Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-24

"AIy days are run, my work is done,
My resting place is here;
This stone was got to mark the spot,
Lest some should dig too near.n
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The amount assessed for town, county, and
state tax in Northampton is $50, 1852 or SIP so
on $1,000 of the valuation.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Charles Babcock of North Bernardston, af.
ter ten years experimenting thinks he has
discovered preventive of and cure for potato
rot, and means to get patent on his discov-
cry.
Edwin Crittenden, with his wife and three
children, left Conway on the 18th for Utah, to
join the Mormons.
Rev. John Dodge, who died at Wendell on
the 18th, after brief sickness, was gradu-
ate of Amherst college, and went as a mis-
sionary to Africa, after completing his stud
les, returning, after short residence, on ac-
count of i'll health.
MAINE.
Workmen are employed in rebuilding the
railroad bridge over Royal river at Yarmouth,
destroyed by fire on the 18th The bridge
burned was nearly new, about l20 feet long,
and cost $1,000.
Atnaziah Goodwin of Lyman, Me-, who
completed his one hundredth birthday on the
10th OF February last, and who was intending
to visit Boston and Bunker Hill on the 18th,
died at Dover, N. H., on the 22d, which place
he had reached when illness overlook him.
An astonishing freak of nature was wit.
messed at Pennington, Maine, last week. The
Patriot says, eve had dry thunder shower
In this vicinity, succeeded by very strong
wind from the northwest, which has continued
up to this time, Thursday afternoon, raising
clouds OF dust to the great discomfort of every
one"
VERMONT.
). w. Benjamin and G. II. Wells of Wood
bury had eighteen sheep killed by lightning
on the 10Th inst
There was a slight squabble at West Rut.
land on the 18th between some ignorant Irish
men and an enrolling officer it'll his aids, but
the latter came off victorious. 1t was after
wards reported that fifty of the Greeks had
hed.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The house and Outbuildings of George X.
Richards, of Goffstown, were burned on the
22d. Most Of the furniture was DESTROYED.
Loss about $500.
Mrs. Bell, wife of chief justice Bell died in
Manchester on the 10th inst. She was A
woman of rare virtue and many friends.
Several New Hampshire regiments, among
which are the 4th and 7th, are coming North
principally as sanitary matter they having
spent some two years in southern climate.
Whether they are to join the Potomac army
or that of the Peninsula is rot known
CONNECTICUT.
little boy was killed in attempting to iump
on to the Naugatuck train at Brdgewater. on
the 18th.
a Sneaking scamp, whom Mr.. II. r. Try
on OF HARTFORD, had recently discharged from
his employment, shot his horse out of re-
venge
A fine screw steamer of seven hundred and
fifty tons register, built for CorSs & Night
ingale, Of Providence, was launched from the
yard Of Maxon, Fish & Co., in Mystic last
week.
Adit. Gen. Williams has rendered his res
ignation on account of ll-health, and Horace
D. Morse, assistant quartermaster general is
his probable successor.
gluttonOus OK in Danbury, owned by Mrs
Lewis Iloyt, was turned into IL clover lot the
other day, and ate and drank SO much that he
sweled up and died.
'When he liz ed, he lived in clover;
When he died, he died all OVER
General Mcclellan made Il flying visit to
Hartford, coming Saturday and gong Mon
dag. Middletown now holds him for few
days.
The Coe brass manufacturing company,
with capital Of one hundred thousand dol
lars, will Immediately go into operation at
WolcOttvile.
The Hartford and New Haven railroad
has declared a quarterly dividend of three
dollars per share, free of the government
taxes.
NJ. C. Cameron the torger of bounty pa
pers, arrested in New Haven, is under four.
teen hundred dollar bonds for trial at the SUI
| peTOr court.
small hoy at New London accidentally
shut himself with pistol on the 10Th, inflict-
ing dangerous wound. Only few moments
before he shot another boy through the skirts
of his coat. There would seem to be a pro-
priety in Ills quitting his careless operations
after a while.
A pair of oxen in Plymouth were struck by
lightning on the 18th. Their driver, stumbling
by their side, was unhurt.
The hotels in New Haven are full to over
flowing with visitors who have come to witness
the exercises of the week at Yale college.
DIR. w. w. Sheffield of New London came
within an inch of receiving a mimic ball
through his head as he stood conversing in
the street at New Haven on the 17th Care
| lessness.
The City bank of New Haven was swindled
on the 18th out of 500 by smooth looking
man, who exchanged counterfeit twentes and
hundreds on the Waterbury bank, fol- those of
the City. When discovered, the inancier
had left town. The counterfeit is an excel
| lent one.
Some idea may be formed of the tremen-
dous consumption of the munitions of war
which the rebellion has occasioned by the
fact that the Waterbury cap and flask COM
pany alone made, during the past year, over
100 tons, or 100000 pounds of copper into
percussion caps.
| RHODE ISLAND.
The Newport Mercury says workmen have
commenced to lay the permanent track at
that end of the line of the Newport and Fail
River railroad.
Nine deserters were sent on by the steam
boat train on the 10Th, from the offices of two
provost marshals in Providence. Six were
forwarded on the 22d.
At WoOnsocket two daughters of David
Groves, in crossing the covered trench near
George C. Ballou Sons mill, broke through
and tell into the water. The attention of a
passer was attracted by the call "come and
get me-" when the youngest of the two girls,
aged about five years, was found clinging to
plank. Tho elder was drowned and her body
was recovered.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
Three more of the rebel steamers which
were reported by Mr.. Hammond, our consul at
Dublin, which have been engaged in running
the blockade, have recently been captured.
They were considered some of the fastest YES
sells in European waters. The names of these
vessels are the Herald, Havelock and the
Eagle.
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