Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-22

lady of Marlboro, in response to a complaint
growing out of the practice in some of our
towns of deductng the soldiers poll tax from
the tamily's state aid. The governor saws
this is uniustitiable. and that the purpose of
the law was not to create fund from which
the towns could help themselves to the taxes
of their citizens.
The body of man. whose name is I'M
known, was found at Prison Point, Charles
town, on the 10th. lie was probably killed
on the Eastern railroad on the 18th. The
body has been identified as that of the cook
of coal schooner, who had been missing
since that date.
Two el0pements have occurred at Lowell
recently, which have startled the citizens of
that place to no inconsiderable extent. One
of the parties had the precaution to operate
upon the pocket nerves Of his friends. Having
borrowed $1,000 before his departure for Can
ada.
In Cambridge, r. Il. Dana, Jr., Emory
Washburn, and Isaac Livermore, were among
the delegates chosen to the republican state
convention.
The sum of $4,000 has been subscribed by
citizens in the vicinity of Winter Hill, Som
erville, for the purpose of erecting church
for an Orthodox society about forming.
Fhe annual match between the Boston and
Lowell cricket clubs was witnessed at Cam
bridge on the 18th, by large gathering. The
game resulted in favor of the former Boston
cub-tirSt innings SO, second innings l46.
Lowell-4S; when the contest was given up,
it being 50 late when the last wicket fell that
the Lowell club could not continue the play.
Lanes currier shop in Charlestown, was
damaged by fire on the 20th, to the amount of
several hundred dollars.
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authorized to pay to the state $76,09S "a, the
sum assessed by the commonwealth for pay
ment of bOunties to volunteers The citv's
claim against the state for disbursements of
bounties exceeds the state claim thirty thou
sand dollars.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Springfield gas works have been ex.
tenslvely enlarged and improved the present
season, a brick addition $50 feet long having
just been completed, and the wants of the
city will not fail to be supplied hereafter
5 veral dealt have Iecently occurred from
dysentery and fevers and MonsOn and Wales,
and the season has been unusually sickly in
both towns. All the factories at Wales are
doing thriving business
The South Wllbraham manufacturing com
pany and Gieeon Day of South Wilbraham,
each lost valuable COW recently from eating
the withered leaves of the black cherry.
Palmer has been sued by Monson for the
support OF pauper, who, it is alleged, be-
longs to Palmer. The amount claimed is
$500.
HAdPsWRE COUNTY.
Casts of the Megatharium nave been re-
ceived at Amherst college from London, the
gift of Joshua Bates. Its entire length is
fifteen feet and its height seven feet, and when
li,,i,, ;t a..
habited this continent. Some of these re-
mains have been found in Alabama and
Georgia.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The sale on the 30th inst. of the entire
Briggs iron company's property at Lanesbor0,
furnace, ore beds, three thousand acres of
land, &c.,-will be one Of the largest trans
lers OF property made in the country by auc-
ton for many years.
MAINE.
Mr.. Nathaniel Proctor of Congin, while un-
loading box Of goods at Portland on the
l3th, dipped and the box, weighing some
three or four hundred pounds, struck lim OH
the head and crushed him to the ground. He
was injured in the spine SO badly that the low
er portion of his body was paralyzed. 1t is
thought he-will not survive.
Two of the Tacony pirates attacked the
turnkey, Mr.. Robert Pencil, at tue Jail in
Portland one evening last week, with the view
of escaping, but they did not make it operate
successfully. They were placed in irons, and
one of them was 81 strong that he broke
off his handouts by main strength.
With about fifty towns to be heard from, the
Union majority for governor is 1882. The
house of representatives will stand l2l Union
to 80 democrats. 1t appears probable that
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county, by somewhere about 100 majority,
and he will be the only democrat in that body.
Mr. Eben Williams of Rockland on the 18th
inst, fell from staging at Starrell's shipyard
in that town, and jack screw and several
planks fell upon him, and injured him so that
he died i'll very brief time after the accident.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
On the 18th child of Morris Bresnahan of
Mancheste ter, was playing near high board
fence, when gust of wind blew it over. iniur-
ing him so severely that he did shortly after
wards.
Gov. Gilmore, Senators Clark and Hale,
Hon. j. W. Patterson and Hon. L. IL. Rollins
and L. A. Straw, Esq, are at Washington to
obtain an allowance in each town and city for
its excess of soldiers above its quota.
VERMONT.
A professional thief named jerome Brown,
VINO mad stolen at Inherent places TOUR horses,
two cows, two harnesses, one wagon, thirty
pairs Of shoes, and two pairs of boots, besides
breaking into store and watchmaker's
shop, was recently arrested in Lamoille coun-
ty.
Fred +. Streeter, formerly a barber in Bel
lows Falls, and who went out for a while in
company of sharpshooters, has been arrested,
charged with numbering Shubel Coy, his wife
and child, in Medina county, Ohio, about the
LIST of July.
CONNECTICUT.
The case OF Saunders Brothers, cOlored
merchant taiors at Hartford, was argued be-
fore the United States district court ut that
place on the 18th. The Saunders claim eX-
empton from United States taxes on the
ground that the law does not authorize the
collection of a per centage in taxes upon made
up garments, the tax belonging only to the
manufactured article of cloth alone. The de-
cisIon of the case is reserved.
Capt. Avery of the lst Connecticut cavalry,
Capt. JepsOn of the 10th regiment, and Capt.
Lewis of the 1lth, have been arrested charged
with defrauding the government by engaging
in the substitute broker business. They are
soon to be tried by court martial at Hartford.
Capt. Samuel Davis of the 18th Connecti-
cut regiment has been dishonorably dismissed
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