Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-29
General News SUMMARY


ESSEN COUNTY.
Hon. Mr. Allen has had new post Office
established at Riyerdale, near Gloucester, and
Miss Lizzie Elwell is appointed postmistreSs
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
"NiXon, Goldsmith 4 Co." are flooding por-
tons Of New England with circulars, con-
taing flaming prospectus of Il ''Grand Lee
wee" with distribution of ''cash gifts" to the
amount of $500, 000-tickets 81 each-the
lottery to be drawn at Derry depot, N. H., on
the l4th of February. The whole affair is of
course Il swindle.
CONNECTICUT.
Six buildings in New Milford were de-
stroyed by fire, Saturday evening, starting
from Frederick Boardman's barn, and includ-
ing Mrs. Eddy's eating saloon and dwelling
house; Mr.. Burke'S shoemaker's shop; Mr..
Charles Booths dry goods and grocery store
Mr.. AlngS meat market; Mr.. Peckham's
saddle shop. The property, except Mrs. Ed
dys house, belonged to Hon. Andrew b. My
gait. Mr.. Warner had both legs broken at
the fire by the falling of chimney.
Sarah Leroy, young lady of good charac-
ter, only sixteen years of age, "rather tall,
light complexion, blue eyes, dark brown
hair" wearing a '.jockey hat with white
plume, tinted with pink" disappeared from
Tarifvillc on the l4th of January, and has
not since been seen.
The late DIR. Beechers estate in New Ha-
ven has been purchased by the Catholics,
who will erect an educational institution upon
it.
j. I. Mercer of New Haven, while walk.
ing on the track of the New York and New
Haven railroad, near Milford, Tuesday morn
ing, was run over by the train and instantly
killed.
RHODE ISLAND.
The legislature of Rhode Island has trans
ferred to Brown University the benefits of the
grant of public land in aid of an agricultural
college; and the secretary Of state left Tues
day evening for Washington to complete the
necessary arrangements for securing the
100000 acres in an eligible location. Only
one or two states have as yet taken definite
action in the matter, and Rhode Island is thus
among the earliest in the broad fields of Uncle
Sam.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Some of the admirers of Gen. Mcclellan
in New York, have presented to Mrs. Nee.
house on Fifth Avenue, which an excited Boz
heman describes as follows: ''In this man
sion the utile dulci have been most eXquisitely
combined While the deep parlors are COW
cred with the rich carpets Of Turkey, the ca
pacious cellars are stored with amphor@ Of
such Falernian wine as Horace would have
been pleased to breach. The safes, cup
boards and lockers have been crammed with
the choicest groceries and delicacIeS which
could delight the most EpicureaE tastes and
appetites. Around the lofty walls are sus-
pended splendid paintings-the chiefad'Gueres
of ancient and modern masters while glitter
ing chandeliers depend in brilliant beauty from
its ceilings The silly wight of the Boston
Courier catches the fever, and says sit is like
the presentation Of Blenheim to the Duke of
Marlborough by the British naton!'
The original manuscript of Gray's Elegy,
consisting of two small half sheets, written
over closely, and much mutilated, sold at auc-
ton in London recently, for one hundred
pounds sterling. volume with ''W. Shaks
peare" on the tly-leaf was sold sixty years ago
for one hundred guineas; but, probably, with
that exception, no mere autograph, and no
single sheet OF paper, ever before produced
the sum of $500.
Mrs. Root, wife of Jerome Root, township
collector of De Kalb, Illinois, was frightened
to death last week, by Il man dressed in a
white sheet, with a coat wound around his
head. He knocked at her door in the evening;
she gazed for Il moment at the horrid figure,
and then fell backwards to the floor lifeless.
The ghastly joker is a merchant of respecta.
Bile standing.
Six thousand fuses were simultaneously ig-
nited at the Watervliet New York; arsenal
Friday afternoon, causing a terrific explosion.
Fortunately there was no powder shell
within exploding distance, and no one was
injured.
The Washington Star says it is understood
that Gen. Hooker has already his plan of
campaign well chal1ed out, and that with the
very first. opportunity for breaking the mud
blockade he will enter upon its active deyel-