Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-23

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! ing for ten days.
Among the subscriptions to the new loan re-
! ceived on Monday was one of 200 from the
| First national bank of Manchester.
The premiums and purses for the Piscataqua
fair, TO be held in Portsmouth from Sept. 10 to
81, are open to the world including the twenty
| mile saddle race
The executive officers of the New Hampshire
agricultural society have appointed Col Frank
| Miller of Portsmouth chief marshal at the state
| fair, which is to be held at Dover.
The first regular service ofthe Dover Catholics
| was held Sunday morning in their new chnrch,
| Rev. Father Beaumont officiating. The build
| ing was packed to its utmost capacity.
A philosophical young lady of Portsmouth,
| having read in the published programme of the
coming muster that the visiting tiremen were to
be furnished with Chose" sent the committee of
| arrangements two pairs of stockings, which she
| knit with her own fair hands.
| The one-hundredth anniversary of the organ
cation of the Union church in West ClaremOnt
is to be celebrated in a short time, with appro-
| pirate services The parish was organized by
Rev. Samuel Peters in III.
Mr.. VIM. Stark OF Gofstown committed sui
eide on Monday by hanging himself in a barn
with a clothes line. He was tailor by trade,
and formerly resided in Manchester and Pitts
| tlld. He was recently confined in the insane
asylum at Concord. He was fifty eight years of
age, and leaves a widow and one daughter.
| A valuable mare, owned by George B. Cilley
| of Nottingham, was taken suddenly i'll with
| swelling, extending from the Jaws down the
| neck into the shoulder, and down the right fore
leg, causing great pain and soreness. Ordinary
| remedies were tried, but the mare grew worse
until August I'd, when she seemed TO choke and
| breathe with difficulty. Despairing of cure, the
| owner killed the mare by knocking her on the
| head and cutting her throat, when a dark
| spotted water adder came out of the mouth the
head of the snake having been severed by the
cut of the knife in the throat. The reptile was
three feet long.
| VERMONT.
| The fifth annual convention of the young
| mems Christian association in Vermont will be
| held at Montpelier, Oct II and -.
Byron A. Calkins Of Hyde Park had a narrow
escape from death one day last week. He was
attacked and overpowered by a mad bull, and
| received many ugly bruises from his horns and
| feet AT one time the furious animal had him
| pinned to the ground, the horns being astride
his neck. The timely interposition of friends
| saved his life.
We were but now rejoicing over the opening
| of the Burlington university to women, when
the Middlebury college leads us to doubt the re-
ality of the progress of that state in the path of
| hberality. Two years the subject has been ag-
tated there. Last year the trustees wrcstled
| with the stubborn question, and gave it up with
| out daring to agree This year they referred it
| TO the alumni, and the ungallant Bachelors of
| Arts developed so furious an opposition that the
| matter again put over for a twelvemOnth.
| As il stands now, the girls who had congregated
| about the doors of the Middeburv college will
| knock in vain, for they are not TO be opened to
| them. The appropriate thing for these young
women to do is 10 pack up their books and clean
clothes and go directly to Burlington.
A day or two since lad of fifteen and girl
one year his junior, whose very respectable pa
rents reside in Bennington, ran away and went
to Troy, where, arm in arm, they wendell their
way to the nearest clergyman, to whom, with
many bushes the little folks told the story of
their love, and asked him to bless that love by
matrimonial union. The clergyman very
promptly refused TO perform that ceremony, but
giving them some good advice, urged them to
return to their anxious parents and hereafter
conduct themselves like good little children.
Not satisfied with this experience, the young
lovers repaired to five other clergymen, each of
whom had the good sense to decline to marry
the couple, and they took the evening train for
home, signing and sad, but not hopeless Of a
union at no distant day.
CONNECTICUT.
A minstrel troupe has been organized in
Meriden and will begin the campaign this fall.
Dorchester people complain of their want of
local postal facilities, namely, a central office,
| letter boxes and carriers.
