Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-30

CONNECTICUT.
Seventeen deserters have been arrested by
provost marshal Merriam OF the 9th district.
within the last three weeks, and sent to Fort
Independence.
S. II. Murdock'S cashmere MILL Il five story
building in South Coventry, was burnt on the
9th, with IL good share of its stock, owned by
N kinsbury OF Hartford.
The Brazilian minister and his family have
taken rooms for the season at the Pequot
House, New London.
The Catholics have broken ground for Il
new church at Stafford.
Cyrus Knight Of East Hartford has a half
blood Alderney hefer, which has a calf born
May 30th, the heifer being then one year and
"a days old.
A child of Lawrence Phalon of Naugatuck
now in the army, died recently under peculiar
circumstances, and an examination detected
arsenic in the stomach. The stepmolher of
the child has been arrested
The knob mandatory of Wheeler& Wood,
at South NOrwalk, was burned on the 26th
Insured for $4,000.
kensington il going to have the most sensi-
bic fourth of July celebration yet announced.
handsome monument will be dedicated. on
which will be inscribed the names of all the
volunteers which the town has furnished for
the war, the battles in which they have borne
part and list of the deaths which have &C.
CURED among the number while in service.
Thomas IL. Seymour's name is among the
list OF speakers who are to be present at the
Academy of Music, New York, on the 18th;
also among the list of those to be at Concord,
N. H., on that day; also at other places, max
ing his duties somewhat arluous if he expects
to go the rounds in one day.
Frank DdVUpr WAS drowned Mt Hartford on
the 2Sth.
The remains of admiral Foote were remov-
ed from New York to New Haven on Saturday
afternoon. Previous to removal great num-
beers of officers visited the Aston House to
view the body. The coffin, which was placed
in an outer box, was Il metallic one, beauti-
fully mounted in silver, and covered with silk
velvet 1t is perfect fac Simite Of the case
in which Henry Clay was buried, being of the
most elaborate workmanship. The hearse
was escorted to the cars by two companies of
marines, thirty midshipmen from the naval
academy, and the New York committee on ma
tional affairs. At New Haven the funeral SER
vices will take place at Rev. DIR. Bacoh's
church.
The volume that Ex-Gov. Seymour has re-
ceived from the emperor of Russia, descrip-
tive of his coronation, weighs $50 pounds, and
ing on the outside finely wrought stamp of
the royal arms in gold. 1t is in size about 40
by SO inches, is printed on very heavy laid
paper, and in the ordinary reading matter
each letter is about half an inch in length.
Only thirty copies of the work were issued,
and they by order of the emperor, at a cost of
$4,000, or about $685. each.
Charles Patterson of New Haven has gone
to Washlngton at the request of the city au-
thorites, to ask that a gunboat may be sta
toned off the harbor.
RHODE ISLAND.
Gov. Smith on the 9th called out the Prov
idence marine artillery to protect the west
passage in Narragansett bay. They went on
Sunday to take position on Dutch Island and
the main land opposite. The Newport artl-
lery was also ordered to guard the east pas
sage. The president authorized these move
mcntS.
A boy named Riley, who resided in Paw
tucket, died It few days since, from the lock.
jaw.
A spirited base ball match was played in
Providence on the 9th, between the Harvard
Freshmen club and the Sophomore club of
Brown University, in which Harvard came
off victorious Brown obtaining seventeen
tallies, Harvard twenty-seven. The occasion
was one of great excitement among the stu
dents of the two colleges. The Providence
journal says :-"The Brown boys did 'splen-
did execution but the superior muscle and