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

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ness. Her manufactures are in full blast
and several new buildings are going up, in.
GLIDING an elegant new episcopal church
making the sixth church in the place
Is. Il. Whidden, United States commission
er to Hayti, has returned to his home in Lam
caster, where he will remain during the sum.
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CONNECTICUT.
A team loaded with about eighty bushels
of corn, in bags, broke through the bridge
over Roaring brook in Stafford the other
day, and the owner Of the team sees damages
ahead.
One of the dark colored stylish straw hats
the Yale college boys have been wearing of
late was furnished a ''cullud pusson," the 9TH
er day, who walked among the boys just like
any other man, and put the boys quite out of
concelt with him.
RHODE ISLAND.
Orders have been received by the enrolling
rolling officers in Rhode Island from the pres
ident to commence the draft without DELAY.
The whole number ordered is $3.50. Fifty
per centum in addition to these numbers will
be drafted.
Michael McKough, who lived at Olney-
vile, and was employed in the DeLaine mill,
was drowned at Benedict pond, while bathing,
on the 4th
DR.. Gardner of Providence, has inspected
three hundred and forty-six recruits during
the last two weeks, of whom ninety five were
rejected
Chaplain Pc ry lost f u teen out of ninety
recruits for the first artillery, while conduct
ing them from Providence to New York.
Each Of them had received his bounty of 500
from. the state.
A party of students from Harvard uni
Vprsitv visitaI DrOv;1,rn,, a., IA
inst.
The number Of persons arrested on the
4th in Providence, was thirty-three Sew
enteen Of them were discharged without a
formal examination, and sixteen were detained
on warrants.
Isaac Shove, the town clerk of Pawtucket,
sustained severe injuries while returning from
the Shore, by being thrown from his carriage,
on the 4th inst.
The supreme court has just made a final de.
cision confirming the steps taken by the Old
Colony and Fan River railroad company tor
he extension OF their railroad to Newport.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A boy named Luther Durham ran half
mile in three minutes, at Baldwinsyillc, N. Y,
on the LIST inst.
The following is an extract from Il letter
dated Yarmouth, N. S.. Both uIt 1.-Two
N''t'NiN
the 23d, a ship of four hundred tons, burnt
nearly to the waters edge, chain and anchors
hanging to the bows. She was a coppered
ship, and was fallen in with sixty miles $. W.
OF Cape Cove" The above probably is one
OF the vessels previously reported destroyed
by the Tacony.
Another letter from Yarmouth, N. S., says
"Mr. Fox, our light house keeper, says that
on the afternoon of the list inst, heard heavy
firing OIL the westward in the Bay of Fundy."
The pirate Alabama WAS spoken on the l4th
OF June by British steamer, OFF Point Cuis-
slno, close under the land, watching for Cal
fornia steamer. She was in the wake of
steamers from Aspinwall for New York.
to he met in Philadelphia by an offer of
five dollars per week for eacn man 10 remain
in that city III til the crisis is over.
TIE Coal CoMBlNATIoN.--To the EdttorS
of the Boston Duty Adrc1tiser is not the
action of coal dealers unjustifabe when they
combine to Dtahe prices, TINS forcing the com
munity to pay the whole unnecessary advance
on the previous high rates for fuel? Not that
they, with all others, have not a right to sell
their merchandise at the best possible prices,
but whether they should SO combine as to
make it impossible for any one of them to do
business on the rule that other merchants
open to combined opposition, so prejudicial
as to usually ruin his business reputation?
When where Is the practice prevalent, of
dry goods lohbers or grOcers, combining to
make prices? DO you know of any manu
faeturers who have ever held meetings to fix
rates for their products? During the whole
of the unprecedented scarcity of cotton, and
of the high price Mt which wool has ruled at
no time could YOU find jobbcrs or manufac-
turcrs holding their lines of goods, at the same
prices.
AS with them SO with grocers and leather
and provision dealers as a general thing.
Each man acts on his best judgment, and pur-
sues lis business without fear of co0tbined OPP
position. Fuel is the great necessity Of all
others, and the one which admits Of this I'M
wise proceeding more than any other because
of the peculiar nature attending its transport
tation and delivery.
If we cannot get flour, we may get meal.
If wooden fabrics are scarce, cottons may be
substituted to larger extent, or vice versa
and so on to IL greater or less degree with
nearly all articles of merchandise. But in
these days of the steam engine, the stove, and
the furnace, coal is the necessity for which
none other can be substituted. And being
thus, is a combined effort OF the dealers Justi
fable, and for the best interests either Of the
community, or OF the dealers themselves
Does not this forcing process, unwarranted by
anything that we can see, bear too heavily on
the poor to have it continued? May we not
soon see an indepeHdent coal dealer? messy.
Missouri ORDINANCE OF EMANCIPATIoN.-
We have referred to the ordinance OF the Mis-
souri, state convention abolshing slavery The
following is the official copy of it,
sSect l. The first and second clauses of
the twenty-sixth section of the third article Of
the constitution are hereby abrogated.
Sect 2. That slavery or involuntary SER
vitudc, except in punishment Of crime, shall
cease to exist in Missouri on the 4th of July,
1870, and all slaves within the state on that
day are hereby declared free; Provided, how
ever, that all persons emancipated by this or
dinance shall remain under the control and be
subject to their late owners, or their legal rep