Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-05

ESSEX COUNTY.
The Cape Ann Advertiser states that seven
English vessels laden with mackerel, which
had been shipped home 10y our fishing vessels
in the Bay. have arrived at Gloucester recent.
ly These cargoes amounted to upwards of
1000 barrels, and the quality of the mack rel
Is first rate.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Altered bills Of the denomination of SIS on
the Pocasset Bank, FAN River, are in circu-
lation. The notes are made from the bills of
some broken bank. The following is a de-
scrptlon Of the new coun;erteits :-Vignete
farmer eating his luncheon; boy lying down !;
girl standing; two horses standing in har-
ness, one with head to the ground, feeding
name OF bank forming an arch over vignette ;
IN a die on each end above and below
arch, with constitution, justice, &C., between
signatures.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The number Of dwelling houses in SPRING
field according to the assessors census. is
Poop, an increase of 32G since 1862: and the
number Of horses 1921, cows SOY. sheep 224
All these are an advance upon the figures of
the previous year.
new engine of 60 horse power for the
armory in Springfield, is building aud nearly
completed at the works Of Woodruff 4 Black
Hartford.
queer looking specimen of the ffnny tribe
was ilshed out at Cold Spring, West Spring
heid, on the LIST inst 1t was recognized as
the spotted burbot or eel p0ut which is found
in Western New York. So far as known this
is his first appearance IN this section of the
country.
The grocery store of j. A. Carter & Co.,
Chicopee, was broken into on the evening of
the Both ult., and dollar in cash was stolen.
Money was their object, as all other things
were left unmoested.
james German and wife, two travelling UNI
brella members, asked for lodgings at the
house of Daniel Knapps, Chcopee, one eve
my last week, and soon after taking them to
nelghboring boarding house, Knapps missed
some clothes from his yard, which upon in
veStlgation were found IN the womdn's trunk
They were arrested and sent over to the
house OF correction for three months.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Rev S. T. Seelye, ID. d., OF Albany. bro
ther of Prof. Seeye of Amherst college has
received and accepted call to the pastorate
of the Payson church, Easthampton, with a
salary Of $500.
MAINE.
If the same proportion of men drafted in
other states, as IN Maine, furnish substitutes
or pay Communication, the government will get
over 100000 men from the draft.
The Bath Evening Courier-a vile conner
head sheet-nas given up the ghost. 1t has
been so detested that the res pectable demo-
Gratis refused its admis ion to their houses.
and ii short time since many Of the people
were SO enraged at its REASONABLE sentiment,
that they were for cleaning it out.
Messrs. A. M. Starbird and j. w. Green
law of Portland succeeded on the I'd inst. in
taking two spotted trout from Mooselameg-
unite Lake, one of them weighing eight pounds
and a half and the other weighing seven
pounds.
There have lived and died (within the rec
objection of a single person. ON the road from
TopSham to Lisbon, within a distance of five
miles, twenty two persons with an aggregate
age of eighteen hundred and forty-one and
e-halt years. The average age being rather
more than eighty-three and two-thirds years.
VERMONT
A three year old child fell asleep recently
on the railroad in Casteton, when a train
came along and took off his great toe.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Six thousand persons have assembled Mount
Washington the present season which is twice
the number Of any previous summer. June
and September are considered the best
Strange fish are getting common off the
coast of New Hampshire. Since the big tur-
tie made the old salts look wild, another
stranger, species of shark called the abb
cove, 10 feet in length and 1900 pounds in
weight, has been captured near the mouth of
Hampton river.
On the Both ult. Brewster Young was tried
at Haverhill for the murder Of Ralph Bishop
on the 9th OF June, 1862. He plead guilty of
murder in the second degree, which plea was
accepted by the attorney general He was
sentenced to twenty-five years i'll the states
prison, the first twenty days being in solitary
confinement. Young is now 81 years of age.
Rum was the cause Of the deed.
On the 2Sth ult. the citizens of Alton as.
sembled at their cemetery, and with appropriate
services erected beautiful monument at the
yard of Elder H. ID. Buzzell, for many years
known an active minister Of the gospel in
that region.
CONNECTICUT.
A New York colonial penny, LOG years old,
was recently found in the street at Hartford,
a foot below the surface. 1t is little worn,
but nearly as bright as new.
Albert II. Sulwell, formerly a Hartford
carpenter, and now having a wife residing
there, has eloped from Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
with maid of sweet sixteen, named jose
Prime Delano.
The Connecticut arms and manufacturing
company, incorporated by the laStlegislature,
have begun the erection of building at Cur
tisville, l02 by 60.
Mrs. Ephraim Kelsey of Meriden ceased
breathing on the Goth ut., and her funeral
was attended on the 18th ult. But her burial
was postponed, and up to the LIST inst. no signs
of corruption had appeared while there was
sembance of color in her lips She had been
i'll for some time, and under the care of
clairvoyant, but previous to her prostration
she had herself confidently predicted that she
should have a course of fever, which would
leave her apparently lead, but after four days
her body would again become animate, and
she would be restored to perfect health.
Three gentlemen from New Haven recently
took two hundred blue-fish out of the waters
in that vicinity in the short space OF two hours
and half
German boy in Danbury, named Fox, but
eighteen months old, fell into cistern the
other day, and though taken out alive died
shortly atterward.
j. Hammond Trumbull, Esq, of Hartford,
has presented a valuable collection OF ancient
and rare coins to Yale College.
Gov. Andrew and council Of Massachusetts
were expected on the Sd inst to visit the bene-
ficiaries of their state in the American deaf
and dumb asylum.
A fellow named Buckley, went into Rogers
! iewelry store at Hartford, on the I'd, to look