Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-26
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CONNECTICUT.

est Rev. DIR. Bond gave the historical address,
from which we learn that the society was or
ganiZed Nov. 20, l75l, and Mr.. Nathaniel
Whitaker was its first pastor. The discourse
gives a succnct and able account of the forma.
ton Of the society and its past history. The
first meeting house was built in 1866, and there
being no tower the bell was hung on a tree.
This house was burnt in 1898, and the present
church built on lis site. Mr.. Whitaker's sue
cessors were Rev Ephraim Judson, uncle Of
Rev. Adoniram Judson), Rev. Walter King,
Rev. Asahel Hooker, Rev. alfred Mitchell,
and the present pastor, Rev. DR.. Bond, who
was settled in 1882, and has continued to the
present time.
Two men in Danbury, Mr.. Bailey and Mr.
Harvey, a druggist, by mistake, mixed cor
rosive submate instead of sugar with their
brandy, and are not expected TO live, in conse-
quence of drinking it.
The ladies of Hartford are to provide a col
lation for the wide.awakes of New Jersey when
their expected visit takes place.
The number of cOnyicts i'll the state prison
at Wetherstield is now 16S, the smallest num-
Der for many years. There are nine men at
large in Danbury, who murdered Henry Wohl
and ought to be there for life Wilson and Da-
ley, murderers just tried at Hartford, will soon
go there, unless Daley escapes altogether on a
legal bubble.
The population of Meriden is 7,415, more
than twice what it was in 1904 greater pro-
portional increase than any other town in the
state.
During a thunder shower last week, the
lightning burned the telegraph magnet at the
Branford station, Clipped piece from the
lightning arrester in the New Haven office,
shivered eight telegraph poles at Sachem's
Head and stunned the operator lad named
Curtss who was sending a message at the
time, and injured the instrument beyond re-
pairs. Young Curtiss had a ring upon one of
his fingers, which was broken in three pieces.
James Tusk and James Hall were the two
young men arrested for entering and robbing
the house Of Mrs. Pierce at Greenville Nor
wich), Thursday night, and they have been
committed to Jail in default of $500 bail each,
to await trial at the superior court.
A Milford correspondent of the New Haven
Courier says that a large number of senator
Stewards speeches of Feb. 29th last, were
found by some boys in the river there, in sus.
piclous vicinity to the post office. The speech.
es were printed in German, enveloped and
franked by John Woodruff. What has uncle
Sam to say
One morning a gentleman, minus every
thing but a shirt, was seen lodging about
New Haven door-yard. He had arrived by
SilS tuS IlGNlOuo tNSllllSJ anu IlIQulIEu lHe
way to Fair Haven. His intormantS drugged
him in an eating-house, and when he came to
he found himself robbed of his rament and
all its contents.
Mrs. Kelsey of North Branford was driving
across the South Shore railroad, near Stony
Creek, when the locomotive of train killed
the horse and mashed the wagon. She was
removed from the wreck but slightly injured
The engineer ran locomotive at once to
Branford and returned with a physician.
A cherry tree-in Coventry, Conn, exhibits
some singular pecuiarities. On the 10Th of
June ripe cherries appeared, and since that
time green and ripe cherries constantly appear
and at this time the tree is covered with both
ripe and green cherries, and what is most sim
gular no blossoms have appeared on the tree
since its first blossoming, although new fruits
constantly appearing.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Syracuse IN. Y journal circulates
the following paragraph: "In politics, the
graduating class Of 1860 at Harvard Universe
ty is DIVIDED into 9 democrats, % union men,
and "a republicans. There will be 35 law.
yers, 10 ministers, u doctors, 10 business
men, and teachers, while 16 are undecided"
The Chicago Times persists in asserting that
small p0X is raging and spreading in that city
The other papers, the health officers, and the
physicians, strenuously deny the Times asser-
tons, and the thing has gone so far that a COM
mittee of merchants and hotel keepers have
waited upon the Times and requested them to
desist
A reward of 5000 is offered at Columbia.
Tenn, for the arrest of two railroad overseers,
Frederick Wright and Thomas S. McCrary
who gave Mr.. Helms negro 1900 lashes Gov,
cred his raw back with turpentne, and put
him to work in the sun, killing him in twenty.
four hours. Wright is said to be from Massa-
chusetts.
Gov Chase was in Hamilton, Ohio, the 9th
er day, on private business, and the people in.
sisted on having a speech from him. He had
just commenced a speech, when Carey r.
Longtellow, Esq, fell in an apoplectic fit, and
died in a few minutes. Gov. Chase declined
to proceed with his remarks Mr. Longfellow
was highly respected citizen.
The Kalamazoo Mich Telegraph of July
18th, says yesterday, Alcott's Touring mill
was struck by lightning, the fluid passing off
on the conductor, and raising some considera-
BILE disturbance in the water beneath the mill
killing and turning up about half bushel of
fish in the tail-raee. The stroke descended
about half past five O'Clock, and as it went
down through the mill, the different rooms
were lighted with peculiar electrical light"
FROM tne New i1tutoIu otaHudIu, July E4lns
SPERM OIL.-Sales have been made in this
market, yesterday and to day, of between five
thousand and five thousand five hundred bbls.
of sperm oil at S1.40 per gallon, which APP.
pears to be the ruling price at present al
though holders will probably advance. We
are glad to see the oil moving from the sheds
and sea-weed, and hope that the transactions
will continue. The above sales amount to
nearly 1915, 900. We also learn that about
one thousand bbs. oil whale oil have been sold
since our report yesterday, at fifty cents per
gallon.
OFT FOR THE GoyERNMENT.-Messr Had
win & Barney, of Nantucket, are the lowest
bidders for furnishing ten thousand gallons of
sperm oil for the use of the light house estab.
lishment, to be delivered on or before tile first
of August, at the government yard in this
city. Their bid, Sl.3S9 per gallon has been
accepted.
PENNSYLVANIA OLIVE were shown a
few days since by Weston Rowland Esq,
barrel Of oil, the first ever received in this
city, which was pumped up from one of the
oil wells in Pennsylvania. 1t is very dark,
and las an exceedingly disagreeable smell,
but Mr.. ii, has succeeded in purifying it, and
we saw specimens nearly as white as water,
the odor of which was rather agreeable A
part of the oil works on Fish Island, recently
purchased by Mr. Rowland, are being fitted
up for the purpose Of purifying and manuac-
turing this oil, and we understand will be
ready for operation the first of next month
Commemorative recently copied the fol-
lowing paragraph from the Burlington (Vt.)
Free Press -
"Seven of the 800 counterfeits on the New
ton Bank Of Massachusetts, (which made their
appearance short time since, were passed at
Bradford VT by a man calling himself q