Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-01
whilst engaged in driving lumber. He was
20 years old.

| ShiNHih1 Oh u jam VI lOSSs
| Ripe Strawberries, cultivated in Portland
were exhibited in that city on Thursday
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The saw mill of Messrs. Clark, Thompson,
& Co., of Franklin, was burned on the eve
ming Of the 2Sth ult., with its entire contents.
Loss about $2500, no insurance.
| CONNECTICUT.
The boat race of the Yale navy is to take
| place in the afternoon of June 6. The cham.
| pion flag is the prize. -Four boats will be en-
tered; there are in the navy fifteen boats be-
longing to the clubs.
The new factory buildings for the Wilt
mantle linen company, to be erected in that
village, will be the largest thread mill in the
world.
Warner Whitmarsh, the member of the
first Connecticut cavalry, who was recently
sentenced by court martial to be shot, and
the execution of which sentence was to have
been performed at fort Trumbull, New Lon
don, has been reprieved by the president, in
consequence of military circumstances.
A gentleman of New Haven has in his pos
session a black robin. 1t is not of the species
known as the black robin, but is the genuine
robin red breast, whose plumage has by some
sort of necromancy or some unaccountable
freak of nature turned black. 1t is two years
of age. During the early part of its life it was
dressed in the usual colors of the red breast,
but when the molting season came it put on
mourning colors. A few feathers on the
breast still retain the red.
RHODE ISLAND.
The third trial of the CANCEL Will Case"
has resulted in averdct averse to the validity
of the Will. 1t has cost the state nearly six
thousand dollars, and the parties probably
half as much more
L I al IL I,
the business and prosperity of Woonsocket,
has given Harris Block" and the grounds
appurtenant, in that town, valued at $4,000,
for the establishment Of free public library
lectures of a scientific, literary and reforma-
tory character. The library will be sustained
and perpetuated by the rents, &C., of the prop
erty. 1t is to be called the Harris Institute
Application has been made to the legislature
for a charter, with permission to hold proper
ty to the amount of 100000, exclusive of
books, papers, furniture, apparatus and col
lectons in science and the arts WoonSocket
Patriot.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A chalk mine has been found in Washing
ton county, Nebraska,-the first native de-
post discovered in America
The annual examination of the United States
military academy at West Point begins June
l, and continues two weeks. This examina-
ton is more severe and protracted than thato
any other institution in this country. The
literary exercises occupy six hours day, fol-
lowed each afternoon by infantry, cavalry or
artillery drills, mortar practice and target
shooting by light artillery. The "Board of
Visitors, numbering about twenty, is appoint
ed by the president, one from each state in
alternate years, and four at large Ralph
Waldo Emerson of Concord, and b. G. Nor.
throp agent ofsthe board of education, are
appointed visitors from Massachusetts.
George Harrington, assistant secretary of
the treasury, states that the principal as well
as interest of the fve-twenty bonds will be
r"id in geld when redeemed The three years
73O bonds will be PAID III U. O. unIeee
the holder prefers to exchange them for other
bonds.
A Salt Lake letter in the Chicago Tribune
says the grand jury for the United States dis
trict court adjourned without taking any ac-
ton whatever in the matter OF the arrest Of
Brigham Young for polygamy The whole
subject was entirely ignored, save as Il mat
ter of jest.
A will found at Port Royal recently by the
Union soldiers, pres nts fact not often set
forth out of Dixie. The testator, John Coop
er of Caroline county, Va, gives his proper
ty to his wife and daughter, but to do this he
is obliged to emancipate his wife who was his
slave, and thereby according to aristocratic
Virginia practce) legltimatize his bastard
daughter born of the aforesaid slave. Such
is chivary.
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
by authority of Gen. Burnside himself, denies
the statement that he has asked to be relieved
of the command OF the department which he
now controls. He proposes to leave for the
front in few days, and will take immediate
command of the troops. His troops are to
cooperate with those of Rosecrans, and also
with those of Grant, as soon as Vicksburg is
taken.
1t is reported that a New England govern
ment contractor in boots and shoes has been
detected in frauds that will bring ruin upon
several firms in Massachusetts,.
On the 25th ult., one of the guards at the
Old Capitol prison, in the execution of his
duty, shot prisoner, who died shortly after
wards from the wound thus inflicted. The
deceased was named John Hardcastle, and
claimed to be British subject. He had been
employed by the rebel authorities in Rich
mond, as an inventor of military appliances,
for which he had much genius. He persisted
in thrustng his person outside of window of
the room in which he was confined, into the
wooden ventilator attached to it. Though re-
peatedly ordered to withdraw into the room,
and warned of the consequences of his fur
Their persistence, he refused to obey with
oaths and defances, and was accordingly
fired at.
A subscription paper has been started in
Toronto, in aid of the funds which the rebels
are raising to erect a monument to the mem-
DRY of Stonewall jackson.
A large and handsome residence near
Georgetown, ID. c., has been taken by the
government as an asylum for orphan or stray
children of freedmen.
The Canadian elections on Thursday re-
suited in the utter defeat of the government
party.
Rev. Thomas Starr King, in late letter to
church friends in Boston, says =
81 rejoice that l can report to you, breth-
rem, that the state is loyal. She is sound
to the core. We are opening copper veins
| all over our surface, but there is none of that
metal in our heads. We hope to show you
| in the next election of governor, to hold
Office for four years, that there are states
| in New England which can catch the in
spiration of patriotism from California.
hazard nothing in saying that San Francis
! co is to-day the most loyal city of the Ameri-
can republic"
! Henry Ward Beecher sailed on Saturday
in the City of Baltimore, for Europe. Ex-
Gov. Wright of Indiana, commissioner to the
Hamburg agricultural exhibition, and Hon.
Oliver Hoyt of Connecticut, took passage in
! the Borussia.
While the clerk of Thomas Squires, broker
at Albany, was looking at the 18th regiment,
on the 30th ult, some adroit thief entered the