Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-30
WORCESTER.

| Bangor. One hundred thousand bushels have
already been shipped by sailing vessels, and
the Boston and Portland steamers take large
quantities every trip.
Mr.. S. G. Spaulding of Belgrade raised a
pumpkin this season which weighed IS pounds
and measured feet l-2 inches one way
and feet 4 l-2 inches the other.
Business has increased SO much on the
Portland horse railroad that the corporation
have added another car.
Western merchants are buying largely of
fish in Maine, for which there is heavy de-
mand in the west.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The city authorities of Manchester are
making arrangements to borrow $70000 for
which city scrip bearing six per cent, will be
issued.
New Hampshire has been the scene of
more robberies during the past two months
than has occurred in the state for many years
previous.
The inauguration of Rev lDr. Smith as
president of Dartmouth college, will take
place on the 18th of November.
CONNECTICUT.
John Armstrong of Hartford, Co. b, 2lst
Connecticut volunteers, pulled the rope at :
tached to the bar which supported the drop to
the gallows from which DIR. Wright, the rebel
who killed Lieut.. Sanborn, was hung in Nor
folk, Va, on the 23d.
propeller of fifteen hundred tons capaci-
ty, is to be launched at Portland on the 3lst
ult. 1t is the largest ever built on the Com
necticut river
Gen. Hunt had a review Of the invalid corps
at the conscript camp in New Haven, on the
2Sth. The wife and niece of Mai Gen. Geo.
IL. Thomas, the hero of Chickamauga, were
present.
lieutenant recently left his wallet con-
tanning about thirty dollars upon the table in
shaving saloon at New Haven. He rushed
out Tor a moment to see ii friend, and some
body rushed in at the same time and appro-
priated the money.
IhOmBs Fox, eXpressman on the New Ha-
ven and New London railroad, has, during
the nine years in VIII ch he has been connect.
ed with the company, travelled 27O, 900 miles
on the road, and never received an injury I'M
til at the recent accident at Jordan Cove.
The seniors at Yale are being photographed
for their class pictures by Warren of Lowell.
Or the $4,000 appropriated for the ne ef of
drafted men at Mlddlet0wn about 5000 have
been expended.
new balmoral shoe factory at Hartford is
so arranged that a shoe goes through thirteen
different hands and comes out complete in ten
minutes.
A block of stone, % by 80 feet and s feet
thick, was removed by IL single blast at the
treestone quarries in Portland the other day
Eight pounds OF powder were used
Two boys in New London stole $500 from
the a-ri-ent OF one of them, and jour-ni-ed
to Hartford, where they lived in style for a
few days, since which they have not been
heard from.
Thomas Barr0ws, Jr., agent of the Ameri-
can mills, Rockville, was killed by the ears in
Hartford on the evening of the 29th.
RHODE ISLAND.
The whole number of students at the naval
academy is 4S9. Of these G5 are from the
slave states, representing what is known AS
the border territory. AT the commencement
of the rebellion the slave states had l22 midi
shipmen at the school; OF this number 1913
violated their oath of allegiance and entered
the service OF the coniederacy.
MISCELLANEOUS.
heavy snow storm visited st. Louis on the
22d-a month earlier than is usual in that lat
tude.
An Ohio paper proposes as an inscription
for the tomb OF the Vallandighamers OF whom
it is great a0mirer, the same as was put on
that raised to the heroes who fell Mt Thermop-
yla, viz ''We lie here in obedience to our
country" An exchange moves 10 amend by
adding the words land we lied before Oh our
own hook"
OF all our generals who were present at the
first battle Of Bull Kun, Gen. Heintzelman is
the only one living who is now connected with
the army of the Potomac.