Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-30
General news summary



idly increasing in numbers.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Fisherman White of West Springfield
caught POP shad at one haul, recently.
Judge Whitaker OF Chicopee died late
Wednesday night, May q, from injuries re-
ceived.
In the northern part of West Springfield,
on the Bradley farm, is an illustration of the
power of lightning. In a rocky pasture hol-
low, near Il tall grove, stands halt of large
green chestnut tree, that has recently been
rived through its centre from top to bottom.
The PROSTATE half with all its limbs lies
splintered, scattered and peeled around, The
tree is about 90 feet in height, and was, pre-
vious to this accident, about three feet in
diameter.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The AleXandrian freshman prize exhibition
at Amherst college came of on the evening OF
the 9th. The prizes were won in the order
indicated, by &c Jrge Biayton of Westernville,
| N. Y. Elisha II. Barlow of Lee, and Thomas
! S. Smith of Jatfna, Ceylon.
Rev. DR. and Professor Hitchcock of Am
herSt college. the eminent geologst, is very
| ill., and not expected to live. He has been i'll
| failing health for some years.
| MAINE.
| Charles w. Pearson of Bangor, while pre-
| pairing to extend Il cord across the street tor
| a flag, in honor of the reception of the Sec
ond Maine regiment, walked backwards and
fell through the scuttle, striking upon his
head and breaking his neck. He died in.
stantly.
The people in Maine are about to tap the
pine trees in that state, with view OF max
ing rosin, which they think can be done
quite as well in that region as in the Caro-
linas.
There are three men in the town of Show
hogan whose aggregate weight is half a ton;
and there is one lady there, little above the
average, who weighs one hundred and eighty
four pounds. 1t is certainly town Of great
weight
On the 10Th inst. the weather at Augusta
was cold, and snow fell most of the day. On
the 22d the mercury was at "a degrees from
eleven o'clock till nearly sunset-a really
melting day.
Gov. Coburn has been dangerously ill of an
affection Of the heart, at Portland. His lite
was despaired of up to the evening of the
27th.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The citizens of Warren are to celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary Of the settlement
of the town, July IA. William Little of Man
chester will deliver an address, and Rev. Eze-
MIL DOh VI 4OldllihlSS, nAhSoss d pOCLl'
VERMONT.
young man in Hartland has invented a
writing machine which is operated by only
six keys, the permutations Of which produce
all of the letters of the alphabet, in the
form of printed letters. 1t is easily operated
and is so small that it can be carried in ones
pocket.
CONNECT CUT.
The Quinebaug company in Danielsonvile
have decided to remodel portions of their
machinery, SO that they can manufacture
the finest goods put into the market. The
company will expend 100000 in these I'M
provements.
In Putnam a few days ago, Mrs. Alice
Elwood, an aged lady, had fall, by which
one of her thigh bones was broken. On
the 23d day of May, Mrs. 0rrin Potter was
thrnrn from wagon. and fractured her col
lar bone.
The Norwich papers mention the arrest of
two young men for swindling the public
there, by selling cheap Autographs of Mount
Vernon and the tomb of Washington, and pre-
| tending to devote the money to some benevo-
| lent cause.
Dr. Knight of the Lakeville Institution for
| lmbeciles gave an exhibition on the 9th, in
| the house of representatives, Hartford. Three
pupils read, wrote and cyphered, giving evil
| uence OF cOnSlueraDle pfOHclency.
The following graduates of the class Of 81,
Yale college, have fallen in the service of
their country; Chaplain Francis L. Butler,
Col G. w. Roberts, Capt. John Griswold,
Col A. w. Drake and Lieut.. Henry M.
button.
T. IL. Williams of Hartford has hen which
within week has laid two eggs, each ofwlnch
measures six inches by eight. Since the mid
die of October last four of his hens have pro-
duced 40 eggs.
RHODE ISLAND.
In Newport VIM. r. Pitman has exhumed
| an old coin about the size of a copper cent,
and apparently of the same material. The
inscription is so far detaced that it cannot be
read, though some of the letters are perfectly
| plain. The date, $50, is clear and distinct.
| This would make it over one thousand years
DID, and the mystery now is as to how it came
imbedded in the soil at Newport.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The flag carried through the Chancellor
vile battle by the I'd Massachusetts regiment
was pierced by Sirty-sereA bullets.
Mr.. John Pennel died on Monday, 18th
inst. at York, aged 90 years. He was Il sol
der in the Revolutionary war.
On the afternoon of the 28th the soldiers
| belonging to the Metropolitan cavalry regi-
ment stationed at Rlker's island, set fire to
the barracks in four different places, and they
were burned to the ground.
The New York journal of Commerce of the
9th says :-"There are a large number Of
vessels in port, at this time, with valuable
cargoes on board, that cannot procure berths
TO discharge. There is also a great scarcity
of Observation-Disclosures, and others along
shore. The total number of vessels in port
are LIS ships, 1856 barques, and 1873 briggs, with
multitude Of schooners."
Edmond Blankman, one of the orators at
the recent New York ValandIgham meeting,
was the husband of Fanny White, who died
about year since, leaving him large fortune
acquired in her business.
1t is estimated that l50, 900 cannon are on
an average fired uselessly every four and
twenty hours, in salvos salutes, morning and
evening guns, &C., throughout the civilized
world; each discharge costs Sl.20, conse-
quently $lS0,000 are daily wasted in this way,
and $60,000,000 annually, which goes away
| in smoke, but is raised in substantial taxes
A copperhead teacher in a public school at
| Syracuse has forbidden the children under his
charge to sing national songs, and the demo-
cratic officials sustain him.
The largest pair of yearllng steers we re-
member to have heard Of are owned by Mr.
Russell A. Wilcox of Smyrna, New York
| Their weight on May 18th was 2005 pounds
| The funeral of Rev. Richard Anderson, a
| colored preacher in st. Louis, and formerly a
slave of attorney general Bates, was attended
in that city on the 22d by l20 carriages filled
with colored people.
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