Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

menced the transportation OF freight from
Canaan to the state line, having leased the
Dutchess and Columbia road from Millerton.
Over 100000 has been subscribed for the pro-
posed railroad from New Preston to New Mil
ford $4,000 being the amount required. The
latter town is expected to raise $4,000, and the
former the rest,
Typhoid fever has been raging as an epidemic
in Mianus during the past two weeks Whole
families have been afflicted and many deaths
have taken place
Some Of those dangerous nitro-glycerine tor
pedoes were sent through the mail Friday and
exploded as the clerk in the Hartford post office
was stamping them. They are dangerous at all
times, bur even more so when sent by mail and
the sender should be very severely consured.
The Chicago fire has had a serious effect upon
some of the manufacturing interests of New
Haven Trade, which opened brisk carly in the
fall, has sackencd up very much, and some of
the factories have been obliged TO shorten the
number Of working hours In others some
hands have been discharged.
An elderly lady Of Redding visited Danbury
the other day, and was much pleased with
pair OF Cochin China hens owned by friend.
When she got home she told her husband she
twas going to get one of those China hens and
raise her own nest eggs.
The thief who stole the $4,000 worth of the
Northampton railroad bonds, has written to
Mr.. Pardec at New Haven proposing in one let
ter to return them for 81 800, and in another
for $4,000
wood head-board marked "'Patrick, aged
ten years" was found in the doorway of a store
in New Haven one morning last week. 1t was
first thought TO have been stolen from the Cath
Ole cemetery, but it was ascertained that il was
taken from DR.. Bacon's garden, where it had
naked the last resting place of a pet dog
Arthur Dews and Frank Adams, two boys
hailing from Waterbury, engaged board at the
house of Joseph Avery, in New Britain, last
week. They left after breakfast the next morn
ing. About noon Mrs. Avery missed some of
her treasures; she notified the police, who sue.
ceeded soon after in arresting the young rascals.
A girl employed at the American hosiery
works in New Britain looked down the hatch
way, Wednesday morning, just as the elevator
was coming down. The car struck her on the
head, and so pressed il against the rail that the
machine was stopped. The girl was eXtrcated
from the position as soon ms possible, but i'll
stead of being killed as the Mortified employees
supposed, she only complained Of headache
for a few hours, and was at work again in the
afternoon.
An exchange says; Hartford, built and los
tered by Insurance will have much cause to re-
greet the Chicago confagration for many years to
come. The losses of the Merchants amount to
more than ST 100000, and as the assets are only
about $500 insolvency is, of course, neces-
sary When the items of Reinsurance are taken
into account, it will be found that it can afipYd
but small per ccntage in settlement Of its la
''the officers of this splendid company were
rightly ranked with the mQsss accomplished and
prudent of underwriters in that best of schools,
Hartford Inc president intends to form a
new cQJ11pany. The North American, of Hart
lTOrd also lost SS25,O00 at Chicago, exclusive of
Reinsurance, while its assets were only $454 900.
This company has paid to the public for fire
losses since 1851, S2,O76,OOO, and in dividends to
policy holders $4,000 The Putnam loses
100000, and has only S6S00O0 as assets. The
Charter Oak is not likely to pay over thirty cents
on the dollar. Its losses exceed over $780, 00
its assets were, prior to the fire, 1882 $50. The
Connecticut is disorganized by its losses of $780,
900, but showed assets of S433000, and will
make new company out of the old personal
constituents
RHODE ISLAND.
The Boston and Providence railroad directors
have made new departure in a small way.
Having prepared an excellent statement for the
year, they have concluded not to publish it until
the annual meeting tomorrow, and will not pay
their dividend Of five per cent, already declared,
until week later.
Providence expects to have city water by
Thanksgiving. Water was Saturday successful
" pumped from the Pawtuxet river by the new
engines, through about half mile of force
main, 10 a height of about seventy-twO feet
above the river. A small quantity was allowed
to overflow into the reservoir, and some was
passed through the connecting conduit and
wasted from the outlet chamber.
The Providence Herald of Monday says:
'There has been great interest shown in the
cause of temperance in this vicinity for long
time, and the friends of the movement rejoice at
the progress made. The enthusiasm, too con-
tinues to increase; perhaps at no previous peri
cd has there been so many meetings held as at
the presen. time, under the auspices of some one
of the numerous coufraternitieS devoting its en-
orgies to the dissemination of temperance prin-
ciples, and what, with the eXertiOnS of these Or
CARNATIONS, and the efforts of the churches, it
would be strange indeed if considerable success
had not been attained. The number of public
temperance meetings, yesterday, was quite
large, as is now the ease on nearly every Sun
day"