Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-01


the sand on the eastern coast of Orleans,
Cape Cod, was IS feet in length, had tom
mage of 40 to 80 tons, and was called the
Sparrowhawk. She is supposed to be the
first transport sent with provisions to the Pill
grims after their landing. Six years after the
landing ON Plymouth Rock 237 years ago
she attempted to get out of Pontonomicut
harbor, as it was then called, but ran upon
sand bar and biged, and in the constant
changes in the coast there, was entirely
buried in ten or fifteen years, and so she has
remained until few weeks ago, when some
sand was washed away, and she was discov-
cred. The deck was gone, and the floor he
low the deck was strewed with slaves and
heads of barrels, and among them large
quantity of bones-some Of beet, some Of
pork, and some of mutton The hoops of the
barrels had mostly disappeared; they may
have been iron, and so dissolved by the action
of sea water. All the bolts and spikes and
iron used in the construction of the vessel had
also disappeared, or so mingled with the sand
as to form a kind OF reddish stone, quite hard,
while the ribs and planks and trunnels of
good old English oak still remain quite sound.
Memento hunters are hacking away at her in
such numbers that soon there viii, be nothing
left. The early records of Plymouth colony
contain references to the loss of the Sparrow
hawk.
HAMPDEN COUNTY
Merrick, Fay 4 Co., Of Monson, pay a May
tax of twelve hundred and nine dollars, the
Duck company of Palmer, eleven hundred
and twenty dollars, and the Thorndike com
pany one thousand and ninety dollars.
l.. P. Bosworth of Holyoke. has contracted
to build brass foundry in Chicopee for Eras-
| tus StebbinS.
HAMPSHIRE. COUNTY.
In many towns in the county the grass crop
is being seriously injured by the protracted
drought. In some places there will not be
two-thirds of the crop anticipated.
Among the graduates at the recent COM
mencement at Princeton college, n. j., was
George William Sheldon, son of Rev. DR..
George Sheldon, formerly of Northampton.
He delivered the valedictOry Grafton.
Walter Kyle hired a horse at Westfeld on
the 18th ult., to go to Ho!yoke, but went to
Easthampton and sold the horse. Going to
Northampton he took the cars and was traced
to Troy, n. Y, where he was arrested on the
9th ult., and brought before trial justice
Peck at Northampton and committed to Jail.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Fourth is to be celebrated in Green
field by a fremenS muster. Several compa-
MES are expected from abroad, and liberal
prizes are offered.
The rate of taxation in Greenfield the pre-
sent year is one per cent.
A swarm of bees belonging to A. l. Kellogg
have taken refuge in the steeple of the Con-
gregational church, Shelburne, fifteen or
twenty feet above the bell, where they are
laying up store of honey.
About one hundred members of the legis-
lature are on a visit to the HooSac Tunnel.
MAINE.
Twenty students from Bowdon college
have procured leave of absence for six
months, and enlisted in the Sd Rhode Island
regiment of cavaly, now forming under Col
Fales. Students from other New England
colleges propose to join this regiment.
The net earnings of the Somerset and Ken
nebec railroad last year were $53, 2SS. 1t is
in muss with the kenncbec and Portland
railroad, with no present prospect of settle
ment.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
says that while the fare from Danyille juno
ton to Montreal is 81 in our currency, he
had to pay $40 40 to return; and while the
hotels in that city advertise to take our bills
at par, he was required to pay bill Of 81
The Portland Advertiser and Argus seem ,o
-. Sire.
pirates, in Portland harbor, have some claims
to the reward of $4,000 offered by the Bos-
ton underwriters.
VERMONT.
Work on the Montreal and Vermont june
ton railroad is progressing, and fifteen miles
of the northern end of the line will be ready
for operation before December.
Ambrose Chase of Bakersfield, while chop
ping in the woods last week, felled n tree, and
with it came a nest of five white young crows
Three survived the shock, but after few
days died.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The crops at Nelson threaten to be a failure
on account of the want of rain.
Last week Luther j. Austin and Ira Moody
broke into the dwelling of two old ladies
named Heath and Fowle of Kingston, assault
ed them, robbed the house of $50, and de-
camped.
The three dem Jcratic members of the legis-
lature from Manchester, whose seats were
contested, have been unseated by vote of
1863 to 1872.
CONNECTICUT.
A number of gentlemen of New Haven, in
terested in contracts for building iron clad
steamers, have formed a company with a cap
ital of $4,000, for the manufacture of iron.
Their works are to be in Kent, in Litchfield
county.
Patrick Kelley, in the employ of the New
Haven, Hartford and Springfield railroad
company, was run over and killed, on the 10Th
ult.
Frank Dagner of Hartford, was drowned ON
the 2Sth ult.
The senior class at Yale numbers l22-the
largest class that has graduated from this in
stitution for several years, having entered
with l75 members. Furty-five make law
their profession, sixteen divinity, ten medi-
cine. The average weight of the class is l43
pounds, the average age % years. The
shortest man is feet 8 inches, the tallest 6
feet 2 IL inches; the youngest is 10 years
old, the oldest 90
One of the merchants of New Haven, who
is in the West India trade, recently received
by express the snug sum of $4,000 in gold and
silver
The 22d regiment arrived in Hartford The
18th, and were received with general accla-
nation. They marched in procession through
the principal streets.
RHODE ISLAND.
Another detachment of marines under Mai
Pearce, of the Washington artillery of Wick
ford, and the Tower Hill company, were Or
dered to the defence Of Narragansett bay on
the Goth.
The dog law goes into effect in Pawtucket
on the first day of July, care canem Dogs
beware.
Mrs. Lydia Turner of Central Falls, WHO'S
70 years old and totally blind, has knit forty
pairs stockings for the soldiers since the war
begun.
Seveny.ive students of Brown University