Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-16
General News summary.


| Shad fishing is now in full blast at Double
Ditch, Springfield. Two nets are engaged all
the time, and the daily catch of each averages
from $50 to 200 fish. The shad are sold on
the spot for from 20 to 80 cents apiece.
Extensive repairs are being made by the
Chicopee manufacturing company in their
mill at Chcopee Falls. The buildings that
formerly constituted three mills are now
united, and the whole will be operated by one
set of wheels. Nearly 1000 hands will be en-
| ployed when the mill is in full operation.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
An "Alpne Club" consisting of young la
| dies, has been formed at WilliamstOwn by
Prof. Hopkins Their object is to make pc
| destrian trips to places of interest in the vi
cinty.
laborer at Stockbridge recently fell head
long upon a wheelbarrow which he was trun-
ding, injuring his head so that he died in
stantly.
A singular disease has appeared among the
cows in the northern part OF the county. One
farmer has 10 since December no less than
81, and another 10.
During rain storm in Florida last week.
ice accumulated on the trees in such quaint.
ties that much young timber was destroyed.
James o. Ludd of South Adams, who has
| passed through ten battles, and finally lost an
arm at Antietam, has received the commits
sion of I'd lieutenant in the LIST regiment of
| Wlld's African brigade, and will proceed to
| Newbern Immediately.
| Lieut. Thomas f. Punkett, Jr., of Pitts
| field, of the 37th regiment, and acting on
Gen. DeycnS staff, lately got a short furlough
and then sailed for Europe. He stood well
in the army, and no explanation can be given
of the freak.
MAINE.
Colonel George W. Dyer, id-de-camp,
and military secretary of Governor Coburn,
has resigned that position and gone to Wash
lngtOn, having accepted a commission as
assistant paymaster in the United States SER
vice.
The citizens of Benton have voted to ex-
clude from taxation by the town, for the space
OF ten years, such capital as may be en-
ployed in the manufacture of cotton or wool
en- goods.
A hen belonging to Mr.. Lathrop of Hun
tlngton, has recently laid on each of three
successive days, an egg measuring seven
inches in circumference and weighing four
ounces. Another hen laid huge egg on
one day, and the two next days two very
small ones-the smallest not bigger than a
robins egg.
VERMONT.
In Brattleboro, on Sunday, the 10th, news
came-the same lying news which deceived
the whole country-tbat Richmond was taken.
The dispatch was received during the fore
noon service; ministers proclaimed it from
the pulp and there was a great excitement
all over town. Although the citizens of the
place were most egregiOusly 'sold, it was
cruel "sell, in which the whole country can
sympathze We hope to get no more such
false reports.
r. NJ. Hall of Alabama, who has been lee
fVri IN, D,tl, Al.
down tall copperhead in Brandon, few
days since, who was rejoicing over Rockers
defeat.
Geo. w. Harrington, a discharged Vermont
soldier, was knocked down and instantly kill
ed on Thursday last, by locomotive backing
down a railroad track in Albany.
Mrs. Head Of Rutland, who forwarded more
than 100 corn-poppers to her husband in the
army who wrote to her for 200 corn papers,
has made a good speculation out of her mis-
take, having received double pricefo for the pop
pers IN the army.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The annual commencement at Dartmouth
college will occur on the 2lst 22d and 23d of
July. On class day Frank A. Spencer will
give the Grafton, William l.. Flagg the poem,
N. H. Clement the chronicles, David L. Brad
ley the prophecies, and S. d. Dodge the ad-
dress to the president. Rev. Thomas NJ.
Clark of Providence, r. l., will address the
the theological society, Edwin ID. Sanborn
and St. LOUIS the phi beta kappa society, and
Ralph Waldo Emerson of Massachusetts the
the united literary societies.
The Exeter Granite State News states that
the oldest of three brothers residing in Moul
tonboro, N. H., married quite young girl;
his next younger brother married the girls
mother, and the youngest took for his wife the
grandmother.
CONNECTICUT.
The New London Star says :-"Just now
a great number of tomcods and fatfish are be-
ing caught from our wharfs. Boys and men
run wildly about the streets, laden with the de-
licous shad, the popular porgy, and the lux
urious cod"
The Danielsonville Transcript says :-"On
Friday, the LIST inst, a nearly fatal accident
occurred to Joseph X. Green, a well known
trader of this village. Mr.. G. was thrown
from his carriage and had several of his ribs
broken. He remains helpless, but it is hoped
| he is not per anently injured"
The Moosup post office was robbed few
days ago. The letters were overhauled, with
what result is not known. Attempts at robbery
have also been made in Wauregan and Cen
trail Village.
A little son of Eli Davis of Putnam climbed
| out chamber window when asleep, on Sun