Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-16
SO per month of their pay toward the support

the books OF paper mill in which lie held
partnership interest, and has also taken S20,O0O
of the money of the concern. So says the
Bennington Banner.
RHODE ISLAND.
In Providence, Alexander G. Sweet, col.
ored barber, has been arrested, at ihe instance
OF he school authorities charged with having
In his possession, for the purpose OF sale, ob-
scene prints, books cards, &c. y search dis
closed the fact that he had large quantity of
those Objectionable articles all OF which we're
SEIZED and lie was arraigned before the court
OF magistrates and committed for examination.
lie was in the habit of selling his goods t.
school girls whom he could decoy into his
den.
CONNECTICUT.
The annual medical examination of Yale
College took place on the 9Th inst, when the
following gentlemen received The degree of NJ
ID. Edward Orson Cowles, North Haven
Nathaniel Wells French, Concord n. H.
Edwin Latham Gardner, .Munrose, Penn
Jarius Francis Lines, VIM Mcneil, and Chas
Wooley Shetfrey, New Haven.
The dwelling house of Wells Peasc, in En-
field, was broken into, Friday night, the 10Th
iust and robbed of S476 in bank notes, about
81 in silver change, and one gold and ole
silver watch.
Five tons of shot were delivered at Fort
u'hN"lf ou Ohtuiutl, ny the pEOUeiier
Qunnebaug. Powder and shells to match are
expected
The whaling fleet of New London has been
reduced from twenty eight ships and barques
nine brigs and schOOners with Tonnage OF
IL ,245 on the first of January, 1861, to four
teen ships and barques, and six briggs and
schOOners, with a tonnage of 6259, at the
present time. The importation of s elm OIL
whale oil, and whalebOne into the port the
past year amount to 2l7 barrels sperm, 10 452
barrels whale, and So $50 pounds OF bone,
falling greatly short OF that OF 1860.
Capt G., an old sea captain, who boards at
the Union House, New Haven, cleared off the
snow from in front OF the hotel, Sunday morn.
ing. Nothing rema kable about that, only the
captain was barefoot, accepted the job in a
banter from Mr. Allis, got SIS for it, and anus
ed a crowd of lockers on.
The New Haven Courier says :-"Henry c.
Pardee Of this city, son Of Hon. Stephen d.
Pdrdee has been appointed adiutant Of the
tenth Connecticut regiment. All OF Mr.. Par.
dee's SONS; three in number, are serving their
country in Gen Burnsidc's expedition. One,
Benjamin S, is captain of Company A, tenth
c. "; the second, Henry c., is adiutant of
the same regiment; the third, Stephen, is
c0mmissary sergeant. The two latter have
been promoted IRON the ranks"
AT the annual prize debate of the senior
class, in the Linonian Society OF Yale College,
on Monday evening, the prizes were awarded
to the following persons - FIRST to ID. II.
Chamberlain OF Worcester, Mass second to
NJ. G. Day of Bddeiord, Maine third to r.
w. Alling OF Orange, Conn. tiitd 10 j. H.
Crosby OF Bangor, Maine.
WAR ITEMS.
Lieut.. Col. Gabriel j. Rains, the officer who
mustered in the first and second Vermont reg
inlputS has hnau 10, i,ri.
eralShipin the confederate army, and assigned
to duty in Kentucky. This is only another
instance showing how thoroughly the service
was permeated by treason, aud the difficulties
under which the administration has lahorcd in
separating the chaf IRON the wheat
Letters from distinguished Englishmen and
Frenchmen, friendly TO the United States re-
ceived by late steamers. unite in saying that
the only way by which tins country can be
saved from foreign intervention, is by great
victory over the rebels. Weilknown Amer.
cans abroad, including minister Sanford, write
TO the same effect A forward movement,
they say, is our only salvation.
The Chicago journal states that the thirty.
seventh Illinois regiment, better known us the
Fremont rifle regiment, on their last pay day
sent home 1000 to their families aud on
their next which occurs during the latter part
OF this month, will send home $50 900. The
secret of this cOmmendablc action and thou ght-
full consideration Of the wants OF those they
have lett behind is, that the regiment is with,
out suter.
The Massachusetts colonel who had the rat
tesuakes in lis boots, is said to be Col Wheel
ock, who succeeded Col. Couch in the COM
mand OF the seventh regiment. Perey says
he has resigned. Capt RUSSELL West Point.
er, is talked Of as his successor
MISCELLANEOUS
Two children, Joseph Lowe and Philip
McNa!y, were drowned at Columbus ONO,
while playing on the ice i'll the river a New
foundland dog, which was harnessed to their
sled, made frantic efforts to save them. In
the struggle he tore himself loose from his toy
harness, and went crashing through the ice TO
reach them.
Timothy Higgins, employed in Harris
wooden factory at eds, Greene county, N.
Y, was caught in The gearing of a wheel
making 200 hundred revolutions per minute,
and thrown up against the ceiling bruising
him so that he died on Wednesday.
One hundred cOnvicts are to be transferred
from the Sing Sing to the Auburn risOn, on
account Of the languishing condition of work
in the former institution. Plenty of work can
be furnished TO all the convicts that can be
accommodated with quarters ut the Auburn
prison.
man VINO llau previously borne gOOu
character entered grocery in Ogdensburgh,
N. l., IA few nights since, and took Il position
near tea chest and in the evening slyly filled
his overcoat pockets with tea. Long before
he had succeeded in filling his pockets, the
proprietor of the store had observed his pro-
cetdlngs, and suffered him to cottinue The
THEFT until he WAS about TO leave with Iii,
booty, when he Informed the scamp that he
would weigh the tea de had in his pockets
Ihe thief was then compelled to disgorge. On
weighing The tea it was found he ha, taken
something over live pounds. In consideration
OF the man . previous good character, no Grim
inal proceedings were had.
Camel coal has been discovered at Crab
Orchard, hy.i by the troops there, aud the in
ha0itantS are astoniShed at it, One man said
that several years ago he had dug well an
adJonng tIrm, ill., ough the same sort of
stun, but that it never occurred to him that
il was eannet coal.
Cl,aranccS from New York to Drummond.
town, the port OF entry for loyal Eastern Vir.
gina, are rapidly on the increase. The schoon.
erS go out in ballast, and bring. back oysters
and hrewoud
When war was apprehended with Great
britain, extensive orders were received in this
country for the purchase at sperm oil, and the
article advanced until $3.50 per gallon was
asked. To day we undtrs that most of
the foreign orders have been withdrawn, and
prices have become Standardization TraU
eiler, 18Th.
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