Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-22
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Frederick A + son of Hon. Abishai Stoddard
of Townshend S member of the second Yer
mont regiment, died near Washington, few
DAYS since, of diptheria. His was the frst
death in the regiment,
MAINE.
The third Maine regiment, while leaving
Alexandria TO join the advance movement
sung the following -
81 have mission in the southern lana,
have mission in the southern land,
Old Abram calls me, must go
To serve him in the southern land
I'll away SC
The dwelling house OF j. L. Elliott OF Knox,
was DESTROYED by fire on Saturday last. Loss
about $1,000; insured for about one thlrd;
Counterfeit wo's on the Wamsutta Bank,
Fall River, and ones on the Beverly Bank
Beverly, are extensively circulated IN the VI
cinty of Bethel.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
John G. Richards, who recently aled at
Manchester, at tie age Of 81, had resided IN
that town eighty years, arriving on an open
sled in the winter of l7oO. ~
Several of tie gentry of Gorham, N H.
went on a Clark" few days ago, at an estao'
lishment in the neighborhood, and while at
the height of their carousal, the wife OF one
them burst into the room, and after making
'demd wreck of the decanters and other glass
ware, vigorously applied hes switch to the
nimble legs of the asOnished landlord. Inc
husband, recovering his wits, lnterfered, ana
led the avenging fury home.
RHODE ISLAND.
On the islam of Rhode Island, whole acres
of grain have been swept away by the army
worm. One gentleman says that on Monday
morning he had field of ten acres OF oats In
fine condition. On Thursday following it was
entirely destroyed.
CONNECTICUT.
Mr. Dunn, firm of Miller & Dunn, Men,
phis, Tenn, left there and visited Danbury on
the 18th, at great personal Inconvenience, TOR
the purpose of making an honorable settlement
with their creditors.
Roger McMannus was struck by locomo
tive on the Naugatuck Railroad, Friday, and
instantly killed.
The murder in Woodbury., on Wednesday
last, in which Mr.. Morris lost his life at the
hands of one of his workman, Chas Fox,
grew out of dispute about Fox's merits rs a
mower. Fox, becoming offended at jocular
remark, slapped Morris in the face, following
it up, as Morris returned the blow, with three
fatal stabs with sharp knife.
Rev. Mr. Lancy, who was reported killed in
the engagement at Bulls Run, was an Episco-
pal clergyman from New Haven When the
war broke out he was attached to the second
Connecticut regiment as chaplain.
Mercy Kies, a woman addicted to rambling
about the country, escaped from the poor
house in Chatham, on Wednesday, the 10th
inst, and on Monday following was found.
dead in a field about mile distant. She
was 103 years of age, and had from her youth
led life of vagrancy. A sister of "Massy"
las she was called) was found dead not many
miles from the same place few years ago,
having led the same sort Of life. "Massy Kies"
always went scantily clothed, was dried up,
and had the complexion of an Arab
PERSONAL.
Samuel T. Huntington, the recently deceas
ed husband of Susan Denim, was few years
ago the hero of several romantic adventures,
which excited a months gossip. Having at
tached himself to band OF Ethiopian min
strels, he was disinherited by his wealthy IA
ther in New York He subsequently became
attached to Miss Susan, and was once nearly
assassnated by an adolescent millionaire Of
Syracuse, on whom Susan's affections were
already fixed, and to whom she was afterward
married, but for brief period.
The honorary degree of LII. d. has been
conferred by Hamilton College OH Hon. James
A. Hamilton and Hon. Joseph Smith Bosworth
of New York, and Prof. Oliver Payson Hub
baad, M D., of Dartmouth College
Bev. DR.. Hoge, associate pastor of the Pres
byteran church (Dr Springs in New York,
has resigned on account OF his sympathy with
the rebel cause-to the intense relief of his
people.
The Ingham University of lie Roy, at last
commencement, conferred upon Gen. Geo. B.
Mcclellan, the hero of western Virginia, the
degree of LII. ID.
The name of H. N. Hermans has been
stricken from the list Of leutenants in the ma
w. His reputation was so bad that on proper
representations his name was promptly scored.
Du Chailu has defended his African dis
coveries with his fists, in an anteroom in Lon
don, after meeting of the British Ethnologi-
cal Society.
MISCELLANEOUS
In fire which occurred few nights since
sat Saint Michael de Bellechasse, Charles La
case, n respectable farmer, two of his daugh.
tiers, aged ID and IA years, and two ofhis sons
aged and 8 years, persisted. The mother
and three children Of tender age, alone were
saved.
The remains o. an ancient Irish crown and
collar, were found in bog near Clonmacnose,
on the brink of the Shannon, by a country
man, who sold them. They are supposed 10
date from period as early as the first intro.
duction of christianity into the island,
The secret of reproducing colors by the
camera, and of rendering them permanent, has
been added to the wonders OF sun painting
Blue, which has, hitherto, been regarded as
well nigh unattainable in the photograph, is
now copied wildly. The same is especially
true of yellow and green.
The Direct Tax.
The committee Of ways and means have