Owen Farrell, who was stabbed at New
| Britain, week ago, by one Gilbert, died at
| Merden on Friday, and Gilbert is under arrest
| for assault with intent to kill.
| Thirty-ive gentlemen, mostly old soldiers of
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| from New York last Saturday, for ten days
| visit TO the battle fields in Virginia.
Mr. John Bisbee, over eighty-tour years of
| age, has been employed in the manufacture of
| shovels, with Oliver Ames & Sons, North Easton,
| for over Sixty years.
| The Old Colony and Newport railway COM
| pany are to lay steel rails upon five and one
| half miles of their road from Boston this sea-
| son. The company imported their rails from
| England.
| r.
Egypt, to New Haven was made the other day
| by the Seymour paper company of New York,
the stock to be used at their paper mill at Wind
sOr Locks.
Five cases of pure Asiatic cholera were re-
ported in New Haven last Friday three of
which resulted fatally; but some folks called
them only aggravated cases of cholera morbus.
The New Haven Millerites announce that we
shall all go up September Sd. Many gowns are
being fitted for the occasion, and linen is accord
ingly rising.
The third annual reunion of the Burwell FAM
lily took place at Railroad grove, New Haven, on
Thursday. 1t was attended by hundreds of
Burwells from all over the country.
The Good Samaritan society in Rockville was
organized about six months ago. 1t has already
9S5 members, and has accomplished good work
in breaking up the rum shops of that town.
| Augustus Woodwork was shot few days
ago, in Andover, while trying to make his escape
from an officer who had arrested him. 1t is
thought he cannot recover.
A girl eighteen years old while working in the
button factory at Saugatuck recently, ha one
of the fingers of the right hand cut off by a
stamping machine. Scarcely a spersOn in the
factory that cannot show the marks of contact
with these stamping machines.
native of Alsace applied to the Boston city
hospital for admission recently, presenting let
ter from the French consul When told that he
should have made application through the Ger
man consul, he replied with much feeling,
| "NeVerl will die a Frenchman"
The UrSuline convent grounds in Someryille
have been disposed of by private sale to Solo
| mon Klous for S13S000. The property in 1929
| had twenty-fuur acres and but twenty could be
found for this deed 1t is thought there was a
mistake in the original survey.
X. T. Moore, of Hartford, has raised potato
| vines only nine feet long. Ii the potatoes are
anything like rhe vines, Mr.. Moore will have to
| petition the common council for permission 10
| make the hatchway to his cellar little larger
| IL. D. Roiph, of Stamford, has given the
| grounds upon which the new Methodist confer
ence seminary is to be located at that place, and
| Furthermore, donates ground for church for
the seminary, and offers to build the edifce.
| The whole Gift of Mr.. Rolph is estimated at not
less than 100000.
1t is stated as a fact that staid old cat, of
| hitherto unblemished character in Litchield ne
Gently gave birth to one kitten and four perfect.
| y shaped squirrels, all of which she is training
| up IN the way they should go. Barnum is after
this happy family.
Five barns at Unionville, belonging to W. II.
Cowles Son, OF Hartford, were burned Satur-
day morning; loss on buildings $4,000, insured
Tor SSoO They were occupied by NJ Palmeter,
OF uhlonNlle, whose loss was $1,000 The fire
was probably set by two boys who have since
been sent to the reform school.
At the request of the department of the in.
terror, Prof. Gilman, of Yale college. has start
ed on a tour of inspection of the agriculture col
leges of the New England western and middle
states. His first visit is made this week to Am
herst college. The tour will occupy the time If
Prof. Gilman for the next two months,
son Of George I. Lucas, some eight or nine
years Of age, while climbing on the drum of the
elevator in the upper story of the Granite mill
Stafford recently fell through all the scnttes to
the floor, some forty feet below. From thiS
frightiul fall he seems TO have received M So
rous internal injuries, and his entire recovery is
hoped for.
While the labOrers were at work on the old
Brattle square church, Boston, last week some
very ancient coins were found, one of which
dated back as tar as 1850. One of the workmen.
| more fortunate than others nickad nm soyoroi