Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-13
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


ing to over SIS. 600, were received by the state
| treasurer on Saturday. They contain the
names of over eight hundred persons. in seven
| ty different cities and towns to the treasurers
| of which rolls have been sent, enabling them
20 notify the several parties to whom the
money is due.
There was considerable display of bunting
about the city, yesterday afternoon, after the
reception of the news from Virginia. One
staid citizen had doubts about displaying his
| flag on Sunday, but his patriotic wife thought
| that if the Daily Advertiser could print an eX-
| ira on Sunday, the least they could do would
be to put out their flag. Out went the coun-
| try's banner.-BoSton transcript, 1871.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
! An Irish woman, by the name of Matilda
McMannis, living in Fall River, died in q
/ drunken fit Sunday night She had for a long
| time been an habitual drunkard.
Saturday noon fire broke out in the woods
in North Eastou, and burned over a thousand
acres OF oak, pine, and other timber, before it
was subdued. Sunday noon the fire again
broke out, and three hundred acres more were
| burned over. The burned district extends for
some two miles along the road that leads from
! North Easton southwardIy to the centre
Among other property destroyed was a beauti-
full grove set out by Amasa Lathrop, thirty
years since. The farmers for miles around
were present at both fires to assist in quellng
| the flames.
Mr.. d. S. Gushee of Taunton, has received
an appointment as master of an educational
institution in New York city, and will shortly
assume the duties of his vocation.
MAINE.
Issac L. Toothacre of SearSmont II years
| of age, was drowned at Belfast, on the 3D.
! inst.
The little village of Orono, on the Penobs-
cot river, about eight miles above Bangor,
contains a saw-mill which is not only the
| largest on the river, but probably the largest
in the world 1t takes one hundred men to
run it, and is called the basin Mill" There
are in this mill four gang-saws, eight upright
saws, two large circulars, two lath machines,
one clapboard machine, and one single ma
chine-all propelled by water-power. The
capacity of this mill is thirty millions OF lum-
| Der each season.
CONNECTICUT.
| A large manufacturing establishment in
| Hartford, known as the Grove Works, was
destroyed by fire on Friday afternoon, and Il
young man named Frank Cowles persisted in
the flames. Loss $4,000, insured for S22,-
600, Seven years ago a boiler exploded in
the same building, killing nineteen men.
RHODE ISLAND.
The losses of the insurance offices in Prov
! idence by the terrible fire at Troy, it is be-
! ieved will exceed 100000.
James l.. Bliss, clothing dealer in Paw
tucket, was knocked down and robbed of $50
Friday evening. Suspicious are entertained
in regard to the perpetrator of the assault,
but no arrest has been made.
PERSONAL.
Lieutenant commanding c. w. LamsOn, of
the gunboat kittatinny, native Of Beverly,
| had the honor of hauling down the rebel rag
which tioated over Fort Livingston, near New
Orleans, and hosting the United States flag in
its place. He was the first to land
Lieut.. Worden has been ordered to the
command of the new iron-clad frgate Iron
sides, launched on Saturday at Philadelphia.
The Ironsides was christened by the veteran
commodore Charles Stewart, who formerly
commanded the old Ironsides
For some time past Mr.. E. P. Christy, the
man who, as a negro minstrel, has been en-
gagged for many years in making people laugh,
has suffered from depression of spirits, in
duced by the belief that the rebels were COM
ing to New York, and that his property would
become worthless. Under these circumstan-
ces, he jumped out of the second-story win
dow of his residence, last Friday afternoon,
striking on his head and side. On being taken
up it was found that his right wrist and one Of
his legs were broken, and his head much
bruised. Mr.. C.'s manner of late, leaves no
doubt as to his having been mentally deranged
Sunday morning he was still alive, but sink
ing rapidly.
There has been some regret that Farragut
has not a more euphonious name. a gentle
man, with slight German proclivities, says
that it is not to be complained of, that it is in
truth, 'ye,Ty goot. "-Frorideace Journal.
WAR ITEMS.
\ correspondent of the Tribune, describ-
ing the battle of Williamsburg, at the mo-
ment when eight thousand of our brave fell
lows stood like a wall of rock to repel the as
sault of twenty-five thousand of the fresh
troops Of the enemy, narrates the following
incident: "Brigader Perry of the stout state
of Misunderstanding through the mud and rain
at such speed that he actually overlook and
passed three other brigades-came in sight.
Heintzelman shouted with gratitude. He ran
to the nearest band and ordered it to meet the
coming regiments with Yankee Doodle and
to give them marching time into the field with
the Star Spangled Banner a wild hurrah
| went up from the army and with a yell that
| was electric three regiments Of Berry's brigade
went to the front, formed line nearly half a
| mile long, and commenced volley-fring that
no troops ON earth could stand before-then
at the doublcquick dashed with the bayonet at
the rebel army and sent them flying from the
| field into their earthw Orks, pursued them into
the largest of them, and drove them out be-
hind with the pure steel, and then invited
them to re-take it,
During the battle of Shiloh, boy belonging
to the 9th Indiana was struck on the thigh by
a cannon ball, SCATTERING his leg dreadtully.
In his agony he exclaimed as he fell: ''Oh,
mother! mother! take me away from this
place" An officer of his company harshly
ordered him to cease his cries. In less than
five minutes the officers head was taken off by
another cannon bali. The youths leg was
amputated, but he died under the operation.
WAR WIT.
A wit says that the successes Of our navy
on the southern coast will soon enable the
president to be hospitable enough to open a
little port almost every day after dinner
Gen. Prentss was taken-first by surprise
and then by Bcauregard.
The rebels can well afford to give up all
their church bells, COW bells and dinner bell,
to Beauregard, for they never go to churcl
now, their cows have all been taken by torag-
ing parties, and they have no dinners to be
summoned to.-LOuiSCiHe journal.
A rebel editor has got as he says, file o.
the Louisville journal and is swapping at il
every week Let him snap away, says Prem.
tice, we guess It's quite as hard upon the teetl
as 'tother file that 'tother viper bit.
In one Of the most filthy cabins abandoned
by the rebel soldiers at Yorktown was tounC
the following special notice; Gentlemen are
politely requested not to handle anything be.
longing to this mess room, except by permits
sion, as too much familiarity breeds con