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

into canal boat, weighing between 2300 and
240O pounds, at MoTril's wharf at that place,
the boiler started on the run down on the skids,
and IN attempting to stop it he was carried
with 1t over the wharf into the boat, striking
on his head and sustaining severe injury.
MAINE.
There are about forty glass houses for grow
ing tender grapes in Bangor, and the number
will be increased.
The citizens of Bangor are TO erect a mon
ument twenty.Seven feet high, Of Concord
granite, in memory of the soldiers of Bangor
who have fallen in defense of their country.
On the evening of the 18th inst, rs Mr..
James Whalen, foreman at lIoller's brick
yard, Bangor, was walking along Il high emf
bankment at the yard, the bank caved in and
he, dumping to save himself, fell upon new
~ slIarpened wuOd-saw which he had in his
hand, cutting him so badly across the side US
to cause his death
The pirates in the Jail in Portland have just
been paid their monthly wages in gold by the
southern confederacy.
Arthur +. Gage OF Stratham has picked
from common native grape vine, the pres
ent season, nearly four hundred pounds of
fruit
On the night of the 22d a woman, who had
been arrested for drunkenness in Nashua and
confined in 5the City Hail, where women are
usually placed, attempted an escape from a
front window, and fell distance of forty feet,
injuring her SO severely that she will not re-
cover.
VERMONT.
A barn at Woodbury. was struck by light
ming on the 18th and consumed.
CONNECTICUT.
The copperhead orator Vail, alias Stevens,
who gulled the Hartford Times, Gov. Sey-
mour and several of that ik out of consider
able money, has gone as a substitute from the
fourth district. The Times says it believes
him to be an accomplished Villain, but pre-
ters that he should be in the army than in the
state prison. Singular!
Congress assemblies in December, and the
New Londoners remember it, and begin to
agitate the navy yard question again. New
London has really strong claims, which
ought not to be overlooked.
The steam carriage that was matched with
trottng horse, for 500, at Hartford, on the
2lst, was behted by the horse in three straight
heats; on the second heat the carriage broke
down. 1t had previously made a halt mile in
LIS.
Hebron conscript who went to Hartford
with $500 to pay his Communication, fell among
thieves and women and lost the whole of his
money.
Counterfeits and spurious bills are getting
so common that the banks will hereafter stamp
all of them they get hold off, SO that they will
not be mistaken. law passed last year or
dered this.
The court-martial at New Haven has exon
Grated Sergt. Walker from blame in shooting
the deSerter CASTILLO, who was trying TO escape
from him.
queer case of borrowing" took place at
Hartford a few days since. A young lady of
the high school in that place visited the dress
ing room during school hours and took hat
belonging to one ofthe other girls, and also
the trimmings from the hat of another girl
During the evening the hat and trimmings
were seen on the street, policeman was no.
tilted and%hrough his efforts the articles were
returned the next day.
RHODE ISLAND.
Capt. Charles Ii. Gordon Of the Sd Rhode
Island cavalry offers to give $1,000 for equal
division among one hundred men who join his
company.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Petroleum or rock oil has been obtained in
Gaspe, Canada East, by boring $50 feet. The
Montreal Witness says the region bids fair to
bev very productive of this valuable substance.
On the 18th inst, as one of the masOns at
the West Harris market house in Harrisburg,
was dressing one of the stones of which the
building is being constructed upon chipping
off block, he found a large petrified rattle
s"''l-S - - :-~;Io m, analaS ara narfact
The backbone is clearly Defined and is one
OF the most interesting specimens of petrifi-
cation ever discovered.