Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-10
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1868.

Hampshire regiments at Concord on the 18th
will be grand affair and every way fitting
tribute to the brave men who will be honored
by it.
Hon. VIM. c. Clarke of Manchester has
been appointed attorney general of New lIamp-
shire, vice John sullivan, deceased. Mr..
Clarke is lawyer of high standing
CONNECTICUT.
The runaway substitute who was shot by the
guard at Grape Vine Point near New Haven
about a week ago, died of lockjaw at the hos
ptal on the 4th inst.
Its rumored that, through the munifcence
of a distinguished American, now resident in
London, new geological cabinet will soon be
erected in New Haven, at cost of 100000.
The salary Of professor Of rhetoric in Yale
College, to which Cyrus Northrup has been
appointed, is $500 per anDum-
train of cars from Providence to Hartford
ran down a man on the track, short distance
beyond the Stonington freight depot, on the
9TH inst, and injured him SO badly that he
died in short time.
The Bridgeport Standard is to come under
new management. John d. Candee of New
Haven bought two thirds of the concern for
$4,000, and will take the helm.
Mr.. Amasa Steere, farmer who resides n
few miles west of Brooklyn, while engaged in
hHying, in the intense heat of the Sd, fell and
soon expired. Mr.. S. was a very large man,
weighing nearly 300 pounds
Twenty-one divorces were granted at the
= late term of the Hartford superior court.
RHODE ISLAND.
The examinations at the naFal academy or
dered by laws Of congress for the month of
July are completed. Seventy.tbree young
men have been admitted as mdshipmen, and
almost half that number rejected Another
examination will be held before the opening
OF the next term, when vacancies may be
filled by new applicants who are fortunate
enough to secure an appointment.
On the 9th inst, in Little Compton, after
the funeral ceremonies had been performed
aver the remains of Miss Lofty Church, aged
IL years, and they had been deposited in the
tomb, some one present suggested that life
was not eXtlnct-that she remained warm
and that putritaction had not taken place dur
ing the torty-eght hours she had been dead,
though the weather was the warmest we have
had, whereupon it was decided to have the
corpse taken up and carried to a neighbours
house, where everything will be done that can
be to restore life, if any remain. Twenty-four
hours after the funeral the body remained un-
changed.
VIM. X. Brown, in the employ of +. r.
Hunter OF Newport, few days since helped
himself to sundry articles to the value of
about $50. He was arrested for larceny, and
committed in default OF $500 surety.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Gen. Howell Cobb passed through Augusta,
Ga, on the LIST inst, on his way to Athens.
He was in good health and spirits. Particu-
larry the spirits-corn juice probably.
On the afternoon OF the 10th ult., at San
Francisco, there were formed fifteen gold and
silver mining companies, with an aggregate
of capital OF S5,945,000. There is nothing in
the history OF copper companies equang
this.
On the lst inst. five Indians attacked the
house of Mr.. Austin in New London, Wis,
in his absence. His wife, however, with a
good rifle and the assistance of faithful
watch dog, succeeded in killing one of the
Indians and wounding another severely,
when the rest Of the party, not liking the
reception, took to flight. Mrs. Austin was not
injured.