Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-02

| wife of Edward, for damages received in Feb
ruary, 1857, i'll consequence of a defect in the
highway near the town line on the Rockport
road. The damages are laid at $4,000 in each
case.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
A correspondent of the Dedham Gazette,
who has beenp ruralizing in the old town of
Wrentham, recalls the names of its veteran
preacher, now departed, Rev. Elisha Fisk, for
fifty years pastor of the Congregatlonalists,
and DIR. Samuel Bugbee, an old school physi-
clan, a noted wit and controversalst, strong
Universalist, but whose popularity ena-
bled him to retain a large practice in a
community religiously opposed to him.
The " Attleboro' jewellers have en-
croached considerably upon this old agricultu-
raj town, which was formerly noted for the
plumber of schoolmasters and straw merchants
mot men of straw which it sent abroad and
the wonderful industry OF its women in the
same business before the age of Sewing ma
chimes dawned upon us.
RHODE ISLAND.
Capt Lyman Allen of Montville, and his
wife, were thrown from wagon on Monday,
and Mrs. Allen was seriously hurt The wag
gon was completely smashed up.
CONNECTICUT.
Mr.. A. S. Gallup of Griswold, Conn, has in
his possession the identical sword that was car
ried through the Indian wars, in 1857, by Capt
John Mason, who was the firsl proprietor of
the town of Norwich-the same Capt Mason
who tracked the Pequots to Fairfield, and de-
stroyed them in a swamp.
Thomas Gordon, a merchant of more enter
prise than honesty, who did heavy business
on credit at Norwich under the name of Fay,
and then vanished into thin air, was hunted
up and brought back from Syracuse, n. =, on
a requisition by Gov Buckingham, on Tues
day.
Eleazer Freeman of Spring Hill, (Mansfeld)
in Tolland county, has presented the Press
with large, fragrant, and delicious bunch of
ripe purple grapes, raised in the open air from
the seeds of Malaga raisins. The fruit is
large, of good flavor, and ripe, on the 9th of
August
MISCELLANEOUS.
The official minutes" of the Orthodox
Congregationalists in Massachusetts, state that
the whole number of ministers is 386 of these
1913 are actual pastors 120 are stu ministers
of the churches over which they were ordain-
ed. Seven of these ministers have have been
settled over the same churches more than fifty
years, viz: Timothy M. Cooley, DID,, of
Granville, settled in 1876 Thos. Smell, DID,,
of North Brookfeld, settled 1898; Reuben
Emerson, Of South Reading, settled in 1904:
ID. I. Kimball, of Ipswich, settled 1906; AL
fred Ely, DID,, of Monson, settled in 1906 J;
and Samuel Osgood, DID, of Springfield set
tied in 1909.
The ninth annual festival of the United
German Turner's began in Baltimore on Sat
urday afternoon and will continue during
greater portion of the present week. The as
ISOLATION is composed of representatives from
the different Turner societies throughout the
country, and the attendance heretofore at
these celebrations has been very general. The
various Turner associations throughout the
country are under the direction of a Congress
which assemblies yearly, the last having been
held some time since i'll Cincinnati. AT this
Congress, which is composed of limited
number of delegates from the different associa-
tons, is fixed a programme of business for the
year.
Governor Wisner of Michigan, recently par
doned a convict named Bridget Murray, on
condition that she would abSt Tin from intem-
pcrance, a vice to which she appears to have
been addicted, and the source of her troubles.
She however, failed to make good her prom
Use, and has been returned to prison.
1t is officially reported to the emperor of the
French, that chloroform was used i'll 10000
surgical operations in the Crimea by skilled
sss'''''t surgeons withouta single death sim
liar success has followed It's aei.@.-;s tration Mt
Solferino and Magenta, while i'll =, Gu. =,
uOSpltsllS llcTG nave D6GH dDOuI 1OO uCdlllS III
one-third of this number of operations in the
Crimea. In London deaths from chloroform
begin to be SO common that coronor's inquests
are said to be rarely called for. Everything
depends on the mode OF administration.
Two little Irish girls, of the ages Of nine
and twelve years, arrived at Chicago a few
days since, on their way to join their father
at Hannibal, Missouri. The father came from
Ireland some time ago, and sent out for his
family to follow him. The mother died before
they were ready to start, and the two children
setting out alone, had proceeded safely thus
tar on their long journey.
After losing three separate pieces of the At
lantic telegraph cable, which had been laid
across the Mississippi at St. Louis, connecting
that city with the eastern bank of the river,
the telegraph company have adopted the plan
of binding four pieces Of it firmly together, and
succeeded in successfully laying the four wire
cable. 1t is hoped this cable may prove of suf-
fcient strength to Withstand the swift current
of the river.