Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-14


S. Van Horn has recently been tried in
Central City, Gilpin county, Colorado, for the
murder of Josiah Copeland, and sentenced to
be hanged on the 18th inst Copeland belong
ed in Bristol county.
The dwelling of Mrs Sanford, in "Dead
Swamp, Berkeley, was burnt on the night of the
9Th, but the fact was not known to the nearest
nelghbors until the llth, when the dead body
OF Mrs. Sanford was found in the barn ada
cent to her house. There is suspicion of foul
play.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Martin S. Cloudy of Chester slaughtered a
hog last week which weighed when dressed
754 pounds. This mammoth porker girthed
seven feet and eleven inches behind the shout
ders.
fellow by the name of Pasco went to bed
in the Palmer House at Palmer, a few nights
since, with cigar in his mouth The cigar
set the bed on fire and the ''smoker" came
near perishing in the flames.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Amos Gray & Son of Hadley recently butch
cred two hogs, one of which weighed 760
pounds dressed, and the other GAS.
MAINE.
Notice is published in the Maine papers that
petition will be presented to the next legs-
a telegraph line from Portland to Quebec by
the most eligible route.
Forty-fve persons were united with the
Baptist church at Wells Depot on the 9th.
The citizens of Kennebunk sent one hun
dred and thirty barrels of vegetables to the
sanitary commission few days since. They
have also appointed committee OF twelve to
make collections for the suffering freedmen OF
the southwest.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Unversalist society in Dover are con-
sidering the feasibility of closing their church
and uniting with the Unitarians.
Recruiting goes on splendidly in New
Hampshire. About forty men day are re-
ceved at Concord. Six of the old regiments
have received so many men that recruiting
for them has been stopped. One OF them
lacks but seventeen of the maximum number
VERMONT.
Seventy-six men have enlisted at st. Johns
bury since the last call, which, it is claimed,
is the largest number of any town in the state
Wood is so high at Rutland and Windsor
that many families are using coal
CONNECTICUT.
The Connecticut river is so INSTRUCTED with
ice that navigation is closed.
Hubert l.. Ives of Litchfeld, recently lost
them, leaving them hanging by the neck to
the stanchions.
twenty one sheep were killed by dogs the
other day in Salisbury, and as many more
badly injured
Considerable merrlment was Occasioned at
wedding in Winsted not long since, by the
clergyman devoutly praying for ''all the
friends of the deceased"
Twenty-nne negroes were sent to New
Haven on the night of the IIth as a part of
the quota of Sufiield. They were recruited
in Maryland.
married man in Enfield, named Able the
chorster of church there, was recently
brought before justice for unlawful atten-
tons to young lady of the congregation.
An eagle was shot on the 5th, on the farm
of Rev. John Payson in Abingdon. 1t meas
ured seven feet from the tip of one wing to
the tip of the other.
The superior court at Litchfeld has Just
granted eight divorces.
LitchfeId has contributed forty barrels of
goods, to be sent from Bridgeport to our SOL
diers near Charleston.
On the 9Th inst, one hundred new recruits
were sent from Grapevine Point to the army
Most of them were for the first Connecticut
artillery.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Newport Mercury has changed propri-
etors. Capt. VIM. Messer withdraws from
the firm, and Mr.. Frederic A. Pratt assumes
sole proprietorShp. Mr.. P. has been con-
nected with the concern for twenty-three years
The governor of Rhode Island has the as
surance that the colored soldiers in the l4th
regiment are to be credited to the state quota,
and any surplus which the state may furnish
will count on another call.