Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-05

house of his father in Berlin on the I'd inst.
He left his regiment about year ago, and has
successfully managed to elude the police Off
GERS who have since been on his track. Last
year, Brainerd went to Ohio, was drafted
there. and came back to Connecticut to get
rid Of service under the draft. He will prob
ably suffer the punishment prescribed for de-
serters.
A brakeman named Pettis, on the Hartford
and New Haven railroad, was severely injured
while coupling some cars on the Sd inst. At
first it was thought he was killed but he soon
revived and was taken on the cars to his home
at Thompsonville, where he has family.
RHODE ISLAND.
The late DR.. Ezekial Fowler of Woonsock-
ct left bequest for public hospital in that
place, to be conducted on the same principle
as the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Ellen A. Jencks of Woonsocket, who has
been an invalid for some months and at times
delirious, jumped into well ON the I'd, which
is near the house where she is stopping. The
well is thirty-six feet deep and contained six
feet of water. She received not a scratch in
her trightful leap, and her night dress, gather
ing under her arms, buoyed her up. Her
brother-in-law came to her rescue after she
had been in the water about half an hour. On
account Of her enfeebled constitution il is
feared she will not survive the shock of the
fall and the chill from exposure in the water.
The Newport News says Messrs. STAMINA
han and Beattie of that city have been award
ed the contract for building the Providence,
Warren, and Fall River road, conditioned to
be completed one year from the first day of
this present September. This contract em-
braces the building OF the entire road
The farm near Narragansett Pier, known as
the John Thompson farm, containing three
hundred and seventy five acres. was sold by
auction, on the I'd, for the sum oftwenty -four
thousand dollars. Hon. William Sprague
was the purchaser
The prevailing sickness at Newport, which
has proved so fatal for tit past few weeks. is
abating. Not far from sixty children have
died in the fourth and fifth wards, besides a
number of adults.
The farmers in the vicinity of Woonsobket
are still engaged in hay making on both up
IandS and meadows. The second crop, es-
pecially in clover fields, is the largest within
the memory of that venerated parsonage the
oldest inhabitant.
A. two boys were at the Shore Pond near
WoonSocket, on the Sd, they saw large wa
ter snake, which they struck and killed with
rake Mrs. Snake had n~her pocket no less
than .iffy-oae young snakes, all alive and
y
ten inches, make an agere gate length of t05ty-
two md u haif feet.
The Airline railroad will be in operation
between WoonSocket and Boston, in October.
There will be two passenger trains each way
daily, besides a combined passenger and
freight train
h, a. Park, d. d., of Andover, Mass, has
been elected member OF the Board of Eel
lows OF Brown Universy, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Rev. Avian Bond,
ID. D., of Norwich. Conn.
MISCELLANEOUS. a
Three distinct shocks of an earthquake we're
felt in st. Louis early ON the 18th nit
Prentice thinks JEFF. Davis life, if fully
narrated, would fill large volume, but it,
end will be told bya single line.
Trial was made last week of new piece of
ordnance called the Ferris gun, md the re-
port says range OF nine miles was obtained
The skull of Little Crow, the Nena Sahib
OF the northwestern tribe OF Indians, who has
perpetrated SO many butcheries, but has at
last been slain, to be preserved in the cabi-
net Of the Minnesota Historical Society
a young iady in St. Louis has recently
come into possession Of the snug sum of $780,
600 by the death Of rebel colonel in Alaba.
bama 1t is said tn fortunate legatee was
once betrothed to the officer who thus remenl-
bers her.