Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-13

college arrived there. 1t was building eighty
Ieet long and two stories high, and the church
was established under Presbyterian auspices,
under the name of the Church OF Christ Twenty
members assembled around the first communion
table. DIR. Wheelock acted as pastor of this
church and the one known as D0tham church,
Hartford, until his death, in 1873. His son-in-
law, Rev. Sylvanus Ripley, in connection with
Rev. DIR. John Smith, professor of languages,
presided until 17S2,when DIR. Smith assumed
the whole charge, and remained pastor until his
death, quarter Of a century later. In 1895 the
present church edifice was erected. In 1905 DIR.
Smith, with Others, seeded from the Presby-
terrain church and formed the Congregational in
the present building. Since its establishment it
has had one thousand members. There have
been fifteen religious revivals, at which nearly
SIX hundred persons were made members.
VERMONT.
Walter B. Cobb, Esq, prominent merchant
of Derby Line, died few days ago.
Mr.. p. Flynn was fatally injured in attempt
ing to get upon morning train at Jonesve on
| Friday.
| ga house and three barns, unoccupied, in Dan
| vile, belonging to Thomas Ward of 81. johns
bury, were destroyed by fire on Saturday, Loss
| upwards of $4,000; insurance S2500.
Messrs. A. & W. Felt of Andover are rebuild-
| ing their mills recently burned. The citizens oil
the town have literally subscribed toward their
| erection.
The butter market at Richmond on Monday
was about the same as last week. The prices
| ranged from 20 to 20 cents a pound. Cheese sold
from seven TO nine cents for farm diaries and ten
| to eleven cents for factory.
CONNECTICUT.
A Hartford man claims to have caught a nine
pound bass in the Connecticut off the foot of
! State street in that city, Saturday.
John Mcclure of South Manchester, aged
twenty-four, was drowned while bathing in a
pond near Hale'S MILL Sunday. Robert J. Har-
rlson, aged sixteen, met a similar fate in the
Union company's pond at North Manchester,
| also on Sunday. Neither were able to swim.
DIR. Chas. I. Jackson of Boston, state assayer,
has examined three different samples of water
drawn FROM the Hartford water works, and re-
ports as follows So far as my present results
indicate the peculiar bad taste and odor and
taste of the Hartford water, is due to the pres
ence of microscopic water confervR, such rs
formerly produced the peculiar fshy odor TO
Cochituate and to Croton water. The growth
Of these conferv@ in water is due to stagnation
or 10 the want of due balance between animal
and vegetable life in the water. In Cochituate
lake the presence of minute crustacean called
cyclops, in immense numbers, appears to be
the check to the superabundance of confervR,
since the water is purest when they are most
abundant.
RHODE ISLAND.
Almira Randolph fell down the cellar stair
way at Providence, Saturday evening, and broke
her hip.
The steamer Providence, from Fall River Fri
day night, picked up in Long Island Sourd, off
Fishers Island, Capt. Manning and three men
of the schooner Gen. John Chopper. The schoon-
er was loaded with iron, and by the shifting of
the cargo capsized the men keeping afoat on
planks until rescued.
At late hour Tuesday afternoon, as some
laborerS were hosting coal at Manchester Il
Hopkins's wharf on Dyer street, Providence, the
bucket caught against the edge of the pin, and
recoiling, struck a man named McNiff, knocking
him down the "shooi," distance of thirty feet.
The injuries are severe and there fears of fatal
result. The falling coal struck man named
Drum, who was at work. on the vessel below.
He was carried to his home in Cranston, and re-
port states that he is dead.