Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-20

ny are making enc thousand guns per week,
or arming a regiment in six days.
Out of twelve hundred and thirty six dol
lars offered as premiums at the Norwich horse
toir, nine hundred and eignty-fve dollars, or
more than three quarters, were taken by the
Hartford horses.
Sergeant Walker, in New Haven, who was
held by the state authorities on the charge of
killing Costello, a deserter, recently, was on
the 10Th handed over to the military authori-
ties for trial.
A little daughter of Jerry Casey of Norwich
Town was drowned on the 18th inst, while
attempting to cross a foot bridge which spans
the Yantic river.
One Ofthe cars of freight train from Palm
err, on the New London and Northern rail-
road was thrown from the track on the rail-
road bridge at the falls near Norwich, on the
18th, doing considerable damage to the bridge
and train, but fortunately nobody was injured.
A man named John Jones, living in Hart
ford, caught a silver eel in Little River, on
the 10Th. that measured three feet in length
and nine inches in girth; and weighed four
and three-quarter pounds. 1t makes one
squirm to think of it.
Thomas Dennis, a workman, in shingling
the roof of the bridge building at the steam
boat wharf at Hartford, fell while at work, on
the l1th inst, to the ground, injuring him very
badly about the head and shoulders His re-
covery is doubtful.
man living at Wethersfed was run over
by horse car at Hartford on the night of the
18th inst, while in an intoxicated condition;
one of his legs was badly crushed an arm
badly broken and an ear cut off,
Virgil w. Kellogg of New Hartford, went
to bed on the night of the 14th 'inst. read
awhile by candle light, and fell asleep. He
awake fxrn off p.p1o 90, ft,,It h,
bed on fire, just in time to save his house and
life, by vigorous exerhons of himself and
neighbors.
RHODE ISLAND.
An acre of ground at the Dexter Asylum
farm, Providence, this year has produced five
hundred bushels OF beets, worth dollar per
bushe 1t was an excellent yield, and very
profitable resides.
Rev. Dir. John Wayland of Providence,
died on the evening of the 18th inst, at Sara.
toga Springs after a very brief illness.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Chicago landlord rented house, the for
mer occupants of which had sickened and |
died of small pox, to a family consisting of Il |
husband, wife and child. The husband and |
child soon sickened and died, and the wife has
now sued the landlord for damages.
Gen. Corcorau was married last week to the |
young and lovely daughter of one of the pro- |
mnent cltiZens of New York and on the 18th |
returned 10 his command.
The largest locomotive in the United
States, if not in the world, has lust been built
for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company. ithas twelve driving wheels, and
weighs more than 100000 pounds.
The apple crop in New York state, west of
the GeneSsee river, is astonishingly large, and
Monroe, Orleans and Niagara counties are
..,,te 1.
ROMANCE OF THE FIELD OF AHTIErAM-
A few mornings ago Gov. Curtin, of Penn
sylvania, was called upon at the Continental
hotel at Philadelphia, by young lady. When
she was introduced into The Iarlor she ex-
pressed her great joy at seeing the governor,
at the same time inpintins kiss upon his
forehead:
madam said he, 'to what am indebted
for this unexpected SalutationY
Sir, do you mt know me?'
Take chair said the governor, at the
same time extending one of the handsomest in
the parlor.
Shorty after the battle of Antictam you
were upon that bloody field said she to the
governor
Il was, replied the governor.
You administered to the wants of the |
wounded and dying
1t was my duty, as a feeling man.
You did your duty well. Heaven alone
will reward you, sir, for in this life there is no
reward adequately expressive of the merit
due You. You, sir, impaired consolation and |
revived the hopes Of dying soldier of the
18th Ohio. He was badly wounded in the arm; |
you lifted him into an ambulance, and, the |
blood dripping from him, stained your hands !
and your clothes. That soldier was as dear
to me rs life itself.
"A husband?' said the governor No sir
"A brother, perhaps? mo SIR
"A father?' No sir
"A sonY NO sir
"A loyer? No sir
If not husband, father, brother, lover, or
son, who, then, could it be p said the govern
or, at length breaking the silence, this is an
enigmatt to me. Please explain more about
the gallant soldier of Ohio.
well, sir, that soldier gave you ring-C.
e. ID. were the letters engraved on the Interi.
or. That is the ring now upon your little fin
ger. He told you to wear it, and carefully
have you done So
The governor pulled the ring off, and sure
enough the letters were there.
'The finger that used to wear that ring will
never wear it any more. The hand is dead,
but the soldier still lives
The governor was now more interested
than ever.
'Well, madam said he, tell me all about
it. Is this ring yours? Was it given to you
by a soldier whom yon lOved?"
Il loved him as loved my life; but he
never returned that love. He had more love
for his country than for me; honor him for
it. That soldier who placed that little ring
upon your finger stands before you So say
ing the strange lady arose from her chair, and
stood before the governor
The scene that now ensued we leave to the
Imagination of the reader. A happy hour
passe, The girl who had thus introduced
herself was Catherine E. Davidson, of Shelf
field, o. 10. She was engaged to be married,
but her future husband responded to the call
of the president, and she followed him by
joining another regiment. He was killed in
in the same battle where she fell wounded.
She is alone in the world, her father and
mother having departed this life years ago.
She was the soldier OF the 28th Ohio who had
placed the ring upon the finger of Gov Cur
tin, for the kind attention given her upon the
bloody field of Antletam.
JEFF DAVIS IN CHARLESTON. Though care
fully covered over with the mantle of secrecy |
by congress, enough has been disclosed by |
stern realities to show the total incompetency |
of President Davis to govern the affairs of the
the confederacy. lie has lost the confidence
of both the army and the people; and if an
election to- morrow was to come off for the |
presidency, we believe that he would not get |
the vote of single state of the confederacy.