Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-23

TO the war, not one who had gained resi-
dence there has been killed or wounded or has
died of disease. A record with few parallels.
The number Of visitors to Mount lI0lyoke
this season will reach nearly 10000, by far
the largest number on the mountain during
any previous year.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
George Wing of Conway, who has been en-
gagged in business in North Carolina for sew.
eral years past returned home last week
with his wife, leaving all his property be-
hind, not even bringing change of cloth
ing with them. They were three or four
weeks in making their way into the Union
lines.
MAINE.
There are connected with Bowdoin Collere
seniors 81; juniors "a; sophomores 81;
freshmen So; medical students 70. Total
POI
The Houlton Times says that the potato
crop this season in Maine will prove the best
gathering in that country for term of years.
The potatoes are of excellent quality, and the
yield is large.
1t is stated that Maine will have a new re-
giment of cavalry recruited within thirty DAYS
A regiment Of infantry now being raised al
ready numbers seven hundred men. 1t is
thought Maine will be able to obtain her quota
under the last call of the president before the
fifth Of January.
lady in moderate circumstances, who for
merly lived at Rockland, recently received by
will $40, 900 from grateful Englshman who
used to board with her.
Three barns and shed adjoining the dwell
ling of Mr.. Amos Cook of Houton were de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 18th inst,
together with about seventy tons of hay, Il
large quantity of wheat and other grain crops
Leonard Gray of Jay, raised the present
season, from one middling sized potato, one
and three-quarters bushels. The potato was
divided into eighty pieces, one piece in hill
Sixty nine hills yielded potatoes.
The party of balloonisl5 who recently 'went
up from Blngor landed in Sudbury county,
New Brunswick The whole distance trav-
eled in an air line was about two hundred and
forty miles, but as actually made by the zig
gag course of the balloon. reached upwards of
three hundred miles. They were six hours
in the air.
VERMONT.
The potatOe rot in Vermont has not been
so bad as people expected, and the farmers
are selling them at fifty cents per bushel from
the field.
Copper has been discovered al Rutland and
forty acres of land have been leased tor g99
years to get at it.
Il Hl"etlis Oh inc oHlcers ana representa-
tives Of the Middlebury and Burlington col
leges has been called at Montpelier to con-
slider the question of consolidating the two
institutions.
CONNECTICUT.
The plan Of the notifications at New Ha-
ven involves formidable water battery ex-
tending from the satpetre works to the old
barracks, having front of some ten or
twelve hundred feet, with q formidable para
pet, sea wall, and IA glacis and moat. or
ditch surrounding the whole fort, in which
there will be eight feet of water The fortis
to be tanked, and covered by other fortif-
cations involving complete system of de-
fences.
daughter of Dennis Shenan, eleven
years old, was drowned at New Haven on the
evening of the 10Th.
The city of New London is in favor of light
ing Its streets with gas provided it will not
cost more than three dollars and a half per
thousand feet.
Three Hartford girls recently walked to
Wadsworth's Tower, distance Of ten miles
in two hours and ten minutes, and footed 1t
back the same day.
The dry goods store of Morris & Doty.
Norwich, WIS robbed by burglars on the l6th
inst. of $500 worth of goods, and the same
night horse and carriage, belonging to Thos.
b. Butler, were stolen by the same gang.
The robbers were afterwards caught and near
ly all the property recovered.
grand squirrel hunt is to take place from
Rockville on the 23d. Sides are chosen, and
there is to be a big contest to see who will bag
the most game. The party reporting the
least count is required to pay the supper.
The mill owned by Farnum & Keep of
Hartford, used for the manufacture of ''shod.
dy," was destroyed by fire with its contents
on the DIST Loss about $1,000.
Eleazer Williams, Esq, of Mystic, has rails
ed this season on the same ground two crops
Of potatoes, the last crop having been dug De-
t0ber 18th, and were of full size and perfectly
ripe.
The new mill at Eaglevile, Mansfield,
which has been unoccupied for several wears,
is going to start up for the manufacture of flax
cotton.
RHODE ISLAND.
His excellency Gov. Smith has sent Major
Monroe, allotment commissioner for Rhode
Island, to the battle field of Gettysburg to su.
perintend the removal of the fallen brave to
the new cemetery.
Several naval officers who are attached to
the school ships now lying in Newport harbor
have received orders for change to more
active service. They may therefore be called
away at any moment as the government shall
have need of them.
A draft for five hundred dollars on the IT.
wing bank, New York, was presented at the
PheniX bank, in Providence, on the 2lst inst,
bearing an endorsement whose genuineness
was considered somewhat questionable. The
young man presenting it, was taken into GUS
toby, to be detained till the matter can be in
vestgated.
There is a haunted house at Newport which
has been unoccuped till lately. The most
marvellous circumstance that the family re-
lates is, that having child some four years
old in bed they ''heard strange noise' very
soon after, and on going into the room "found
the child nicely tucked up in another bed!"
Loud raps are heard in various parts of the
house, but mostly under chairs in which they
were sitting, and on several occasions persons
on the outside have "seen man wearing a
beaver hat standing at window within the
house, who has mysteriousy vanished
A negro woman in Providence lately tied
string around the tongue of child seven years
of age, and placing the little one on tip toe
tied the string round mil, causing the suf-
ferer to stand in this position all night The
monster is to be proceeded against and should
have the seyerest penalty of the law.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The oldest rose tree in Europe is at Hides
helm, in Hanover 1t was planted in the
ninth century by Louis, the Pious, and in
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