Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-13
WORCESTER
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battery of twenty-five rifle barrels fired
by single cap is exhibiting in Hartford.
Great accuracy Of aim is claimed.
DIR. George S. Miller of Thompsonyile has
recently perfected model of new car brake.
1t is more simple than any brake now in use,
while the action is instantaneous, and will re"
quire less than half the strength ordinarily
expended. 1t is applied to a single car or a
whole train, when it may be managed by the
engineer.
A patriotic newsdealer in Bridgeport, on
the 10th, ''shut down" on copperhead news
papers. He put all he had on hand into the
stove, and vowed never to sell one.
The value of real estate owned by the city
of New Haven is $l,507 900, OF which ST.
0S,000 is in public squares.
barn in Ledyard, belonging to Captain
Henry Halett, was destroyed by fire on the
evening of the Sth 1t was the work of an in
cendiary.
day or two since, Mrs Michael O'Neil,
of Hartford, was assaulted by "A bull dog, be-
longing to Patrick Keegan. The animal
seized her by the ankle, and chewed her limb
from her foot to her hip. Her recovery is
doubtful
Michael Seaman of New Haven, for manv
years an employee of the n. II. Ii. and S. rail-
road company, was standing in the doorway
of one of the cars on freight train, on the
night of the 1lth, and when near Cedar Hill
he fell from the door, the cars passing over
his right leg and arm, and mangling them in
such manner thar anputation was neceSsa-
ry, which operation he survived only few
hours.
RHODE ISLAND.
louis A ldrinh "a C,,,itbfolJ ,poe F,uuJ ,looJ
on the 10Th, about one fourth of mile from
home. The deceased was "a temperate, indus
trous man, about 60 years of age. An inquest
was held, the verdict of which was visitation
of God"
The fourth annual conference of the Con-
gregational churches of Rhole Island was
commenced on the 18th, at Woonsucket. 1t
was called to order by the Rev. DIR. Blodgett
of Pawtucket, moderator
Personal.
A Scotchman who heard Beecher at Man
chester, after expressing his opinion of him to
an American in unmisakeabe High Fifeshire
''Eh, mon, he was joost gran" he said; ''he
CART me Jingle fra the tap of my head to my
taos! Ye mus ha' Draw meenisters if he's
fair sample OF emp
MISCELLANEOUS.
There are l4S. 800 trees on the boulevards
ana III the public streets OF Paris.
An agent OF the British museum has offered
f2500 for the manuscript of the emancipation
proclamation.
London correspondent of the New York
Herald says that Nathaniel Hawthorne has
made himself everlastingly hated in England
by his severe pictures OF English women.
Charles Halleck, formerly. one of the edi-
tors Of the New York journal of Commerce,
is lie ;turlng in Halifax in behalf of the rebels.
The State Line railroad woodshed, with 900
cords OF wood and 5000 feet OF lumber, was
burned in Buffalo, Nov. IL.
The town of Brundy City, Sierra Nevada
county, California, was nearly destroyed by
fire on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
The Nevada constitutional convention has
provided that iuries may find ii verdict in
criminal cases by a three fourths majority,
until the legislature requires a unanimous
vote.
Rev. Dr. Kennaday, aged 70 years, was
seized with apoplexy lille preaching SER
mon in the Washington ST. Methodist church
in Brooklyn, Oh the / th, and fell from the
pulpit. He was carried home in a precarious
condition.