Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-24

in January, to attend a funeral, and was not
again seen. Search revealed an open place in
the ice, with marks Of skates to the edge, but
not beyond, in which he was probably
drowned.
The saw and grist mill at Presquc Isle, be-
longing to John Allen, Esq, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th inst, with large quantity
OF lumber and grain. The entire loss was
about $4,000, which was unprotected by insur-
ance.
The Bangor Wing says there has been suf-
ticient snow to make ii prime logging-never
better-and the choppers have been busy as
bees in cutting as fast as their teams could
haul.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Bridget Gilvey came to her death few
days since at Manchester under suspicious
circumstances. 1t is thought she was betray-
ed and then poisoned. She belonged in
Blackstone, Mass, where her parents now re-
side.
The skeleton of medium sized man was
found in the woods in Londonery, Wednes-
day, with rope hanging to II tree over the
skeleton; the tree had grown so as to burst
the rope. The clothes were decayed, aud the
flesh had entirely disappeared. An empty
wallet and jack-knite were found with the
bones; one of the teeth had been filed with
gold. The deceased was probably Il suicide
who had escaped observation and discovery.
VERMONT.
The ravages Of diptheria in the northern
counties of the state, during the past year,
were terrible. In Lyndon, with a population
Of 1900, $50 died-nearly every case of dip
iberia Whole families were swept away
One family of four beautiful children, with
their young mother and her sister, were car.
rin ofi i,,t Io ,f -four JavS In
vile, where the usual list of mortality seldom
exceeds 80, last year it went up to 100 In
Burke, one family Of four children were an
initiated, with the exception OF the father in
thirteen days. lady living in Stewartstown,
n. H., lost fourteen cousins in the town of
Burke. The average length of sickness is
three days, but in many cases the destroyer
does its work in "a and u hours.
CONNECTICUT.
DR.. Alvin Flint of East Hartford died few
days since, on a transport between Aqua
Creek and Washington. His story is sad
one. His Oldest son was killed at the battle
Of Antietam. The patriotic old man, fired
with desire to ayenge his death, enlisted as
private in the 2lst regiment and though
over sixty years Of age, was accepted. He
was joined by his youngest boy, scarcely
fourteen years old, who also recently died at
Fredericksburg. Of the family only daugh-
ter remains.
The o'clock repairer," who has done prof
table business in the way of tinkerng clocks
and stealing spoons, all the way from Wor-
cester to New London, has been arrested at
last and properly punished. The officers at
Norwich have the credit of bringing him to
account.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Irish laborers on the Newport railroad,
now being built had a pleasant little riot near
the stone bridge in Tiyerton on Saturday last
The ringeader was committed to Jail.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Mormon saints have established the
atre at Salt Lake City, Brigham Young and
president Kimball officiating at the opening.
Songs, dances, the comedy of the Honey
moon" and the farce of Paddy Miles'S Boy"
made up the initiatory bill.
Doctor Watts seems to have anticipated this
rebellion. In his hymns. book |, hymn 90,
he says -
''Vaiu are the hopes that rebels place
Upon their birth and blood,
Descendant from pious race,
Their fathers now with God
''He from the caves of earth and hell
Can take the hardest stones,
And fill the house of Abraham well
With new created sons"
The La Lande prize of astronomy in the
Imperial Academy of Sciences at Paris has
been awarded to AlNan Clark, Esq, of Cam
bridge, for the discovery of the new star near
Sirius, with the great rejecting telescope re-
Gently made by him.