Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-24

the development of fishes which is analogous
to the tadpole condition OF frogs. The diff
Guilty of obtaining fishes from the egg has
prevented previous knowledge of the wonder
full fact.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
In consequence of the recert pranks of a
supposed mad dog, the selectmen of Newton
have ordered the constables Of that town to
destroy all the unlicensed dogs running at
large.
A dwelling house III Sommervlle, occupied
by Mr.. Hull Deane, was destroyed by fire on
the 23d inst, and neighDoring house was
greatly damaged.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The total receipts at the late fair of the
Plymouth county agricultural society, were
S2,37S 81. The number Of visitors admitted
to the grounds during the two days of the
show, was about $4,000.
The valuation OF North Bridgewater is per-
sonal estate, $576, 1896; real, 81 ,52O, 554 tax
| $3O,377 So; rate 81 so on 500.
On the night of the 10th the barn belong
| ing to the estate of the late Edward Thaxter
in bingham, together with ten tons of hay
and two wagons, were totally destroyed by
fire.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
The ship Reindeer Of New Bedford has ar
| rived at Honolulu, from the Arctic ocean.
| She has taken the present season 1850 barrels
of whale oil and 10000 pounds of bone,-
making total for the voyage of 1000 barrels
of whale, l20 do. sperm OIL and about 81, 900
pounds whalebone. She had been absent
from New Bedford three years on the I'd INST,
and has made one of the greatest voyages on
record.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Samuel B. Estey of Greenwich, recently
4 -, 4.
fifty bushels of potatoes, picked them up and
put them into his cellar. The men who can
do more in that line are not numerous.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Only one native OF Massachusetts who par
ticipated in the battles of the revolution is still
living-Benlamin Miller, who was born in
Springfield in 1853, and is now resident of
Laurens, Otsego county, New York. Lemuel
Cook, whose birthplace is not stated, enlisted
at Hatfield in 1881.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Some miserable scamp recently hacked the
thigh of a young horse owned by l.. b. Moore
of birmingham, 50 that he bled to DEATH A
fellow named VIM. Partridge has been bound
over for doing it.
Some fifty men are to be employed i'm
mediately in constructing dam across the
Deeriield river. near the Hoosac tunnel, and
preparations are being made to sink another
shaft.
Three barns at Great Darlington belonging
to E. B. Huntley, were consumed by fire on
| the 18th.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Samuel Harrison, while at work a few days
since on the picker in the Ashuelot wooden
mill in Winchester, had his hand caught in
the machine and was drawn upon the picketed
cylinder, terribly decorating his arm and one
side of his body SO that he survived but a
short time.
vi the voters who were present at the first
meeting OF the town of Foxcroft and voted,
after it was incorporated in 1912, three are
now living and voted at the last election for
Judge Cony and the full Union ticket.
In Orange, the 10th, as the children of Jos.
Bean were playing near a fence where cart
wheel had been left, it was overturned, and
fell upon the oldest, 4 lad of five years. jur-
ing him so severely as to cause his DEATH
On the 22d inst, while Mr.. Francis o.
Woodbury. of Portland was unloading boiler