Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-05
General News summary.

measuring nYe feet ana one inch from TIP to
tip of wings. This owl had been known to
kill several turkeys in that neighborhood. He
would come down with sweep and kill them
by biting their heads off.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
MessrS. Z. Lawson and N. Mickles have
given notice of petition to the legislature for
an act incorporating ''The Lowell Horse Rail
way Company" capital not to exceed 1000.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Joseph Scott of Fall River was thrown
from his wagon, Wednesday, his left arm bro
ken, and his head badly cut about the left
temple. There is a fair prospect of his re-
covery.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
S. b. Phinney, Esq, of the North Bridge
water Gazette, has recently lost two fine little
boys of eight and five years of age, who both
died of diptheria in the same week.
A paint shop in bingham, owned and occu-
pied by Edwin Wilder 3D. was destroyed by
fire on the LIST inst. Insured for fourteen
hundred dollars.
CONNECTICUT.
George B. Freeman of Mansfield, one of
the towards who skedaddled for Canada when
the draft was threatened recently returned
and was lodged in the Hartford Jail as a de-
serter. Being released by order of the gov
ernor, the ''loyal" people of Mansfield met
him with cheers, rung the church bell till the
inhabitants assembled ''to put out the fire."
fired guns, beat drums, and tin pans, and
groaned and Kissed ''the abolitionists."
The New Londoners are considerably taken
aback by the report of secretary Welles in IA
vor of League island for the new naval station.
They don't give up the ship yet, however.
Sprague's cotton MILL on the Shetucket riv-
or at Ratip il ono Of tl,n IOost aytanciva and
successful in the country. The building is
954 feet long, in which there are in operation
1884 power looms, with other machinery to
match. Nine hundred and thirty-four of the
looms are in one room. All the machinery is
new and comes from the workshop of the
manufacturer with all the latest Improvements.
There are employed about 900 hands, who
earn $4,000 per month"; and manufacture
twelve million four hundred and eighty thou
sand yards year..
John Quinn, an Irishman living in Middle
town, was recently engaged in butchering a
hog, and in stepping backward he went against
the large tub used at such times, which was
SLED with boiling hot water. He fell into the
water, and was so dreadfully scalded that he
soon died.
RHODE ISLAND.
William Turner has been found guilty in
the circuit court in Providence, of enticing a
soldier to DESERT and sentenced to pay a fine
of ten dollars, and to be imprisoned for one
year.
The Providence Press says that the prop
osition to amend the internal tax law so as
to include babies under the head of home
manufactures, does not seem to meet with
much favor The proposer is doubtless u
bachelor.
PERSONAL.
Charles Wilkinson, comedian, is fitting up
a snug little theatre at Troy for temporary
use.
A correspondent with the army of the Po-
tomac says that Gen. Burnside is one of the
most untiringly industrious men in the coun-
try. He is an early riser, and gives constant
attention to his duties till midnight. With
him success is Duty and he will not risk
any movement which does not promise sue
cess.
Capt. George H. Hoyt is authorized to raise
a battalion of cavalry in Leavenworth, Kan
sas, for Jennison's old regiment. The Lea
venworth Conservative says that Capt. Hoyt,
by a yoar'o ouvcessful service, has slIUun him
self to be one Of the most vigorous and effec-
tive officers, and men of pluck and daring will
eagerly rush to his standard.
VIM. ii. Bracket, cashier of the Pocasset
Bank, in Fall River, has accepted the office of
cashier of the Washington Bank Boston, late
ly rendered him.
Georgia soldier, who was formerly res
ident of Pennsylvania, recently died in one of
the Philadelphia hospitals. Just before diving
he requested that a justice of the peace be
sent for in order that he might take the oath
OF allegiance. Said he, Il don't want it to
be said that l went to the Almighty rebel"
The singular wish was gratifed, and in few
hours he breathed his last
Senator Doolittle of Wisconsin, has, as vet,
been unable to take his seat in Washington.
He is i'll with malignant fever, which he is
supposed to have contracted while nursing
his son, who died of the same disease on the
10th of August last. Since that time four
other members of his family have been sick
with the same complaint.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
One thousand vessels are wrecked on the
English coast every year, on the average;
and from these about three thousand persons
are rescued by life boats, shoreboats, the
rocket apparatus, and other means. 1t is a
lamentable fact, nevertheless, that an average
OF eight hundred persons still perish every
year from these disasters.
British capitalists express anxiety in conse-
quence of the rapid drain of specie from
England to India. The payments for Indian
cotton are becoming very heavy, the last
steamer for Bombay having taken out over a
million pounds sterling, the largest amount
ever dispatched to one port.
A live male gorilla has just arrived safely at
Liverpool. He was brought from Africa on
board mail steamer, and appeared docile.
His skin is of an olive color, and he is vet
very young, only slightly covered with hair.
He is remarkably fond Of good living, and ap-
pears to have an especial relish for beefsteak
and mutton chops and fruit.
To save the house in which Goethe was
born at Frankfort-on-the-M Main from further
dissertation, it has been purchased by DR..
Volger, an eminent geOlogist, for the sum of
tltty-six thousand forms; and it is his nten-
ton to restore it to its original state, and then
hand 1t over to the German "Hochstift,''
fourishing society for arts and sciences, of
which DIR. Volger is the founder
Paris correspondent writes 1.-THE most
distinguished article of dress will be the bon
net invented expressly for the empress, the
elegant simplicity of which pleases her much.
1t is Of black velvet, with small round cur
tain of black velvet also, with a torsade of
ponceau velvet in the form of diadem in the
inside. So far there is nothing extraordinary
in it; the novelty consists in the edge of the
bonnet, around which there is band of sable,
very fine and very dark, which produces an
exceedingly good effect on account of its ORR
ginalty. With a black velvet dress, and
mantle trimmed with fur, the bonnet bordered
with fur completes the most distinguished tot
lette."
MISCELLANEOUS.
When our forces capture towns in Texas,
the Richmond Enquirer says "the yellow fe-
yer has made its appearance and nearly all