Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-29
General News Summary.

ESSEX COUNTY.
Rufus Heart of South Danvers boasts a no.
BILE line of descent. His father fought in the
war of 1912, his grand father through the rev.
olution, and his great-grandfather through the
French war. The last of the line has been
fighting rebeldom from the beginning
The Ncwburyport Herald states that J..
Vincent Browne is to be tax gatherer in the
Essex congressional district with Amos
Noyes, Esq, as assessor.
The Salisbury manufacturing company
have decided to put up anew mill on the site
of the old factory in Amesbury, which will
probably give an addition Of nearly thou
sand to the population of Mills Village
Messrs. Colby, Merrill and Tarbox of
Lawrence started on Monday morning to raise
a new company for nine months service. The
next day night the roll contained one hundred
and thirteen signaturesi
Camp F. w. Lander, in Bedford, is desig-
mated as the place of rendezvous for the nine
months men of the state, and Col. Edward f.
Jones, of Pepperel, has been appointed gov
ernor of the camp.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Joseph Houghton, for several years mem
Der of the board of aldermen in Roxbury, and
an active member of the first Universalist So
ciety, committed suicide, Wednesday after
noon, while in fit of temporary insanity.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The mayor of New Bedford gives official
announcement that its first quota of 263 men
is full, and appeals for active corporation of
all citizens to meet the second requisition.
All places Of business are closed at o'clock
each afternoon.
The assessors of New Bedford have COM
pleted the enrolment and find 3214 persons
liable to do military duty. OF the above, 1879
are colorcd persons, 535 are already in ser
vice, and 1853 are at sea.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Rev. A. n. Field of Bernardston has en-
listed as private in the Zion's Herald COM
pany for the Tiger regiment.
The Greenfield Democrat, a paper as its
name indicates, of unhealthy political pro-
clivities, has expired.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The extensive tanneries of Norton & Ely,
in North Blandford, were destroyed by fire,
last Wednesday night. Leather and bark to
a large amount were consumed. A large
building near by, owned and occupied by Il
Mr.. Wait, card manufacturer, narrowly es-
capped destruction. The loss sustained by
Messrs. Norton & Ely exceeds $4,000. A
large number Of workmcn with families are
thrown out of employ.
RHODE ISLAND.
There was an interesting debate in the
house of representatives, Providence We'd
nesday, on the subject of enrolling members
of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, among
the militia. The old custom of the state re-
CARDS them as eXempts, and it was decided
not to reverse it by vote Of Is to At.
1t was proposed to exempt from draft call
nd mil If tba -, L,1, -
maintained that if the war had the approba-
ton of God his ministers ought to be willing
to go; and as they were not all needed here
those who were drafted might do much good
Patrick Cronan, fugitive from Justice
who has caused its officers much trouble, was
arrested in Worcester Il day or two since, and
returned to confinement, for assault commit
ted in March last on the keeper Of the town
asylum in Smithield.
CONNECTICUT.
The authorities of Connecticut have re-
ceived despatch from the war department
stating that ''the draft cannot be postponed"
The state in the meantime is hurrying forward
its enistments with commendable energy
much faster indeed than the government can
take care of them.
Edwin &. Ripley, Esq. president of the
HStna insurance company, died in Hartford,
Tuesday at the age of so years. He was
highly esteemed in all business and social re-
lations, and universally mourned in the large
circle Of his friends.
Mrs. Owen Flanager, of New Britain, went
to Hartford, Tuesday, to bid good bye to her
husband, who was going to be a soldier; and
on returning to to the cars she fell under the
wheels and was crushed to death.
II. Clay Trumbull of Hartford, and sa bbath
SphpOl mis- fc,,t
pointed chaplain of the tenth Connecticut
regiment, now stationed at Newbern.
VERMONT.
Thirty-two of the best and most costly mon
uments in the graveyard at Rutland, were
overturned last Saturday, and many OF them
grossly mutilated and broken, and all dam
aged more or less. Monuments costing from
over enc hundred to four hundred dollars
were so injured as to be nearly worthless
Bridget Gleason of Rutland, about twenty
five years of age, was so burned by the ex-
plosion of a fluid lamp on Saturday night
that her death ensued on Sunday morning
One of the wicks had been left out of the
tube, to which the explosion is attributable.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Professor Wyss of Zurich, has discovered
an interesting old manuscript Zurich chron-
icle of the fifteenth century, which contains
an exact description of the battle Of Sempach
This document confirms the patriotic legend
of Winkelreid and his sheaf Of spears, the
truth of which has lately been questioned.
The report of the capture of half the LIST
New Jersey regiment by the rebels under
jackson, on the retreat to the Rappahannock
last week, has happily turned out unfounded
The loss Of the regiment was forty-one, in
GLIDING Lieutenant Colonel Karge, severely
wounded and prisoner.