Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-19


Enoch Miller of Gardiner, Me-, had his
pocket relieved of 1913 while in the cars al
the Boston and Maine depot, last week.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
On the Nth, as a train of cars for Boston
was approaching the Assabet station on the
fltchburg railroad, All axle Of the freight car
broke, and that car was thrown from the
track, while the baggge car was tipped over.
Mr.. Sawyer of the Berlin express, who was in
the baggage car, was severely and Mr.. John
Rice OF Marlboro slightly injured.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The tallest Substitute" yet received in New
Hampshire halls from Newbury, Mass. He
stands six feet four and half inches in his
socks, and is named Joseph L. Adams.
An old gentleman in Gloucester has in his
pocket silver dollar which he has carried as
pocket-piece for the past thirty-six years.
The Essex Banner says that the demand for
shoes for the western trade has been great the
last month, but the trade is falling off, and
there is no demand now for workmen or shoes.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The oil cloth works at Taunton were injured
by fire on the 18th inst, and some sixty pieces
OF oil cloth were burned up.
One of the whalers recently returned to
New Bedford from Hudson's Bay, took a
whale from which obtained two hundred
barrels of oil and 1000 pounds of bone. Some
slabs of the bone measure thirteen feet eight
inches in length.
Mr.. Thomas Rowland of New Bedford
caught a strange fish, said to be ''lophens, .
in New Bedford harbor on the 18th inst. The
fish is Of rhomboidal form, horizontally flat
tened, and is over two feet wide, and includ-
ing the tail four feet long. The structure is
principally gelatnous. The form of the tail
is like that of young alligator 1t has fin
running the whole length of the back, and
two, very heShy, on the sides, Just behind the
largest part; and it has two resembling paws
on the belly. The mouth when distended is
round, eight inches in diameter and foot
deep, with teeth in the throat as well as in the
jaws.
Mr.. Benjamin Anthony of New Bedford,
while visiting the new steamer Yazoo at New
York, on the lIth, was struck across the head
by an iron bar weighing twelve pounds, which
fell fftyfour feet, dropped through the care
lessness of blacksmith who was doing some
work aloft. He fell as dead, and remained
insensible for four hours. lie is now in u fair
way for recovery.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
black fox was seen in Wales last week,
WIN a white ring around his neck.
Nlerrlck, Fay 4 Co., of Monson, who have
one ol the largest bonnet manufactures in the
country, are about to erect an additional
building nearly as large as their present one,
TINS tall, to accommodate their increasing
business. They employ in their shop and
other places, from six to eight hundred hands.
Messrs. Merrick and Fay pay individually the
highest income taxes in Monson.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The centennial celebration of the Berk sbira
association, composed of the congregational
clergymen of that county, will be held M
Stockbridge on the 29th. Prot Albert Hon
kins will deliver an historical discourse On the
occasion.
MAINE.
In 237 towns in Maine there are Al 1888
helfers, G7,005 cows, 1860 steers, 36,OS5