Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-03
General News Summary.

letters from the post Office and conveying
them to convicts to whom they were directed.
He was taken before the police court, and
held in 5000 for trial. 1t is stated that Mr..
Davis was not aware he was committing any
crime, though the penalty for the offence is
imprisonment in the state prison.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Sunday the citizens of East Lexington ar
ranged a cavalcadc, and proceeded to the town
line of West Cambridge, and received Mr..
Henry A. Anger, one of the returned prison.
ers captured at Bull Run, and escorted him to
the house of his father, in the northern part
of Lexington. The procession halted at the
battle-ground, where salute of thirteen guns
was fired by order of the citizens Mr.. Anger
was warmly welcomed by his fellow towns
! men.
MAINE.
The house of Nehemiah p. Strout, in Po-
land, was consumed by fire Saturday, oath.
There was an insurance of 5000 on the house.
One hundred bushels of potatoes in the cellar
were lost
Murray Larrabee of Whitfield, committed
suicide by hanging on Friday of lost week.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
On Saturday last Il freight train on the
Cheshire railroad was switching from one
track to another at Keene, when one of the
DTdkellleu, MT. Il rdnClS M. NOuDOlu, was
thrown from the top of the cars, and falling
upon the track, the wheels passed over his
head and shoulder, killing him instantly. He
was about % years of age, and young man
of excellent character.
RHODE ISLAND.
| An individual has been in Providence APP
| pealing to the charity of the people, and rep
! resenting himself as a member of the Massa-
chusettS sixth, and as one of those wounded
on the 10Th of April. lie has lost leg and an
arm, and has hare lip, by which he can be
identified. He is an imposter, never having
belonged to the regiment.
CONNECTICUT.
Porter Kellogg, who assisted the warden in
the Toole affair, has been pardoned out of
the Connecticut state prison by the legisla-
ture. He was formerly of South Amherst,
and his offence was being implicated in the
robbery of Adams & Co.'S express. He has
+ served about sixteen months on term of five
years
The Hartford manufacturing company of
plated ware received on the Both large or
der from'one of their old customers in New
Orleans. This is the first order from that city
since March, 1861, when the secession frenzy
broke out.
Joseph Hall of Preston died last Friday
from lockjaw, caused by awound in his finger,
made by the machinery in his wooden mill.
The New London Chronicle tells the story
Of a horse which was the property of Abner
Bassett about IL years since, and was used
by him for ten years to haul up vessels on his
marine railways by travelling around caps
tan. Being unfit for use, he was turned into
a lot where, after eating quietly during the
forenoon, he repairs regularly every after
noon to particular part of the lot and travels
for hours with great deliberation around an
imaginary capstan, hauling up imaginary YES
sells upon an imaginary marine railway.
Counterfeit SO bills on the Merchants Bank
of Norwich, and So bills on the Hatteras Bank,
of Bethel, are reported as being in circua-
ton.
Personal.
1t was mentioned on the 18th, at the meet
ing of the Manchester Board of Guardians,
that warrant was being sought for the APP
prehensiOn of an artist, named Andre Beaure-
gard, who has left his wife chargeable to the
township, and who claims to be a cousin of
the hero of Bulls Run.-English Paper.
1t is reported that the wife of the rebel
Gen. Lee will not be released until the rebels
fulfil their agreement to give up Col. Corco-
ran.
DIR. John S. Rock, of Boston, who lee
tured last week in Washington was refused
permission to leave i'll the cars until he gave
$1,000 bonds that he was not fugitive slave
1t is stated that senators Sumner and Pome-
roy were offered as sureties and refused on
the ground that they were abolitionists The
| secretary of war finally interfered in behalf
| OF the doctor, and his prosecutors reluctantly
yielded to his authority.
On the 23rd of March, at Waialua, Sand
witch Islands, Moses William Vose, a native
of Woonsocket Falls, New Providence r. l.,
was killed by the kick of horse. His funeral
was attended by all the Americans of the dis
trict, and the funeral sermon was preached
by Rev. J. S. Emerson.
A Washington dispatch says that for sever
al days past the president has been constant
| y, day and night, in attendance at the war
department. He supervises all that is done in
reference to army movements. He is indie
fatigable in his attention to business, and in
tends to confine himself to military matters
until the crisis shall have been passed
WAR ITEMS.
Hanover Court House recently taken from
the rebels in Virginia by Gen. Mcclellan is
noted as the birth place of Clay and where
Patrick Henry once resided.
The Atlanta Contederacy proposes and the
| Petersburg Express indorses heartily, ''that
Beauregard, secretary Randolph, or JEFF. Da-
Wis issue an order, that for every lady in New
Orleans who is maltreated under Buffers or
der, ten Lincoln prisoners be put to death"
lad Of fifteen years Of age, belonging to
the 9th Wisconsin, whose name is Douglas
and resides at Beaver Dam, was in the battle
Of Williamsburg, and got his gun wet so that
itcould not fire. During the hottest of the fight,
and whilst the regiment was falling back, he
deliberately sat down. took out his screw
driver unscrewed the tube from the gun, dried
it out, put it back, capped it, got up and put
into the field as if nothing unusual was going
on.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Newark Daily Journal, paper of Sc
cession proclivities, issued bogus telegram,
the othey day, as an indication of what it
would like to have true, with the following
headings =
Glorious News
Peace Proclaimed throughout the Land!
Beauregard and Haeck II DIST the Flag of Truce
| Mcclellan and Johnston Declare an Armstice.
jeff Davis and Abe Lincoln Resigned
The federal and Confederate Congress Adjourn
sine die.
Convention of People ordered TO meet at Tren-
ton, n. j., ON the 4th of July.
The Armies Ratty the Order
The Leeds Mills in Leeds, Orange county,
New York, were destroyed, by fire on Satur-
day, the 9TH ult Loss $S5,OOO Insurance
$4,000.