Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-10
General News summary.



banks of Massachusetts, out of Boston, stood
as follows at the close of the month ending
Oct. 3;-Camtal stock, $2S, 500, 200; loans
and discounts, S5G,S62, 4G4; specie $685.
liz; balance in other banks, payable on de-
mand, Sc, 730, Cpl; deposits $l3,S96 OBI;
circulation, $50, 32S,970.
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Mattapan Bank, it was voted to surrender its
charter. I he capital of the bank is 500, 900;
loans and discounts, $l50,304; specie in
bank, 50; balances in other banks, payable on
demand, $6504; total amount due from other
banks, $7400; deposits, $l3, 339 circulation,
$50, 405. The bank is said to be perfectly
solvent, but the banking business transacted
was not sufficient, in the opinion of the stock
holders, to justify its continuance.
A man, giving his name as Peter Smith,
reports that while he was in one of the depart
.ments of the custom house, on the Sth, his
| pocket book-cOntalning 5000 in bank bills,
| and checks to the amount of some $1,000, be-
sides coupons to a large amount-was stolen
| from counter where he was transactng bus
mess. Mr.. Smith says he is a momber of the
firm of Smith, Dove, 4 Co., OF Andover His
pocket book was found, but not the money
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The towns of Frankli.l and Midway will
replace the bridge recently fallen at Rockville,
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY
A brakeman named Conant, on the milk
train between Fitchburg and Boston, was
knocked from the top OF a car by coming in
contact with the bridge in Somerville on the
Sth inst, and was severely injured ON the
head and hip.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Fitz H. Lane Of Gloucester has magnolia
tree in his garden which is now in full bloom
for the second time this season. The ssunny
south" cannot beat this
NANTUCKET.
Nantucket has in the navy lieutenant COM
mander, 10 acting masters, acting ensigns,
asslstunt surgeon, assistant paymasters, 2
midshipmen, acting masters mate and 3
assistant engineers.
Capt Edmund Gardner of New Bedford
exhibited at the late Nantucket agricultural
fair silver tankard which was formerly own
ed by John Swain, the first white male per-
son born on Nantucket, whose birth occurred
in 1868.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The public is cautioned against a counter
lett $40 bill on the Bay State Bank. of Law
renee. 1t has just made its appearance in
Springfield and although not close imita-
ton OF the genuine, the counterfeit is not
quickly detected, except by experts and those
familiar with the bona iide issue.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The cornerstone of the new Congregations
al church at North Adams was LAID ON the 9th
with appropriate services.
Work was commenced on both faces of the
IIoosac tunnel on the 9TH and the friends of
the Troy and Greenfield road are again hope
| ful.
A loaded pistol in the hands of a son of the
late Ira lloXie Of South Adams, was acciden-
foil ~ -,.l,., a 4 +i,,
through the young mans hand and entering
the right lung OF his mother killing her in
Instantly.
MAINE.
Extensive preparations are being made for
cutting lumber on the Penobscot wuters the
approaching winter. The lumber business
has been eulinenty successful for two years
| past, and the market for the disposal of
lumber has greatly enlarged, 50 that Ban
| gOT merchants now send cargOes of lumber
to South America, various European ports,
and a brisk trade has recently been opened
with llayti.
Th9 Peiepscot Bank in Brunwick was en-
tered on the ID, the floor Of the chamber and
the partition separating it were blown up. The
vault was not entered, but $l06 in gold was
taken from a trunk.
Charles Fuller of Brunswick, while attempt
ing to jump upon a train of cars on the 18th
ult., was severely jammed between the car
and door post injuring him internally.
committee OF the city council OF Portland
have been appointed to convey an invitation
to the admiral and officers OF the Russian fleet
to visit Portland.
A military police has been established in
Augusta to keep liquor dealers from selling
liquors to soliiers. The penalties OF the law
will be visited upon them without fail if they
don't come to time.
BY order of the military commandment of
the state, the erection OF new hospital has
deem commenced in Augusta. 1t will consist
| of two buildings, l24 feet each In length, and
20 feet wide, suitably furnished and provided
with every accommodation for sick and
wounded soldiers.
About eighty-fve drafted men from Oxford
county have failed to report. The democrat
says that very few of the number will be set :.
down SIS deserters, and there are scarcely any
skedaddlers One man from Norway is noted
as sin the rebel aervice."
A little fellow in Augusta who had been
forbidden to go near the slaughter house"
yielded to the temptation one day last week,
| and on his return home he con fessed his trans
erosion with tears. After he had retired for
| the night his mother went to his room and in
CURED if he had, in his prayers, asked God to
forgive his trangression. "No," said he, 'but
l asked God not to let it get into my head to
go to the slaughter house again.
The sum carried of by e. NJ. Seymour,
freight agent on the Grand Trunk railroad is
only $1,000, and not $l30, 000-a very mater
ial difference.
A substitute broker of Portland, on the Sd
inst, purchased a substitute for $40 and sold
to conscrpt for $3.50. The sub had ''just
come over" from England.
Mr.. George Holt oil Belfast was robbed of
$500 on the I'd inst. Mr.. IL. lett the money
in trunk under his bed, and went down to
the bay fishing, when some thief broke in and
took his cash, overlooking some $40 in spe-
Gle. Six hundred dollars of the amount was
| afterwards found in a neghboring barn.
Thirty-one head of cattle were sufiocated
in one of the box cars of the Kennebec and
| Portland railroad on the 9Th inst. They were
| put on the train and boards fastened across
the doorway of the cars to keep them from
falling out, bnt the jar caused the doors to
close, by which means they were deprived of
! air.
| NEW HAMPSHIRE.
On the evening of the 9TH inst the stable
connected with the Jail at Amherst was totally
destroyed by fire. portion Of the contents
were saved.
| VERMONT.
Elijah Higley of Wilmington, caught a
large black bear within two miles and a half
| of that village, on the 29th ult