Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-06
General News Summary.


vessels worth $3.50 from St. Paul and ST.
Peters church in Broadway Wednesday
night.
The officers of the Italian frigate San Gil
oyanni, accompanied by the mayor, visited the
public schools and other chief places in the
city of notions yesterday, and afterwards took
ride with some of the city fathers in the sub
| urbs
A bogus officer, by means of cheek and
shoulder straps, and the ostentatious display
of a big bible, by means of which he sustained
the role of pious soldier, managed to get
lot of nice thing on credit in Boston, but the
policeman brought him to grief at last He
was yesterday clapped in jail
The Boston Locomotive Works were sold
at auction on the 9TH inst, to Edward Mott
Robinson, for $7l 900.
A number of boys have been engaged in
selling postage stamps in Boston for any price
they could get. One of the boys being qucs-
toned where he obtained them, left tine stamps
and ran.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
| One man in Dracut, who went to the polls,
| finding no democratic tickets there, exclam-
ed:-''Well, by Cd, we might as well have
king, and done with it, if we can't be allowed
| democratic votes at our town meetings p Old
| Abe, we infer, has been interfering in the
election at Dracut
Gen. Butler voted the entire republican
ticket in Lowell at the recent election.
ESSEN COUNTY.
On the % inst, while landing from a boat
in Gloucester Bay, Eben Dudley, Jr., was
accidentally shot in the head, and George
Sargent had his left arm so severely injured
that he will probably lose its use. A gun fell
| out of the boat on to the beach and went off,
causing the accident.
She police of Newburyport made descent
upon gambling hell in that city on Sunday
night last, and seized six men at their dice
and cups, who paid $50 into the city treasury
the following morning.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A party husked two hundred bushels of
| ears of corn on the farm Of w. II. Allis on
the evening OF tee 3D. inst, after which pump
kin pie and sweet cider went down with fear
full rapidly.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
One lieutenant has enlisted forty one men
in Northampton recently These will be
counted in the towns quota under The late
call OF the president Thewestern part OF
| the state seems to be wide awake in reference
| to volunteering in order to avoid the draft.
South Hadiey. The poetry Of motion man
ifested itself with peculiar grace at South
HadIey seminary last Wednesday evening.
About fifty Of the young ladies being present,
they went through their customary drill to the
delectation OF Prof. Hitchcock and few of
the students, leaders Of their respective class
es at Amherst college. The Ladies came upon
the floor, dressed i'll their unique uniform, and
without an order or suggestion, except from
the piano and tap of the drum, went success
fully through the exercises of bio Lewis, some
of which are quite difficult. The order, grace,
ly admirable. We are glad to see these ''new
gymnastics" so generally adopted throughout
the seminares Of the state, while we are sure
none of them can surpass the perfection al
ready attained by the 'H0lyohenSenS VIZ
gineS. HAMPSHIRE Gazette.
One of the mOnarchs of the Connecticut
river, a muskalunge weighing twenty-seven
pounds, was caught on the 3lst ult. by some
fishermen of Northampton. 1t measured
three feet nine inches in length.
A Spanish silver coin, of the value of
Yankee ''nnepence," was found by e. l..
Hastings of West Hatfield, while digging po-
tatoes few days since. 1t bears the date Of
1897.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The trial of Nehemiah Hodge of North
Adams, for alleged sending of an Internal
machine to Chicago, resulted in his acquittal.
The sympatiiies of the audience which filled
the court room during the trial were strongly
in his favor, and at one time manifested them
selves by burst of applause.
MAINE.
The town of Dover has become so good
that she is now without minister.
A quantity of goods were taken from store
| in Saco, recently. They were traced to the
depot in Portland, and when the fellow called
for them an officer interfered and took him to
Saco for trial, on charge of having stolen
| them.
| As two ladies were sitting in the back par
| lor of one of the residences of Portland, re-
Gently, a stranger entered and took seat.
He was asked some questions, but he replied
that they must not be too inquisitive. He at
| length left and joined some one outside. 1t is
supposed he had an accomplish with him, and
that robbery was the object.
Sumner C. Riggs, painter in Portland, fell
from a building few days since, and was in
| jured so severely that lie remained insensible
| for some time.
The St. Stephens church at Portland cele.
brated the centennial anniversary of the form
alton of its society on the 4th.
VERMONT.
While freight train on the Rutland and
Burlington Railroad on the I'd inst, was be-
tween Healdyille and Ludlow, some straw on
| the bottom OF cattle car, IN winch there
were eight oxen, was set on fire by spark
from the engine, and the cattle were so severe
ly burned that it was necessary to kill them.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
One of the soldiers who, with a large num-
Der of others, attempted to escape from the
conscript camp at Concord, recently, and was
fired upon, has since died of his wounds.
CONNECTICUT.
The barque Georgiana arrived at New Lon
don on the Sd, laden with three hundred bar
rels of whale oil and four thousand pounds of
| bone.
The people of Bethany celebrated the one
hundredth anniversary of the first organiza-
ton of church in that place, on the 18th ult.
A handsome grayestone was erected by the
members of the society to thememory of the
pastor who was first settled over the parish a
hundred years ago.
On Wednesday, Nov. 4, there were forty
vessels loaded with coal, just arrived in New
Haven harbor. a large part of it-over one
hundred thousand tons-was to be sent up the
railroad.
Some Of the wealthy people of the rich city
of Hartford are about tolay out a cemetery a
Cedar Hill, about three miles from the city
which shall eventually rival in beauty Noun
Auburn, Greenwood or Laurel Hill. The
t spot of land to be purchased covers one hun