Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-24

purchased three fat cattle of Seth Bush of
Westfied, the live weight of which were 1850
pounds and the weight after being dressed,
$500 pounds, shrinking less than % per cent.
The house of Thomas Smith, known as the
Pliny Cooley place, i'll Palmer. was destroyed
by fire on the 18th inst. the family saving most
of the furniture. The fire took from an old
oven in shed where hams were being smoked.
No insurance.
CONNECTICUT.
The schooner an. Marcy" of Newport,
Capt. Davis, left New London on the morning
of the 18th, and encountering thick snow
storm off Faulkner's Island attempted to run
into New Haven harbor Mistaking bright
light in dwelling house for the lighthouse,
the vessel ran on the West Haven shore and
went to pieces. Captain and crew saved !;
cargo, Of nails, a total loss.
AT Mystic, there are two propelers on the
stocks in the yards Of Charles Mallory & Co.,
one Of about $50 tons. drawing six feet of
water when loaded; and the other a magnifi.
cent vessel of HOO tons, built after the plan
of the gunboat Varina, which was launched
from tile same yard. Both are constructed to
serve as gunboats, if the government desires
TO purchase.
MISCELLANEOUS.
John Bell is said 10 have been a large owner
in the iron works near Dover, Tennessee,
which were burned by our troops few days
ago. The works were engaged in the manu-
iacture of shot and shell for the confederate
government.
W. lind the following pungent sentence in
the report Of the insurance commissioners
(Ellzur Wright of this state "A horde of
insurance companies, with itinerant agents at
high commission, are almost as dangerous
as SIMPSONS foxes with torches tied to their
tails aulOny the standing corn"
At a recent city elecii0nin Oskaloosa, Iowa,
Mrs. Nancy Smith, democrat, was elected
mayor by majority of 81 over the republican
candidate for that Office
We are glad, says the Chicago Tribune,
that our victory on the Cumberland has name
that will live. We are pleased that it is not
Pig Point or Bull Neck or Goose Creek. The
fort was named after Sen. Daniel S. Donelson
of Tennessee, a reb officer OF some note.
Mile Fowler, the celebrated danseuse of
Frank Rivers troupe, was recently. married
TO a lieutenant in the army of the Potomac.
Three or four of the rebel officers captured
at Roanoke Island were made prisoners at
Hatteras by Commodore Stringham, and
were afterwards released on their parole of
honor.
The marine losses on the st. Lawrence and
lakes in the past year amounted to 1857 347,
against 81 OILS for the year 1860 The
loss on steam huls was S2l7 $50 and cargoes
$50, 1856, in all on steamers 1902, CPS; and the
loss on sailing huls $3.50 100 and cargoes
SS0S 602, IN all on sailing risks S658, 642. The
loss Of life was 1l6, against 578 the previous
year.
Capt. Semmes. OF the Sumter, has a grand
way of carrying on the war. From the cap
tain of the bark Neapolitan he took eighty six
dollars, and from Capt. Iloxie, of the Eben
Dodge, hundred and fifty, their OWE private
property. And it is such pickpockets that
John Bull was SO eager to recognize as "bel.
ligerents."
The following epitaph was copied from a
tombstone at Hatteras Island -
'Thomas Austin was his name
Heaven is his station.
Hatteras was his dwelling place,
And Christ is his salvation.
But now he's dead and buried.
And all his bones are rotten.
Remember him when this you see,
Lest he be forgotten"