Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-29

to the estate took fire and was partly de-
stroyed.
ESSEX COUNTY.
1here were about 200 persons drafted in
the 9th district in this state, and of these ali
have been found by the provost marshal. ex
cept about 100, and many Of these will vet he
brought in for examination before the enroll
ing board.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
Between the LIST and 18th of the present
month, six persons died in Nantucket whose
average ages were 81 years and months.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The bark Black Eagle, Capt. Allen, which
sailed from New Bedford May 5, 1862, for
Hudson's bay, has recently returned with a
cargo of 1850 barrels of polar oil and 80. ono
pounds OF bone, worth at least $4,000. This
Is one of the best voyages on record.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Amherst college catalogue for 1868
presents total of 302 attending students, of
whom 10 are seniors, So Juniors, 64 sopho-
mores and so freshmen.
Though fifty thousand rihed muskets have
been sent 10 the army within the last month,
there is still an accumulation at the armory
in Springfield Of over l25 900.
William E. Cooley Of Palmer, the boy who
was rested for deSertion and other slippery
performances, was discharged when brought
hnally before commissioner ilaett aG Boston,
only to be re-arrested for enlisting at Fort
Irumbull after he had enlisted at Newbern.
This is the second time he has been arrested
Immediately after being discharged.
VERMONT.
The Brandon Record says that Capt Dan
lei Harrington, Of the schooner 'Black Snake"
notoriety, in 1872, now in his ninety first year,
FIR tita Grst
Brandon, Nathaniel Daniels and has voted
in that same town for sixty-nine consecutive
years.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Medical Society will be holden at Mont
peiier ON the 18th and 10Th days of October
next.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The city government of Nashua has re-
Gently purchased a steel fire alarm bell, which
weighs 24l4 pounds, and cost $500.
The business of flannel and other mauufac-
turing in Rochester has been unusually brisk
during the past year. The Norway Plains
company are now putting up new mill and
making other improvements, while the Comic
RAILS company are putting in two new turbine
wheels, which will give them power suffl-
Client 10 drive another large mill
The ScCuhegan Bank at Milford was entered
on Saturday night. the 10Th, by blowing open
the safe with gunpOwder, and robbed of SI5.-
600 or $40, 900, mostly in u. s. bonds. The
robbery was not discovered until about nine
O'Clock on Sunday morning.
Parties who visited the White mountains on
the 22d inst, We're caught in severe snow
storm and detained over night. One Young
lady suffered so severely that she was insensi-
bic for over four hours. The thermometer at
sunrise IN rho o2G Stnod ot t,rort,, ,io.,,.....
above zero.
CONNECTICUT.
On the evening OF the 25th inst was the in
itiation Of the class of'67 at Yale college the
intiators were dressed in the usual quaint
costumes, and the initiated realized the usual
amount OF 'fun."
Joseph p Chapman, who had been missing
FROM EvrNiU tl.o sod, woe 4,,...I ~,
the 26th in tie cove near the planning mills,
drowned.
party Of young lrshmen made raid on
the store of Il. & J. Kinney, Hartford, ON the
10Th, stealing Sl15. and smashing in the door,
and injuring Mrs. Kinney, the wife of one of
the proprietors Seven Of them have been
arrested.
Two workmen, stoning a well for S. Hutch
kins, near DanielsonviIle. barely escaped
death one day last week. The line which held
Il tub continuing 600 pounds OF stone, broke,
and the tub descended thirty feet, slightly
grazing one Of the men, but doing no other
damage.
The button factory of Maltby, Morton &
Co., at Waterbury, was entered by burglars
a few nights since, and robbed Of one hun
dred and fifty dollars, which was taken from
the safe
A new survey is now being made of the
contemplated railroad between Thompson
and Willimantc, which is to be one of the
links of the Boston, Hartford and Erie rail-
road.
The number of school children in Nor
wich between the ages of four and sixteen
is l, l43; yet the average attendance is only
COS.
The grape crop is very large iu the state
of Connecticut this year; and much wine
will be made from the native varieties. Con-
necticut is growing fast IN grape and wine cul-
ture.
The soldiers aid society of Bridgeport has
assisted one hundred ard forty families of
soldiers at home, and sent twenty three boxes
of comforts to the hospitals and has received |
$26lS and laid out $l4G4, leaving SLIP on
hand TO carry on the work.
+. l.. Barreda, envoy extraordinary and |
minister plenipotentiary from Peru to the |
United States, is now stopping at Waterbury.
There is Il firm at that place which is making
seven millions of the coin Of his government,
the value being 100000.
Abby Lewis OF Hartford attempted to muir
der Il man who lived with her, by the name of
Lorenzo Mason, on the Goth inst She at
tackled him with jack knife, cutting a deep
cash about three inches long under the right
ear. The assalant was taken in custody, and
the assailed, though much exhausted from
loss of blood, is expected to recover.
Mary Peters (colored) of Hartford, who
has carried on the thieving business for some
time past, arrested on the 2Gth inst, and
put in place Of safe keeping.
RHODE ISLAND.
''dashing white sergeant" whose name
was Greene, and who has been s6Nspicuous
at Providence as cavalry recruiting officer,
was discovered the other day to be not an
enlisted man at all, and his yellow ''ribbins"
were ANONYMOUSLY stripped from him.
Nine non commissioned officers and privates
of the Sd Rhode Island regiment have been
especially furoughed by Gen. Gilmore for
distinguished bravery in the trenches before
Fort Wagner.
deserter from the 9th New York cavalry,
named Levy, was arrested in Providence on
the 26th. He was caught in Boston three
weeks ago and taken to New York He broke