Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-19

The valEe of exports from Boston, last
week, exclusive Of specie, was $275, l9l.09,
against S5f0,270.56 for the corresponding
week in 1862. The amount of imports for
the same period was 1916, against $751;
73o for the corresponding week in 1862
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
y young woman named Comfort Cove,
about seventeen years of age was arrested in
Charlestown on the 18th for obtaining money
and articles of clothing under false pretences.
She has carried on this kind of swindling for
some time.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Michael C. Heating of the eagle Hotel"
Springfield was arraigned before commission
err Hallett at Boston, on the 18th, and was
bound over in $500 for trial in December,
for enticing soldier to desert an1 selling him
as Il substitute.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Northampton has obtained twenty recruits
on her new quoia-about one~third of all she
is required to furnish.
Some of his Pensioners have recently pre-
sented a fitty[ dollar COW and ton of rowen
nay TO KEY. hiram Mead OF South Hadley.
MAINE.
During Prof. Kings balloon ascension from
Bangor, recently, he saw woman drive her
children into the house, crying out There's
one of jeff Davis big bomb shells"
Rev. a. Il. Dyer Of Harmony, delegate OF
the Christian commission, died in Nashville,
on tine 18th.
On the 18th, Robert Crawford, sea-faring
man, was fatally stabbed in the heart, In Ban
gor by another seaman named Davenport
The Aroostook Times learns that many of
: the men who skedaddled across the line into
Canada are becoming ,ired of their stIl-ban-
lShment, and to blot out the ''eternal disgrace"
would be glad to enlist in the voluntary SER
vice.
CONNECTICUT.
The Hartford Bridge Company contem-
plate the laying of horse railroad track
from Hartford to East Hartford. They will
ask for charter when the legislature meet in
January.
Three whaling vessels are being fitted up
at New London, for a cruise to HudsOnS bay.
Twenty volunteers enlisted in Hartford ON
the 18th.
Music Hall in Hartford, the largest and best
hall in the state, has been offered for sale.
The court martial which recently tried Dr.
Salisbury, SURGEON OF the board of enrolment
in the fourth (Brdgeport) district, found him
guilty, and sentenced him to thirty days i'm
prsonment, fine Of 5000, and to be dis
charged from the United States service. The
judgment has been approved but the impris
onment omitted.
Mosquitoes are reported thick and pestifer-
GUS in various parts of Norwich. Their vic
tins are praying for cold weather, regardless
of the price of coal.
John McCullum, foreman mechanic at the
bleachery in Granville, was caught by re-
volving shaft, on the 18th, while engaged i'll
changing gear, and was whirled around for
a short time at the rate of 1870 turns a minute
He escaped with the loss of his clothing and a
few bruises.
Jeremiah Spencer, who recently died at
New Hartford, aged 81, was the last person
who escaped frem the massacre OF Wyoming,
Penn, in l77S. His two elder brothers were
killed.
species of black bass were brought in ice
from Lake Erie, few years since, and de-
posted in the lake at Lakeyille. They have
increased so us to be quite plenty already.
Capt. Benjamin S. Pardee, provost mar
shal of the New Haven district, has received
authority to raise negro regiment in the
state. 1t is thought he will have good sue
cess, as the indications are favorable.
RHODE ISLAND.
John f. Phillips, president of the Firemens
Insurance Company of Providence, died on
the 18th at the advanced age of seventy-six.
Previous to his death he held many positions
of influence in the city.
H. Murphy lulIlSeu years Oh age CHI
ployed in the Oriental mills at Providence,
while going up on an elevator, a day or two
since, struck his head agalns; the floor, caus-
ing fracture of the jaw IN three places, and
rupture of the mouth half way to the ear.
On the 18th. as Il gang of men were en-
gagged in moving steam propeller boiler
from the Providence Steam Engine Compa-
nl's works to the schooner Averill, at Tatt's
wharf, near their works, the wharf and ground
gave way, and the boiler fell upon Mr.. John
Green, why was partially beneath it assisting
In the work. The boiler weighed upwards OF
thirty tons, and struck Mr.. G. in such man
ner as to cause instant death.
salute was fired by a detachment of the
marine artillery on the arrival of senator
Sprague and wife in Providence, on the 18th.
The old Bull Run gun, presented by the state
10 the governor, was used for the occasion.
MISCELLANEOUS
Canadian youth of fourteen winters and
! cash income of 81 per monta has married a
damsel OF the mature age of twelve. Canada
/ is getting precocious.
| One county in Indiana has given four hun.
dred wagon loads of provisions to the sanitary
! commission.
Twenty-Five millions went from the United
! States treasury on the 12th-the largest DAYS
payments ever made in the country.