Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-21

effects of wounds received at Characteristic,
arrived at Portsmouth ON Saturday.
CONNECTICUT.
A new bank building is rising in Norwich,
which will cost $50, 1000. Ii will be So by 90
feet, and three stories high.
Titus Case of Barkhamstead, went to put
out his horse the other day, and while doing
so, in some inexpicable way broke his neck.
They are talking, in Hartford and New Ha:
ven, about prosecuting their selectmen tor al
lowing illegal voting at the late election.
Fraudulent bills-threes and fves, red tint
on the Manufacturers bank, Hartford, are
in circulation. There is no such bank.
The funeral of Lieut. Charles T. Weld was
| largely attended at Hartford on the 18th. The
company from Fort Columbus, New York
! harbor, formerly commanded by Lieut. Weld,
were present to do escort duty.
A new gun, invented by Mr.. L. c. c.. KEEL
! logg, which is taid to be capable of throwing
600 inch square shot in minute, has been
successfully tested at the works of Messrs
| Woodruff & Beach at Hartford.
| Mr.. Hiram Hale, of Greenfield Hill, man
| about SiXty-two years of age, became enraged
at Il school teacher named Gould, who had
! punished his child, and committed an assault
upon him in the school house. Gould then
sued him, when Hale fred charge of buck
shot into Gouds shoulder, and stabbed his
| (Hale's) father slightly. He was arrested and
taken to Bridgeport Jail, where he died of APP
! oplexy en- the next morning.
| On Saturday, the 10th, the sloop Cashier,
! Capt. James Kaen, laden with coal, from Eliz-
abethport, N j., for Norwich, CT, went ashore
on West Haven beach, she having split her
main sail and sprung leak. She was tenn
| porariy abandoned by her crew, and was af-
! forwards taken possession Of by Capt. Chase
and Mr.. Roger Allen, of West Haven. Both
parties claim the cargo.
Benjamin Nelson Bolles, of Montvile, who
was injured a few days since in New London,
while attempting to couple some cars, died in
that city on Tuesday, the 18th.
Father Goodwin, being prevented by illness
| from his accustomed labor of collecting the
"Legislatiye Statistics" has deputed Mr.. AL
dis A. Lowell of New Haven to perform the
task.
Abraham Clark, formerly of Winthrop,
who has lived south for the last seven years,
has just escaped from rebeldom, and arrived
at his old home. He was forced into the
| rebel army, and served a year and half;
| finally escaping from hospital.
The Waterbury American says that Fred
erick j. Munger, aged about thirty-five years,
was hurt in the thumb by splinter, on Tues
day, 9th inst, while using circular law, and
! dllSl ohuNlluS SlCdN paul. ulCu VII SATURDAY
| with symptoms of lockiaw.
During the war of 1912, with Great Britain,
the late Capt Butler, father of Benjamin But
Ter, Esq, of Middletown, was in command of
! the ship Messenger, which was seized by the
| British, and adiuged prize by the prize court
| there. A few days ago, Mr.. Butler was sur
prised at receiving the identical manuscripts
with the ships papers which were before the
prize court, A vessel from England had
brought them over in a lot of old papers, and
friend of Mr.. Butler happened to see them
among the rubbish and rescued them. 1t was
an odd chance which baought these documents
across the Atlantic and then into the hands of
the son of Capt. Butler, after the lapse of
more than fifty years.
Prof. A. c. Foss of Wesleyan University,
will soon resign his professorship, and re-en-
ter the ministry.
Mrs. John c. Kimball of New Haven, while
on her way to visit her husband, at Suffolk,
| Va, met with painful accident by the cars
running from the track near Elktown, Nd.
| She received a severe confusion upon the
! fraehaa6l.. and ii thought her skull was
The New Haven Courier SAYS that Hon.
Charles j. Atwater, Jr., of New Haven was
recently admitted into the fellowship of the
| Roman Catholic church.
DR.. Kraig of Colchester left home on Sum
day, May 10, to go to Westchester, distant
two miles, to be gone two hours. He was
gone much longer, having driven to Middle
| town, but got back that night, telling his wife
that he could not find the person he wanted to
see. The next day he started off again for
Middletown, leaving his horse in Portland,
opposite that city. Since then nothing has
been heard from him; his team yet remains
in Portland.
RHODE ISLAND
The l20 soldiers in fort Adams, Newport,
finding the calling rather dull, have formed
dramatic association.
Schuyler Colfax, the Indiana member of
congress, has arrived and will spend the sum-
mer at Newport with his sick wife.
WAR ITEMS.
The number of men in camp at Readvile
on Saturday was as follows 54th regiment,
1912; 55th, 1875; 9TH company heavy artil-
lery 100; ID cavalry, II.
new regiment OF heavy artillery is to be
raised in Boston for the department of North
Carolina, to be designated the I'd regiment of
heavy artillery. Major Jones Frankie, of the
18th, is designated as colonel and will super
intend its recruitment in North Carolina, sub
ject to the approval and consent of major
general Foster.
Three females arrived in Baltimore on
Thursday from Western Virginia, where they
were arrested as telegraph cutters and spies
The services of one of them has been specially
acknowledged in rebel official reports, and
she has been serving for some time as orderly
sergeant in Jenkins rebel cavalry.
Correspondence from Fredericksburg saws
that the Friday previous to our retreat to the
north side of the Rappahannock, while a par
ty of the 43d New York were digging among
the ruins of the Bernard House near Freder-
icksburg, they discovered, buried beneath
them, in a chest, 100000 of confederate
money, placed there, doubtless, BY the owner
for safe keeping. There has been no lack of
confederate currency in that regiment since.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Roman Catholic bishop OF Iowa, on
Sunday last, took occasion, at the cathedral
in Dubuque, to denounce secret organiza-
ton against the government. He would give
those members of the church who had joined
the organization two weeks to leave it, and
then, if they continued in it, they might con-
| slider themselves accommodated.
On the hither end of BlackweiPs Island
crazy man is building a fort of turf. He keeps
constantly at it, and has carried 1t up to
| height of five or six feet-and it requires
| deal of patient labor for single man to con-
| struct fertilization that must be hundred
and fifty feet in circumference. 1t is ap-
preached from the inland side by long cause
way; and he has thrown three bridges over
meats, which he doubtless means to destroy
| in ease a land attach should pausp him n Hv