Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-19
three months, andwill leave forhome early in

inst, at the advanced age of one hundred
years and four months.
ESSEN COUNTY.
A sloop, with full sail set, capszed near
NewburypoIt bridge, on the 10Th, and one Of
the four men it contained was drowned.
At Hayerhill, a few days ago, a kitten that
was trying to make its home in the post Office
crawled into the mail bag, and in the hurry Of
closing the mail, was not noticed. When the
route agent opened the bag, its living contents
made its appearance, which he decided not to
be mailable matter, and bid it "scat! - and it
scattered.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Archibald w goldman of Randolph, convicted
OF receiving IL draft taken from the post Office,
knowing the same to have been stolen, has
been sentenced to pay fine OF $50, and be
imprisoned in Dedham Jail for fourteen
months.
As the New York express freight train was
passing through Sharon, on the Boston and
Providence railroad, ON the 18th, an axle ON
one of the cars OF the train broke, throwing
some ten or twelve cars from the track, and
entirely demolishing eight of them. a brake.
man by the name Of Bowen was Killed.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
George Ii. Rabbit, eX-sherif has COM
Hill, secretary of the Peoples Equitable Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company Of Taunton,
and holds his damages at fifteen thousand dol
lars.
NANTUCKET.
Uriah Gardner, for many years sheriff of
the county of Nantucket, recently died, and
Frederick 2. Chase is mentioned to fill the
vacancy.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Massachusetts Medical Society held its
annual meeting at Pittstied on the 18th. DR..
Josiah Bartlett of Concord was elected presi-
dent The annual discourse was delivered by
DIR. Morrill, Wyman Of Cambridge, on the
reality and certainty of medicines. The uSu-
al anniversary dinner, with speeches, toasts,
&C., took place in the afternoon.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The enrolment in Westheld foots up 9SS
men, 659 of the first class and 329 of the see
ond.
Hon. Joseph White of Wilamstown, sec
rotary Of the board of education, delivered an
address at Longmeadow, Tuesday, 10th, on
the relation Of education to the welfare of true
government.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Edward, son of p C. Hale of Milwaukee,
Wis, and formerly of Westhampton, was re-
Gently murdered by his attendant in Pixies
Peak region, where he was engaged in the fur
trade.
MAINE.
Three young men were drowned in Moose
head lake last week, while crossing in abirch
canoe
A grist mill owned by Calvin Bunipus, of
Canton, and saw mill and a shingle mill
owned by Messrs. Peterson & Child at jaw
RriI
fire on the 10th inst Loss $4,000. No insuI-
ance.
The railroad bridge across Royals river
at Yarmouth, on the Grand Trunk railway.
and another small railroad bridge near Beth
el, were both destroyed by fire on the 10Th
inst
Mr.. Jesse Mills of Windham, on the 10th
inst, got jammed between the wharf and IL
vessel to which he belonged, and SD great
was the injury he sustained that he died the
same evening. He leaves a wife and ten
children. the oldest sixteen years old
Paymaster PomerOy has been ordered to
report in Portland, to aid in paying the nine
months regiments which are soon to return
to Maine and New Hampshire
The flag OF the llth Maine regiment, which
it is claimed has been borne nearer Richmond
than any other federal flag, has been received
by the adjutant general, and now hangs in the
capitol 1t was literally torn in tatters at
The HallowelI House was sold at auction
on the 18th inst, with all the furniture for
$4,000. The house originally cost $4,000.
Seven shares of the Hallowell and Chelsea
Bridge were sold at tho came time for So, 80
per share The par value is 500.
VERMONT.
Jesse c. Davenport has been indicted for
fltn Of d,
Manchester. He will be tried next Decen-
ber
The Bennington express train when near
the Dandy station, on the 10th, ran off the
track. wrecking the engine, and seriously in
Turing the engineer and tiremen.
An orderly in the 10th regiment by the
name Of Lamper, who was reduced to the
ranks for misdemeanor and soon after deser-
ed, has been arrested at Exeter, n. H., for
passing counterfeit money, and will get his
deserts.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Samuel Harris of South Hampton saw
strange looking animal chasing calf into his
barn, one evening last week, which when cap
.ured turned out to be a wolf.
CONNECTICUT.
The legislature has invited Rev. George A.
army, to lecture before them on experiences
n camp and field and condition of the troops.
The accounts of Col. Hathaway, who was
general Of the state when the
var broke out and for little time thereafter,
how him to be indebted to the state for Spin
or monies he received and did not credit, or
pretended to pay out and didn't One con-
ractor said h9 offered to make pantaloons for
olders at 81 a pair, when Hathaway said
Charge 81 so pair and make the bill for
hat sum; my salary is small, | must make
omething out of it,
The paintings in the Trumbull gallery at
New Haven, for thirty years held in trust by
Yale college, and comprising eight spirited
pictures on revolutionary scenes, besides a
ich depository of original portraits of the
men of those times, have recently
,een cleaned and restored to their original
and are to be opened daily to the
of the public.
Charles w. Butler of New London, former
Y of the Chronicle, and late mail agent on
he Shore Line railroad has taken an editori-
ii position on the New Haven Palladium.
John NJ. Cracker of Greenville, sixty years
Did, has been missing since the 18th inst.
A million of state bonds are offered by the
state treasurer, proposals to be received until
the 30th.
The Miss Bakewells of New Haven, who
have taught school halfa century in that city,
spanked the editor Of the Register forty nine
years ago.
sharper named Horace Lursh, has been
victimizing some of the wholesale men in
New York by purchasing goods on tick in the
name OF an imaginary business firm in Hart,