Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-26
General News summ,rrv


taken to the construction of a complaint
against an idle and disorderly person. The
attorney general explained that this form of
complaints was satisfactory to the Justices of
the police court, who had convicted many
parties upon them, but upon being taken to
the superior court they had been pronounced
defective by several judges, and the parties
/ lai'beCn discharged. AT length one of the
| judges of the superior court had pronounced
in favor of the complaint and it had come up
for final decision. 1t was important that a
decision should soon be given, as this unhar-
monious action ofthe lower courts was costing
the commonwealth at the rate of ten thousand
dollars year. The question at issue is the
construction to be put upon the word ''habit-
ual, )" used in the complaint
The republicans of Boston have nominated
/ f. W. Lincoln, Jr., as their candidate for
I mayor, and he has signiied his acceptance of
| the nomination.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
| On the 22d of October Mrs. Sarah Wilson,
recently pauper in the state aims house at
! Iiticut was married to Mr.. Aaron Negus of
| taIl River, and just one week from the time
| she became bride she went to Fall River
aims house.
The city government of New Bedford have
concluded most satisfactory arrangement
With the Hon. Amos A. Lawrence of Boston.
by which that gentleman agrees to furnish all
the men called for from New Bedford by the
United States government, the city merely
paying the bounty of two hundred dollars per
man, now offered. In this way the city is
freed from all the annoyances and expense of
recruiting, and from all anxiety too about the
result. The number remaining to be furnish
ed is llS.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Sarah Streeter, daughter of Samuel and
Mary Streeter of Greenfield, fell into pail of
boiling hot cider on the 18th, and burned her
so that she died Monday night about ten
O'Clock, after suffering severely, having
spasms. She was years and months old.
CONNECTICUT.
Andrew j. Burke Of Mansfield, and Samuel
Fitch of West Stafford, are making arrange
ments to run new millin the latter place, for
the manufacture of stockinett. The machine
ry is now being put in.
PERSONAL.
Capt. Church Howe, provost marshal of
IIarper's Ferry, has been relieved from that
duty and ordered to report to major general
Sedgwick, who takes the field in few days
Byron Sprague has retired from the Rhode
Island firm OF A. & w. Sprague, having dis
posed of his interest to governor William
Sprague, for, rumor says, more than one
million dollars.
Gen. Hooker has not yet been able to ride
on horseback, but moves with the army in an
ambulance.
The fact has come to light, says the Mon
| treal Gazette, that Mr.. 0. CremaZe of Quebec
has forged notes ahoat to the amount of
| $4,000, and that his other liabilities amount
to $4,000, making in all liability OF $780,
900, against assets supposed to be worth only
| $4,000. His forgeries are made upon men of
the highest standing in the community, and
appear to have been kept up with success for
some time.
There is the highest authority for saying
that the letter of general Scott, copy of
which Mr.. John Van Buren, obtained by some
means best known to himself and made public,
has never been seen by the president
Hon. Eli Thayer is now in Washington
making the necessary arrangements to carry
out his plan of restoring the state of Florida
to the Union. We have no doubt Of the sue
cess of this enterprise if it be carried out
upon the plan suggested by Mr.. Thayer. 1t
is both just and easible.-NationGl RepuJli-
can.
WAR ITEMS.
A country parson, who evidently has an eye
to business, and worShips Uncle Sani's ''green-
backs" more than his Gre ator, wrote Col
Doyle of Detroit a few days since, putting
in his claim for the chaplaincy. In his letter,
after giving his pedigree, lie informed the
colonel that he ''was not of any particular
denomination, or committed to any particular
tenets, but would be most happy to accommo-
date himself to the various theological views
OF the members of the regiment"
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
Alexander II. Stephens, the rebel vice pres
ldent, has plan for breaking the blockade,
which is for the government to buy the cotton
crop, and then pledge it to pay for iron-clad
steamers able to cope with anything in the
world, which are to be used for breaking the
blockade and opening one or more of the cot
ton ports.
The Charleston rebels are preparing for an
attack On the 9TH the harbor batteries were
exercised in heavy artillery practice. The
Mercury says single gun from fort Sumter
announced that all was in readiness, and i'm
mediately the long line of batteries that girdle
the harbor entrance belched forth their fire in
succession. The practice was concluded by
firing the guns of fort Sumter by battery.
The Richmond papers mention the discov-
cry OF extensive forgeries on the state treasu-
ry Of Virginia Bank warrants had been
stolen and filled up, to what number was not
known, but fourteen thousand dollars had
been drawn on them. Suspicion fell on L.
Hunter Taliafero, first doorkeeper of the
senate. He has been arrested.
Among the recent arrivals in Richmond was
Mrs. Bradford, wife OF the present governor
OF Maryland. One Of the papers says: "She
is said to strongly sympathize with the south,
and has son in the confederate SERVICE"
John Van Buren's Cooper Institute speech
is having great run through the SOUTH
Nearly all the rebel papers copy it from the
Richmond Dispatch with words of commen-
dation.
statistical correspondent of the Savannah
Republican puts forth series of startling cal.
culations going to show that the southern
army and the southern people are alike in
peril of starvation. He declares that if the
whiskey distilleries that are springing up ev-
erywhere, are not prohibited, the rebel army
will have to be dlsbanded for want of proNis-
ions, in less than eight months. In addition
to the danger of starvation, arising from a
multiplication of dstillcries, the writer says
the negroes will be led into dissipation and
consequent Instruction.
An officer of the fiftieth Georgia regiment
writes to the Savannah Republican an ac-
count Of the battle OF Sharpsburg, in which
he says the slaughter on the rebel side was