Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-14

siasll ana escorted to his residence by large
cavalcade of citizens.
Mr.. John Robertson of Weld will be one
hundred years old on the Goth of August. He
Is an Engllshman by birth, and came to this
country when he was 81 years old.
Charles Fobes of Portland one wear ago
| grated pear scion into mountain ash. and
what is remarkable, the ash has borne album
dance of pears this season.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
They had quite time on Mt. Washington
Thanksgiving day. Mrs Lincoln and son
were present; addresses were made by Rev.
DIR. Vinton and Rev. DIR. Vermilye; the ma
tional ensign was hoisted and cheers were
given for the president, the Union, emanci-
patton, Gen. Grant, &c.
CONNECTICUT.
A German named Fernand Smith. or
Schmidt, committed suicide on the 10Th bv
shooting himself through the head with pis-
tol. He told his wife that he would kill his
Stepson and then kill himself. He tried to
waylay the young man, but was disappointed
Albert f. Young, of the 10Th Connecticut
regiment, died at Norwich on the 18th, of fe-
yer contracted at Port Hudson. He is the
first of seven brothers who entered the ser.
wee of their country to die in its cause Two
OF the brothers are in the 9th regiment at
corps, one is prisoner in rebel hands and
one is at home disabled by wound received
at Antietam.
John Brown of North Stonington, aged "a
years, walkedf from his residence to westerly
distance of five miles, on the 10Th trans
acted some business at the banks, and started
of on foot, saying he had business to attend
to at Stonington.
Edmund A. Wright, aged IS years. was
fishing in Hog river at Hartford. on the ltb
and being taken with an cpieptic fit, rolled
into the water and was drowned.
The total receipts of the state treasury from,
January to July inclusive were S5,255. 500
The total Indebtedness of the state on the l,t
OF August consisted in the issue of 81. 900 OOO
In state bonds. From this may be deducted
bonds OF the United States in possession.
S3fS,OOo; adjusted claims against the United
States, l,234,0 900; unadjusted claims against
the government, $240, 900; leaving a net in
debtedness of 81, l4S 900.
The will of Mrs. n. 9. Reynolds of Nor
wich gives to the American Board 4 lOO0. hi.
bic Society $1,000; Home Missionary S1cie-
~ $1,000; Education Society $500; Scaman's
Friend Society $400; Female Seaman's Friend
Society OF Philadelphia $500.
All the German Turpvercin societies of
Connecticut have celebration at New Haven
on the 24th
| Il town meeting was held in Mansfield, on
the ON ana an attempt was made by the cop
| perheads To vote $500 to each man VINO should
be drafted After some excited discussion,
the proposal was voted down by Il majority of
three to one.
burglars entered Z. II. Barnum's residence
lc Bridgeport, Oh l0th, but were frightened IF
by the electric telegraph alarm" with which
bis house is provided. The inmates were
aroused by it, and fired on the robbers, but
ma not have the good fortune to hit any OF
them.
A chap named Hall, who was offered as a
substitute ia Hartford on the 18th, was iden :
tined as desertcr from New York regi-
ment and taken to Jail. Upon examination
his true name was found to be Mason, the
fourth sergeant of the S4th New York regl-
ment.
cUoo monument erected W
the memory of Col. Samuel Colt of Hartford
will be $4,000. 1t is to be made OF the eel
enrated Scotch granite.
Several New York roughs attempted to
break into a jewelry store in Hartford, on the
l2th, but didn't make it 90.
Mr.. j. .. Case and wife OF Simsbury were
severely injured in Hartford ON the 18th, by
the collision of his carriage with stage. Mr..
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RHODE ISLAND.
LBrge numbers of bills OF the Westminster
bank, Providence, have been set in ciIcula
ton recently, altered from ones and twos to
fves. Joseph Hoyle acd Sarah Studley of
Johnston and WIN. Kerr, Jr., Of Providence
| have been arrested on the charge OF being the
counterfeiters. Dies used in altering the bills
were found in Hoyes possession.
Twos on the What Cheer bank, altered to
fves, are in circulation i'll Providence.
A Rhode Island conscript named BabcOck,
at the New Haven rendezvous, received a sun
stroke on the it'll, and it is doubtful if he will
recover.
Mr.. Gustavus A. Blake and Mrs. Amelia
Loud, both residents of East Boston, were
arrested at Newport on the 18th, charged with
adultery. They have been living for some
time as man and wife in Fitchburg. Blake
has wife and three children, and Mrs. Loud
Il husband in the army.
After the deserters that had been taken in
Providence were started for New York, on
the 10th, two of them effected their escape
not, however, until one of them had received
bullets through his hat and legs.
A son of two years of Mr.. A. NJ. DitsOn of
Pawtucket died on the 18th, from the effects
of dose of bedDug poison, which had been
carelessly left within his reach.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin and family returned from
their European tour on the It'll.
1t has been ascertained for a fact that as
port for the shipment of grain, the city of
Montreal stands next to New York, being
ahead of Philadelphia, Boston and Quebec all
combined.
Volunteering in New Jersey is said to be
going forward very briskly. In Newark more
than half the quota Of nine hundred men has
been raised.
1t is said that 10000 pounds of cotton daily
find their way to New Orleans, being part of
the crop not burned by the rebels, as advised
by jeff. Davis & Co.
The payment of the army of the Potomac
has been concluded, with the exception of Il
few bodies of cavalry on detached service.
There were twenty-five or thirty cases Of
fatal sunstroke in New York on the 18th.
Secretary Welles has given orders to build
a fleet of some nalf a dozen very swift ocean
steam gunboats. They are to be built eX-
pressly for speed, and must be equal to any
craft of the kind afioat. They will be com
pleted in about three months.