Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-22

on board the ship.
The walls of the west wing of Edward Har-
ris' new mill in Woonsocket are completed.
The building is five stories in height and its
length is 500 feet.
Many of the farmers in the vicinity of
Woonsocket have not yet finished haying.
The delay in cutting has added largely to the
bottom grass, but the quality is inferior
The correspondent of the Providence Post
on the Vineyard, Il careful mathematician,
has made calculation that the pecuniary cost
of the camp meeting of 1860, run up to the as
tonishing figure of one hundred thousand dol
lars.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ten Frenchmen kill themselves every day.
Statistics show that 100000 have thus died
IN France within the present century.
The once powerful tribe of Montauk In
dams on Long Island have dwindled down to
five persons, and their present king is Sylves-
ter Pharo. His subjects are Elisha, Bill, Da-
vid and Stephen.
The state of Minnesota have paid $25 for
the scalp of Little Grow, and have had it
tanned!
woman in Columbus, Ga, proclaims o.
self ready to command regiment of women ~
de.cnGe Of the confcderacy
Two adjoining districts in Kentucky will be
represented IN the next congress by an uncle
and nephew-Mr. Clay of the seventh and
Gen. Smith Of the sixth district
Gen. Hancock, who was wounded at Get
tysburg, is slowly recovering, and expects
soon to be removed to West Point from Nor
rstown, Pa. where he has been staying for
some time past.
1t is said that plant the Sida retusa, which
grows in prodigious quantities at Brisbane, in
East Australia, is found to possess most val
liable fibre, which will, after being worked up
into textile fabrics, render it peculiarly adapt
ed for the manufacture of paper.
One of the facts revealed by the information
now being collected by the bureau of military
statistics, at Albany, is that Mai. Gen. VIM.
II. Haleck is a native OF Wateryille, Oneida
county, N. Y, and that his grandfather, Jabez
Halleck, now in his 1881 year, still resi-
dent Of that town.
The captain Of Il Bremen barque, which ar
rived at New York on the 20th, reports that
he passed several icebergs on the 9th, on the
southern edge of Newfoundland banks. The
sudden fall of temperature on the 10th was
probably owing in part to this cause.
The names OF the persons sent to Rome, of
OF whom the rope is advised to make a selec-
ton for the archbShoprick of Baltimore, Ma
ryland, are said to be the Right Rev Bishops
McGiIl Of Richmond, Wood of Phladelphia.
"h' ''P'lulhliS vi lIUulSNlLts L ne heN. Dr.
McCaifrcy of Emmettsburg, is also spoken
%, though he has twice declined to accept a
bishopric.
1t was reported on change in ST. Louis on
the 10th that the government has taken up,
for the use of Gen. Grants army, all the corn,
oats and hay, now in trarsitu from. st. Louis
to New Orleans. The market prices will be
paid for tcm.
a hopeful youth in Philadelphia gained cx-
cmptiun because he was 1.-THE only son of his
widowed mother" and her dependence for
support, sc. An investigation showed the
mother to be a thrifty and llourisning proprie-
tress OF grocery store, who supported the
graceIcSs son in idleneSs. The youth at last
accounts was hunting substitute, his exemp-
ton having been cancelled.
Gen. Sigci has been relieved fror, his du-
ties in Pennsylvania, and his staff mustered
out OF service 1t is also rumorcd that all the
unemployed volunteer generals are TO be mus
tered out Of the service Immediately.
The 3Ith Iowa regiment-the Gray Beard
Brigade"-is one of the curiosities of the war;
II - ''''i'et'.'l e,,tire y i .ll ,4
age age of members being 81 yelrs. One
man is 81 years of age, and has twenty.one
children, fifteen of them in the army. They
have been constantly in service since the or
ganziilOn OF the rcgimcnl doing mostly gar
risOn duty. Ihey claim that if brought INTO
action they would have no alternative but to
fight, as they could not run.
Prof. David Murray has resigned his posi-.
ton as principal OF the Albany Academy, hav-
ing been appointed professor Of mathematics
in the Rutgers college.
''rhe Newe Testament, transla ed into
Euglysshe by John Wyclihe, with Rlle and
Kalcndar of pistles and gospels after ye use
OF Sallsburie,' very elegant manuscript on
velum, I'M very clear hand, with capitals il
Illuminated in gold aud colors, s9c XIV, was
recently sold in London for 1850
A Washington correspondent of Chicago
newspaper ttates that the forces ordered to
reinforce Gen. Gilmore will make his army
larger than that with which Gen. Grant took
Vicksburg.