Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-12
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.

fnOf, Ireadwell OF Cambridge invented last
year simple apparatus for closing the touch
holes of cannon while firing, thus guarding
against the serious evil of the enlargement of
| the vents. He sent model of his invention
to Napoleon, and has recently received a flat
tering letter of thanks.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The senior class of the Westdeld Nor
NAL school number sixteen, and they will
be graduated July 9th and 28th. The tri-
ennial jubilee will occur upon the following
day.
| Holyoke was visited with right smart hail
storm on the afternoon of June 9th Some
window glass was broken, but no serious dam
| age was done.
! HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
| Work has begun on the new town house at
Belchertown. 1t will stand on the same spot
as the old one.
| FRANKLIN COUNTY.
| -Four old bachelors were married at Col
| eraine, on the 4th inst. There are some ex-
cellent things about the cOnscription act-the
ladies say.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
According to the report of the board of ed
ucation, only 200 of the 43l childl en- in Lenox
! 90 to the public schools Not a very enviabe
reputation for town to be below all the other
towns in the state in this respect, which this
fact establishes for the shire town of Berk-
| shire!
MAINE.
Fryeburg will celebrate the Tooth annivers-
airy of its settlement August goth.
The glazing mill connected with the pow
der works OF j. c. Marble, at Buckfield, blew
up at o'clock on the morning of June 10th
The desperate who has been engaged all
winter in robbing the mails between Bangor
and Calais was arrested on Tuesday of last
week by VIM. Flanagan and Horace Haynes,
special agents of the air line, but his name is
not given.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The sequel to the rebellion" at Dartmouth
college has transpired. After having absented
themselves for three days from college duties
the seceders were informed by the president
that they could have one day to consider
whether they would return to their allegiance
or be dismissed from the institution, and they
straightway returned.
Rev A. w. Chatfin was on Wednesday in
stalled pastor of the Merrimack street Baptist
church, Manchester.
Unlicensed dogs are getting scarce in Man
chester The police made another raid on
Wednesday, and found only one to kill
VERMONT.
U. S. Patten, who lived near Comstock
landing, while recently walking in his sleep,
fell down stairs and broke his neck.
| A slight shock of an earthquake, lasting
about ten seconds, was felt in several towns,
on Tuesday evening.
Rutland is happy over the thought that she
| has exceeded her quota by so men.
! William j. Sartle of Barton has received
the appointment of cadet at West Point, for
| that district.
Samuel Harrington has been appointed
postmaster at South Barre, in place of Alvin
| Carter, deceased.
Clarence Whitcomb, a son of B. p. Whit
comb, OF st. Johnsbury, was lately severely
hurt by being entangledi in belt at Paddock's
machine shop. He was carried several times
around shaft revolving one hundred and
| twenty times a minute.
DIR. Holland Of Springfield, Mass, will ad-
| dress the literary societies of the University
OF Vermont, at Burlington, on the occasion of
their anniversary, August 4th.
CONNECTICUT.
In the town of Essex during the past four
years twenty persons have died, whose united
ages amounted to 1866 years. Their average
age was about SO. There are now living in
the same town twenty-three persons whose
united ages amount to 1920 years, an average
age of about 49, There is a family of two
brothers and three sisters whose united ages
amount to 40 years, their average age being
81 years.
The legislature has released FROM state
prison Andrew S. Robert, who had completed
half of a five years sentence for robhins
| Adar,e' eApress in 1891 u2.e counsel for the
express company acknowledged that he was
not guilty Of the robbery.
Another steam fire engine is to be added to
the three already owned by Hartford.
Robert Chadwick's cartridge works, near
Sharpe'S rifle factory in Hartford, have been
sold to the rife company.
RHODE ISLAND.
The cotton mills of Woonsocket are reduc-
ing their hours of labor. Several of them
have commenced to run half time, and it is
presumed that the others will adopt similar
course.
We understand that two thousand dollars
have been contributed in Providence recent.
ly, by members of the Congregational church,
es, towards endowing presidency in the Iowa
college, literary institution of recent date.