Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-21
WORCESTER:
BOSTON AND VICINITY,

| country, VIII leave boston TINS week. 1t
consists Of twelve fine bucks, who took the
first prizes at the Worlds Fair at Hamburg,
and were raised in Vermont.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The project OF having a new railroad, con.
meeting New Bedford directly with the Bristol
and Warren railroad, has been started. This
will give the people in the vicinity of the Cape
a more direct rout with New York
The New Bedford Mercury says that Mayor
Rowland has sent to the adjutant general of
the state the names of two hundred and twen-
ty men belonging to New Bedford, and now
in the military service of the United States
who have not been credited on any previous
quota, and there are still other names to be
obtained If the men reported as enlistng
from New Bedford have not been previously
counted in assigning quotas to Massachusetts,
they will be regarded as part OF the quota of
that city. The number is more than the quota
of New Bedford.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Charles Bagg Of West Springfield has
brought to Hight a fDur-ounce hen egg eight
inches in circumference one way by six and
tlye-eighths the other.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The BelchertonlanS are having a brush
over their Town House. 1t was voted at the
last town meeting that there should be no
dancing therein. The minority have called a
meeting to reconsider the vote on the oath,
and if they carry the day will probably cele-
brate with a ball Thanksgiving night.
copperhead from Amherst undertook to
insult zen olckles at the Fifth Avenue DO
Tel ny Ioud ana coarse denunclation, in his
presence, OF the war and all who fought on
the loyal side. The general demanded his
name and the coward gave false one. More
insults were added when tho ,.rir,,,Ind hnr, g
dozen battles broke his crutch over the
wretch'S head.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The elopement of an unmarried pair from
North Adams village, last week, and the sub
sequent pursuit Of an injured parent, who
took forcible possession of his daughter, has
been followed by a second elopement and the
marriage of the parties. Old heads were not
quite enough for young hearts
Matthew Ryan of Sheffield, father of the
little boy who was almost dev0ured by hog.
one day last week, and died in consequence
has begun a suit for damages against Mr.
Cooper, the owner of the hog.
The morning train to North Adams. on the
Pittsfed and North Adams railroad, on the
18th, ran over a COW, and the entire train. ex
cept the locomotive, was thrown off the track.
Luckily, only one man was Injured.
poor, broken down horse was tied in
North Adams, a few nights since, by some
scoundrels, while Il lot of straw bound to his
back, and soaked with kerosene, was set on
fire. Luckily, the fendish plot was discov-
cred, and the poor animal relieved from his
torture.
MAINE
The steam mill of j. T. Hobson e. Co of
WiScassett, saws 10000 logs a wear. maxine
about 100000 box shocks, O0,OOO pairs If
headings for hogsheads, and large quantity
of understandable lumber.
Mrs. j. r. Gilman Of Fa"rni~sstOn raIs, for
several years cripple, has spun three hun
dred and twenty five skeins OF wooden yarn
since the 10Th OF July last-ali done while
sitting In her chair. She Is tlty-seve years
Oh.
Inc European and North American railway
company propose to commence work this
winter upon their road at tina terminus of the
Name Central railroad in Bangor connecting
1t with the Penobscot railroad 10 Milford, and
thence onward until it shall connect with the
railways east. The people OF Bangor consiG-
er this as ''consummalion devoutly to be
wished"
The secretary of the board of agriculture
for the state estimates that two hundred thou
sand dollars worth of cheese is annually
brought into Maine for popular consumption
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
At the Isle of Shoals a scrub apple tree was
recently discovered almost hidden by the
bushes on Smutty Nose Isand-bearng
peck or so of apples-the only crop of the
Ill,