Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-27
CONNECTICUT,

Eugene Willard shot blue heron Tuesday
afternoon, in NewingtOn-a rare bird. 1t has
a small body, the whole of it weighing only
three pounds, but measures six feet from tip
to tip Of wings, and four feet four inches from
the tip of his bill to the extremity of his feet.
The neck and head are twenty-five inches
lOng-legs nineteen inches.
Methodist camp meeting of the New
Haven district will commence on Monday
August 9th, on Abraham Chalker's farm in
Saybrook, about two miles west of the river.
The Bridgeport Standard says that the
meteoric stone about two inches square which
tile Farmer said struck in East Bridgeport, on
the night OF the meteor, was mot of meteoric
origin, but was thrown from gravel train"
a cruel piece of mischief was the moving
down of an acre and half of fine corn be-
longing TO Miss Mary Fuller of Smsbury, on
Monday night. What could woman have
done to have provoked such retaliation as
that?
The Norwich Bulletin says that in volun-
town staid citizen, over whose house the
meteor passed, ''smelt the tar" and was indig.
nant chat the boys should be allowed to play
such pranks with balloons and tar barrels :;
they might set something afire."
There is a movement on foot to erect a
proper and fitting memento of the old Charter
Oak in Hartford, to be built on its site.
Among the visitors at the commencement
gathering at New Haven was Mr.. Joshua
Dewey of Watertown, n Y, the oldest living
graduate of the college. He entered his
ninety fourth year in April last and enjoys
his bodily and mental faculties to a remarka.
BILE degree. He graduated seventy three years
ago.
The Webster Times learns that a son of
Mr., VIM. Arnold, one OF the proprietors of the
Masonvie Mills, aged about IA years, was
instantly killed at MasonvilIe, last Sunday
morning, while diving in the water 1t seems
that as he struck the water his head came in
violent contact with rock crushing his
skull, and killing him almost instantly Ar
mold was an unusually promising boy, and the
only son of his parents
In Manchester, Conn, few miles east of
Hartford, company, i'll which Boston capital
is largely interested, is now manufacturing
pongeeS, the first ever made in this country
The present product is about 800 yards daily,
but it will be largely increased in the autumn
The fabrics are fully equal to the foreign.
In the late case of the American Telegraph
Company against John Buckingham of Fair
field, which was an application for an inunc
ton restraining the defendant from cutting
down the poles Of the telegraph company in
front of his premises, the superior court has dis
missed the petition with costs, on the ground
that the company never obtained the permis.
sion to locate their poles in that part of the
highway belonging to him, and were cense-
quently spassers.-Ha,tord Press.
Personal.
Mrs. Susan Decatur, widow of the commo-
dore, died on the very same day with Mr.
Gales OF the National Intelligencer, with whom
a lifelong intimacy and friendship had existed
DR.. L. G. Haven, editor of the lions Her.
aid, (Methodist), has been elected president of
the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ex-Deputy U. S. Marshal Theodore Rynd-
ers Of New York, who is under indictment for
conniving at the escape of SLAYER, was on
Tuesday committed to the Tombs on account
of insanity.
A black snake was killed in Greece, New
York, last week, that measured twelve feet in
length and five inches in diameter.
There is to be grand Perry Celebration at
Cleveland on the 10th of September. When
the Statue of Commodore Perry is to be in.
augurated and one of the great features of
which will be mock naval engagement on
the Lake. Which the Cleveland Herald saws
will be one of the most attractive features of
the day. Application has been made to Sec
rotary ToUcEY of the Navy for permission for
the government vessels on the Lakes to attend
and take part in the battle, and the request