Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-26
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The Providence journal announces that it
will publish on and after to-day, regular
evening edition, to be called the Evening Bull
letn.
WAR ITEMS.
The following severe sentence was recently
imposed by court martial on private sol
dier who left his regiment during the battle of
Fredericksburg and skulked i'll the woods
That the word coward be printed on board
that board to be dashed to his back that
he then be marched in. front of his regiment
from right to left, and from lett to right back
again; that he serve out the remainder OF his
term of his enlistment at hard labor upon
such public works as the proper authority may
designate; a ball, twenty-five pounds in
weight, alta ched to chain six feet in length,
to be fastened to his right leg every second
month of his imprisonment.
Friends of ''Fighting Joe Hooker in Cali
toLnia, propose to send him by the next steam
err, an elegant sword-the blade of, fine steel,
the scabbard of solid silver, mounted with
bands, chasing and ornaments Of native gold.
The hilt carries female figure holding on
her head basket made of auriferous quartz,
leaped with diamonds Of large size and of
''tirst water" The hilt is also encireled with
| diamond stars, and massive gold chain eX-
tends from the figure head to the guard.
| Below all is engrayen the memorial inscrip-
| tion:-
MAJOR GENERAL HOOKER,
From his tellow-ciuzens Of San Francisco,
California, December 26, 1862.
Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Glendale, Bull Run,
Germantown, Malvern Hill, South
Mountain, Antietam.
| The government contemplates making a
military and naval station at Brunswick, Ca,
WI, h,ri
ing the terminus Of the Florida and Brunswick
railroad, which connects it with Mobile and
| New Orleans, is peculiarly fitted for base of
| operations and port for the liberation OF the
cotton now held in that region in large guam
titles, and the procuring of supplies. Move
ments of great magnitude are on foot, which
are intended in a very short. time, to give
us permanent possession of all South Carroll.
ma and Georgia.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Prussian minister at Rome is afflicted
with temporary fits of insanity which some
| times appear under very awkward circumstan-
| ces. During recent visit of the Prince and
| Princess of Prussia at Rome, they were one
day at dinner at the Cafarelli palace, with
their usual circle, and the Duke and Duchess
Of Monticello, when to the surprise and hor-
| rOr of everybody, in Stalked the ambassador,
as pale as ghost, and looking very like one
in his night shirt and dressing gown, and de-
manded in an imperious tone, what all the
| persons he beheld were collected for in his
palace, and whether they or he were to be
considered as masters of the house! The
| Princess Of Prussia, who is also Princess
| Royal of England, and a woman of tact as
well, soothed the unfortunate baron with her
| caresseS and led him from the room.
The sale of rare coins in New \ ork has al
ready reached the sum OF $1,000, and is still
| going on. A cent of the coinage of 1904
brought the astonishing sum of $36 90; a
cent of 1876 brought $50 90. The diSme
silver piece of 1892, whereof tradition saith it
was coined of silver brought to the mint then
just established, by Washington himself, sold
for S54 90. The ha!f-diSme of the same
coinage brought ST. so. A dollar of 1888,
proof copy, S2S 90; the same, 1888, $50 90 !;
pattern half dollar, 1889, proof, S27 80; Cob
recht dollar of 1886, SIT 90; New York
Washington piece, SO called, known better as
the Non II riytute vici piece, was sold for
$50 90. \ Washington half dollar, in poor
condition, brought $50 90.
T. Jefferson Boyer, IL democratic member
of the Pennsylvania legislature, has publish
ed a ''card" with figures and dates in detail,
stating that he was offered $4,000 to vote
| for Simon Cameron, and that the money for
| his vote was deposited in the hands of John
j. Patterson of Harrisburg Boyer voted at
last tor Buckalew, and says that he intended
! to all the time, pretending to be purchased
bic for the purpose Of exposing those who
| tried to bride him. The matter is before a
committee of investigation.
When Lord Seymour died in Paris, short
time since, ii was found that by his will he
| had bequeathed half million Of francs to one
NJ L II
sand francs to her besides The avaricious
creature, not content with such a fortune is
sueing in the courts for more, alleging a codi-
Gill; and much of the old lords sad lite is de-
lectatng to those who read the tribunal re-
ports Select society in the wicked capital
interests itself greatly in the trial.
Little Patti has paid visit to RoSsini, who
is living jolly nabob life in Paris. He was
very kind and complimentary to her, told her
she was a second Malibran, accompanied her
on the piano while she sung some of his
songs, Sc, &c. Figardo, who reports the
story, describes the old maestro as quite
touched by the artlessness of the 'little Amer
lean savage" as he called her.
Rev. DIR. Bellows, of New York, has re-
| ceived from California a Duchesse d'Angou-
leme rear, weighing three pounds and seren
| ounces. 1t was grown upon a tree belonging
to Thomas Brown of San Francisco, which
has often produced fruit not quite as large as
this indeed but still large enough to shame
| anything raised this side of the Rocky Noun
tuins.
John Rogers, the artist, has perfected a re-
markable and life-like statuette of Edwin
Booth, represented as Hamlet in the scene
where he proposes to follow the ghost, saying
Lead on The sword is firmly grasped in
his right hand, the left hand pointing forward,
the body poised upon the advanced left foot,
giving an idea of activity and life which sculp-
tured pictures rarely present