Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-21

ury by the present administration. And OF
the remainder still due, the commissioners
consider the ultimate loss to the state to be
only about forty thousand dollars.
Thirty five have already entered the fresh
man class at Bowdoin College, and as many
more will probably enter at the next examina-
ton at the beginning of the term.
Elder Jacob Colder, of Lewiston, who last
year sold S92 6S worth of cucumbers, from 80
hills, will probably this year sell $500 from
AZ hills.
The names of some of the Schoodic lakes in
the vicinity of Calais are enough to brighten
man. For instance Pokompkins, Wttequer-
guaguam, Absequoit and Sekledobskus.
VERMONT.
AT the close of the celebration of the battle
OF Bennington last Thursday, a bloody riot
occurred in which some rufiians from Troy
were the offending parties. Knives, clubs
and canes were used with alarming freedom
anu one poor fellow, named Haddn, was liter
ally dubbed to death The Bennington police
arrested Australian" Kelly of Troy as the
murderer
Daniel Davis, aged 70 years, and one of the
oldest inhabitants of Burlington, committed
suicide by drowning, on Thursday. He had
been in the habit of using opium and other
stimulants, and for some days had been in
responding frame of mind
CONNECTICUT.
Wednesday afternoon, bridge on the Maui
gatuck road, near Lltchfield, fell through as
an excursion train from Bridgeport was pass
ing over it. The baggage and one passenger
car went down, but no one was seriously hurt
On the 9th inst, the descendants Of Mrs
Polly Stevens of Stamford gathered at her
house. Of the one hundred living, eighty
were present on this occasion. A table was
set in a grove of trees, and at this were seated
tho vaDaroblo wit h. ol,il
children, great grand children, and one great
great-grandchild five generations on the
stage of life at one time, and all together.
Rand and Edgerton, who have been on trial
at the Wlndham county court in Brooklyn,
for breaking into and robbing the Thompson
Bank, were acquitted on Friday.
James Wakely was drowned in the Housa-
tonic at Derby, Friday afternoon He drove
team to the water, and the cattle being
thirsty and warm, went into the stream too
far. Mr.. Wakely sprang from the cart into
the river, and sank. The body was recovered
in seven minutes, but life was extinct.
The Litchfeld County Agricultural Society
have voted that they are not afraid of the cat.
tie disease, and will have a fair in October
The Wlnsted Herald says the account books
of the Northway Manufacturing Company, at
South Norfolk, disappeared mysteriously from
the office where they had been kept. some
three or four weeks ago, and are still among
the missing. The company was trying to set.
tie their affairs, and this circumstance arrests
proceedings.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The question whether Oliver Cromwell was
a sovereign Or not, was lately the subject of
exciting discussion in the house of commons.
In the estimates, Gl600 were appropriated for
two statues in the series OF British sovereigns
Mr., Edwin James, the well known liberal, in.
CURED whether Cromwell was to be one OF the
series, and passed eulogy upon him. This
opened very spirited debate, in which some
smart things were said The subject was at
last dropped, and SO was the appropriations
Several days ago, E. G. Atchison, gentle
man Of respectable position in St. Louis, and
connected with the first families in the state,
committed suicide on account of remorse at
the loss of $4,000 in gambling. His little
child, three years Of age, saw the fatal act COM
mitted, and atfectionately exclaimed as he fell
to the ground, my papa is hurt" He was
thlrty-three years OF age, and was highly edu.
Gated.
Columbus Nutterfeld, who had been arrest
ed in Shelbyvie, ILL.,, for stealing horses, was
taken from Jail last week by a disguised mob,
and hung a short distance from the town. On
his Lody was found paper written in dis
guised hand, and signed "many citizens" of
which the following is a copy "A Word to
the Wise, and espesiary to the Horse thieves
We the Vigilance Committy of Shelby Co Ills
do here by declare to avoid troblin our Courts
with any more horse thieves"
The police of Mobile have discovered the
existence of a secret society Of negroes called
the Evening Star Society,"" the purpose of
which appeared to be to furnish facilities for
gambling among themselves. They claimed
however, that its objects were taking care of
the sick and burying the dead, and denied all
knowledge of the gambling implements found
on their premises.
In the city OF Florence, wealthy person
just deceased, has left singular will. 1t de-
clares that the greater part OF his fortune shall
go to the man with the biggest hump on his
back i'll all Tuscany, and the persons entrusted
with the duty of selecting him, shall be them
selves twelve humpbacks 70 recompense
the latter for their trouble, he directs that in
addition to travelling expenses, each shall be
presented with gold medal bearing the effigy
of Ksop, their prototype.
The town of Dover, in Illinois, was recently
visited by an exceedingly polite flash of light
ming. Mr.. Henry Hagan and his hired man
were on the point of taking their midday meal
in the fields under large oak tree when
violent thunder shower came up. The light
ming descended with the rain, and flash,
striking the tree, shivered several branches
passed between Mr.. Hagan and Mr. Hagans
man, took off the cover of Mr.. Hagan's dinner
pail for him, and SO disappeared, as it were,
with "A bow, begging the gentlemen to be seat
ed and help themselves