Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-03
ford few days since for the 9TH time. How
are you, old bachelors?

was stripped upon his arm was clearly tat.
tooed the name of John Sullivan "But
thought your name was Michael Flynn! !" said
the doctor. eyes" slammed the Hiberoian
sub, ''but Tee been married tlcice r If that
wouldn't change mans name, it might lead
him to do so.
Newport means to have the naval academy
permanently located there, and has rendered
to the government the use of Coasters hnrbor
island.
Charles E. Davis, jr., of Pawtucket, has
| growing in his garden a tobacco plant which
has attained the height of six feet and is
now in flower. The length of the leaf is
thirty-one inches and the width fourteen
inches.
Thirty-one soldiers left Lowell Hospital on
the Both, twenty-eight to join their regiments
and three for discharge.
A mad dog was killed in Providence on
the Both ult. 1t had previously bitten child,
but it is hoped that no fatal result will ensue.
MISCELLANEOUS.
correspondence Norfolk writes ''Slave-
ry is dead in this part of Virginia-even if
peace should be established to. morrow, and
Fernando Wood dictate the terms. Yankee
immigration has already set in, and merchants
from New York, Philadelphia, and Boston,
transact nearly all the business in Norfolk and
Portsmouth"
Agnes Agan, of Buffalo, convicted of the
murder of her husband, has been sentenced
to execution Sept. Is.
Eleven hundred men were mustered into
the United States service in New York by
enlistment, during the month of July, not
outstanding the interruption to volunteering
caused by the riots. Nearly two hundred and
fifty were veteran soldiers.
I'D
N. Y, during the recent heavy rains. The
cemetery at Monravia. on the bank of Dry
Greek, was washed away, and sixteen dead
bodies carried down the stream. Great dam
age was done to the growing crops; and the
total loss is estimated at about 100000.
1t is feared that the oyster crop this year
will be a failure. The beds in the Chesapeake
are almost entirely destroyed, and rs yet those
IN the Virginia rivers cannot be approached.
Fully half of the boats engaged in the trade
have also been destroyed since the war broke
out.
A Washington gossip says it is rumorcd
that Mrs. Lincoln, after the most cruel ankle
ty and hesitation, has concluded to have her
summer dresses made up "6iasSed," with
short necks and low sleeves.
Chief Justice fancy was violently attacked
by dysentery at his residence in Baltimore not
quite week since, but he is now recovering
a letter from Port Hudson says that Capt
John l.. Swift of the 3lst Massachusetts reg
ment, was captured before Port Hudson by
a rebel force about six weeks ago.
AS Fernando Wood was passing through
Theatcr Alley, New York, on the 9th ult,
a bucket of dirty water was thrown upon him
by an individual, who said, ''Take that, old
copperhead."
A few days ago, Capt. Miller, acting mayor
of New Orleans, received, anonymously,
800, which was intended DIS brlbe. lie i'm
medlately donated the same to the Home for
the Aged and INDECENT.
cargo of one hundred and sixty-fve mules
from Montevidea--tho first o. or imported into
this country from that port-reached New
York on the 9th.
a recent sale Of negroes in Montgomery
county, Md, illustrates the comparative
worthlessness of slave property in that state.
Seven likely, full grown young negroes
brought in all one hundred and tuenty-siz
dollars, an average of only eighteen dollars
head. Before the war the same negroes
were worth on an average $500 apiece.
| The health of New Orleans continues good.
Only l46 deaths occurred for the week ending
July Is. No cases of death by yellow fever
are reported.
The editor of the Richmond Enquirer talks
about 1.-THE beautiful confines of the southern
confcderacy." Prentice says ''the most nota-
BILE of these confines are Libby Prison and
Castle Thunder"
Eighteen hundred bottles of whiskey were
discovered among the hay on board the
schooner B. f. Butler, at fortress Monroe,
from Boston, few days since, and confis-
Gated
Accounts from Liberia state the biennial
4 Al.
Bashel Warner as president and Rev. JAS.
M. Priest as vice president, the term of office
to commence in January next Mr.. Warner
is of unmixed African blood, born in Balti-
more, April 10, 1915, reached Liberia May
"a, 1928, and has not since been out of the
country.
A little fellow in Troy, N. Y, while anus
ing himself by chasing litter of young pigs,
was attacked by the mother of the young
porkers, biting him in the calf of the leg, and
pursuing him for quite a distance. The
timely interference of neighbor saved the
boy from receiving serious injuries.
Com. Charles Stewart was eighty five years
of age on the 26th of July. He is as active
and cheerful as man of forty; he has been
in over forty engagements with the enemies
of our flag.
To fill the vacancies in the list of cadets at
west HOlnt, exceeding TWO hundred, only lOr-
ty six pupils were admitted at the examna-
ton held short time since. The New York
Leader suggests that they be filled with briga-
der generals.
Pickpockets are in abundance at Saratoga,
N. Y.
Several German girls have gone to service
in the harvest fields of northern Illinois,
where they receive one dollar per day wages.
Mr.. Stable, editor of the Gettysburg (Pa0
Compiler, has been discharged from fort Nc
Henry. He took the oath of allegiance to the
government, and gave his parole of honor to
appear at any time to answer charges.