Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-17

ion sustaining the motion in arrest of judg-
ment in the case of the United States VS..
0'Neil and Wentworth, of Dover, convicted a
year ago for furnishing fraudulent papers by
which a pension was illegally obtained for
Hannah Smith of Ossipee, and ordered the dis
charge of the respondents, who could not be
sentenced by reason of a defective indictment
The grand jury have returned nine indictments
among which is one against John Smith, for ex-
ercising the trade of distiller at Manchester,
without paying special tax. He pleaded not
guilty, and the trial has begun. One against b.
McDermont, for not keeping books as required
by law as a wholesale liquor dealer in MancheS-
ter, and one against Sanborn Stone of Pitts
field for carrying on business of manufacturing
lumber without paying special tax
CONNECTICUT.
boy named Edward w. Cohn, of New
Haven, is said to be missing, as the result OF
the circus last week.
The faculty of Trinity college, Hartford, have
decided to begin the senior examinations for de-
gTees on Thursday, June 10, and to end them on
Tuesday, June 20, two days before class day.
A lad named William A. Carson was damned
in Case, Lockwood & Brainard's elevator, Hart
ford, on Friday, while attempting to operate
il alone Both legs were mangled, and one
knee-pan crushed.
Friday evening about seven o'clock, the ia
panning kiln of Mallory, Wheeler & Co.'s lock
works, in East street, New Haven, was partially
blown to pieces by the gas in the kiln taking
fire and exploding.
The official terms of eight years of Hon.
Dwight W. Pardee, of Hartford, and Hon. James
Phelps, of Essex, as judges of the superior
court, expire by limitation this year, and the
general assembly will be called on to elect their
successors.
The Messrs Moore, insurance agents of Chi
cago, have filed petition in the district court
of Connecticut for settlement of the affairs of
the Home insurance company of New Haven,
under the United States bankrupt laws. A
hearing will take place in Hartford on the Goth.
A drunken man in Middletown started for
| home rather late the other night but by mis-
/ take got into a neighbours house. He discov-
cred his error when he attempted TO get Into his
| neighbours bed. He was mistaken for burglar
| and rather severely handled, until it was dis
covered that he was a neighbor.
President Woolsey Of Yale, who has been COM
piling the statistics of divorce, finds that in Ver
mont the ratio of annual divorces to annual
marriages foots up for seven years a total of 100
divorces to 1910 marriages, or a ratio of one
TO twenty-one. In Massachusetts, for period
of four years, there was total of 1922 divorces
to 1882 marriages, ratio of one to foTty-iour.
In Ohio in 1866, the divorces were 1869, mar
riages 30,479, or a ratio of one to twenty-seven.
In Connecticut in period of eight years, the
divorces foot up 2910, marriages 1927, a ratio
| of one TO eleven.
The following from the Yale Courant may
serve to show the position of Yale in reference
to the regatta: "While Yale does not oppose
union regatta, she does not feel like allowing it
| to take the place Of the customary strife with
| Harvard while Harvard holds the champion
| flag, at least without any consultation with her
| in reference to change. For Yale to enter the
| union regatta under the circumstances of the
case would, as 1t seems to us, be but little short
| of disgraceful dictation and in view of this it
| seems to us wiser TO miss the regatta for this
| year, if necessary, and appeal to our unanswered
| challenge as a justification of our course"
| In an article "The Embellishmp of Hart
| ford" the Courant says: Hartford shows
something like forty-fve millions on the tax
list. This probably does not represent half her
wealth; it may be safely put at one hundred
millions, but what is she doing for herself
| worthy of this bounty of fortune2 What is she
| contributing to the higher civilization Save
the park, which, small as it is, has not ceased
| to be wonder to utitarians, the beginning of
| reference library, few pictures and pieces of
statuary and some curiosities, it has nothing.
| TO the next generation, this one will seem TO
have been very niggardly and short-sighted, if
| it lets the city spread abroad without reserving
| noble park, without laying out convenient
| and attractive drives and bouev ards"
RHODE ISLAND.
There are ffty-five entries for the June meet
ing at Narragansett park, and the attendance
| will probably be immense. Nearly all the IA
nous trorters in the country will appear. The
| purse of $780, open to all horses, will be trot-
ted for by Rhode Island, Lucy and George Pal
mer. Rhode Island is to trot also in the 2 :28
| class. The double-team race will be between
| Jessie Wales and Darkness, and St. Elmo and
| Hamiltonian,