Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-24
General News Summary.


John Bottom, an EngliShman, committed
suicide Monday, at one Of the boarding houses
OF the NayasSet company in Springfield. He
had been for a week stupefed with liquor, at
vile den in the city where he had lost his
money, and on being removed became deli
rious and cut his throat. He leaves family
in England.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The Salem Light Infantry, 50th regiment
Capt. George d. Putnam, in camp at Box
ford, have ordered Shorts Patent Knapsack
at their own expense, this mode of singing
being far more comfortable to the soldier
while on the march than those dealt out by
the government.
mandatory of flax cotton is about to be
commenced in Lawrence. The buildings and
water poweron Turnpike street, formerly used
by MesSrS. Stevens as wool hat manufacto-
ry, have been purchased by S. C. Allen and
others of Boston, and the works will be set
going without delay.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Michael, son of Timothy Sullivan of Fall
River, young man Of seventeen years, was
killed Monday morning by falling through the
elevator in the Troy MILL distance of three
stories. In the fall his back was broken, and
he died almost instantly.
VERMONT.
Jewett Hill, now miserable tirunkard, but
formerly one of the leading business men of
Sheffield, was recently placed in the ST. Johns
bury jail. There he was attacked with deliri-
um tremens, beat the jaier, and set fire to the
Jail.
The volunteers stationed at Bradford have
been treating ''SeceSh' farmer of that vicin-
ity to rides upon Il rail- and other little atten-
tons of the kind. One of the soldiers, in a
melee which resulted, had both of his legs
broken.
RHODE ISLAND.
The official statement of the reduisition
upon Rhode Island under the two last reoui
sitionS of the president makes the whole
number 5424 men. The apportionment has
been made among the several towns which
have been ordered to send their quotas forth
with to the general rendezvous at Providence.
CONNECTICUT.
Capt John ID. GriSwold of the 18th Con-
nectlcut regiment was killed in the battle of
Antetam. He was a native of Lyme, and
graduated at Yale college in the class of 1857.
He fell in foremost ranks leading his company
IN the charge across the Antietam and was
shot while yet in the water
Frederick Gould, son of James II. Downs.
of New Haven, died day or two since. after
month of cXcruciating suffering, caused by
the bursting of a fluid lamp, which he and Il
companion were playing with on the 22d of
August last.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hon. \. Pryne, Il member Of the New York
Assembly, committed suicide at his residence
in Williamson, n. Y, on the Sd inst. He had
been deranged for several days past, andwhile
in this state committed the terrible deed. He
would have been renominated to the Assembly
this fall
j. S. b. Todd, who has been elected dele
gate to congress from the new territory of
Dacotah, is brother of Mrs. Lincoln, and
graduate of West Point in 1887.
The chair manufacturing establishment of
the Messrs. Seymour in West Troy was des-
troyed by fire Saturday morning. The build
ings were filled with the best of machinery.
and large quantities of stock. The calamity
must throw about two hundred men out of
employment. The fire spread to a large
number of small buildings in the vicinity of
the factory. The condagration is the most
disastrous one which has visited West Troy
for years.