Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-25
SIS, and being unable to pay, she was commit
ted 10 jail for thirty days.


SIS, and being unable to pay, she was commit
ted 10 jail for thirty days.
RHODE ISLAND.
The people OF Newport do not look with
delight ON the prospect OF tie return OF The
naval school to Annapolis. And it Is not
strange, for $4,000 is expended per month in
this place Tor this favorte institution.
Frank Clark, Il laboring man in Pawtucket,
iell down the river enbankment, and was
drowned, Thursday evening He leaves TWO
children.
CONNECTICUT.
Capt. Eli 0imsted and wife, Of East Hart
ford, celebrated their golden wedding, on the
evening OF the 10th inst. Seveny-nne rela,
tives and friends OF the venerable couple were
present
j. Sweet shot himself at Hampton On the
18th inst. lie had been more or less detanged
tor years.
There were so marriages in Killingly dur
ing the year 1861 births 140
4 son of Thomas Lobby, while sliding down
hill in Putnam on Thursday last, came in col.
lieom with the wheels OF wagon, iuficting
wounds that caused his death in thirty-six
hours.
The deaths in Danbury in 1861 were 118
OF those who died, 10 were 70 years old s
we're 50, were 3d. and were 100
Number OF births in Bridgeport in 1861 is
5l9; marriages, 90; deaths, 257
In New Haven, Miss j. Skinner broke a leg
Sunday, aud john H. Lee broke an arm Wed.
nesday-both by falling on the icy walk. And
as to boys who break legs and arms, or get
banged up in one way or another, by sliding
down hill, there is no end to them in the state,
according to the papers.
Mrs Hannah Durgy of Sherman died last
week at the age Of l02 years.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A woman named Catherine Arbin died in
Baltimore on Tuesday last at the age of one
hundred and sixteen years. Mrs. Arbin was
born i'll Philadelphia in 1744, and lived 10 see
her fifth generation, with greatg eat. grand.
children. Her youngest child is now living,
at the age OF about seventy eight years. Her
father, who was Of Baltimore, was at the battle
Of Bunker Hill.
The British consul at Havana refuses TO al
low the government dispatch bag for the
American legation in Mexico to be sent to
Vera Cruz by the British mail packet to lIa-
vana The consul is warm sympathizer
with the rebels
1t is stated that Messrs. Glass, Elliot, & Co,
have rendered to the English government to
lay a cable from Milford Haven to Halifax, by
July, 1862, tor 100000, guaranteeing its ef-
tciency for one year.
ries, 43 pail ana tub factories, Is piano forte
factories, 100 carriage and car factories, 1894
saw mills, and ~ wooden ware factories not
Included in the above, besides AS steam and
other mills not otherwise enumerated. The
amount of capital invested in the manufacture
OF wood is about 81, 100000. says the Tray
eiler.
y host OF musical people arrived at New
York, on Wednesday, by the Columbia, from
Havre, including Max Maretzek and Madame
Bertucca Nlaretzek, Madame D'Angri, the pi-
anist Gottschak, and Mr.. D'AbeIla.
'Beardess youths" says Punch, care most
prone 20 arrogance and selfsuficiency. As
they grow older their whiskers cover great
deal of their cheek"
The ladies are introducing a new and beau
tiul ornament Tor the parlor mantel or center
table They take large pine burs. sprinkle
grass seed OF any kind in them, and place them
in pots Of water. When the burs are soaked
few days, they close up in the form of solid
cones, and then the little spears of green
grass begin to emerge from among the lamin@,
forming an ornament of rare and simple
beauty.
One of the latest juvenile stories j. of a 1t
tie gnl aud boy in Akron, Ohio. They had
been cautioned in their mornings strife after
hens eggs not to take away The nest egg but
0ue morning the little girl reached the nest
first, seized an egg, and-star for the house.
Her disappointed brother followed, crying,
Mother! mother! Susy, she's been and got
the egg the old hen measures by y