Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-27

There is memorial before the Vermont
legislature asking for the Troy Conference
Academy authority to confer the degree of
mistress of Literature"
The Vermont legislature have elected Judge
Pond chief justice of the supreme court, vice
Redington. Judge Peck was also elected by
a HANDSOME majority to seat upon the su.
preme bench. VIM. G. Shew was reelected
reporter of decisions.
InGlOver, VT, Oct Sd, Joseph Gray, man
Of 50 years, cut his throat with razor. No
reason is assigned. He had just eaten his
supper, apparently in good spirits.
RHODE ISLAND
The wife of Thomas Ford of Scekonk COM
mitted suicide, Friday, by cutting her throat
She had been washing at her own house dur
ing the early part OF the day, and, having fin
ished about one O'Clock P. NJ, ran to one of
the neighbors, caught r case knife from the
table, and, cutting her throat, ran on with the
wound bleeding i'll the direction of the house of
her husbands brother, nearly half a mile dis
tant from her own. Fearing, probaly, that the
wound might not prove fatal, she ran in here
and seized a second knife, which, however, she
was too feeble TO use, and, continuing on some
ten rods further, with a diminishing pace, fell
and Immediately expired The wife has been
somewhat Incorporate, and the husband is
both Incorporate and improyident. and the
family, wife and four children, have been at
the poor house considerable part Of the time
for the last year or two.
CONNECTICUT.
On the Congdon farm in Waterford, there
has been recently discovered circnlar walled
well, opening at the depth of twenty feet into
chamber OF sold masonry, built with the
very best material and in thorough manner.
1t Is twelve feet loug, six or seven wide, and
tnn hIfrh 4 -. Ill -
The Register says that little girl in Brad
ley street in New Haven, on Monday evening.
threw cloak over her head, and in some way
one OF the brass hooks was inserted under the
lid OF the eye, tro.c. which it was with difficult
ty removed.
The shoe store of II. T. Cook, in Bristol,
was robbed by burglars on Tuesday night, of
about $3.50 worth Of goods, chiefly light and
fine shoes, ladies' shoes, &C.
Several bills are in circulation in New Haven,
ofthe Central Bank OF Nashville, Tenn, altered
to Central Bank OF Worcester, Mass, and
Central Bank OF New jersey, several of which
have been taken by the storekeepcrs. They
are OF the denomination of 81 and 81, and can
be easily detected by ordinary scrutiny.
personal.
Mrs. Edward Livingston, widow of the Hon.
Edward Livingston, formerly secretary Of state
OF the United States, and minister to France,
died at her residence in Dutchess county,
N. T., on Thursday. She was highly es-
teemed for her Christian virtues and beneyo.
lence.
Col. Washington has written a letter of
thanks to Mr.. Thaddeus Hyatt for using his
influence so successfully in securing the re.
turn of the pistol which was presented by
Lafayette to Washington, and which was
carried off by some OF the John Brown ma
rauderS.
Col. j. Ruckstuhl editor of the Louisville
thy Anzeger, was assaulted by number
OF rutfians in that city on Monday night, and
very severely injured. He drew revolver in
seltdefense, and shot one Of the party, inflct-
ing a fatal wound.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The average weight OF men in Boston is
about l47 pounds. In Portland it is about
1853. 1t will be found still greater in the east
ern part of Maine. The mean weight of the
Dutch at Brussels is 40. In Paris it is 1876 :;
and at Cambridge, in England, taking persons
between IL and % years old, it was found to
be 100. Later in life that would be increased,
indicating that Englishmen excel in gross
weight.
w. Il. Read, blind man from his birth, has
recently completed, entirely without aid from
any other person, piano which was exhibited
last week at the Indiana state fair. The tone
Is highly spoken of, and it is in every respect
a fine instrument
The pastor of one Of the Milwaukee church
es went into one section of the city on Sun.
day, wheretrom many of the excursionists on
the i'll fated Lady Egin had gone, and found
IN different houses no less than one hundred
children bereft of father and mother, and on
derlng why they did not come back.