Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

since last spring. While the fields all around
are white with snow this is all warm, and smoke
issues from every creVice.
Petitions are in circulation throughout Maine
asking the coming legislature 10 include ale por
ter, &c, in the category If Intoxicating drinks.
also asking that the death penalty may be en-
forced in capital offences
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mary Glidden is the oldest person in Tufton-
borough, being nearly IS years of age She is
bright old lady, being apparently not above four
score years old. Until within year she has
been able 10 perform many kinds of work
VERMONT.
Clarence G. A. Story OF Milton was recently
Killed by being caught in the belt of a grist mill.
CONNECTICUT.
lady in Hartford, Mrs. John Marsh by name
had heI clothes set on fire a few evenings since.
by the explosion of fluid lamp A man at
work near the door, hearing her cries and seeing
the flash of flames, rushed in eXcitedy with as
he supposed, two pals of water, which he dashed
all over Mrs. M. and the carpet 1t proved to be
tWo pals of swill. Not only the IRE but the
lady also, were considerably put out"
When George w. Curtis was lecturing in
Hartford, the evening before the recent fight, he
spoke with saddened emphasis of "the war that
Is drawing down to dusky death our young, our
brave, our beautiful" 1t now appears that his
own brother was killed the next day at Freder-
icksburg, not twelve hours after the mournfuI
words fell from the lips OF the eloquent theorst
x.
the two spiritual mediums arrested in Hartford
for adultery, had their trial in the police court on
Wednesday. They said they had been living as
man and wife for some time past. They plead
in Justification the higher law" and the ''spr-
it's The judge said that the "higher law" in
Connecticut made it state prison offence for
every married man and woman to commit adul-
terry, and as they had acknowledged themselves
guilty, he placed them under $500 bonds each for
trial before the superior court. To this Mrs.
Fox meekly replied, Let him that is without
sin cast the first stone" They were then re-
manded to Jail.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The national wal committee of New York.
mayor Opdyke, chairman, has presented a me-
mortal to congress in favor of commissioning
privateerS 10 pursue the Alabama.
The Albany Evening Journal says:-'The
oldest inhabitants will remember how conven-
lently, during the war of 1912, they used to be-
stow their ehinplasers' in the cuffs of their coat
sleeves. If this war is to last long the tailors
would consult the public convenience by leaving
an opening in the coat sleeve"
most distressing feature of the bombardment
OF fredericksburg, on the 18th, was the death of
young child. As it lay sleeping in its cradle a
Shell burst in the room aud tore it to pieces The
parents have departed and their names cannot be
learned.
One of the walters in the Phenx Hotel at Lex
ington, Ky describes his experience with the
rebel officers who tarried there during Bragg's
invasion. He :-"Eb'ry one of dem rebels
make bis own money, and dey was berry free
wild it, COZ dey know'd 1t didn't cost muffin One
gentleman gib me five dollars Tor brackin' his
boots, and tole him he was berry kline, but if it
was all de same to him I'd rather hab dime. He
tole me den dat l was Yankee niger, and DIDN'T
glib me muffin"
Gen. Mcclellan was at the fifth avenue hotel
in New York, Wednesday,
A locomotive on the Kentucky central railroad
struck bull between the eyes few days ago,
and completely lifted him over the smoke stack
ON the top OF the boiler from which place he
soon tumbled off, and then got up and went to
ealing grass, minus horn, as if nothing had
happened!