Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-13
ates on next class day at Amhcrs. college, has
been conferred on George w. Holt of West

men.
Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton N. Edridgc
of Williamstown, and graduate of Will
lams college, is an acting brigadier general in
Gen. Grants department.
George A. Lapham, formerly postmaster at
South Adams, has been again appointed to the
Office in place of William &. Farnsworth re-
moved
MAINE.
Portland appropriates $1,000 for the cele-
bration of the glorious 4th.
Mr. p. II. Thompson of TopSham recently
Sheared yearling sheep, half Cotswold and
half Leicester, which yielded eight pounds of
wool, some of the tibers of which measured
plump 10 - inches.
A patch of corn planted by Silas Leonard,
Esq, of Augusta, on the last day of April,
now stands about a foot high, and looks very
promising.
The Messrs. Toothaker, whose father was
the pioneer settler of Phillips, in the Rangely
settlement, have thirty acres of pine logs
af1oat, which are coming down the Androscog
gin, and will make 10000 feet of lumber
There were severe hail storms in Somerset
and Piscataquis counties, June 9th and eth.
A son of Mr.. Osgood French of Norway, a
| lad of II, was almost instantly killed on the
9th inst. by the accidental discharge of gun.
He, with some other boys, had loaded gun,
and while one was passing it to another, it
went off, and another victim added to the
long list of lives sacrificed by the careless
| handling of firearms.
The crew of the fishing schooner Northern
| Chief, of Gloucester, five in all, who were
supposed to have been lost in fog while out
in their boats trawling, were two or three days
| at sea without provisions, and with little
clothing, but were picked up by the schooner
| lanthe of Portland, and put on board the
schooner Israel Washburn, were brought to
Boothhay on the Sth.
Wilson & Co. of Gardiner send 100000
| dozen of eggs to California every year, so
dozen in box. They have Il way known
only to themselves of making them keep.
The scraps of iron which accumulate about
the kerosene oil works at Portland, and the
sulphuric acid used in the manufacture of the
oil, which formerly went to waste, are now to
be turned to the manufacture of copperas
During the past six months, larger bust
ness has been done at the Pembroke iron
works than in any previous half year since
| the establishment has been in operation.
They furnish emp loyment to 1926 men, and the
works are kept going night and day
nice surgical operation was performed in
Bangor, June 9TH, by Dr. Laughton, upon a
child Of Mr.. c. S. Smith, of Athens. The
child was three years old. 1t had by some
accident sucked kernel of raw corn into its
wlndpipe, where it remained twelve days
causing the most intense suffering from fits
OF coughing and impending suffocation, and
| from which it was relieved by DIR. Laughton,
| by cutting into the windppe. The operation
was delicate one, and it was so well done
that the child was sufficiently well to return
| home with its parents to Athens the follow
ing day
Applications for a normal school, to be
| located in their respective towns, have been
received from Bucksport Hampden, Paris
Gorham, Litchteld, and Pennington.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The state prison earned last year $2,7I7.
The number of convicts May LIST, was one
hundred and one, of whom two are serving a
lite sentence; three are in for thirty and one
for twenty years.
Two barns belonging to Isaac Rabbit, in
East Hanover, were destroyed by fire on the
Sth inst. The owner is said to lie insane and
it is conjectured that he set the fire.
VERMONT.
The Grim. con. case trial at North Pownal
has been dropped.
Capt How'd of Blandford, a patriarch of
eighty -four years of age, took his first ride by
rail on June 9th, after walking three miles to
the depot
CONNECTICUT.
Haven, in the month of May, were $29, 40,
and at New London $3766.
An unusual amount of ship building is going
on in and about Fair Haven.
Putnam has sent 15S men to the war, and
though several have been severely wounded,
she has not yet lost one in battle, nor has any
of them suffered loss of limbs. Only three
have died
The legislature has confirmed the charter
passed by the Massachusetts legislature, of
the South Midland railroad company.
Admiral Foote returned to his home in New
Haven, on the 10th, and will start for Port
Royal, to relieve Admiral Dupont, next Mon
day.
The class day exercises at Trinity College
took place on the 1lth inst. as per programme,
except that the shower in the middle of the
afternoon forced the assembly to retire to the
cabinet.
The Connecticut house of representatives
has passed bill incorporating the Boston,
Hartford and Erie railroad company, provd-
ing for a through line of railroad from Bos-
ton, via Thompson, Willimantic, Hartford,
and Waterbury, to Fishkil, connecting with
the New York and Erie railroad.
RHODE ISLAND.
A lady in Pawtucket was few weeks ago
bitten on the arm by a small black and white
spider. The arm soon after became intlamed
and painful, and has continued so ever since.
Ulcers have broken out on it, and it presents
very bad appearance. 1t is so extremely
painful that the lady can hardly get any rest.
The doctors seem not to know what to do to
expel the poison.
AT meeting of the Rhode Island Hospital
corporation on the It'll, certain benevolent
citizens offered to the corporation, through
William Binney, Esq, the munifcent sum of
10000 on certain COZ ditions-among which
was, that an additional sum of $l25,000 be
subscribed by the LIST OF October next.
A barn in Olneyville, belonging to the Prov
idence dyeing, bleaching, and calendering
company, was entirely consumed. Two val
liable horses were burned to death.
Col. William Wall of Providence has sailed
| for Europe to attend the Hamburg exhibition.
At the recent session of the general assem-
| bly, an act was passed Incorporating the Amer
| lean file company. Work upon the founda-
tons of building for this company has been
progressing for some time past in Pawtucket
1t will be of brick, 304 feet long, so feet wide,
with an ell 140 feet long.
The literary exercises of the senior class
of Brown University were held Thursday
forenoon. The exercises consisted of prayer
by Rev. DR.. Sears; Introductory remarks by
Denham Arnold of Coventry, president of the
class, and an Grafton on ''The Morality of
Beauty" by Forrest F. Emerson of North
Reading. At the close of these exercises
there was levee at the house of president
Sears. The ceremony of nlantinU O flose