Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-12
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HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The winter term of Williston seminary
opens with lS5 students, larger number than
has been present at any one time for several
years.
Inc hampton mining company have got
some Canadians, and are at work digging and
blasting away on the adit at their mines in
Southampton.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The counterfeit fives on the Adams Bank
are circulated extensively at Providence,
II. |.
Sheldon & Adams, the Manila paper man
utacturers at Great Darlington, mill River, J
have recently begun the manufacture of pa
per flour sacks.
Rev. George F. Magoun of Iowa, formerly
settled over the church at Davenport, son of
Hon d. Z. Magoun of Bath, has been elected
to the presidency of Iowa college.
fire in Brunswick, on the evening of the
I'd, destroyed the barn and greatly damaged
the dwelling house of Mr.. James HALL 1t is
supposed to have been the work of an incen
diary.
large wooden factory is to be erected at
Skowhegan next spring. That county beats
the Whole state in the raising of wool.
highway robbery was very nearly con-
summated On one Of the principal streets in
Augusta, on the 9TH.
Two hundred and nineteen barrels of APP
pies have been donated to the sick and
wounded soldiers by the Citizens of North
Auburn, Turner, and Monmouth. The latter
town ent l47 barrels.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
T., II nj
Clifford were bnrned last week. Loss $4,000
Eleven hundred and forty-nine men were
mustered into the United States service from
New Hampshire up to Dec. 9th.
call has been issued for convention of
the democrats of New Hampshire on January
8, 1864, to put in nomination candidates for
governor and railroad commissioner. All are
invited who are in favor of ''the constitution
as 1t is and the Union as it was"
VERMONT.
The laborers on the Connecticut and Pas
snmssic line of railroad, while recently at
work IN bed of clay, found beneath it a
running stream of pure, crystal water, eigh-
teen inches wide and eight inches deep.
Mrs. Fairbanks, widow of the late Louis
Fairbanks of Georgia, Vt, was SO severely
burned on the evening of the 18th that she lived
but few hours after. 1t is supposed that
while warming her feet by the stove after the
rest OF the family had retired her clothes took
fire.
CONNECTICUT
A trOtting match for $4,000 between the ia
nous Kentucky horse John Morgan" and
the well-known bay prince" of Hartford. is
to come off in June. Another match between
"Sorrei Dan" of Boston, and "Prince" is to
come Oft on the Hartford track in May. This
is also $1,000 match
Richard M. Clark of New Haven has been
appointed provost marshal of the second dis
trict, in place of Capt. Benz. S. Pardee, who
is to take command Of the 10Th Connecticut
volunteers.
Boys playing with matches on the 10th, set
on fire the barns Of Michael Moran and An
drew Hines on Meadow Hill, Hartford A
lot OF tobacco, hay stacks, cows, and, very
nearly, two houses, were sent among the
things that were.
The 90th birthday of Mrs. Rebecca Gilbert
OF Colebrooll was celebrated on the 18th of
November in style. Mrs. Stocking, once A
missionary in Persia, and a sister aged 90,
rode many miles to be present, says the Hart
ford Couralt
Rockville fourisheth. The new railroad
has quadrupled the travel to and from the
village; Il new national bank is proposed by
the monied men, and gas works are now in
the course of construction.
RHODE ISLAND.
Geo. B. Whipple has commenced manu-
featuring In Chepachet, having purchased of
his brother d. S. Whippe, the ''Stone Mill"
in that place.
w. H. Waldron has vacated the Free Will
Baptist pulpit in Pascoag, which he had occu-
pied for the past six years. His place will be
filled by Rev. Mr.. Phillips, from Georgiaville,
says the Woonsocket Patriot
Ice formed in the dock at Newport on the
10th Tor the first time.