Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-21

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Owing to the high prices of paper the club
rates for the Boston Herald have been dis
continued.
In Cambridge, the old party names of dem,
ocrat and republican have been abandoned
and it is now ''horse railroad" and ''anti- horse
railroad" The ''anti' party haye nominated
George G. Richardson for mayor.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Wednesday, in the superior court, criminal
session, at Lowell, Edward Kelly and Richard
j. Shalley, indicted, tried, and convicted, of
burning the stable of Henry II. Bradshaw, in
SOmerville, were sentenced each to five years
in state prison, the three first days thereof to
be in solitary confinement, and the residue at
hard labor.
The Lowell Manufacturing Co. have de-
clared dividend of $50 share, payable on
the lst OF December next, to holders of stock
this day.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
On the 10th inst, piece of iron weighing
two or three tons was being drawn a short dis
lance on a par of wheels, on the premises of
the Bridgewater Iron Works, when the LASH
ings became unfastened, letting the mass slip
back until its weight threw the tongue at
tached to the wheels over backward, striking
Mr.. Thomas Cook on the head. He died the
next day.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Two new steam fire engines are soon to be
added to the fire department of Springfield.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The Bay State works of NORTHAMPTON are
now making gun barrels to the number of
seventy five per day. They employ one hun
dred hands. and could finish with ease one
hundred gun barrels per day, but they cannot
get sufficient amount of iron, the govern
ment making the first claim on all that is i'm
ported.
A mammoth log, seventy-two feet in length,
was converted into 800 feet of clear timber
at Days steam mill in Northampton, a few
days since.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
"Wilder," correspondent of the Boston
journal, writes: San immense blood beet
which cannot easily be beat in richer soil than
the sandy plains of Nashua, has been raised
| by D. w. Garland. This vegetable monstros-
| ity is twenty-three inches in circumference
and weighs fourteen pounds" The editor of
the Concord Democrat says that Mr.. Durrell
Smart of Hopkinton raised this year, in his
garden, blood beet twenty inches in length,
twenty inches in grt, and weighing nineteen
pounds and fourteen ounces. This is beet
hard to beat.
A correspondent of the Coos Republican
says that on Wednesday, Nov. u, Mr.. Geo.
L. Thorn, landlord at the Tip-Top House last
summer, and Mr.. John Lawson, employee of
j. r. Hitchcock of the Alpine House, made
the ascent OF Mt. Washington in double
sleigh-the first who have ever assembled the
mountain by sleighing. The day was mild
and the ride pleasant and agreeable. The
road was obstructed by several large trees
which had fallen across it, but no snow drifts
impeded their progress. They found the
Summit House encased in ice, and the FROST
king held undisputed sway.
CONNECTICUT.
The starch factory in Coventry owned by
Burbank & Oaks, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th, together with 2000 bushels of pota-
toes and four tons of starch which were in
the kiln The loss is estimated at $4,000,
which is mostly covered by insurance in the
Western Massachusetts company.
The sharpshooterS of Connecticut seem to
be unusually successful in their Hunting ex-
cursions thepresent season. CORTLAND Payne,
Of the sloop Mazeppa, killed seventeen black
ducks and wounded seven or eight more with
one discharge of his double barreled gun one
| day last week. William Douglass of Mystic,
shot blue crane while hunting ducks last
Monday, which stood five feet "without
shoes" +. NJ. Manning of Mystic, killed ten
| grey squirrels while hunting Monday morn
ing.
| RHODE ISLAND.
Counterfeit five dollar bills on the South
bridge bank, Of Southbridge, Mass, are in
circulation in Providence They are quite
well executed, but can be distinguished by
thiS-the word five is in the genuine bill prin-
ted in black letters on the top of the figure 8
III the countertt it is printed in 1chtte letters.
The subjoined paragraph from the London
Times of the 4th inst, will be read with re-
| greet: ''We regret to learn that there is only
| the very slightest foundation for the report of
| Miss Nlghtngales restoration to health. She
| Is able to move from one place of residence
| to another--a very few miles-once Il year,
but she is scarcely able to leave her bed in
the intervals, and quite unable to struggle
with the flood Of correspondence and applica-
tons of all kinds which the report of her par
tial recovery has brought upon her."
The Hon. w. G. Grier Of the Kentucky leg
islature, having been cleaned out by the rebel
Morgan, declares in letter that he is ''now
unequivocally for confscatton, su5jugation,
and hell and damnatioa."
The majority for Owen Lovejoy for con-
gress in Illinois, is much larger than has be-
fore been reported. Full and correct returns
make it 697. A very powerful effort was
made to defeat him.
The report that Mr.. G. A. Dana has been
appointed assistant secretary Of war is erro-
neous. No such appointment has been made
Rev. Parsons Cooke has retired from the
position Of editor of the Boston Recorder, ON
account Of ill health. Rev Il. 2. Marvin of
Medtord succeeds him.
WAR ITEMS.
correspondent Of the New York Times
tells the following incident "A wounded
soldier who served in Burnsides expedition
in North Carolina mentions that at Newbern,
on one occasion, our troops, on account Of