills of
the bank, OF different denominations amount
ing to S547, The Judgment OF the court was
in favor OF the plaintiff.
WAR ITEMS.
The D'EpeneuiI Zouaves, who returned
from the Burnside expedition several weeks
since, have been mustered out OF the service
and sent to their respective HON, s.
private letter from Nashville, Tennessee,
says Its 10 use to deceive ones self with
the attempt to believe that the Union senti
ment is to be knocked into the rebels by hard
blows. They hate the north, and since the
war, and since the recent victories tcorSe than
eUer."
MISCELLANEOUS.
The inielicrty of literary marriages is pro-
verbal. Even the shrewG and sensible Fanny
Fern has been unable to evade the memorable
law, for she has teit Obliged TO s parate from
her husband, MIR. james L. Parton, whom she
charges with inticting upon her violent per-
sonal usage.
In the medical college at Winchester, Vir
gina, is preserved the body OF John Browns
son, killed at llarper's Ferry, first skinned,
and only the frame and muscles retained 1t
stands at iuIl length in one corner of the
museum, labelled John Browns son--thus
always with abolitionl>ts'
The national tax bill, as it stands, will re-
quire the appointment OF about hcenty sic
thousand collectors. What an army OF Office.
holders.
a newspaper says The peculiarly of the
Merrimac, as battery, is in having her RAIN
parts under water.
correct census shows the exact population
of New York city to be sos. 65l persons.
The following ingenious riddle may furnish
an evenings work for young persons who are
good at cyphering :-"rhree sisters go 10
market with eggs. Tie first has fifty eggs,
the second has thirty, and the third has ten.
Each asks the same price ior her eggs sells
them ALL and returns home, each having the
same amount Of money How did they sell
their eggs, and what amount OF money did
they receive 2"