Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-29
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


Lieut.. John Abbott iamilarly known a
0L..f.-La.Lsa-s anars aud niher
Websters regiment at Fort Warren, was trie,
last Saturday before a court of inquiry, com
posed OF the field and other officers of III,
garrison, on the charge of using seditiou.
language, and being found guilty was drum
| med out OF camp to the tune OF the "Rogues
| March," He was charged with saving that
he hoped to see the secessionist flag wave
over all the New England states" and til
the south were right, aud he hoped the north
| ern troops would get thrashed." The evi.
dence being conclusive, the crprits uniform
was stripped from him, plain coat substitute
ed, and between two soldiers preceded by a
drum and fife, lie was marched down the line
of his regiment out of the tort to the wharf.
On reaching the city lie hurried rapidly away
and will doubtless seek early retirement from
the scenes which have SO long and tamiliarly
known him.
The Boston Transcript says large defalca-
ton has been discovered in the accounts of an
exte' sive carpet manufacturing establishment.
III neighborng county, whose agency is in
Boston. We learn that, from an examination
OF the books, it appears the detaication ex
tends through several years
Counterfeit So bills on the Howard Bank of
Boston gained lar G circulation IN that vicin-
that some of the banks took them Counter
felt threes on the Continental Bank, Boston,
also in circulation. The paper on which
they are printed is OF a darker color Than the
genuine bill, and is thus easily detected
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY
Sergeant John Butterworth, of the Fire
Zouaves, who was sho' dead at Alexandria
last week for attempting to pass a sentinel with
out giving the c0untersign, belonged in Lowell
and will be brought thither Tor burial. lie
was machinist by trade, and about % wears
of age.
Joseph Bradley, a shoemaker from Win.
chester, was lately hung in Houston, Texas,
for avowins himself Union man. DIR. II. o.
Aver, a native of Manchester, who escaped
from the fury of the mob through the inter
cesson OF a brother Of Col. Anderson, was
witness of the execution.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
David and Barnabas Sanford. Andrew Fast
and John Crossman, all of Westport. who
have been out to New Smyrna. Florida, in The
employ OF swift, Brothers OF this city in pro
curing live oak arrived in Fall River on SAT
urday, after perilous and hair breadth escapes
from The outrages upon them by the rebels ON
their passage home They were finally re.
leased only on condition of taking oath that
they would not bear arms against the soutb
wen bedj0fd Mercury.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
There is at present a snow bank in Buck-
land, near SllaS Bigelow's residence, eight or
ten ieet deep and covering nearly quarter of
an acre. 1t is on the east side of n hill and io
well exposed to the suns rays when there 10
no cloud between. Hezekiah Ward got snow
from the same place the 18th Of June, 1857
and waXed some sugar.
The house occupied by Trueman B. Hicks
N Greenfield, was destroyed by fire last week.
Mrs Hicks the only person in the house. was
SICK bed, and the first warning she received
was from the plastering falling upon her. She
had strength to rise and alarm her neipbbors
but not i'll time to save the house or its con.
tents
Two companies of one hundred one men
each from Greenfield and SheIburne Falls are
. be received for the war. The Greenfield
Guards have been for several days awaiting
orders to be mustered, and amused themselves
ast week by marching through the adjoining
owns ana parlaking of their Iospitalitles.
HAMPDEN COUNTY
The gale of wind which RACED with so much
severity, Monday afternoon, partially unroot. |
"a the house of Elijah Blake, and of several
'lhers IN Springfield. IncaIcuabe damage
vas also done to ornamental trees and shrub
'ery in the path of the hurricane.
VERMONT.
u ne cherry crop in Vermont is total fail.
IRE tlls season, and apples, plums and early
,egetaoies are badly damaged. The grass
'rop, however, promises WELL and notwith-
tahdlng the backward season farmers are
planting large crops.
RHODE ISLAND.
Durlng the thunder shower, Monday after
oohi The lightning struck several places in
'e%port, l1Jarlng dwelling house occupied
y Daniel Cofay, and barn owned by VIM.