Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-12

QueSuOHer, anu you are Ill Daltln1Ore, where
we give Massachusetts regiments hell! !" No
sooner had he spoken the words than young
Horsf0rd knocked him flat, when he was at
once set upon by several sympathiaers with the
braggart, and would not have escaped with life
had he not been assisted by the patrol guard.
But his patriotism was too real to allow him
to suffer any such insult to Massachusetts
soldiers to go unrebuked, even at a personal
peril.
The widow of the lamented Admiral Foote.
with her son, is stopping in Springfield
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The yeXed questions concerning the lease
of the Amherst, Belcherlown and Palmer
railroad, which have been so long pending,
are at last likely to reach a final decision
Both parties agreed on Hon. Henry L. Dawes
OF North Adams as Il referee, and have pre-
scented their cases to him, and his ruling in the
matter will be made public in few days The
contest has been both unpleasant and need
less, and the public will be glad to know that
it ended.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The scarcity Of farm laborers has resulted
IN the employment of many females for some
OF the outdoor work usually performed by
men. Women reap, weed onions and thin
carrots with great eclat in the neighborhood
of Greenfield.
An engineer has been appointed to super
intend the work upon the Hoosac Tunnel.
Help has been engaged, and the work will be
resumed Immediately. An agent has also
gone to Europe to engage two tunneling ma
chimes and other fixtures, to be employed in
prosecuting the work.
MAINE.
Private Eden +. Townsend, of Co. F. 9TH
Maine volunteers, who was sentenced to one
years Imprisonment at hard labor in Fort
treble, for desertion, has been pardoned by
Gen. Wool, restored to full privileges as a
soldier, and returned to his regiment in the
field.
A Rodman gun, weighing about twenty-five
tons, throwing ball of fifteen inch cabre,
has arrived at Portland from the foundry at
Pittsburg, Penn, where it was cast 1t is to
be mounted at fort Scammel 1t requires
ftiy pounds of powder for charge, and the
bail 1t projects weighs four hundred and sixty
pounds
A man in Bangor recently bought heavy
bag OF cents and sold them at par having be-
come tired OF holding them for rise.
VERMONT.
Quartermaster Il. A. Morse of the 9TH regi-
ment has recently been appointed superinten-
dent OF the OpclOusas railroad running from
New Orleans 10 Brashear city.
&. IL. Wright of Pownal recently caught
bear and wolf, for which he received $50 from
the state.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr.. e. 2. Cogswell of Manchester, has
hen which laid an egg Il fetf days since meas
uring tx and half by eight and quarter
inches, and which weighed one quarter of a
pound
Miss Emma Owen of Winchester, an expert
rider, was thrown from her horse on the 10Th
Of July, and seriously injured. The horse
being frightened she held him firmly. when he
reared and fell back upon her, crushing her
beneath him.
DIR. Geo. A. Crosby of Manchester, has re-
ceived letter from physician in Washing
'V'', ''i-'s'' 9"y '"ii,tv anu nity nurses
and seven men died from the effects of heat
on the 9Th.
The New Hampshire legislature, at its June
session, passed acts concerning railroads us
follows 10 authorize the Eastern railroads
in New Hampshire and Massachusetts to unite
and form one corporations to incorporate the
SuncOok Valley railroad; to revive the char
ter OF the New Hampshire railroad, and to ex-
tend the Dover and WinnipisSeogee railroad.
Mr.. Benjamin Hosmer of Nashua, NJ H.,
jumped into the Nashua river on the evening
OF the 9th. He was probably deranged being
very sick with the typhoid fever, which had
confined him to the house fortnight or more.
The mother of Hon. Joel Eastman of Con-
way, N. H., is still living at the age of l02
years. Judge Eastman himself is IS years of
age.
The total number OF patients in the New
Hampshire asylum for the insane for the year
ending May lst 1868, was 2G4, of whom 81
~ere males and 10 females. The whole
number discharged during the year was 50,
and of these 80 were recovered, 20 improved,
and II unmproved.
Over four hundred bushels of blueberries
have been sent to Boston the present season
from Meredith Village, N. Ii. One man sent
two hundred bushels.
CONNECTICUT
Thomas Roper of Hartford was robbed by
three or four New York roughs on the 7th.
ChaS. Lewis barn at Plainville was burned
on kthe Sth, and Thomas c. Horn, an Irish
boy ID years old, who was arrested on suspi-
cion, has confessed he fired it.
Connecticut boasts of nearly 5000 industri-
al establishments, and capital OF SAG ,000, 900
invested in manufacturing business, giving
employment to 10000 hands. Add together
all the industrial products of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Texas, and Mississippi, and Connecticut is
500 100000 aheadsof them all.
DIR. &. L. IlnmstOn, twenty -two years old,
graduate of Yale college, and just settled as
a physician at Naugatuck was drowned while
bathing in Naugatuck river on Wednesday of
last week.
Policeman Stewart of New Haven shot
dangerous fellow on the 9TH, who he suspected
was about to try to rob him.
The Savage revolving firearms company at
Middlctewn employs between two and three
hundred wOrkmen manufacturing the Spring
field musket, for which the company have
large contracts with the government. One
hundred and fifty weapons are turned out
daily.
RHODE ISLAND.
Gems. Hunter, Buel and Sherman are stop
ping in Newport.
Two Pawtucket boys in camp Sherman
swan two and quarter miles on the It'll, to
the Pawtucket shore, made quite an extensive
raid, took possession Of a boat, and rowed
back.
Nathan Cahoon was struck by lightning in
Falmouth on the eth, while returning from
work. Medical aid was called as soon as
possible, and although he is very sick it is
hoped he will recover.
Four hundred conscripts from Rhode ISL
and were shipped on the 9th for North Caro-
lima, where they will join Col. Sisson's COM
mand.
A rattlesnake was found pressed between
the flakes of cotton on opening a bale at
one of the manufactured Pawtucket, on the
9TH.
Volunteering is quite active in Providence.
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