Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-19

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| in the evening. The evening meeting viii be
opened by an address by Rev j. II. Farnsworth
of Springfield A cordial invitation is extended
10 the unYersaist ministers throughout the
state.
CONNECTICUT.
The war debt of 1rumbull, which in 1865 was
$50 900, has been reduced to $4,000.
The iouneymen tailors of New Haven have
struck for an advance Of twenty per cent.
The National fire insurance company of Hart
ford, chartered two years ago, has Just opened
| subscription books
Frederick C, Bowman, bookkeeper in the in
! spectors room at the Howe machine company,
| in Bridgeport, committed suicide last Saturday
| by taking laudanum
AT a town meeting in Hartford, Monday, IT
| was voted TO lay tax of Ouc-half mill on the
| dollar, to raise sinking fund for eXtinguishing
| the funded debt of the town, which is about 81,
| 100000.
! A company is prospecting and surveying for
| railroad from Wilton station, on the Danbury
| and Norwalk railroad, to n granite quarry
some three miles distant, said to be one OF great
| merit
There is no harbor along the Connecticut coast
| not even Fairhaven-that can show up such a
| feet of small vessels as Norwalk. They are
| mostly oyster boats, which interest foots up to-
| wards the millions.
The Norwich Bulletin says: "The anticipated
sensation is to see the man TALL off the Broadway
church steeple The young were much dlspleasd
at being disappointed Yesterday"
New Haven paper says II is said, up in
Hartford, that Wilson's attempt to commit sui
eide was induced by seeing the proof-sheet of a
wood cut portrait Of himself, made for the
Times. He remarked to the sheriff that it was
- the unkindeSt cut Of all"
Stamford people, like Others are mo ralizing
over the fire in Chicago, and are drawing from
the great calamity practical lesson. They are
agitating the subject OF an preparation to es-
tablish sufficient number of hydrants and Sc
cure the use of the water
Walden 5. PitlIin, aged thirteen years, died at
South Windsor, last week, from the effects of
the poison, alleged to have been administered in
his fathers family by Mrs. Stiles, who is now in
Jail and TO be tried at the present term of the
superior court at Hartford for an attempt to
poison several persons.
Abiram Chamberlain, of New Britain, a we'll
known civil engineer and engineer of the New
Britain water works and the reservoir at Otis,
Mass, died suddenly in an apopletic fit on Satur-
day, at the age of Seventy-four.
thing apparently a cross between sea-
hog and seal was caught in the Connecticut,
near the mouth of the Agawam river Saturday,
and IS curiosity. 1t is over four feet long, and
weighs between eighty and ninety pounds. Old
salts who have seen it say they never beheld the
like.
monstrous eel got wedged in a water-pipe
and stopped the flow of water at the mammoth
cotton mill in Norwich last Friday. A fire was
built around the pipe and the eel roasted The
whole head of water was then put on, and the
cooked eel was forced out through the main
pipe.
The first company of the governors foot |
guard of Hartford, which is older than the gov |
eminent itself, having reached its hundredth |
year, viii celebrate its centennial on Thursday |
with parade, in which the second company of |
New Haven will participate
Thursday morning, shortly after six O'Clock, |
the north wall of the new Catholic church fell |
with tremendous crash, carrying away the |
floor tlmbers and piling up in a confused heap |
in the basement The accident was caused by |
the settling of one of the pier foundations, and |
causes loss of at least $4,000.
Long lake, Winsted, lacks only foot of the |
low water of last season. Already the employees |
OF the various shops on the stream running |
from the lake are casting about for work to sup |
port themselves and families the coming winter, |
in anticipation of the failure of lake water
The rails of the Connecticut Western railroad |
nave been lad to within half a mile of the |
Asylum street depot in Hartford. The laying of |
seven miles between Simsbury and New Hart |
ford, will complete the track of sixty-eight miles
from Hartford to Milerton, n. Y, and open con-
nection with Fishkll and Poughkeepsie, n. Y, |
and by the Duchess and Columbia and POUCH. |
keepsie and Eastern roads.
The New Haven Register of Monday, says: |
WILSON'S body has not been received at the |
medical college, because it was claimed by his |
sister and Mrs. EdgertOn, who, after the crowd |
had gaZed upon the dead murderers features,
had the remains transported to Providence, r. |
l., where they viii be decently inferred. Ii is |
now known that Wilson, some months ago, tore |
the wire from his mess pan at Weathersfield, |
and secreted il. 1t was with pOrdon of this |
that he attempted suicide last Friday morning."
RHODE ISLAND.
The Congregational society at Westerly have
extended call TO Rev. Mr.. Bacon, son of Dr.
Bacon, of New Haven.
Mr.. j. n. Spencer, of Providence, has lease
for five years of property in Blissye, Lisbon,
Conn, non which mill has just been built for
tine manufacture of cotton Irvine.
A young lady from Woonsocket, named Emma
}. Newell, has been missing since Friday last.
She was about eighteen years old, and attended
the new normal school in Providence.
The Providence Herald says: 1--WE have re.
ceved request TO exchange from paper print
ed IN Choctaw, or some other unknown tongue,
at St. ous. We respectfully request that
translation thereof be forwarded, when we will
give the subject due attention.
comparison of the list of Taxpayers in
Providence, assessed for $50, 900 and more iu
1861 and 1871, shows an increase of wealth quite
In the former year there were 1876;
the present year 412. The list this year shows
more in proportion among the hundreds and
thousands.