Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-17

landed on Nantucket. Benjamin Collin, the
schoolmaSter, had the office thrust upon him
in singular manner. When pupil in the
same school, the master one day said to him,
Benjamin, | wish to leave for time, and
thou wilt take charge The old master left,
was never again heard of, and Benjamin con-
tnued in charge of the school for forty gears.
1t is a reasonable presumption that he was an
excellent teacher; and it may be that he kin
died that interest in education which makes
the schools Of Nantucket, to- day, superior to
those of most of the towns in the common
wealth.-New Bedford Mercury
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A fellow calling himself Mason, but whose
real name Is L. l. Viggar, has been swindling
some of the citizens of Deerheld, South Deer
field and Whately. He represented himself
to be an authorized agent of the New Eng
land Soldiers Aid Society Of New York, and
was collecting money as he pretended, for
that society.
4 building used by Daniel Root for dress
ing tripe, about one mile north Of Greenfield,
was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning,
together with pair of horses, ten shoats,
several harnesses, a quantity of hay, grain
and other property to the value of $500 or
$1,000.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The little daughter of l.. Perley of West
Canaan, bright and interesting child of six
years, died few days since from the effects
Of phosphorus which she sucked from friction
matches
CONNECTICUT.
Capt. David Blakeslee of North Haven, and
his two boys, killed, on Friday last, 1853 black
snakes, averaging four feet, and amounting in
the aggregate to 652 feet in length. They
were all found in one burrow, and dispatched
as they ca out.
Conrad w. Sherman, of the 22d Connecti-
cut regiment, committed suicide last Sunday
morning, by blowing out his brains. He was
81 years of age, belonging in Sutfield, and
cigar maker by trade. Cause, domestic
trouble.
A man, who is brother of a member of
congress from the state of New York, stop
ped at the Merchants HOTEL New Haven,
Monday night, and Tuesday morning, while
taking his breakfast at the saloon, slipped a
number Of silver spoons and forks into his
pocket and walked off. The articles were
not missed until they were offered for sale at
a'pawnbroker's, when the owners name was
discovered upon them and the thief was ar
rested.
RHODE ISLAND.
One of the most diaboIical associations has
recently been discovered in our city that we
have heard of. 1t is Il club of young men,
who assemble weekly to frolic, dressed in fe-
male apparel, and in costly and elegant dress
es, the materials of which they steal wherever
they can find them. Costly silks, muslins,
| and jewelry, have been puroined in proflls-
ion. The clerks that belonged to them, it is
said, made point to rob their masters Two
or three Of them have been apprehended and
are in prison. Several of them are of very
respectable families, and none have the temp
tation Of poverty. -P-oridence Post.
The large building in Warren known as the
young Ladies' Seminary was destroyed by
fire, early Thursday morning, with all its
contents. The house of Capt VIM. Martin,
Immediately opposite, took fire shortly after.
and was completely destroyed. The seminal
ry was not occupied, but it was used the pre-
vious evening for gathering of the Baptist
society, and it is probable the fire took from
the furnace. The building was partially de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th of April last year,
and was afterwards put in complete repair
The seminary building was insured at the fol-
lowing Providence offices for S2500 each -
Hope, Roger Williams, Merchants, and Equi-
table. The furniture was insured at the
American Office for S5000 and at the Wash
ngton office tor $4,000. Mr.. Alvan Buffing-
ton lost his pocket book in the excitement,
containing 5000. His house, which was sew
eral times on fire, narrowly escaped destruc-
tion-PrOridence Press.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The rebel mail bags recently seized reveal
sad stories of high prices and extravaganza at
Petersburg. Calico dresses cost $50; ordi-
nary merino or silk 800; white cottons So:
bonnets $50; CATERS $40. "There was a
wedding next door to u.s." says one of the let
tiers, (Which five hundred people attended,
and where all liquors were abundant, and
champagne and other wines flowing like wa.
ter. Everything elegant. The oranges at
the wedding cost 81 80 piece; and every
thing was as plentiful as of old. The whole
of the wedding paraphernala and supper must
have cost 100000 or more"
The casualties at the bombardment of fort
Sumter, as reported by the rebels, consist of
one drummer boy killed, and five men
wounded, two Of them severely, the others
slightly One man was killed IN fort Moul-
trie by falling from a flagstaff. Six men sta
toned at battery Wagner were wounded
three Of them fatally. Fort Sumter was hit
thrty-four times, bat received no damage"
say the rebel reporters
On Tuesday last a family whose house,
just outside the /. es of our army at Suffolk,
had been burned, sought safety by fleeing to
our troops. They were pursued by rebel
squad, who ordered them to halt, and then
fired upon them, killing the mother but
without arresting their flight. The father took
up the dead body of his wife, and with his
children arrived safe but broken-hearted in
the federal camp.
Mr.. Gabriel Franchere, one of those sent
out by Mr.. Astor in the famous Astoria expe-
dition, and the last survivor of that party, ex-
pired at St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 18th inst
Mr. Franchere was born in Montreal, Cana
da, in 1876, which place he lett in 1915, to
make the overland trip. which is so beauti-
fully narrated by Washington Irving. 1t
is stated that whole pages of his own mar
ratIve were copied word for word in Irving's
work.
Richmond markets-Apples $50 per barrel;
butter in demand at So bacon, round, $40;
hams Sl45; brandy 500 "a per gallon; corn
scarce at 81 80 per bushel; meal, market bare
at IS $40 per bushel; candles 81 so per
pound; coffee 81 4 so per pound; flour SOL
a 36, according to grade; pins cent, needles
cents; darning needles 20 cents; box of
matches IS cents to 81: gold is at So 20 pre-
MUM, and United States treasury notes are
worth So %, and everybody i glad TO get
them.
The New York Ledger, on the authority Of
Mr.. A. I. Stewart, the well known dry goods
dealer, denies the current reports that he had
bought up great quantities Of cotton goods
and stored them away. and that he had
cleared the Boston market of butter for the
purpose of shipping it to Europe to pay Tor