Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-15
OBJ 4allg spy,
HAMPDEN COUNTY.


capitol prison at Washington.
The amount Of deposits in the We9tteld
savings bank is 1929, 400
Several of tho descendants of John Granger
of Feeding Hills celebrated with him his 9Oth
birthday on the llth.
DR.. Vail of Palmer, on the 18th day of
June. had grass growing in bis front yard
measuring four feet, lacking two inches.
Royal Ridge of Wilbraham has a calf which
at birth weighed only twenty-five pounds.
The usual weight of calf not more than a
day old is from seyenty-iye to one hundred
pounds This calf is well formed and as
lively as a larger one could be.
The selectmen of Wibraham are rigidly
enforcing the dog law. Thus they are i'm
mortalizing their names in doggardty
manner.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
There are sixty-seven dogs registered and
licensed in Ware, which is about one-half the
number in town.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Massachusetts medical society will hold
its annual meeting in Pittsfeld On the 18th.
DIR. Morrill, Wyman Of Cambridge will de-
liver the address at twelve o'clock, and at two
P. NJ, the anniversary dinner will be eaten in
| Vests Hall.
MAINE.
Mrs. Huldah H. Rowe of North Yarmouth,
was killed on the llth inst. by being thrown
from wagon, the wheels of which passed
over her skull.
Thomas j. Stewart, ship owner in Bangor
has heen appointed vice consul of Portugal at
that port.
The Portland glass company are erecting
new works at Portland.
The Lewiston manufacturing company
! IL, ,l;,,i.I l. Of
cent. within year.
The following is the condition of the Port
land banks, as they existed on May 30th.
The aggregate amount of bills in circulation
is l,765, 1922; net pryfts on hand S35l,50S-
.06; gold and silver on hand 1913, 540,67 f;
total amount of resources 5000, 1928. Five
of the banks declared four per cent. divi-
dends, the other two three per cent.
In the town meeting at Gray, Me, a short
time since, it was voted to pay bounty of
$500 to every man drafted under the con-
scription law.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A young woman residing in Tuftonborougb,
whose husband is in the army, being inform
ed by the surveyor that her husbands tax on
the highway must be worked out, shouldered
the hoe and marched to the scene of labor.
VERMONT.
| w. X. Landmad of Danville boasts of sow
that brought twenty-one living pigs at single
litter.
The Calef brothers, who broke from the
! Orange county Jail, repeated the operation by
knocking down the jailor as he opened the
door to see if they were safe. The officers
are in pursuit.
The state treasurer has effected a settle
ment of the state accounts against the gener
al government to the amount of 1922, 600.
Out of this sum was deducted the direct tax
against the state of $4,000, leaving bal
ance in the treasurerS hands of $4,000.
About 100000 Of the state claim is suspended,
and some action of congress will probably
be required before settlement of it can be
made.
Major B. f. Watson, paymaSter in the u. S.
army, has been permanently statioTfd at AL
bany, for the purpose of making all the army
payments in the state of New York, north of
the city Of New York, and in the state OF
| Vermont
The people of Andover, having been desti-
tute OF suitable place for the transaction of
town business, for several years, have COM
menced the erection of a new building for a
town hall, to cost $1,000.
\ new post office has been established at
North Landgrove-H. l.. Richards, postmas-
| ter.
OF Dyer 'agad seventeen years, was standing,
a few days since, ON a log, fishing, when it
broke, and he fell, and the log rolled over
him, injurng him so severely, that, when
found at night, life was nearly extinct.
Some careful Statlstican figures that the
income to the state this year from the dog tax
will be $4,000. That is more than Massa-
chusetts can say, with her large number of
unlicensed ours.
| CONNECTTCTT
| Fourteen thousand quarts Of milk are ''con-
| densed" at Wassaic daily.
Commencement exercises of Trinity college
will be held at Allyn Hall on Thursday, July
I'd The address and and poem before the
house OF conyocation and alumni will be de-
lloered on the evening of July LIST.
The Townsend premiums were awarded
June 18th, to the following gentlemen of the
senior class, Yale college: Messrs. g. W.
Allen, L. 7. Chamberlain, S. w. Dufiield,
II, w. Fowler, q. S. Hamlln, w. S. Sumner.
RHODE ISLAND.
Hon. William 2. Sheffield of Rhode Island
| has sued the city of New York for $25, 900, as
damages for injuries received by falling over
the stump of tree in the street, near the city
hall park, several years ago Mr.. s., it will
be remembered, broke his thigh bone, and
came near dying of the injury he received
His leg had to be shortened two or three
inches in the adjustment of the broken parts,
and he is thus lame for life.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is safe estimate t. say that since the
war began the southern people have lost at
least one hundred thousand slaves, a pecuni-
airy loss of about $4,000
Prentice says there is not a chicken in Mis-
sissippi. The people down there are so hun
cry for something in the country line that they
could eat the weathercock on Il church
steeple.
The New York papers state that on the 18th
inst. the grand jury in the United States CIR
cult court rendered forty-one bills of ndict-
ment against various parties for frauds on the
government, principally in the military de-
partment.
The statement that son of postmaster gen.
eral Blair has been arrested and confined in
castle Thunder, Richmond, is denied by the
Washington Star, which states that Mr.. Blair
has no son or other relative in the rebel army.
DIR. Updegratf of Elmira, n. Y. lately removed
from the eye of a Mr.. Zigler living animal
which had been luXuriating tor about year
| in the aqueous band. This is the first in
stance of the kind ever known in the United
| States.
Parson Brownlow has been appointed
| special agent of the treasury department in
east Tennessee, with his headquarters at
| Nashville.
Broadway, New York. is to be paved with
the Belgian or "top-block" pavement. This