Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-22
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. p, 1868.


The grand jury of the United States court
in Boston, failed to find bill of indictment
against Geo. w. Lynn of Lee, for manufac.
turing paper for the rebels.
The Housatouic railroads receipt for Sep
TENDER were $50, 332-increase nine thou
sand dollars.
G. i. Northrop of Lanesboro, makes 500
pounds of cheese a year from each of his
cows, and with a dairy of 26 shows an annu-
al product of $4,000 pounds of cheese, worth
at 10 cts. per lb, $1,000, or $50 on the aver
age for each COW.
Edward Keenan,, employed in Pomeroys
satinet factory, Pittsfiell, while adjusting a
belt, a few days since, had his hand caught
between the belt and the cylinder, by which
he was whirled rapidly round till released by
the tearing of his hand from his arm near the
elbow, the arm being lHcerated and shattered
nearly to the shoulder, just below which am
putauon was performed. A portion of his
scalp was also removed, and one of his knees
dislUcated.
MAINE.
Gen. Dix visited Portland on the 20th. He
visited the harbor defences and pronounced
them 80. X"
Hon. Israel Washburn. Jr., late governor
OF Maine, has been appointed as collector at
Portland.
VERMONT.
The deed of Gen. Bakers marble quarry at
Rutland, recently sold by HIM for two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, required two
hundred and forty dollars worth of revenue
stamps.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The draft was rather severe in New Hamp-
ton 1t took the only physician in town, two
OF the selectmen, the principal teacher in the
liam al. 6 IL. Al
theological studens who graduated in July
last, and six of the class in theology at the
present term
The 9TH New Hampshire regiment will
leave for the seat Of war this week with its
ranks well filled by conscript substitutes.
CONNECTICUT.
The annual catalogue of the Wesleyan uni
versity at Mddetown shows total of I52
studenls-25 seniors, 43 juniors, rs sophie.
mores, SO freshmen.
The Hartford hospital, to which the citizens
of that place have subscribed literally, is in
very successful operation, and is doing a
great deal To relieve the sorrows OF suffer.
ing humanity. AT present it contains SO pa
tients-2f males and II females
a fellow, calling himself George Stevens,
who swindcd \. L. Burr of the Hartford
Times out Of $50 last summer, ON the pre-
tNiNS thNt HN was lne DGUtnSG vi Il faithful
democrat in New Hampshire, was arrested at
Hartford ON the 10Th ANA Gagged.
The passengers on the Hartford horse cars
now average 5000 daily.
The Prusslan army is to have Colts revolv-
ers.
tragic tale is told of married man who
used to live III Hartford, but whose business
has lately kept him a good deal from home
During his absence his wife, with bis consent,
sold his residence, but somehow he forgot it,
and returning to the old home late at night,
not long ago, went in with perfect freedom,
and grpped his way to his wifes bed room.
He was Ielsurely proceeding to disrobe him.
sell, when ruStlng in the bed clothes, from
which appeared two feminine heads, out OF
which SUM issavd sonny 1r.ufaniiIIar ANA u,-
pleasantly vigorous screams, which brought
him to consideration of Ills status Apollo
gies under those circumstances were OF little
avail and with the whole female household
in Il terrible pitch of excitement, the untortu
nate intruder retreated. He swears it was
mistake.
In one of the freight cars that fell into Jor-
dan creek, at the time OF the accident on the
Shore Line railroad on the night Of the l7th
inst, was horse belonging in New London,
whose value was fixed at $500. The car lay
in the water turned completely over, and it
was supposed the horse was killed or drowned.
light being procured and the door opened,
the horse was found uniniui ed. After IA little
urging he jumped out into the water and went
to the shore.
contest, to decide which was the superior
penman, took place on the 18th inst in New
York city, between Mr. j. P. James of that
city, and Chas. Il. Thomas Of New Haven,
operator OF the American Telegraph Compa-
ny, for the sum of fifty dollars. 1t was de-
cided in favor of Thomas of New Haven,
whose superiority consisted in the inserting
the whole Of the Lords prayer in space the
size Of a three cent piece, and yet perfectly
dlstinc: and legbe to the naked eye.
The following document was handed re-
Gently to the editor OF the Norwich Bulletin
by an old schoomaster: ''At adjourned
school district melting held in the School
House in - District in the fust cociety in
K on the day December 9th 1886 Voted
that we will not have Grammar or Geograth
tort in the school this winter Voted to adurn
this meetin with out Day"
Hon. James Brewster of New Haven, sew
entysix years of age, has volunteered his
services to Gov. buckingham, under the pres
ident's call for troops, and agrees if he is not
accepted to send substitute to answer for
him, at his own cost.
The horse railroad company at Hartford is
preparing for winter, having ordered eight
sleighs to ''put on the track" when the snow
shall have relieved their car wheels of duty.
The whole number Of arrests IN Hartford
during the quarter ending October Isl were
six hundred and titty.six and the number be-
fore the police court were two hundred and
two.
RHODE ISLAND.
man, calling himself George Stephens,
presented 500 bill on the Freeman's Bank
of Bristol at the Peoples Bank of Providence,
to be exchanged for small bills, on the 10Th
Being told by the teller Mr.. George A. Park,
that it was not their custom to exchange bills
of so large denomination with strangers, he
left, and Mr.. Park, having his suspicious ex-
cited from several circumstances, caused him
to be brought before a justice on a charge of
larceny. who held him for examination in the
sumof $500.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Charles Burial of Hoboken, n. j., recently
deceased, left the muniicent sum of $3.50, 900
to be divided among various benevolent instr
tutions in New York.
DYING.-Lord Lyndhurst-a Boston boy