Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-02
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

| NSAPS5 anu lnc company the
Essex Zouaves." Miss Lucy Eveleth has
been elected captain. Perhaps, when thew
are no longer misses, they will be able to or.
ganize squad of infantry.
orders have been issued prohibiting. for the
present, all visitors from entering the navy
yard.
There are now eighty men enlisted in the
Eighth Massachusetts battery, fifty of them
being OF the old organization; and the pros-
pect is that the corps will soon be filed.
The members of the Massachusetts 45tb.
now encamped at ReadvilIe, have been fur.
Laughed until the 9th inst, when they will he
mustered out of the service.
AT a meeting of the coal dealers held on
the LIST inst. at Boston, it was unanimously
voted to raise the price of anthracite coal to
twelve dollars per ton, and Cumberland to fl
teen dollars per ton; wood-Nova Scotia at
eleven dollars, and pine, eight dollars per
cord
Immense quantities of ammunition are be-
ing constantly forwarded from the arsenal to
Cen Grant, Gen. Banks, to Pennsylvania and
elsewhere. No less than three million mus
ket cartridges have been sent to Grant within
a short time. Several extra ammunition
trains have been sent over the Boston 4 Wor-
cester railroad the past week.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mr.. Charles LawtOn of Taunton, has shown
a fragment of large rosebush upon his prem
ises, which contains Il full blown lrhite rose
sandwlched by two perfect blush rose-buds,
and Is joined to branch which bears several
buds Of the latter variety
barn belonging to Mr. Martin Randall of
North Easton was burned on the 29th nit
1t is supposed to have been set by fire crack
ers.
NANTUCKET.
1t is feared that Edward w. Gardner and
wife, OF Nantucket, have been lost at sea.
Mr.. Gardner was last yearappointed CONNER
cal agent for the United States government
at the Navigators' Islands, and was proceed.
ing thither, in company with the British agent,
IN Dutch vessel, from the Feelee Islands.
which vessel is now believed to have been lost
early in the present year.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
An eighteen pound bass was caught at Dou-
ble-ditch, near Springfield, on the 30th of
June.
A fire occurred in an unaccupied dwelling
in Springfield, on the 18th ult. Loss eight
hundred dollars.
On the evening of she 29th ult., at Spring.
field, there was neither ledger in the CITY hall
boarding house nor unfortunate individual in
the lookup, a combination of vacancies that
rarely occurs.
The national armory in Springfield made
in the month of June, twenty five thousand
rit1ed muskets, and arrangements are now
on foot which will afford the means for in
creasiDg even this large number in few
months.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
IL. S. Gere of the Hampshire Gazette and
SD regiment has been sick at Baton Rouge.
and the Gazette thinks he won't be well ''till
he breathes once more the invig0rating north
ern air"
Westhampton assumes the $3.50 bounty
money paid to volunteers.
Easthampton assesses $4,000 or so per
cent. more than last year.
The factories at Easthampton are closed for
repairs.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The graduating glass of Williams college
contain itty-two members of whom forty-nine
are candidates for the degree of Bachelor of
Arts; the class has been somewhat diminish
ed in consequence K # &c 66jfUjYrr.
Hon. Ansel Phelps of Greenfield, was
thrown frum his carriage few days since and
badly injured, but has now partially recov-
cred.
DIR. Stephen J. w Taner, formerly of
Shclburne Falls, but for few years OF In
dependence, Iowa, has been appointed fourth
auditor in the treasury department at Wash
ington.
There are debts against the ''uniOn store"
at Orange, amounting to $4,000, and forty
shareholders of the stock, among whom, with
costs that accrue, they are to be divided for
payment. The judges of the supreme court
are to decide upon whom the payment of the
bills devOlve.
Mrs Lysander n. Brownell of Colerane
was thrown from wagon last week Sunday,
her horse taking fright, and received internal
iniu ries from which she died on the succeed
lug Wednesday.
A. G. Lebroke, Esq, of Dover, is to adj
dress the loyal national league of Springfield
on the Fourth OF July.
In Knox county, the copperheads, under
Marceus Emery, are to celebrate the Fourth
of July.
John Sidney careessly shot two men at
Portland on the 9th. SCATTERING ones thigh SO
badly that it had to be amputated, after which
he died.
There are over $4,000 sheep in the town of
New Portland. They will probably average
four pounds of wool apiece, making an ag-
gregate of 81 900 pounds. which at 60 cents
pound would amount to the snug little sum Of
$50, 200.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Gov. Gilmore has had everything placed in
readiness at Portsmouth to give the pirates
or any other hostile force, a warm reception.
CONNECTICUT.
A party of ladies and gentlemen from New
Haven went out sailing on the evening of the
9th ult., and the breeze going down prevent
ed them from reaching home. They landed
at the tort, built fire, and spent the night in
telling stories and singing songs.
Four young gentlemen connected with Yale
college-Messrs. Weirts and Wilson of the
class of ga, and Allison and Boas, of the class
of '66, left on the 29th for Harrisburg to Of
fer themselves for the defence of the invaded
state.
Class-day at Wesleyan university, Middle
town, passed pleasantly on Thursday, 25th
ult, with the usual exercises and an address
by G. D. Hills. Among the exercises for the
commencement are the following :-Bacca-
laureate sermon by Rev. DIR. Joseph Cum
mings, on the 18th; poem, before the literary
societies, Rev. John Pierpont; address before
the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity on the l4th, by
George William Curtis of New York. The
special honors of commencement day are
borne as follows :-Vaedictory, c. A. Bar
nard, Saccarappa, Me-. salutatory, w. p.
Hubbard, Wheeling, Va; philosophical ora
ton, Z. II. Kimpton, Morrisiana, N. Y; an
Gent and classical grafton, A. A. Wright,
Providence, r. L.. metaphysical Grafton, j.
Pullman, New York; modern classical ora
ton, }. C. Rand, Roxbury, Mass.
Mrs Phalan of Naupatuck, Conn, it is