Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-21

| 49, - NPVh ibNNs a. o. ONCu, -. H.. OF New
York, and that of D, d. upon Rev. Martin Nj
Post of Logansport, N. Y, and Rev. Erdx
Tenney of Lyme, N. II.
CONNECTICUT.
The Hartford common council have ordered
the elm on Front street to be cut down, Ills
one of the oldest in the stated
The remaining barns and sheds belonging
to Richard Dibble, in Branf0rd, were con-
sumed by fire last Wednesday night-iust
three weeks after his first barn was burned by
an incendiary. BY these fires sixty tons of
hay, the grain which grew upon twelve acres,
and nearly all his farming tools have been de-
stroyed The losses amount to S3400; in
sured for $1,000.
Dr. A. IL. Bache, and others of the United
States coast surveyors, who nave been TRAN
| gulatiDg at Ivy Mountain. in Goshen, for two
/ months, left ON the l7th, for the next station
at Tashua, in Trumbull near Bridgeport
The horse cars are running in Norwalk.
| Everybody rides, OF course-it's so much
cheaper than to go afoot.
4 deserter recently showed how mean he
could be by mutilating five Of the fine Devon
cows belonging to Il. ii. Hyde of Stafford,
cutting one teat each on three of them nearly
! off, and stabhing two others. The fellow was
arrested and returned to his regiment.
a handsome wooden club boat building is
being erected by the boating clubs of Yale in
! Qulnnipiac river. just north of the steamboat
freight Office. 1t will cost $4,000.
-Four deserters were taken to fort Trumbull
on the 20th by a guard. One of them was
an intelligent looking man, who deserted from
regiment in active service.
Rev. Henry S. DeForest, lately tutor in
Yale college, was drawn in the conscription
the other day, and, unlike most of his fellow
soldiers, he stood the draft. He has since
been appointed chaplain in the 18th Conn.,
volunteers.
MIR. e. c. Bassett has abandoned his pro-
Ject OF giving balloon ascensiUns in New
Haven.
One hundredand ninety-nine c0nscrpts left
the camp in New Haven, on the 18th. for the
army, making about eight hundred sent on so
tar. Ut these, one hundred and twcnty-six
are for the Connecticut 9th, and seventy-three
OF them are for the second Rhode Island regi-
ments.
A little daughter of Mr.. John Browning of
WewacuS Hill, returned from school on the
18th, and finding her parents away and the
doors fastened, endeavored to climb into the
window, when the window sash fell and
killed her. Her parents, upon their return,
found her corpse hanging, as it had caught, in
the window.
a certificate of banking was issued on the
18th for HE First National Bank of Norwich
"A. II. Amy to he president, With capital OF
100000, with the privilege of increasing it
to half million.
Another old Bible has been discovered in
Hartford, printed in the year 1907. Ii is bet
ter preserved, and has the original binding,
still as good as new. 1t is owned by Mr.. Hen
Ty j. HuNham, the foreman painter at Colts
arms factory. This Bible has always been
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over from England to the present owner in
1858. Mr.. IL. has also a volume entitled -
Key of knowledge for the Opening of the Sc
cret Mysteries of st. Johns Mystical Revela-
tons, printed in Loudon, 1917. Aud he
shows an English shilling Of 1861.
Ensign George NJ. Drown Of Middetown
! has been appointed lieutenant in the navy.
He entered the naval academy four years ago.
| lie has since been with the Mississippi noU.
la, and his record has been il brave one
Am elderly man, driving from Milford tn
New Haven, on the l9lh upset lis wagon in
West Haven, and broke one Of his legs Just
below the knee,
Hon. David Crawford Of Putnry has buck,
two years old, which Shcared this year % l. =
pounds Of wool. 1t sheared Is pounds the
first year
Two vessels are loading at New London
with ship timber Hence, argue the New
London papers. it is nhe place for navy yard.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mrs. Ronald's ponies, which have been
heard of at Saratoga, created a sensation in
Newport Oh the 18th. Mrs Ronald is the lady
whose graceful movements in the Paris skat-
| ing park attracted the marked commentator
of the emperor.
Waterman in Providence, while attempt
| ing to arrest some disorderly persons ON tho
18th, was kicked by VIM. IL. Codding in the
leg with such violence that he is unable to
stand. Codding has been placed under arrest.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The damage done to the Troy Times news
paper and job office, during the late riot in
that city, amounts to $l0,499, and the claim
has been sent into the city of settlement.
The Union meetings in Ohio, in support of
the republican state ticket, are estimated by
acres. Thus at Troy, on the 18th, there were
twenty acres of loyal men in attendance, ten
of whom were addressed by John Brough and
ten by Col. Charles Anderson, the Union can
didate for lieutenant governor
| An errand boy in Washington, on the 18th,
found n check on the United States treasury
for $4,000 HI restored it to the owner and
received IS reward.
The wheat crop Of Wisconsin, this year, is
estimated at 30, 900, 600 bushels.
A man in St. Louis, short time since, put
his head in pail of water and drowned HIM
self, to avoid conscrption.
Mr.. Lincoln lately appointed day of
thanksgiving and prayer, and JEFF. Davis a
day OF fasting and prayer. Prentice suggests
that the difficulty with Jetfs people is, they
fast too much and pray too little.
Col. N. A. NJ Dudley of Massachusetts, has
been appointed inspector general of the de-
partment of the gulf. He is graduate of
West Point, and an officer in the regular
army. He is said to be a superior officer for
that position.
Six hundred recruits for the Sd Maryland
cavalry have been obtained from prisoners
who have taken the oath of allegiance, most
of them southern born.
On the 10th, the steamer Venus arrived at
New Orleans from ST. Louis, bringing $500
barrels OF flour, filling the hearts Of bread
consumers with joy, but dashing the fond
hopes of the flour spectators.
The natives of Japan are making active
preparations for war. At Nagasaki, up to
May 81, they had 60, 900 troops, and batteries
were going up briskly.
A claim OF $4,000 has been put in by a wo-
man in New York for the loss of her husband
shot by one of the National Guard.
Mrs. Henderson of Grand Rapids, Mich,
was riding on horseback, recently, when a vi
client gale of wind arose. While at full speed
tree fell directly toward her. She sprang
from the horse, and the tree struck in the sad
die, crushing the horse into shapeless mass,
lille she escaped injury.