Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-25

The termlJ' Office of H. H. Hodges, triai
justice at NJ hampton, has expired, and ell
forts are betty made to prevent his se-appoint
ment
The house OF Austin Hi of Ashfield was
destroyed by fire on THURSDAY, wan most oi
lis contents.
MAINE.
Michael Shea, of Calas,a member OF the
sixth Mel regiment, was aiken to the null
tHry hospital, laboring underdeEFum tre'hehs'
On Saturday morning he Jumped rom a sec
ond sto. " window, landing OH the gronnu,
from whence lie crawled round to another Siae
OF the building, and rolled lown IN embank
ment some thirty or forty fedt, the iall proving
fatal. On Monday he sent some money toms
family, and on his way fromthe express ONCE
went into shop, and got some liquor whlch
brought on an attack OF delTluh'
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Paul j. Wheeler, Esq. OF Newport, N H.,
! Ia democrat) has sent to Mr. Rollins one OF
the representatives Of that state in congress,
| five hundred dollars tor the benehl Of the com
pany from that town, in thu first New lamp
shire regiment.
RHODE ISLAND
On Monday evening, between I anu o
| O'Clock, the mill called "llmts Mil, III See
konk, was consumed by fire. 1t has OF late
been used in working up cotton waste, ana
was an old affair 1t was owned by the water
Power company, and by George I. Murdoch
Insured for $4,000 in offices abroad.
OF five Rhode Island members OF the Ma
sonic Fraternity in the second Rhode Island
regiment, four are known 10 be slain broth
ers Slocum, Ballou,- Smith, and Foy The
other is not definitely heard from as yet.
CONNECTICUT.
The stores of VIM. Whaey, S. g. 5. Cook,
and T. Howard, in East lyme, were entered
by burglars on Monday night. Mr. Whaley
lost Sl25 in goods and casl
Sally Smith died last week at Bethlehem,
| Conn, at the age of one hundred years. Ihe
oldest old maid of whom we ever took cog
| nizance.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Private Bullock, OF the eleventh Massachu'
sets regiment, while the latter was passing
through New York, was made the recipient
of IL splendid ring set with pearls, and the la.
| dy, after placing it upon bis finger, saluted
| him with kiss, and returned to the side
walk
An unfinished letter found in the rebel camp
at Laurel Hill, contains the following choice
specimen of English undetiled ~ sa agen
dear Mendy weer filing for our liburtis to
dew gest as we pleas, and we will fife fur them
so long as godlemiy give us broth"
a soldier in Wellingtons army stuck his
bayonet into II loaf OF bread which woman
was carrying from the oven, and proceeded to
divide it among his comrades The affair was
reported to the 'Iron Duke" who ordered the
culprt to be Immediately shot. No more
loaves were stolen during that campaign.
1t is said that near Fort Pickens, the other
day, when four OF Wilson's Zouaves were ii
bathing, an immense twelye-foot shark CANE
padding along. The Glands made rush a
him, and actually drove him off into deeE
| water
Among the most remarkable of Archbishop
Tensions manuscripts, sold at auction in Lon
don, July LIST, was collection of Lord Ba
cons personal memoranda in his own hand
writing, from July, 1908, to October, 1909
The British Museum paid f69 for il. Another
was James IS own manuscript of his unpub
liahed poems, with some poems appended by
Charles l., which brought f68 5s
On the reception of thenews of the repuls'
of our army, Gen. Scott exclaimed "This il
no dcteat-no defeat. The odds are agains
us, temporarily, through inaccuracy of details
but Manassas, and Virginia, and the Union
are ours"