Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-12
General News summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


field Is Il canddue for reelection.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The remains OF Il female, apparently about
twenty years of age, were found on the beach
at HoughS Neck, on the Sth, enclosed in a
box two and a half feet wide, and one and
one-third feet high. A portion of the body
was entirely consumed, and not a particle of
clothing was found with the remains. A jury
of inquest rendered verdict " that the per-
son came to her death by violence, inflicted
| by some person TO the jury unknown"
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
S. T. Cain, Charles Z. Carpenter, L. Smr-
tevant, Il. NJ. Burlingame, Harvey Polly, and
Hanley Horton, were drafted in Savoy last
week OF these, Messrs. Cain, Carpenter,
and Polly were rejected by the regimental
surgeon at camp Briggs.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
sad accident occurred in Springfield the
10th, by which Charles Blandon, an armorer.
lost his life. quantity of guns had just
been tested, and it was supposed all had been
discharged. But upon dropping them against
support one went off sending the entire
contents through tine head of Blandon. tear
ing it to pieces, and killing him instantly.
Blandon was formerly in the employ of the
Western railroad and was an industrious and
faithful man.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
One night last week, a Greenfield farmer
heard a noise in his hen house, and upon get
ting up and going there, found a soldier at the
door. He asked the soldier what he wanted,
and was told ''apples" The farmer replied
that that was not the place to look for them,
when he was told that he wanted some chick
ems. He asked how many, and the soldier
replied dozen. The farmer went to work
and killed a dozen fine ones, after which he
asked the soldier how he was going 10 get
them to camp, when he replied that he had a
carriage short distance of, upon which the
farmer helped carry them to the carriage, and
after lecturing the soldier upon the sin of
stealing, and telling him that he was welcome
to anything he had if he would only ask for it,
he returned to his house, and the soldier left
for camp.
MAINE.
Col. McClusky, who went out in command
of the Maine 18th regiment, has, through the
influence Of Intoxicating liquors, become a
ruined man. Gen. Butler recently ordered
HIM to quit New Orleans and to dotf his mill
tary suit He left at once for Havana, en- route
for South America. When he started for the
war from Maine he was honored and respect
ed by all who knew him.
miserable scamp in West Wateryille. by
the name of Rankins, has been figuring as a
wounded soldier, who received his intirmities
at the battle at Fair Oaks, and thus securing
aid and comfort from many whom he met, and
to whom he told his sutierlngs. 1t turned out
that his injuries were all received in a saw
mill, and that he had never seen a battle.
The Portland papers have raised their price
to city subscribers who have Them delivered
by carrier 20 per cent, and contemplate an
increase OF rates on mail subscriptions.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The LttletOn journal says that measures
have been taken for building Il carriage road
from the Crawford House to the top of Mount
Washington. The road which has already
been located, will be surveyed in the spring
and built as fast as possible, thus forming
direct carriage route from the White Noun
tam railroad at Littleton, to the summit OF Mt.
Washington.
The merchants of Littleton have made an
arrangement by which 20 per cent premium
will be allowed by them on silver change, re-
Ceived in business
CONNECTICUT.
The people Of Norwalk have been in ter
rlble commotion for the last three weeks, be-
cause somebody placed an infant to board
with respectable family without posting its
name and parentage on the sign post. AT once,
says the village paper, everybody went to
guessing and insinuating, until nearly every
unmarried female in the town had passed in
critical review-and still the gossips are no
wiser than before.
The Sharpe'S Rifle Company of Hartford
is making monthly dividends OF twelve per
cent.
Bedens gin dstillery in Hartford county,
was destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. Loss
about twenty thousand dollars. No insur-
ance.
PERSONAL.
Gen. John A. Garfield, recently elected to
congress from the Giddings district, will ac-
company Gen. Hunter to South Carolina.
Gen. jefferson G. Davis has been assigned
to highly responsible command under Gen.
ROSecranz.
The rebel journals have a report that the
notorious George n. Sanders has returned to
the south from his hasty and secret Journey
to England; but the manner of his last escape
through our lines is not stated. He claims to
have received great encouragement in En-
gland.
General Alfred Pleasanton, whose name
often occurs in the dispatches from Virginia,
is doing brilliant work down the valley. He
seems to be the first cavalry officer who has
tathomed the tactics Of the rebel Stuart and
punished him for his audacious raids within
Columbia, forty years of age, and by profess
sion a soldier.
Lord Palmerston, on the goth ult., entered
his 18th year. 1t was the custom to talk of
the late lord Grey as becoming premier at
very old age, but he was only siXty-siX when
he took office, and sixty-eight when he carried
the reform bill of lSl2-that is, ten years
younger than Lord Palmerston is now.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Parson Brownlow writes; The secession
ist of Illinois are almost as numerous as the
Union men. They talk their treason right
out, declare themselves on the side Of the
south, and against the war and the present
administration of the general government.
These traitors call themselves democrats, and
threaten violence after the elections are over.
They say that their plan is to carry the state
legislature, and throw the state into the hands
of the secessionists; and then, if the loyal
friends of the government do not submit, they
will resort to torcible revolution in the north.
They do not pretend that they want to join
the south, but say they are for a northwestern
confederacy."
The following smart reply was made by the
first ambassador of the japanese embassy at
Paris to Mons. Thouyenel, the late French
minister of foreign affairs, upon the latters
expressing the surprise with which he saw
them eat raw fish: "IIow can you eat aaV
fish" THE same way you eat raw oysters"
was the quiet reply. Itsilenced Mons Thou
yenel
The correspondent of the New York Com
mercial remarks "Ihe defenses Of this me-
tropolis (the total periphery of which is up
ward Of thirty miles) are being strength
p,J t,yt Ia,