Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-23
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


Mr.. Eleazer GroveR who has several times
attempted to destroyIhimself finally succeed
ed in doing so on S4f,riday morning last, by
hanging himself in TIE room at the almshouse'
where he has beenFAlce he was rescued from
| the water in Little trever about ten days since
He was aSout fifty ars of age.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The town OF Taunton has had the good for
tune to furnish six full companies for the war,
and the Rev. Henry +. IL. Miller OF Norton is
engaged in enlisting the seventh, with good
prospect of success.
The gardens and fields in some parts OF New
Bedford and its vicinity are literally covered
with the loathsome army worms, which are
making havoc with the young crops. Some
| of the victims have caused them TO retreat by
liberal use of coal tar and oil soap suds'
Russell Peckham of Fall River, while dig
gng in his garden, Friday, turned up rusty
silver coin, bearing the words can: Do: New
England" and 1852: XII" On the reverse
| is Massachusetts"
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The citizens OF Holyoke, who wished to
present a watch to James T. Brooks, color
bearer of the tenth regiment, were taken IN
! by pair of swinders, who palmed off upon
them a galvanized watch. The citizens re-
bukcd them at public meeting, and trans
terred their custom to Springfield.
The son Of Robert Mckinney Of Chicopee
was fatally injured upon the Connecticut Rlv-
err Railroad, last week, dying a short time al
| terward
| The youngest son of E. G. Heath, an in
teresting lad of nine years was drowned in the
| Connecticut river, at Willimansett, While
bathing, on Thursday last
DIR. David P. Smith of Springfield, who has
recently been abroad on a projected tour
among the hospitals of Europe, and returned
home ON receiving intelligence of the war, has
been appointed surgeon 10 Major Cobb's light
battery.
Rev. II. C. Leonard OF Watervile, editor OF
the Gospel Banner, has been elected chaplain
of the Maine third regiment of volunteers, now
in Virginia.
CONNECTICUT.
Mr.. N. Clark, of Salisbury, last week, found
one of his lambs dead and badly torn. To
ascertain the cause of its death, he sprinkled
strychnIne on the body and left it to be de-
voured by the murderer. The next day he
visited his bait and found bad-headed eagle,
which measured seven feet and four inches
across its wings from tip to tip. He again Wis
tied the spot, and found large wildcat
and upon the third visit, two dead crows and
a skunk.
The time for offering bids for the state loan
of Connecticut, of 100000, closed Saturday.
when about Sl,200,000 had been rendered
The banks of Hartford offered quarter Of a
million at par
Wm. H. Cough was drowned in Hartford
Saturday, while bathing. He and compan.
ion were unable to swim, but playtully dared
each other to heroic deeds in the water, i'll
which young Cough was drowned.
Col. Colts regiment the fifth Connecticut
Col Ferry commanding, has been ordered to
report Immediately at aarper's Ferry. March
ing orders have been mpatiently waited for,
and will be enthusiastically received by both
officers and men.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The device oil the secretary of war to reduce
the flood OF applications for the places of rurs
es in the army, that none shall be accepted
who are under thirty years of age, has proved
successful There are no such women i'll the
country.
Ten thousand hogsheads of tobacco are re-
ported to have been sold in New Orleans last
week for the French market, the French pur.
chasers paying in gold instead of bills accord
| ing to their usual custom. 1t is probably q
case of whstling for courage.
Some OF the wise men say the earth passed
| through tile tail Of the comet, at distance o
perhaps two-thirds of its length from the nu
cleus. This tail was 100000 miles il
length. No disastrous consequences were ex
perienced in this latitude.
The red legged Brooklyn Zouaves made
rich haul on the night Of the 18th inst. They
hunted over the deserted camps of the dis
unionsts, and picked up, among other valua
bies, fifteen watches and iorty-one revolyers.
M. d. Beaucllesne has just published il
Paris a complete history of the unfortunate
Louis XVII., establishing his death in "tht
Temple, and, it is said settling the question
against all pretenders.
man of some repute, and journalist, is re
ported to have committed suicide at Toronto
on the 18th inst. use-disappointed love-
His will was found in his pocket, leaving his
property, valued at $4,000, to Miss Maggie
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