Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-24

anu quantity OF DutteF, tea ana horse blan-
kets stolen. Alonzo Rogers and William Nc
Gowan, have been arrested for the crime.
McGowan turned states evidence and part of
the property has been recovered, besides 500
stolen elsewhere
Phiio Dooitte, president of the bank of
Burlington, and prominent merchant of that
town died of paralysis at his residence in Bur.
lington. Sunday evening.
Mr.. George II. Clark was ordained pastor of
the Congregational church at st. Johusbury
Centre, "Wednesday, January 10.
The late Mrs. Caiharine Il. Waldo, (says
Boston paper,) mode provision for the pay.
ment, upon the death of her husband, Henry
S. Waldo, OF $4,000 10 Middlebury college
The Episcopalians Of Bellows Falls, have
commenced the erection of new house Of
worship, to cost $4,000
CONNECTICUT.
The drafting for the state militia has com.
menced in Connecticut. The proportion is
about one out of every sixteen persons subject
to duty Those drafted can only be released
by the payment of ten dollars, procuring a
substitute or physical ncapacity. The num-
Der to be drawn in some of the principal places
is as follows Hartford 3D. New Haven 457,
Norwich 176, New London 127, Middletown
los, Waterbury SO, New Britain 65, and En-
field g.
A new post office has been established in
Simsbury, at Wetaguh station, called "Weta-
que" Seymour Pettibone is the postmaster.
Dudley E. Taylor OF New Haven has re-
ceived an appointment as Acting Master in the
U. S. Navy, and ordered to report at the Brook
lyn navy yard.
The Hartford water works supply, on an
average, 100000 gallons day, aud the en-
CINE and force pump are kept at work seven
teen hours daily, to supply it. The citizens
are becoming alarmed at the threatened INSULT
cheney Of their works, and are again talking
OF obtaining supply with natural head from
the small streams west of them.
Capt. Homer b. Sprague, of the thirteenth
Connecticut regiment, has had an elegant
sword presented to him by the teachers OF the
| New Haven public schools.
The third-a little girl-of four, children
born to the late Sam. Colt, OF Hartford, died
OIL Monday, the 20lh, leaving only his wife
and one child to inherit his vast property.
PERSONAL.
a letter from DarnestOwn, Md, of January
| 81, says that Gov. Sprague, in attempting to
cross the canal two miles below Seneca, tell in,
but fortunately scrambled out without much
| injury save good ducking.
The Rev. Henry c. Leonard, chaplain Of
the Maine regiment. was lately put under ar
rest for reproving one OF the officers OF the reg
iment for profane swearing.
WAR ITEMS.
1t is reported that Gen. Fremont is prepar-
ing an elaborate statement in reference TO the
charges made against his administration Of the
department OF the west which is to be present
ed to the congressional committee on the con
duet OF the war.
The clearance papers of the rebel vessels
recently taken off the mouth of the Mississip-
pi were dated Feb. l, 1861, showing that the
confederate government was il active opera
ton at least month before Mr. Lincoln's in
| auguration.
The confederate troops have devastated
| every region they have occupied There is
no exception. They have occupied tract Of
| Missouri. and that tract is ravaged. They
have occupied southern Kentucky, and south,
ern Kentucky is stripped as bare us moorland
They have occupied Virginia and Virginia is
waste. Everywhere devastation has followed
their footsteps. And some in the north think
1t great craftsmanship" to support armies by
such robbing and devastation To initiate
the rebel craftsmanship" the Union armies
should have laid waste not only Kentucky
Mary land and western Virginia, but also port
ions of Illinois, Obi ., and Pennsylvania
A man named VIM. b. RutZer, mailing from
New York statp las hpErr- arraatal ia Rolf.
more, ON charge OF exchanging government
horses, alter they lad been purchased, for a
class OF broken down and worn out nags
Kutzer had been employed to take charge of
the horses, and took advantage Of his position
TO practice fraud. lie is in custody, awaiting
examination. The evidence against him is
SAID 10 be conclusive.
MISCELLANEOUS
a soldier and his wife were run over on
Wednesday last, by the cars OF the Little Mi.
ann road train, Just as they were leaving the
depot at Cincinnati, early in the morning.
Both were instantly killed, and undoubtedly
deliberately laid their heads across the rail
They were seen walking together at an early
hour In the morning, the woman in tears and
the man picture of grief
The Greal Eastern-the grand mogul of
sailing crafts to be converted into a bath
house, or floating hospital. 1t has died of
plethora, or what Carlyle styles kind OF "too.
muchness."
Twenty-Five American trotters, SAYS the
Journal du HARE, have arrived at that port,
which were purchased for the Imperial stables.
Prince Napoleon has selected i've of them for
his stud and five for the King of Italy.
In notice of Major Wnthrops "John
Brent the New York Evening Post well saws
that all the good that all the leaders of the
accursed rebellion are likely to do in the world
VIII scarcely compensate it for the evil they
nave wrought in the sacrifice OF the young
anu gallant Major Winthrop alone. He was
it''H Va SShluSi Va rare anu Une powers , his
friends scarcely knew the extent of his ability
when he was alive and now that he is gone.
every new posthumous work given to the pub
nc deepens their sense of the greatness of their
loss"
Forty-two presons were killed by the citv
railroad cars in Philadelphia during the year
1861
The western country it is said, has been
entirely cleaned out oil diseased horses, bought
by scouhdrelly contractors for the government
Ring bones, spavins, bolts, &C.. are the rule.
California is remarkably productive state.
and almost every kind OF fruit and farm prod
uce is abundant and cheap this winter Po
tatoes are the only exception to the rule at the
present time. Like other vegetables, they are
sold by weight and are now retal4d by the
pound at twice the price OF the best grapes.
Cardinal Matthew, being some time ago
called upon to bless the engines of a new rail
way, took the opportunity to inveigh against
steam and electricity as diabolical inventions
One of the engines, breaking away accident.
ally, "hissed" his speech, and provoked great
laughter.
The clock on St. Paul's London. is a big
thing. The pendulum is four feet long, and
the weight at the end of it is one hundred
pounds the dial on the outside is regulated
by Il similar one within; the length of the
minute hand on the exterior dial is eight feet,
and the weight of seventy five pounds the
length of the hour figures is two feet and two
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