Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-24

the 21st Mr.. r. left her after dinner, feeling
confident she would need no extra attention, but
in short time was sent for with the message
that his wife was dying. He fastened home
only to find her dead whom he had scarce an
hour before left with the assurance that imme-
diate danger had been passed.
The remains of Edwin A. Pattee the young
man who committed suicide at Portland, Me-,
| Sunday night, have been sent TO Alexandria
| by his bro her for interment. The deceased was
! young man of good character, member of
| the church, and much esteemed in his native
town. He was twenty-one years of age and fol-
| lowed the business of clock repairing. Some
| time since he had fall and struck on his head,
| and it is thought that he never entirely Tecov-
| cred from the effects of it and that his mind
must have been affected when he took his own
life.
| VERMONT.
The bail of the supposed Waterbury bank
robber, VIM. Davis, has been fixed at $4,000.
The prizes awarded at the New England fair
may be had at the treasurerS office in Riddles
| building.
| Burline ton, with population of $4,000, eX-
pended less than $4,000 last year for public
| schools.
The details of the terrible case of parricide are
| given by the St. Al ans Messenger, as follows:
| calvin Glover, of Franklin, man OF slXty-
| three-years, represented as good,heartea When
| not drums, but brutal and quarrelsome when in
| LIQUOR began quarrel with one of his sons
| The old man had been on drunk for a week,
and an older brother, Lewis A., twenty-five
years old, hearing the words, induced his
brother to leave the house. The father then
turned upon him and threatened his life, at the
same starting for the bedroom, where was one
of the Fcnian needle guns, abandoned in the late
raid. This the son wrenched from his hands,
when the old man sprang back into the kitchen,
where loaded shot gun stood in the corner. As
he seized this, the son drew up his rife and shot
him through the heart killing him almost in
stantly. The Young man made no effort to es
cape, claiming that he acted only in self-de-
| fence. He was held on a charge Of murder, and
| was taken to st. Adams and put in Jail, where
| he will await the action OF the grand jury, IN
| April. The old man was the father of twelve
| children, eleven Of whom are now living, the
| eldest about forty, and the youngest fourteen.
One son committed suicide some years since, on
account, it is said, of the fear Of his father, in
which he constantly stood"
CONNECTICUT.
Monday was the first day in the last eight
months that water flowed over the Wmtneyyllle
dam at New Haven.
The Genre Con gregationa church of Hart
ford has voted to extend a call to Rev. MIR. Lord,
of Montpelier, VT.
Last week, George L. Beach, of New Haven,
fell down flight Of stairs and fractured ms
skull. There is q slight hope OF his recovery.
The health of the Ri rht Rev Bishop Williams
has been so far restored that he lett home on Fri
day of last week for the first time in nearly three
months.
1t is pleasing to know that UNCONVENTIONAL
prejudice has been so far overcome in Norwalk
that the ministers of the Methodist, Baptist and
Congregational churches have organized min
iStcrial association to meet twice a month for
social culture and interchange of views
The report that schooner Nelson of Dlrien,
was sea bound off Hog island, and that two sea-
men were frozen TO death, is contradicted. The
Nelson has been lying in Oyster bay, Long ISL
and, tor some time past, and Capt. Weed, with
his crew, were in Oyster Bay village, in good
health.
A warrant has been issued againt House, the
divorce lawyer, at present in jail at New Haven,
by the states attorney of Litchield county for
obtaining fraudulant divorce before the supe-
rior court in that county in 1869. Connecticut
is getting decidedly hot for House.
The republican senatorial convention for the
18th district will be held at WorthingtOn's hotel
in Deep River, on Wednesday, March list. That
| for the 10th district will be held in Bridgeport,
| March Sth.
