Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-28


of war which are produced in our day.
Among the "big things" to be exhibited at
the cattle show at Northampton on the LIST and
I'd of October are the Day oxen. weighing
eight thousand pounds. Big men will not be
wanting, as the governor and staff, Dr. Lor-
ing, and many others will attend.
Rev. f. ID. Huntington will deliver the adj
drese at the Hampshire county cattle show at
Amherst Oct. Sth
Charles Brdgman, formerly of Erving, was
chOpping at Pelham on the 18th, when the
tree suddenly fell upon him, killing him in
stantly. The body, horribly crushed, was not
recovered from under the tree until five hours
afterwards.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The execution of James Calender, convict
ell of numbering Mrs. Jones and her two chill
dren, at Otis, after committing a most beastly
rape on the person of the mother. is to take
place in the Jail at Lenox, on the 9Th of No
vember. The execution will take place with
in the walls Of the Jail or its enclosed yard. at
noon, or little before. This is the first ex-
ecution which has taken place in Berkshire
for about forty years, although several mar
derers have since been sentenced to death,
who well deserve hanging.
Lenox Jail holds only twelve men and elev-
en- women, while forty has been the lowest
number at any previous summer during the
long administration OF sheriff Root.
A laughable story is told at the expense of
a Willamstown grape grower, who made a
grand charge in his night gown, one dark
night, upon a cow, which he imagined was
some thief after his favurite fruit. The cur
tain descends upon human and bovine preclp-
itated in loving embrace through covered
W wi a inn sri hnin
made by sundry terrified females, en- disha-
bile.
Bears have been depredating among the
sheep-folds of Florida.
The new depot of the Troy and Boston rail-
road at North Adams will be finished next
month, and will be no feet by 80.
MAINE.
a lad was run over at Portland on the 25th
inst, severely injuring his face and body, and
breaking one Of his legs.
The Lewiston journal says deserter, who
was converted at the camp meeting at North
port, went immediately the military author
tiles and confessed his sins.
On the 23d inst, the dwelling house of Col.
John Glidden in Newcastle, was consumed
by fire, together with an adjoining building,
occupied by Mrs. Gazette.
One hundred and twenty thousand dollars
is now said to be the amount OF the defalcaton
OF the superintendent of the Maine Central
railraad. The amount has increased since the
first disclosures
VERMONT.
Mr.. L. b. Dudley of Royalston has cut the
present season from two acres and twenty {.
three rods and a quarter, thirteen tons and
two hundred and forty pounds of hay, being
more than six tons of hay to the acre
This is from two cuttings, and he expects
that the crop will be large enough to cut a third
time.
Mrs. Martha d. Clark of Highgate has been
indicted for the murder of the Frenchman Rol-
lard, who stopped at her house some weeks
ago to sell berries.
Col. Stowell of Cornwall, has sold his three
years old ram Sweepstakes to Twichell,
Boyce & Co., of Ohio for $1,000, and the Col.
onel has two yearlings of the male gender,
for which he has refused three thousand dol
lars.
The editor of the Vermont Journal at Wind
sor, has been seriously afflicted" so he tells
his readers, ''with neuralgia in the head" 1t
must be "dem'd unpleasant"
The ochre diggers at Bennington cannot
supply the demand for the yellow dirt.
CONNECTICUT.
The only patentee of a fish hook in the
United States is native of Connecticut.
RHODE ISLAND.
The grand regatta at Newport took place on
the 10Th. There were nineteen boats entered
for the prizes, sailing distance, including
both ways, of about fourteen miles. In the
first class the first prize was awarded to Capt
VIM. Slavin, for his boat ''Teaser;" the Sec
ond to Thomas Stanhope for his boat "Good
News" In the second class the first prize
was awarded to Nicholas b. Alger, for his
boat, 'Pester;" and the second to Thomas
Lewis, for his boat, Gen. Scott"
On the 25th inst, as John Leach of Provi-
dence was getting sand from Jones Hill, the
bank caved in, burying Mr.. Leach up to his
lips, and entirely covering three year old
son Of Michael McElroy, who was playing in
the sand near by. BY great exertions the
man was kept alive until he was relieved from
his unpleasant situation, but the child was ia
ken out dead.
for running away with married women. One
of them is from Somerset, Mass He is held
to await further advices from the husband
and friends of the woman whose affections
were stolen.
The Jefferson street Baptist church in Prov
idence, has extended an invitation to the Rev.
David Spencer Of Point Pleasant, Pa, to be-
come its pastor
MISCELLANEOUS.
All but four of the nominees on the copper
head state ticket in Minnesota have declined.
But one democratic newspaper in the state
supports the nomination, and the name of that
editor is on the ticket
The freedmen OF Port Royal are making an
effort to raise money for the erection of
monument to the memory of the late Col.
Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts regiment.
The king of Portugal has ordered census
OF the population, process never before real
lied in that kingdom.
Each regiment on Morris Island has been
supplied by the sanitary commission with
tanks of ice water, the ice furnished regular
ly every day. Large quantities of potatoes,
onions and tomatoes, lines, lemons, curried
cabbage, and other articles not to be had of
the comnissaTy, have deem distributed among
the regiments.
Among the recent appointments to the Ma
val Academy, is that of Park Benjamin,