Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-31

pany at cost of some fifty thousand dollars.
1t is three hundred and twenty feet in length,
and eighty feet in extreme width, the carriage
way being about fifty feet wide; and the bal
ance will be appropriated to the use of foot
passengers. The bridge is of iron, chiefly;
but the paving is of pine wood, "Burretized,"
that is, soaked in a solution Of zinc. The
structure is Of very simple plan, and will ev-
identity prove durable.
prisoner named Saunders on the 2Sth,
made a murderOus assault upon officer Parker
at the house of correction in Boston. Saun.
ders was employed in the upper brush shop,
and was ordered to leave his bench and go
across the room for some article, when he in
stantly seized trimming knife about three
feet in length and weighing eight pounds, and
rushing down stairs into the lower shop, at
tackled officer Parker, who was at the time
standing on the floor of the shop overseeing
the prisoners, and who happened to turn his
head just in time to get glimpse Of the up
lifted knife coming toward his head This he
lodged thus averting the full strength OF the
blow, receiving Il cash in the face. Mr. Par
ker being unarmed started for the door, when
Saunders dealt a second blow at his head,
which struck him on the shoulder inhicting a
severe wound. Had either blow taken effect
us intended by the assallant. there is no doubt
that Mr.. Parker would have been killed on
the spot No reason whatever can be as
signed for this premedlated attempt to take
this officers life.
Boston harbor was full of mackerel dur
ing the past week, some OF them of good size
and fat.
A gay deserter, a Boston man, sold him
self seven times as substitute. Itwas one time
too many, AS he has been arrested and will be
shot.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
In Cambridge on the 29th inst. Hugh Black
well Ut SOmmervllle, and ms associates, Mi
chael Grady, Tho mas McGrath, and John
Ryan, were brought before the police court,
charged with assaulting Robert Cough on the
25th and bound over, the former in the sum
OF $1,000, and his accomplices in the sum of
$500 each.
Matters atthe navy yardin Charlestown are
becoming more active daily. During the past
two or three days there has been an addlIion
of over two hundred to the carpenters gang,
and other departments will be increased cor
respondingly within fortnight or three
weeks.
The prize steamer ''Brttania," lately cap
tured from the rebels, has been hauled into
one Of the dry docks at Charlestown, and will
be thoroughly repaired for Il dispatch boat
She Is very fine steamer and is said to be
very fast.
valuable horse, belonging to Mr.. Sawyer,
in Charlest0wn, who supplies the receiving
ship Ohio with beef, backed off into one of the
navy yard docks on the 2Stb, while attached
to wagon filled with supplies. The tide was
at its lowest mark, and when the animal, We
hicle, and stock were rescued, all were found
to be badly injured.
The assessors Of Cambridge have fixed as
the valuation Of real estate in that city 5l5..
320:3 800; personal estate, S7,22S, 600; total
valuation of the city for the year So, 549, 200.
There are 5775 polls. The rate OF taxation is
eleven dollars On the $1,000, and the poll tax
is 81. The Boston and Lowell railroad cor
puration is taxed $500; the New England
glass company, 5000
49, ..sst,y 49, -
Total valuation Oi Gloucester in 1868,
ST., 49, G4, an increase nj sos, 73l from 1862.
Number OF polls 2499; increase .. Rate of
taxation $l3 per thousand.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The annual camp meeting OF the African
Methodists commenced at Mansfield on the
18th, and will continue for nine days.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The colored people Of Massachusetts and
Rhode Island are having camp meeting at
Plymouth. The visitors have averaged from
800 to 1000 daily. The meeting will close
early this week.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Phillip DcWire, of New London, was
thrown tom the top Of freight car at Mon
son, on the oath inst, by the collision Of two
cars, an considerably injured. He was
brakeman on the tram.
While John Leehan and Humphrey Sull-
van, OF Bonneville, were ut work in VIM. Full
ler's hay field, on the 9th, third party, Mr..
Poor Whisky, stirred up contention between
them. From words they came to blows, and
Sullivan went in with his scythe, cutting Lee
han badly about the head. They then repaired
to the field of justice and both were fined to-
gether with costs amounting to $l5 each.
They appeared satisfied with he result, and
went home to repair damages.
MAINE.
Hon. William G. Crosby, the last wing gov
ernor Of Maine, who has acted with the dem
ocratic party since 1856, is now on the stump
in this state supporting Hon. Samuel Cony,
the Union candidate tor governor.
Ellsworth, Me-, celebrated the downfall of
Sumter by bonfres, illumnations, etc., few
evenings since.
Simmons, the sculptor, has nearly complet-
ed at Portland statuette in clay of the late
Gen. Berry, of Rockland, for the family of
the deceased hero.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
mouse made its way into a desk in the
refreshment rooms at Danbury, N. H., and
conveyed one hundred dollars in currency into
a drawer above, of which it made a nest, re-
gardless of all expense.
Major Mann, paymaster IN the army, has
paid off all the New Hampshire nine months
men.
Gen. Butler is being lionized at the White
Mountains, and, with the big bear who walks
round the post he is chained to near the hotel,
divides public attention.
VERMONT.
Master Eddy Case Of Bristol, VT, lad of
thirteen years, sent to the Middlebury Regis
ter office one day last week a blue heron,
which he had shot. Its breadth Of wing was
six feet, and length from feet to end of bill
was FIVE feet
CONNECTICUT.
Fifty three men were drafted from Enfield,
Ct, and fifty two of them paid their $500.
The remaining gentleman was a darkey, who
expressed his determination to go and repre-
sent the town!
Mr.. VIM. Faxon of Hartford, chief clerk in
the navy department, is at home on a brief
visit.
Patrick Kelly jumped off railroad train at
Waterbury on the 26th, while it was in mo-
ton, and was run over and killed.
It's stated that Il sailing match for 1000 a
side, is being arranged between New Haven
and Bridgeport boat.
The funeral Of commodore Rodgers took
place in New London on the 28th. Appro-