Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-08

| Wednesday. The fire was occasioned bv
defect in the chimney. The furniture was
| entirely removed, but the building was totally
! destroyed. Insured.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Greenfield has furnished 223 men for the
war and paid i'll bountes S12700.
| Franklin county has raised between 50 and
60 men more than its quota.
John Holland was drowned at Mortified on
the 23d ult. He was crossing at Stebbins'
Terry with load of corn, helping pull the
ooat across. When the wire was thrown from
the post, he was jerked out of the boat by the
force of the current, and drowned before anv
assistance could be rendered him. He was
Sc years old, and leaves two motherless child.
| rem.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
A company OF individuals have commenced
| operations upon the slate quarries in Little
| ton. The enterprise promises well, the spe
clmens comparing favorably in color, rift.
thickness, and elasticity with any slate in
New England. The quantity is exhaustless.
Frederick Robinson of Brentwood, has three
sons, all of whom are in the army. He is.
moreover, old and inirm. Last Wednesday
evening he was sitting quietly in his barn,
huSklng corn, when fourteen young ladies
| drove him into the house, and occupied the
| barn. They remained until ten O'Clock, and
finished the husking-one hundred bushels.
RHODE ISLAND.
Ripe strawberries were picked Tuesday last
from the vines in garden belonging to Mr..
| George b. Bowen No. II Hewes street The
vines are vigorous, and contain blossoms and
green ripe fruit. The vines are partially
shaded, receiving the sun only during Dor
ton of the afternoon. Still they have BIOS
somed and fruited the entire season. A friend
at Saratoga gave Mr.. Bowen two slips, which
he brought home and put out. They lived
and grew vigorously, extirpating the grass,
which usually is the pest of a strawberry bed.
1t is believed they are variety not common
ly cultivated.-Poridence Journal, It'll.
CONNECTICUT.
Ezra Chapel, an old and wealthy citizen of
New London, has for number of winters
past distributed weekly several hundred loaves
OF bread to the poor of that town, and he has
already commenced his charitable labors for
this season.
The cotton mill at the Atawangon village,
hlllngy, has again been put in operation, af-
ter suspension of few months. The Wan
regan mill, Plainfeld, now runs full time.
Manufacturing generally was never more
brisk throughout Connecticut than at the pres
ent time.
Aaron johnson, native of Haddam, is A
Mormon bishop in Utah, has ten wives, of
whom three were his nieces. He has a BROTH
er whose domestic felicity is limited to three
bosom companions, and is reported to be on
the lookout for more
George Clark Of Hartford lost an OK We'd
nesday, in consequence of its drinking water
that flowed from the gas works of Colts ar
mory. On skinning the animal, its flesh was
found to be pervaded with the strong tarry
odor peculiar to the manufacture of gas.
MISCELLANEOUS.
deposit of gypsum, one hundred and fifty
acres in extent, and equal to the best Nova
| Scotia article, has been discovered within
sixty rods of lawns bay, Saginaw county,
Michigan. 1t is pure white plaster, and the
bed has been bored into fifteen or twenty feet
without going through 1t can be mined for
fifty cents per ton. This discovery is of great
Importance, as the deposit is in close PROV
unity to the route which all westward bound
vessels take.
The Sun Mutual Insurance Company of
New York makes a scrip dividend of 16 per
cent on the premium notes of the year, and
pays per cent interest on the outstanding
scrip. The net profits for the year ending
3lst ult. are $266, l20. The outstanding scrip
of 1856, and the whole scrip of 1857, is to be
redeemed in cash in January next, leaving
the accumulated profits in the hands of the
company over one million of dollars
1t is stated that the flow of the Pennsylva-
MIA oil wells is decreasing, the daily product
OF the whole region being estimated at scarce
ly 1000 barrels.
The leading book publishers of New York
have advanced the trade price of their books
from ten to twenty-five per cent, on account
of the increased cost of printing paper
The Detroit HrihuOo No,u I
icle, Hartford Times, Hartford Press, and
Hartford Courant, have increased their rates
on account of the great advance in paper and
everything used in making newspaper.
The strikes continue in New York. The
horse-shoers and house painters are combin-
ing TO exact higher wages from their employ
ers.
WAR ITEMS.
An officer of the second regiment New York
state volunteers, in a letter to his family, saws
''The coolest thing ever yet heard of, hap
pened at the battle of Fair Oaks. Right in
the hottest of the fight two of the seconds boys
got at loggerheads, and threw down their
muskets and fell to at fsticutfs, had it out,
picked up their arms, and again pitched into
the rebels. | have heard of a wheel within
wheel, but battle within battle is something
new"
leller from paroIed prisoner at Anapo-
lis, says there are about seven thousand pa
rolled soldiers there. A gold many of the pa
rolled men manage to desert, by putting on
citizens clothes, although they are all under
guard. They are as general thing, suffering
for blankets and tents, and it is very sickly
with them just now, very many of the men
dying off at a great rate.
letter from an officer of Gen. Burnside's
army, which is accommodating the passes of
the Blue Ridge, says: every mile we have
travelled away from the Potomac, has brought
us into more decidedly marked secession
community, until here, in Snickersrille,
(Phebus, what name y they generally de-
nand confederate money in place of Uncle
Sans, or any other Yankee article"
The Last Moments of Gen. Mitchell,
Correspondence New York Tribune