Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-06
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

| NlClDlly OF DOStOH recently, llle TSCelpLS were
as follows Two one dollar bills, three
twenty-five cent postal bills, one twenty-five
cent bill of George Young'S currency, thirteen
| ten cent postal bills, nine five cent postal
bills, thirty-nine cents in silver, torty-One
three cent postage stamps, five one cent
stamps, three five cent stamps, one twelve
cent stamp, two two cent bank check stamps,
| sixteen copper cents, twenty-tOur nlckels, and
one twenty four cent stau.p.
Thursday afternoon one hundred and sew
enty deserters were brought up from fort
independence, for the purpose of being for
warded to their regiments, and were marched
to the depot of the Boston and Worcester
railroad. While going up South street, and
just before they reached the cars, which were
waiting for them near the engine house, a
| crowd of men and women gathered around
| them and handed stones and other missiles to
the deserters, who commenced an attack with
them on the guard, who, by the free use of
their bayonets, compelled the deserters to en-
ter the cars, but not before several were Sc
verely injured, and in the melee some of the
railroad employees were sufferers. After the
scoundrels had entered the cars they COM
menced breaking the windows and blinds, and
scarcely a whole one was left in the three
cars which they filled. Armed guards were
| then placed at the doors of each car, and the
train lett the city.
NIDDLESEX COUNTY.
Mrs. Maria Temple of Hopkinton whose
husband is in the army, has wandered away,
in state of insanity, from her fathers resi-
dence. A hoop skirt and a piece of ribbon
from her bonnet were found on the shore near
Whitehall Pond, so called. 1t was presumed
her body might be found. Diligent search
was made with graphing irons and hooks, but
to no avail. She left her little son, about two
| years old, to call in vain for mother. The
case is sad one.
| ESSEX COUNTY.
The valuation of the city of Salem for the
year 1862 is $l4 ,236, 800, the personal ex-
ceeding the real estate by half million dol
lars. The largest tax payers are George Pea
body $2977, and Francis Peabody $2699.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
| The proprietor of the New Bedford STAN
dard is looking very complacently upon pile
of five hundred reams of paper ''laid in" be-
fore the ''last rise" and thinks he can stand
three months siege at his present subscription
| prices. ss3
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Mrs. Mary Ketchum of Minnesota, daugh-
| ter of Sylvester Cheesbro of North Adams,
and who was married and left home about
year since, was burned to death on the 7th
inst, by her clothes taking fire, and inhaling
the flames therefrom.
VERMONT.
The citizens of St. Adams have raised the
one thousand dollars necessary to secure the
| bequest of the late Henry J. Hunt of Boston,
for the establishment of free public library
in that village.
! In consequence of the troubled condition of
the country, the executive committee of the
Vermont state temperance society deemit adj
visable to hold no meeting Of the society this
fall.
The shoemakers of St. Adams have struck
for higher wages, and they demand twenty
five cents per pair more than the former
prices for making boots. Failing to obtain
their prices, they intend to form a company
and open shop III opposition to their old en-
ployers.
CONNECTICUT.
The record of the New Haven Grays COM
pares favorably with that of the New York 7th.
The Grays volunteered on the first call for
troops, with II men, who served through the
three months term. OF those men, nearly
every one has re-enlisted, and over 60 of them
are officers, and in the field. Besides, the
| company has raised three other companies, of
| l0l men each, for the war, and has hardly half
dozen men left at home to keep up its Or
| ganization. Its captain is major, Its third
| lieutenant colonel, and its orderly sergeant
| a lieutenant colonel.
| The Palladium says the New Haven quar-
| terlies have succumbed to the pressure of the
high price of paper, and will not be issued
again
In the superior court at Norwich, Wednes-
day, Judge Human expressed himself on the
divorce question. He thought people were
too easily unhitched in that state, and that if
| npOplp NVpuIh int tlo al,
only slight acquaintance with each other,
they ought to bear the consequences. or at
least wait until they have regular, old-iash-
toned ground Of diyorce.
Personal.
Mr. William G. Tucker, for the last seven
years superintendent of the Quinnebaug mill,
in Danielsonville, Connecticut, has accepted
the position of superintendent of the mill
at Central Village, and he will occupy his
new position at the commencement of the new
year.
The Norwich Bulletin announces the death
of w. f. Barton, the well known conductor
on the boat train. He died on Thursday, of
quick consumption.
Dewitt Prouty, who has been brakeman
on the Western railroad for nine years past
has been arrested for throwing the Boston
and Albany train from the track by remov-
New York, about two weeks since. Prouty
had trial at Chatham, Wednesday, and was
bound over in $1,000 for trial at the higher
court.
Mrs. Stowe called upon Mr. and Mrs. Lin
coin, recently, and was received with much
cordially. The president told her a pleasant
story, and in return Mrs. Stowe told him a cap
ital one, which brought all present out with
laughter The president is cheerful most of
the time, but his face looks worn. The re-
sponsibility upon him is immense, and he be.
gins to feel it.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
copy of the morning report of the 18th
Mass. regiment for Nov. 10, received at the
state house, gives the number of the regiment
then on the march TO Falmouth as 362. There
were absent, APO with leave, and 10 without
| leave.
Thanksgiving was observed by the troops at
Newbern on the 9th ult in grand style. All
sorts Of amusements were brought into request
to render the period one of happiness fantas-
tics, theatrcals, gaming, fishing, sc. Very
little drunkenness was seen-in fact, the pro-
ceedlngs were strongly in sympathy with those
of the people of New England, from among
whom so many Of the soldiers at Newborn
went out.
THE WILL OF GEN. WASHINGTON IN THE
BRITISH MUsEUM.-It has been reliably as
certained that the original will of Gen. Wash
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