Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-26

hundred sea gull's eggs, on one of the small
islands in that harbor.
The first new potatoes of the season were
grown in New Bedford under cellar floor,
on the top of the ground. The seed is sup
posed to have been left there by rats. Such
animals were not made in vain.
A report has been current for some time
that the army worm had made its appearance
in New Bedford; but somebody didn't know
an army worm from caterpillar. The latter
have been very numerous.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The class of 1858, at Amherst College,
will hold their decennial meeting at Amherst,
on Wednesday of commencement week, July
sth.
HAMPDEN COUNTY
Messrs. Belcher & Taylor, manufacturers
of agricultural implements of Chicopee Falls,
have received an order for their improved
hay-cutters from Africa, and another from
Australia.
The prominent candidates for the police
judgeship at Chicopee, made vacant by the
death Of Judge Whitaker, are Moses w.
Chaplin of Wilmansett and E. o. Carter of
Chicopee Falls.
The government tax in Springfield for the
month Of May amounted to upwards Of eight
thousand dollars.
Payday has again come around at the arm
DRY in Springfield GLOW are you, green
backs? 2"
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The county common school association met at
Charlemont on the 18th and 10th, and inter-
esting lectures were delivered by Rev. b. G.
Northrup, Hon. Joseph White and Rev. w.
g. Hambeton of Greenfield. The first prize
for the best essay, written by young lady
tlp Suhippt GElV hiph 10 tho tuVOr-
able to intellectual and moral culture, Il large
or small school? was awarded to Miss Sa-
rah E. Hart of Greenfield
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
new hotel will soon take the place OF the
Pemigewasset House, which was destroyed
by fire last fall, at Plymouth.
Major Oscar A. Mann of the United States
artillery is appointed acting assistant provost
marshal general of New Hampshire.
VERMONT.
Coventry has furnished an excess of Is
men to the army, and among them are four
captains.
DR.. j. NJ. Currier of Newport has Java
coffee growing in his garden, and declares
that it is less susceptible to frost than beans,
tomatoes, or corn.
CONNECTICUT.
The Vallandigham resolutions belonging to
on the oath, resulting IN l26 nays to SO ayes.
1t is estimated that the aggregate of the en-
rollment in Hartford and Tolland counties
will he about $4,000.
company Of fifty colOred persons in New
Haven are drilling under experienced officers
with the intention of offering their services to
the government at an early day.
Oliver Cooks barn at South Windsor was
burned on the 23d by an incendiary, who
turned out horse and some cattle, closing
the doors so they could not return, before set
ting the fire.
The legislature has granted authority for the
further issue of Hartford water scrip. The
amount is limited to $4,000.
A man in Westbrook has become fully sat
lsied that he has owned faithful watch dog.
He set him to watch his yard, and when he
came round the next morning the awful beast
chawed him up so that he had to get a neigh
Dor to shoot him.
The legislature of Connecticut has appro-
priated to the Sheffield scientific school, New
Haven, the public lands given to the state by
congress under what is known as the agricul.
tural college bill.
The dog law ''goes into effect on the first
of July at Hartford. So look out, dogs.
They are burning the barns of certain en-
rolling officers in Connecticut
RHODE ISLAND.
Rev. Charles E. Smith, of Fall River, re-
Gently of Rochester Theological Seminary,
has decided to accept the call of the First
Baptist church of Providence to become
their pastor.
There are rumors afloat that the troops
stationed at Fort Adams VIII be called
into active service, and their place supplied
by less disciplined soldiers.
The amount Of taxes to be asSested in New
port this year is from seventy-one to seventy
two thousand dollars
OF the children born in Providence for the
year 1868, one hundred and five, or about one
in fifteen, inherit a surname commencing with
"Mc"