Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-30

field. The lettering is well executed and like
the genuine, but the vignette is entirely differ
emit and the bill would not deceive any one
who is in the least familiar with the genuine
issue.
MAINE.
Every lawyer and law student in Biddeford,
Me-, liable to the draft, with one exception,
have drawn prizes.
Elder VIM. Il. Merrill OF Portland has been
arrested in st. John for attempting to recruit
substitutes.
Nearly two hundred accepted conscripts
are in camp in Augusta, Me, and the best
feeling prevails among them
The twenty six pirates whose exploits in
| Portland harbOr were the theme OF general
comment few weeks since were removed
to Fort Warren on the 2Sth inst Their trans
fer from Portland is said to be a want of room
at Fort Preble
Five brothers have been drafted in Portland,
and four of one family of the name Of Neal in
Parsonsfeld, Me.
VERMONT.
Mr.. Campo, Il of Vermont took three pre-
miums on sheep, two of the first premiums at
the Hamburg exhibition.
Thirty non-commissioned officers, six from
| each regiment-of the LIST Vermont brigade
reported at Bratleboro' on the 23d, for the
purpose of eScortng the men now being draft
ed in that state to the headquarters of the
brigade.
Among the cergymen drafted in Vermont
are Rev. Horace w. Worthen, presiding elder
of Springfield district; Rev. Reuben w. Har.
low, of West Windsor; Rev. VIM. IL. Wight,
of Barnard; Rev. Alonzo T. Deming, of
Bridgewater, and Rev. j. w. Chickering, of
Springfield.
The body of murdered man, Henry Dunn,
a private in the l4th regiment, was found on
the roadside near Leavenworth's Mills IN
Charlotte, on the 9th. 1t was perforated
with buckshot. An Irishman named Burns
has been arrested as the suspected murderer.
CONNECTICUT.
| On the 9th there were $1,000 bushels of
4 grain afloat at Hartford. There are more YES
! sells now in port than at any one time before
| this season.
Miss Della A. Seley of Waterbury fell from
two flights of stairs, on the 23d, striking her
temple on a stone step, causing instant DEATH
A catalogue of the coins belonging to Yale
College, recently published shows that the
college contains 5000 specimens belonging to
all periods from 700 B. G. to the present year,
and almost all the countries where coins are
used
| The Arizona silvermines, owned by the
| Colt firearms company of Hartford, has been
sold to parties in New York for 100000,
| about the sum which Col. Colt expended in
getting the mines into operation.
The rain Of the Goth damaged roads in Bris-
to to the amount of several hundred dollars.
Samuel &. jackson of Windsor Locks, bet
ter known as the "basket maker" was run
over and killed by the midnight train, on the
night of the 9th, his body being literally cut
in two. He was an Englishman, and was in
the battles of Napier's peninsular campaign,
and was one of the storming party in the bat
tie of Cuidad RoderigO. He was also in the
battle of Waterloo, under Wellington. AT
his death he was rs years old.
A man named Buckley, Go years of age, an
employee in the mills in Thompsonville, was
struck on the 2Sth, near that place, by the
New York express train, and Injured so that
he survived but few hours, his skull being
badly fractured. He was walking with sew
eral others on the left hand track, but when
the engine had almost reached him, for some
unaccountable reason, stepped on the other
track, and directly in front of it. The con-
cuSSion was so severe that he was thrown
about forty feet.
| RHODE ISLAND.
About seventy-fre candidates fe~ "dn,is-
| sion to the naval academy have already re-
ported and been before the examiners. A
large number though by no means all, have
been admitted. There is a rumor that the
new class will be put on board the John Ad-
ans and sent out on a cruise. 1t does not
appear to be decided, however. One of the
young men, on his way from his home in In
| diana to Newport, was seriously injured by
railroad car. His name is Calvin G. Cramp-
ton. He has arrived IN the city, but is con-
fined to his bed. Commodore Blake and
others gave him every needed attention, and
he is reported doing well.
Secretary Chase left Washington on the
9th for Newport. 1t is repoit ted that he goes
to attend the marriage of his daughter to Ex-
Gov. Sprague.
Ayoung man who sold himself as substi-
| tute in New Haven, obtaining the bounty, de-
serted, came to Providence, and sold himself
again, obtaining a second bounty. He has
| since been arrested, and will probably be put
| through.
One hundred and seven substitutes accept
ed in the two districts, were sent to the rem
devious in Boston harbor, on the 29th.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The wife and daughter of Major General
Banks are at New Lebanon Springs, New
York.
A western paper annoyed by the periphrasis
american CitiHeIS oI African descent, offers
''unbleached Americans" as more expressive
term
The first shipment from Cairo to New Or
leans since the suspension of the river navi-
CATION, was one hundred and twenty eight
thousand bushels of coal.
At the Hamburg exhibition McCormick's
reaping machines were awarded the golden
medal.
Gen. Harvey Brown, who had command of
the troops during the riot in New York city,
was formerly Il circuit preacher in Delaware
county, New York.
The newsboys of London, on the day of the
arrival of the intelligence of Lees operations
in Pennsylvania, were out with the cry-'Glo-
riOus news from Amerca-Invasion of Penn
sylvania and Maryland by Gen. Lee and two
hundred thousand confederates-Ca Capture of
Observation-Disclosures threatened-Lee
within fifteen hours of hiladelphia-Balti-
more and Philadelphia at the mercy of Lee
Washington to be attacked and taken at once
"A strong force to take possession of New
York"
The famous John Merryman, who took a
leading part in the violent opposition to the
passage of the national troops from the east to
Washington city, through Mary land, just af-
ter the war fairly began, has been presented
by the grand jury of the United States district
court in Baltimore for treason. He gav9 bail
on the 24th in the sum of $4,000 to answer
the charge at the next November term Of the
court.
Major Gen. Heintzelman has called spe-
cial court of inquiry to investigate certain
transactions connected with the great Stone
man raid.
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