Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-27
General News Summary.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.

& Lbbey, Boston, was burned-loss $1,000;
also the store of Daniel JOnes-loss $1,000;
and the shoe factory of j. Fletcher & Son
loss $1,000. One horse and several carriages
in the hotel stable were burned.
ESSEN COUNTY.
At q convention of the republicans of the
| fourth senatorial district. held at Newbury,
| John &. Whittier, ''the Quaker poet" of
| Amesbury, was unanimously nominated can
| didate for state senator.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
| The New Bedford Standard says that Claude
| Greenache of Marlboro, member of Compa-
ny |, fifth regiment, accidentally fell from
alott on board the Mississippi, on Thursday,
and was killed. He had long been connected
| with circuses as an ''Original Samson" stone
| breaker, &c. His body was left at Holmes
| Hole, and was brought to New Bedford in the
| schooner Relief, on its way to the residence of
| his friends.
| HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
| Joel Hayden of Haydenvile, has been cho-
| sen president Of the Holyoke bank, at North
ampton, in place of Samuel Willston of East
hampton, who declined a reelection on ac-
count of private business.
In March last, a letter containing a draft of
fifty dollars, was mailed at Northampton to a
soldier at Washington. On the day of its ar
| rival the soldier went down the Potomac to
Fortress Monroe, and the letter was forward
ed to that place. Before its arrival there he
was ordered to Yorktown-the letter followed,
but before the long looked for document over
took its owner, he marched up the peninsula
towards Richmond. Nothing daunted, the
letter made another~ forward movement, but
as before, the soldier had gone to-Alexan-
dria. On went the letter, and on went the
soldier, and before it arrived at Alexandria,
he was fighting the rebels in Maryland. The
! great battle at Antietam over and the soldier
drought up" at Bolivar flights, near Har-
per's Ferry, where the letter, which had now be-
come something of a traveller, finally reached
| him unmolested on the fifteenth of October
just seven months from Northampton.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The quota of Palmer is full. and no draft is
needed.
The Palmer Journal says: "a lady from
| Worcester, visiting in Palmer a few days ago.
found live mouse in her pocket while sitting
down to the dinner table, having brought him
all the way from Worcester, and carried him
about half day without discovering him.
There was slight scream when his mouse
ship made his appearance"
| Two scamps named James Hayden and
! Francis Leonard. Englishmen by birth, and
| in Indian Orchard were arrested in SPRING
field, on Friday, as 1eserters, and lodged in
Jail. They have enlisted under various aliases
in different regiments in this state and Con-
necticut, and after getting the bounty desert
ed. AT Millbury they received $50 bounty
each, and at Winsted, Ct, $40 each, and
have since been having good time on their
ill-gotten funds. They will be returned to
Milbury, and we trust will be obliged to 90 to
the war, and placed in the front rank of bat
tie This getting the bounty from the govern
ment and then deserving, is the meaneSt of all
mean things.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
John Beck, freight brakeman on the Hous-
atomic railroad, was knocked from the cars by
the bridge near Lenox furnace, on Saturday,
and killed, the cars running over him and
cutting his head entirely from his body. He
was the successor of Mr.. Fuary of West
Stockbridge, who was killed onthe road few
weeks ago. Beck leaves wife and child.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Nashua Telegraph says Messrs. Within
& Hill of that place have ssued25 cent checks
redeemable at the Indian Head Bank, which
are circulating freely in that city
Capt. Henry B. Anterior of Cayendish, VT,
is to be the editor of the Nashua Telegraph.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and
of the Albany Law School, and has been in
the practice of his profession at Cavendsh.
He went out as captain in the 4th Vermont,
served eighteen months, and was wounded at
the battle of Lees Mills, a ball passing
through his thigh.
VERMONT.
The tannery of B. f. Herbert, in Coventry,
was burnt on the 10th. Loss S30O0-insur-
ance $1,000,
Amos Billings and his sister-in-law, Fran
ces II. Duncan of Pittstield, eloped from Will
mngtor on the Sd inst, and have left for parts
unknown. Billings wife was gone at the
time, and the scamp sold every article of fur
niture in the house, leaving his wife complete
ly destitute when she returned to her desolate
home.
A man named Foster, from East Swanton,
a brakeman on the Vermont central railroad,
was killed on Wednesday at White River
Junction.
Rev. Z. c. Cummings of the North church,
St. Johnsbury, has accepted the appointment
of chaplain of the 18th regiment from that
state.
CONNECTICUT.
Windham county Is suffering from long con-
tinued drOuth. Wells and streams have not
been so low for several years, and saw and
grist mills have had to suspend operations.
Crops of all kinds are good; potatoes yield
beautifully, and no symptoms of rot; apples
are so plenty as to be hardly worth the pick
ing-the best winter apples sell at one dollar
per barrel.
Two large new factories are building on the
line Of the Naugatuck, railroad. in spite of the
war. One is for the rubber manufacture at
Naugatuck, on the site of that recently burn
ed. The other is building at Asnonia, for the
hoop skirt business.
Watson Clark of Bloomfield, over 60 years
Of age, was found dead in the woods one day
last week. He has been missing for several
days.
Richard Bradley, 10 years of age, while
| playing with dagger at Hartford on Thurs
day, accidentally stabbed himself, inficting a
wound that is supposed will be mortal
A lad nine years of age son of Mr.. Fox
who drives a stage from Hartford through
Rockville and Tolland, was killed by the cars
of the train from Providence to Hartford,
Thursday. As the train was leaving the de-
pot he fell between the cars, and the wheels
cut off both legs just below tn hips He died
almost instantly.
RHODE ISLAND.
-Four buildings on the premises of Joseph
Bradford, in harrington, comprising a barn,
billiard room, wash house, and boat house,
were destroyed by fire, Friday. Loss nearly
$2000
AT Portsmouth, on Thursday, the steam
boiler connected with the oil works of Hon.
John Tallman exploded, seriously iniurinr
Mr.. Tallman and a Mr.. Bush of Newport.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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