Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-12
spectators and exporters Prices unchanged.
The breadstuffs market is quite steady.
General News summary.

VIZ SN"' l" Hlli Wy pOSl Oh tne Jun. The pa
pers were all safe, but the money, now sun.
posed to amount TO about $500, had been alb
stracted.
Albert w. Colthell fell through scuttle in
Il store in Marshall street, Boston, on the 9th.
a distance OF twenty-five feet, and was very
severely injured.
Inc Park street Congregational society in
Boston has prepared fine monument of Con-
cord granite, to be placed in lot purchased
IN Mount Auburn cemetery, in which have
been deposited the bodies of two hundred and
forty persons lately removed from the tombs
under the church.
| On the 9th inst, Mrs. Caroline C. Dimmick
OF Boston was run over by team in that city,
and so badly injured that ut last accounts she
remained nsenSihle.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The ladies of Cambridge have lust COM
pleted handsome American flag, costing
$3.50, which is to be sent TO the 3Sthregiment,
An appropriate inscription occupies four of the
RED stripes, as follows -" Bisland, April u
and 10; Port Hudson, May 81; Port Hudson
June II, 1858; 3Sth regiment Mass. Vols"
lie nag is OF the regulation standard, six feet
| by SIX feet ten inches, and on silver plate
attached to the staff are inscribed the follow
ing words ;-'Presened by the Ladies of
Cambridge, Oct /, 1863"
f0rty thousand hogs were slaughtered at
East Cambridge last year, by the firm Of j.
IL: squire Co. During the year they man
utactured 10000 gallons of lard oil. The
government tax OF the firm for September was
$l05G.0G.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Notifications at Eastern Point. Glou
cester, are now so well advanced that if the
weather continues favorable they will be com
pleted hV the LIST of November
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mr. Philip Wing Of Acushnet, has raised
squash Tins season that weighs one hundred
and fifty eight pounds.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Eastern bound freight has accumulated to
such an extent at Albany that trains were run
on sunday to relieve the pressury. -Four
Thousand barrels of flour were among the
thingS to be brought to Springfield.
resident OF SomerS started for home from |
springfield about midnight on the Sth, and it |
pelhg very dark he drove into Uncle Sans |
sand bank and upset. He at once started for
heIp, but had not gone far before he walked
OIL an abutment some fifteen feet into the
water. He remained in this predcament for
two hours, when lie succeeded in getting ont.
HIS condition was bcttered by some friendly
hands at the guard house of the armory, to-
wards whom he was so grateful as to charge |
them with stealing five dollars
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Brdgman of Bclcher-
town. celebrated their silver wedding ON the
evening of the 9th.
MAINE.
MS year the quantity of lumber SURVEYED
at bangor, between the first day of January
last and the first day of the present October,
was l3O, l42 loG feet. Thi, is A 1862 1856 feet
more than tuTlIat, rim ;,l
and l4,97t,066 feet more than in 1862.
John Grady OF Bath, who WAS at work on
on . new snip AT the wharf in that place, ON
injured him So severely that he cannot re-
cover.
The store of Mr. Joseph Eaton of Andover
Corner, Oxturd county, and most OF its con-
tents were destroyed by fire few days since.
Loss estimated at $1,000, which was partially
insured.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The conscripis of Lacuniu, on the 9TH, the
day after the draft for that town took place,
went in for general good time. They gath
cred together, and with fife and drum paraded
the streets, while the boys Illuminated the
place with boniires
VERMONT
Robert Babcock of WardsbOro' recently |
died at the advanced age Of l04 years and . |
who, under Lieut.. Col. Barton, captured the
British general Sir William Prescott, on the
night of July 10, III, and thus obtained an
officer Of suitable rank to exchange for Gen.
Lee, who had been captured by the British.
Prof. Conant, of the Burlington Medical
College, has been elected professor of anato-
my in the Thirteenth street Medical Co lege,
of New York city. Edward Bradley, NJ. d..
formerly Of Burlington, succeeds him as dem
onstraor of anatomy.
Big bears gobble up defenceless sheep with
such impunity around Irasburg, that the
farmers have to get up organized bear hunts
for mutual protection.
Recently deputy sheriff Hitchcock of Pitts
ford arrested man who gave his name as
Leland jackson of Ottawa, Canada for horse
stealing, aud found two buggy wagons, three
harnesses, two buffalo robes, horse blankets,
halters, etc, etc.. together with four horses,
all found in the mountains near Chttenden,
on the night Of the 29th of September.
John Burns has been tried and convicted at
the Chittenden county court OF the crime OF
murder, and sentenced to be hung Decem-
Der II, 1864, meanwhile to be confined at
hard labor in the state prison.
CONNECTICUT.
Mrs. Mary A. Pollock of Norwich was acct
dentaly drowned at the Falls on the 9Th inst.
Town elections on the 5th-76 Union, GO
copperhead, and 8 to hear from.
The artesian well on the Colt grounds,
Hartford, is down 242 feet, and send up ten
or twelve gallons OF sulphurous water min
ute.
Among the contributions to the New Haven |
county fair was entered some ''worsted work |
of the Angel Gabriel"
They have the pork mania in New London,
as large quantities of that article have been |
stolen in that city lately.
AS Mr.. S. d. Latimer of Norwich was on
a visit to his son Il few days since, his horse
took fright, throwing him from his wagon and
breaking his hip in two places. His recovery
is doubtful.
An individual named Leary, a cripple, who
some years ago lost one of his legs on the
New London railroad, in attempting to leap
from the train while in motion, recently en-
deavored to commit suicide by jumping into
Mill river. He was rescued by two men much
against his will. He said that lie was tired of
living as he saw no way of getting along in
the world.
A son of Mr.. Landon of Guilford, about
twelve years of age, while engaged in grind
ing sorghum on the 9th inst, had one of his
hands drawn in and so badly crushed that
amputation was necessary.
a man lately called on lawyer in Meriden
for advice, which, in the lawyers absence was
given by friend who was not conversant with
! Coke or Littleton. The man paid two dollars