An outrageous attempt at abduction was
| made by a Bridgeport scoundrel Monday after
noon, who overlook girl thirteen years old on
| her way to farmhouse near the city Tor milk.
| The girl managed to escape by desperate efforts.
| The authorities are making every attempt to
| secure the ruffan.
| One of the Bridgeport justices of the peace,
not much versed in .hagisterial duties, presided
| at the trial of a case the other day, and at its
| conc uslon, having heard the lawyers labor
away on each side for a couple of hours, e9olly
| drew from his pocket his decision in writing,
put on his spectacles and read it deliberately.
| Preparations had been made for treating the
| school children of Merden-nearly one thousand
| in ALTO a sleigh ride, on Saturday, but the
rain prevented, and one can imagine the disap-
| pointment of the little folks.
On Monday two female shoplifters, Germans,
were arrested in New Haven, and stolen prop
! erty to the amount of $500 recovered. Their
| operations were first detected in Kimberly and
| SlOatS store, where thew secured q Sh0 silk
| tern.
The students of Trinity college, Hartford, cele-
| brated Washington's birthday on Monday eve
ming, on account of the 22d falling on Ash We'd
nesday. The exercises consisted of the reading
| of poem and the delivery of an Grafton, con-
| Guiding with dance.
| The Norwich Bulletin says: "There is consid.
| cradle trouble at the Howe sewing machine
| works in Bridgeport, arising from antagonism
between the old moulders who have been dis
charged on account of striking for higher wages
and new set of moulders who have been en-
gagged. Saturday evening a collision occurred
between the two parties, in which blOodshed was
only prevented by the interference of the po-
lice."
Chief of Police Chamberlain, of Hartford, by
the pressure Of his official authority is rapidly
convincing the proprietors of the numerous
gambling houses in that city that it will be wise
Tor them to give up the business, Between the
promises OF the profession" and those of the
proprietors of buildings, there seems to be no
doubt that the clearing out CT those dens of ini-
guilty will be fully accomplished
The Hartford Times having been imOrudent
enou IN to assert that II never justified secession,
the Courant quotes several extracts from Its
columns in evidence. This is a small specimen
from the Times of April 10, 1861 :-"South Caro-
lima has repealed her ordnance by which she
became part of the federal Union. H nd she,
rs sovereign state, a night, to do so2 We
claim that she had" Doubtless the Times
would like TO blot rhe record out hut II m
possible.
As the 1905 train from Waterbury, on We'd
nesdaN night, on the Hartford, Providence and
Fishkill railroad, was running between Plain
vile and New Britain, en- route for Boston, the
hind axle of the rear car, which was filed with
passengers, broke, causing that car to run some
eighty rods with only three wheels of the rear
truck on the track. The passengers in the car
were very badly shaken up and much frighten-
ed, but very fortunately none were injured As
soon as the train was stopped the conductor
transferred the passengers from the rear car to
those in front, and leaving the disabled car on
the track, proceeded on his way the passengers
arriving in Hartford some twenty minutes be-
hind time.
1t seems that the case of the state VS.. Jane
smith, the woman charged with the death of
Emma operry, in Woodbridge, in 1869, from the
effect OF an abortion, is to be thrown ont of court
on Statute passed by the last legislature. It
provides that, "In all the indictments for the
crime of murder, the degree of the crime shall
be alleged: provided the jury may find the ac-
cused guilty of a less degree of crime than that
charged, in the same manner as if this act had
not been passed. This act shall not affect the
trial or subsequent proceedings upon any in
dictment now pending to which the accused has
plead" The motion to quash the Indictment is
founded upon the ground that the indictment
does not allege the degree of crime, and the de-
murrer is based upon the same ground and it is
claimed that under the act this indictment,
though pending at the time of the passage of the
act, should have alleged the degree of crime ln-
asmuch as the accused had not offered her plea.
Sharp practice on the part of some one to get
such piece of special legislation through is very
evident, and it is feared that the punishment
apparently SO richly deserved in this case will
thus be evaded
RHODE ISLAND.
Providence firm has subscribed the sum of
$4,000 towards new hotel in that city,
The Providence Press of the 22d saws T"The
great number of meetings and festivals to take
place TINS evening will be likely to draw away
from home good proportion of the $4,000 IN
habitants ofthe city. There viii be no less than
thirty public gatherings here tonight