Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-13
dQlurtcster HlOnOap HlOrnins, yanuarg l5, 1852.

Poultney, together with the town records, was
destroyed by fire on FRIDAY morning. Loss
$4,000
The people of Western are building n
schoolhouse, to cost, when completed, some
$1,000. Over the school rooms, two in nun
Der, is large and c0mmodiOus hall.
The wife of Sandy Kavanagh was found
dead AT Burlington, Thursday morning, in the
cellar of little house, with cash under the
ear, one on the arm, AMI serious injuries to
the head. She is supposed to have been
murdered.
RHODE ISLAND.
Sixteen persons have died in Bristol during
the year 1861, who were over seventy years of
age. Their united ages were 1888 years, be
ing an average OF eighty years to each person.
The number of vessels that passed Lime
Rock light in Newport harbor, during the
month OF December last, was 754, as follows:
l ship, , barqueS, 2S briggs, 52S schooners, 142
sloops, SO steamers.
CoNYECTICUT.
On Sunday morning. the 9th inst, the
blacksmith and carriage shop opposite Jones'
tavern, in East lIaddam, was destroyed by
fire, together with property to the value of
$1,000 to $1,000. Not insured
Seal appear to be quite abundant in New
London larbnr just now Two more were
southeast of the Pequot They are the regu-
lar chair seal, ard are considered valuable
for the oil they produce. Their combined
weight was $50 pounds
Sheriff Merrels, of LitchfiaId county, has
arrested man named Washington Harring.
ton, supposed to be concerned in the late Win
sted bank robbery. He was examined in
Wlnsted yesterday.
WAR ITEMS
The return of the 18th regiment for the
month of December has been received at the
State House. Chas. f. Morse, ID lieutenant,
Is assistant commissary at Hagerstown. Cant.
Robert 9. Shriher is acting aid de-camp to
Gen. Banks Chas. H. IIovey is promoted to
be captain of Co. X. Col. Leonard commands
brigade Lieut.. Col Batcheder is in com.
mand OF the regiment. Major Gould has re.
ported 10 the commissary general at Washing
ton capt. Fox is i'll command of four cOmpa-
MES at Hancock.
The war department know nothing of Gen
Sigefs alleged purpose of retiring from The
army. So there is ground to hope that the
report may, after all, prove untounded
Every one Is, OF course, familiar with that
portion OF Cowper's Task which describes the
arrival If the poStman with News from all
nations numbering at his back" There is one
passage in that iption-written a hundred
years aFo---H Inch seems as if intended for the
present moment. The newspaper is opened
~ But ., the important budget! ushered in
with such Notwithstanding music, who can saw
hat are its tidingS? HUE our troops alcaked7
Or do they AN, as if nth opium drugged
Shore TO the nlWaaaTs of the atlantic tcare? ?"
MISCELLANEOUS.
n pair OF stockings recently sent by a lady
for the use Of some gallant volunteer was &C
companled by the following verse -
Brave sentry, yOur lonely heat
May these blue stockings warm your feet;
Ana when from war and camps you part
May some fair knitter warm your heart
he wIe OF respectable printer NAMED
Fannan, residing in Toronto, c. w, clipped OF
Tuesday last with 4 shoemaker named McIn
tosh. When Fannan heard his wife had gou,
he very coolly said = We'll, let her rip
there's plenty moreswomen in Canada
The Dansvile IN, Y Herald says: "AIr
Newman Roberts of Scottsburgh, caught
genuine wildcat in a trap few DAYS since
between that place and Conesus. 1t wa
about the size of large dog. About a yea
since we chronicled the capture of one in tht
town of Sparta"
Stephen G.rard, the far-seeing and clear
healed millionaire, had but one eye, it is said
What rebuke this is to such of us as havl
two eyes, and yet have not made half til,
money that he did. Perhaps it is owing t.
oversight in us.
An old soldier recommends for camp tina
which won!d not be bad otherwheres Warn
beer with an egg in it, and an infusion of suga
and ginger. The veteran prescrbes it as
temperance beverage, more warming in it
qualities than whisky.
Arctic voyagers have preserved themselvt.
BY sleeping in snow We knew case, som,
years since, OF a fellow who, fancying he wa
going to bed, lay down beneath il fence, am
was covered by snow bank before morning
lie was found by his breath, which streame
up from hole where his head was, like
chimney hue.