Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-27

&c. from his friends, with view to his appro-
pirate equipment.
The adjutant general of Connecticut has
published in pamphlet form, a list of names of
soldiers in the Connecticut regiments, giving
residences, age, &c, as far as known
Henry Turner, a renegade member of the
twelfth, whose thleving exploits in Groton and
vicinity have been narrated, was found, on
the 18th, in queer place about a half a mile
from camp. In an old ice house he had sunk
q musket packing box in the ground, and he
was found lying on his back in it, snugly COW
cred up with rubbish. He was dug out. tax.
en- TO Groton aud committed to Jail, to await
his trial before the superior court
The hrst Connecticut battery of artillery
has embarked on board the ship EIIwood Wal
ter, which sailed from New York Yesterday.
Tor Fort Royal. The corps takes full battery
OF Parrolrs rltled artillery, completely equip.
ped. The horses employed 10 draw the bat
terry, including those for the eighty mounted
artiierists OF the corps, number one hundred
and thirty four. The total humber Of men is
one hundred and. fiIty-four. Nearly ten tons
OF ammunition have been sent with the bat
terry.
WAR ITEMS.
1t IS feared that Capt. EppendorR, of the
NTH Massachusetts battery, will have to re-
caused by too great exposure.
There are about $50 men at camD Chase
Lowell, who belong to various corps in Gen,
Buffers New England division. There is the
Name battery, and Vermont battery, and a
company OF Infantry intended for Lieut.. Col.
Frenc:l'S regiment.
IL Is understood that Captain David A. Rus
sell, u s. A, will b, appointed colonel of the
Massachusetts seventh
Dr. George Jewet Of Fitchburg is appointed
assistant surgeon OF the Massachusetts tenth.
Col. Briggs.
New Bedford barber has gone to join the
Massachusetts eighteenth, to do the tonsoral
business Tor the boys during the war
MISCELLANEOUS.
ne numer OF horses in Massachusetts,, one
year Old and upwards, is 90,000-barely
enough, If all were in suitable condition, to
mount tile cavalry regiments of our army.
queer looking customer inserted his head
into an auction store, and looking eravely at
the knight of the hammer, inquired, Can
pa slr Certainly" replied the auctioneer,
''yon can bid. "WeIl, then" said the wag,
walking OH, Il bid you good night"
a chestnut geldlngr called GaribaIdi during
a receut hunt in Yorkshire, jumped thirty-one
teet clear, over high posts and rails.
There Is man in Hartford, Conn, whose
feet are so large that they cover two acie,s
Brooklyn has taken the lead in breaking up
the concert saloons, and the New York police
nave made movement in the same direction
they have removed the signs and show boards
IN front OF them, and it is pretty certain tlat
the exhibition days or nights of the "pretty
waiter girls are numbered
Inc annual report of the trustees of the
public schools of New York is gratifying, the
average attendance for the past year being
" IL, and the total number receiving instruc,
ton, l6O,944. The average increase over he
previous year, of attendance, is 1910, and of
those receiving instruction, II 962 Taking
IN view the increase OF population, it would
appear that one in every four attended the
pubic schools AS "knowledge is power"
VINO shall limit the power OF this country fit
continues 10 be Incorporated at this rate?
a brute named Thomas Diworth shot his
wife IN Soebury, Pa, last Sunday week. Ii
appears she was about to join the Baptist
church, to which lie was opposed and he told
her If she Joined the church he would shoot
her She started from home to 90 to church,
on Sunday, when lie took down the gun and
discharged its contents at her. The load was
lodged in her thigh below the groin.