Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-12


men to lead sober and pure lives, so that the
examples of the Catholic soldiers might be as
a shining light to the whole regiment.
President Sears of Brown University has
two sons in the Rhode Island regiment, who
each hold the commission of second lleuten.
ant. All the soldiers of this regiment have
been vaccinated gratuilously by Drs. Snow,
Collins, and Ely.
Stephen Lillibridge, who poisoned himself
in Knightsville, one day last week, to escape
conviction for stealing, died on Saturday after
noon, and was buried Sunday.
Fifty spirited and weltrained horses, pur-
chased in New York for the officers and artil-
lery of the Second Rhode Island Regiment,
arrived in Fall River, Monday, and were con
veyed to Providence in charge of Mr.. Amasa
Sprague, brother OF the governor.
CONNECTICUT.
ExGov. Thomas IL. Seymour was one of n
committee appointed by the legislature to in
vestigate complaints in relation to the camp
ground of the Fourth Regiment. In making
a statement of the groundIessness of the COM
plants, he added that his sympathies were al
ways with the soldiers they were with our
volunteers as lie saw them III camp; soldiers
always had his sympathy, "Whether he ,odS in
tdcor Of the cause they 'Uere .tightlng or not"
Erigid comfort for the volunteers
Four inmates of the state reform school in
Meriden escaped from that institution, Sun
day afternoon, and were arrested in New lla.
ven.
On Friday last a lady at Rocky Hill, while
passing a brook which runs into the Connect
cut saw two fine shad summing themselves in
the stream. The shad looked tempting, the
lady coveted them, but had no fishing tackle
with her. She finally bethought Of her hoops,
took them of, and having tied the upper end,
set the contrivance in the brook and drove the
unsuspecting shad into the net, when they
were safely drawn to land, the most recent
and most cruelty deceived victims of crino.
line.
MISCELLANEOUS.
DR.. M. Il. Foye, one OF the most accom-
plished military surgeons in the country, who
was in the Crimean war, and with Garibaldi
in 1949, died suddenly on the 9Th inst He
was attached to the 38tI New York regiment.
Smith & Rand, powder manufacturers in
New York, have rendered to the governor OF
the state powder for 100000 cartridges, and
have directed their agent to deliver the same
on demand.
The town of Stockport, in central New
York, numbers 60 persons liable to do mil
ita1y duty. Of these 26 have volunteered for
the war Thirty-tour guns for Stockport
Mcdonald, for whose release from the fed
eral authorities several writs of habeas corpus
were issued at st. Louis is at Springfield, ILL.,,
and will be tried for treason
Three priyates in the Troy, N. Y. regiment
at fort Monroe, have been tried by court mar
| tial, for pundering in Virginia, aud drumned
out of the regiment, with the title "thief
| labeled on their backs.
Virginia has lost over two millions OF dol
lars, it is estimated, by the failure to make
sales northward of her truck crop of the pres
| ent season, in consequence of the act OF seccs
sion.
Kit Carson is colonel Of "a regiment of New
| Mexican volunteers, to fight for the stars and
stripes
John Sloan, the weltknown actor and theat
rical manager, died at Liverpool on the 18th
ut He had been manager OF theatres in Liy
erpool, Manchester, and London, and held
prominent places on the New York boards.
1t is reported that a countryman and pupi
| of Heenan has arrived in London f ON Amer
| lea with the intention OF challenging the con
queror in the approaching fight.
The first person killed on the rebel side a
the fight at Fairfax Court House, on Friday
last was man named Noble, brother-in-laV
of jackson, the assassin of Col. Ellsworth.
jackson, the murderer of Ellsworth, wa
the man who showed his heroism by cuttin,
off John Browns ear, after he was hung. Ill
had long enjoyed bar-room notoriety
Rev. DIR, Samson, president of Colu::.b i
College at Washington, recently visited Rich
mond on important business and at last ac
counts was missing. He was native of New
ton, Mass.
Senator Douglas joined the Free Masons i
June, 1910. He was chosen orator of TIL
grand lodge at the first annual communicate
CHOSEN by the grand lodge nj III: orator eve
Mrs. Lucretia b. Hubbell of CIyde O. RI
stricted by the conventioralities Of societ,
from going to the war herself, has presented
through Gov. Dennison, drum to the mint
regiment, with the hope that it n6ght inspir
their brave hearts in the defence of thei
| county.