Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-31


| school mistress aud several scholars were
considerably affected. The lightning also
killed yoke of oxen near kitery Point
bridge.
The city government of Portland, on the
| 29th, voted to pay drafted men who join the
army, or their substitutes, $500. Quite a
number of towns in Maine have taken similar
| action.
The valuation of Portland for the year
! 1868, is S25, Ill ,204, of which 4,423,00O is
real, and Sl0,6Sl ,20i personal. Increase in
one year 81 1904 800, principally in personal
estate. The amount raised by taxation is
$369, $50, and the rate 81 "A per hundred.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The department OF the interior at Washing
ton, has received notice of the acceptance of
the agricultural college grant by the state, by
which it will receive 937 pieces of scrip or
100000 acres.
The editor of the Lebanon Free Press has
been presented by Mr. Lorin Smith, with Il
lot of tomatoes, fully ripe, raised in the open
air and picked July goth, two OF which meas
ured inches in circumference.
VERMONT.
Giles Harrington of Alburgh has been NOM
mated for congress in the third district by the
democrats. The general statutes of Vermont
have Just been published, making Il handsome
volume OF 1850 pages.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Nine or ten persons in Taunton, have fur
nished substitutes without submitting to eX-
animation.
RHODE ISLAND.
The 18th regiment was mustered out of the
service on the 18th. Those companies only
were paid whose commanding officers had the
rolls ready.
Fogs are the order of the day at Newport.
There is probably no place on the New Eng
land seahoard where they prevail more con-
stantly than at that point.
The ship John Adams has been detached
from the naval school, and will soon leave the
harbor for active service in the United States
navy.
The betrothal ring ordered by senator
Sprague for bis intended bride, Miss Kate
Chase. is diamond solitaire set in enamel
and not chased 1t is described as a beautiful
and tasteful ornament worthy of the beauti-
full young lady who is the happy possessor of
the token. The price OF the ring was $1,000.
CONNECTICUT.
The plain but beautiful monument of Port
land free stone, which has been erected at
Kensngton to the memory of the deceased
soldiers from that town, was dedicated on the
2Sth, with appropriate exercises, including an
address by l.. S. Foster, United States sena-
tor, and poem by E. w. Robbins. This Is
the first monument of the kind in the state.
Dr. George Bennett of New Haven, of
divorce case notoriety, has got into another
scrape-an assault.
Connecticut will receive lips pieces of
scrip or 100000 acres of land from her ac-
ceptance of the agricultural college grant.
Justin Palmer, of Bradford has been bound
over on the charge Of firing Richard Dibble's
barn at that place on the night of the 22d.
A vessel recently built at Fair Haven is at
tracing considerable attention IRON the nov
city of er construction, and the use to which
she will be put. She is POO feet long and 80
wide, with propeller at each end, She is
intended to convey locomotives and cars
across the Connecticut river, connecting the
Shore railroad, and has for this purpose
double track railroad on her deck.
The Hartford fire department has total
force of 394 men, though they have only one
hand engine. The substitution of horse power
would dispense with over 800 of the men,
AT a special town meeting held In North
Haven, July q, it was voted to pay every
drafted man the sum of $3.50, provided he is
sworn into the service or furnishes a substi-
tute. East Haven has voted $500 to drafted
men who enter the service
Charles Prentiss, of New London, has
| passed a successful examination at the naval
academy, at Newport, and been appointed
| midshipman.
Professor Dwight, of Yale college, notwith-
standing he exempted for being near
sighted paid $500 to help the work along.
S. 3. Chittenden of New York, has made
donation OF $4,000 to Yale college to endow
still farther the Livingston professorship, and
the Rev. VIM. b. Clark, pastor of the COngre-
gational church in Great Darlington, Mass,
has been appointed as the incumbent. Joseph
Battell, Esq, of New York, has also given
the college $4,000 to build new chapel.
A skeedaddler from the draft in Meriden,
returned on the 25th, and was received by
his old associates with distinguished honors,
who marched him up and down the streets
and made a general exhibition of him. He
will have an uncomfortable time i'll that place
after this.
The number of applicants for admission to
Yale college is already about ninety, which
will be increased fifty or more by the end of
the vacation. Among the events of this pre-
sent commencement week is the filling of the
protessorship of English Literature, which
has been vacant since the death of Prof. VIM.
A. Larned. The choice has fallen upon Cy-
rus Northrup, Esq, of the class of 1857, and
late editor of the New Haven Palladium. The
total amount of eRdowments received this
year by the college is two hundred thousand
dollars.
Mr.. W. j. Clark of Southington few
days ago shot a snow-white crane. 1t is tall
and slender, and in size closely resembles the
common heron. 1t is about three feet high;
is perfectly white, with the exception of its
legs, which are jet black; and measures
four feet from tip to TIP.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Good wheat flour was selling in New Or
leans on the 18th inst, at 81 barrel. Prey-
Gus to the capture of Vicksburg and Port
Hudson, it sold at Sll barrel.
The President of the Union Bank, ROches-
ter, cautions the public against receiving SOS
on that institution, as none of that denomina-
ton are paid out and the plate is to be de-
stroyed, to beat the counterieiters.
The jackson (Mlch) Patriot, of the 22d,
says The drilling at the salt works is pro-
crossing. The depth of 1850 feet has been
reached, producing 4 brine, that by proper
tests, has been found to contain twenty-five
per cent of the pure saline matter.
On the 2Sth in the circuit court of the
United States, sitting at Louisville, Ky, Thos.
| c. Shacklett, Indicted for treason against the
| United States, was found guilty and sentenced
| by Hon Bland Ballard, presiding Judge, to
| imprisonment for ten years, a fine of $4,000,
and the forfeiture OF his slaves.
The American Dental Association held its
regular session on the 2Sth, at the Assembly
Building, in Philadelphia. VIM. II. Allen Of
New York was elected president for the en-
suing year.
In the Erie annual conferences now in Soc