Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-11


Nathaniel Merryman of Brunswick has ta-
ken the Portland Argus ifty-five years. winch
the Press thinks is an evidence OF total de-
pravity.
merly resident of Pittston, has subscribed
$4,000 a wear to the fund for the sick and
wounded soldiers in the Union army.
Dry hard wood is selling at So cord at
Kennebec, Baldwin apples Of excellent quality
at 81 per barrel, Jackson potatoes from 30 to
40 cents per bushel, and the best OF butter at
10 cents per pound.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The manufactures produced by Manchester
add largely to the revenue, there being many
individuals in that city who pay each over one
hundred dollars tax per month, on manufac-
tured goods, while the corporations which are
doing even moderate business, pay by the
thousands Of dollars. The amount of the as
SCISSORS returns for that city for the month of
September, was over seven thousand dollars,
a sum us large as in some entire counties.
RHODE ISLAND.
Coal mining at Portsmouth is in full and
profitable operation. The coal is principally
used for smelling iron, it not having sulphur
enough for general purposes. Where is the fel-
low who declared that if he should be on the
earth at the final eonhagration Of all things,
he should seek refuge in Rhode Island since
he believed that it would be the very last
place to take fire?
CONNECTICUT.
Albert Atkins of Middletown, cultivated
small patch of sweet potatoes this year, which
yielded at the rate OF five hundred bushels an
acre.
The Waterbury knitting mill and all other
real estate owned by the company, consisting
Of mill privileges, dams, houses 10 build
ing lots, &C., and costing in all, $4,000 will
be soldat public auction, on Thursday, the llth
day of December next.
All the mills in Wilhmantic now run full
time. The linen company have been driving
every spindle in their thread mills all the past
season, and cannot begin to fill their orders,
while the Durham company and the old duck
(now warp and warp mills have had all they
could do on full time.
John G. Hawkins of Willimantic, who has
been absent, no one knew where some ten or
a dozen years, unexpectedly returned the
other day. He has followed the seas and
boxed the compass in nearly all parts of the
world.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
In England a boy, pursued by bull in Err
it'll marshes, dashed over fence on to a rail-
road track just as the train was passing. The
boy, hard pressed, crossed the line and Just
escaped the engine, which killed the bull on
the spot the train passing on as if nothing had
occurred.
According to the statistical account Just
published by the vicariat-ge Of Rome,
the population of that city in lS58was 1870, 359 ;;
in 1859, 1885; in 1860, 1S4, O49; in 1861
194,5l7; and in 1862 it is l97,O7S There
are at Rome 80 cardinals, 50 bishops, 1929
priests, 339 seminarists, 2509 members of re-
Ggious communities (men), 2O3l nuns, 609
members of colleges, 1927 girls brought up
in converts, 938 boys and 1900 girls in char
liable establishments, 1898 pontfcal soldiers,
33l non-Catholic and44S6 Jews The French
troops are not reckoned among the population
The japanese ambassadors contracted Il bill
of $4,000 at their hotel in London. They
sent it to Lord JOHN Russell, hoping England
would pay it as other countries had done, but
Lord John "didn't see it."
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hon. Robert j. Walker is preparing it is
said, for publication soon, an able article, con-
trasting the states of Massachusetts and South
Carolina, i'll all those material interests and
resources which go to make up great com
munitieS.