Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-09

be hotly contested, on the ground of il being i
utter disregard of the constitution and in disr(
gard TO justice and fairness.
| AT Portland, the great sensation at present
the Miller divorce case-Sarah P. Miller, VS..
Jones Miller The parties are from tashionabl
circles, and the revelations show sad state Q
drinking, ftstivity and reckless living. Tn
wife is a pretty, pleasing woman less than forty
fond of society, and her husband some year
older. She accuses him of drunkenness, abus
and personal injuries. He retorts with charge
z of drunkenness adultery and i'll usage Til
case is being tried by jury, before Judge Wal
ton, of the supreme judicial court. The cour
2 room is crowded daily. The libellants direc
testimony is in, and the libeee's witnesses ar
being examined. The charge of adultery frs
made against him by her is withdrawn. Mrs
Miller, is the daughter of Hon. Charles Peter
7 of Brooklyn, whose family includes several sis
tiers of Mrs. Miller, and by whose influence he
husband alleges she is controlled. The who'll
affair is scandalous and sensational, equalin!
Mrs Braddon's novels The papers are givin!
full reports of the trial, instead of publishing
| more desirable matter of general Importance.
= NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Nashua papers trOZe a man TO death OF
Sunday, but he was too much for them, and OF
J Monday evening was on the street as usual.
Prof. John Woodman, formerly of Dartmouth
college, who has been spending the winter
in Florida, fer his health, is no better, and is
about 10 return TO his home in Durham.
The Tuscarora was dismantled AT Portsmouth
| on Tuesday, and the workmen complained be-
| cause the work was done by the crew. The
vess has not gone out of commission on ac-
count Of the non-receipt of the draft for her pay.
| roll.
Amos Spauldng, of Croydon, has linen
| handkerchief that is seventy years old, EN-.
| bellished with the death-bed scene of George
| Washington, and a condensed memoir Of the
father of his country printed upon it.
The grand jury at the present Sullivan county
| term DrOuphf in iO6iptmnpfes si
were against Harvey L. Devoe; and six against
| Timothy HandlOn. These were all for burglar
les committed in Caremont and Newport
The four stores in Stickney's south block, on
Main street, Concord, belonging to the Stickney
| estate, were sold on Saturday to different par
ties realizing about 1000, which is regarded
as a pretty good price
The first term of tie state normal school,
which is located at Plymouth, will begin on the
18th of March next. The academy building
| where the school will be held is undergoing
thorough repairs. The principal and other
| teachers will be selected soon.
VIM. G. Josselyn, superintendent of the Vale
| mills, 1T Nashua, was tried, Saturday, for an
assault, with intent to kill, upon Isaac G, John
/ son, former employe of the company, Inyes-
tgation showed that johnson had threatened to
take Jossely.'s life but an hour before that the
| assault was without provocation, and that jesse
Ign acted in selt-defence, and the Judge ordered
him to be discharged from custody. Previous
to the trial Josseyn was arrested on a civil ae-
| ton brought by johnson to recover SO, 600
| damages for injuries received by the alleged as
| sault, and gave bonds in that sum to appear be-
| fore the supreme court in May.
Mr. VIM. Flanders of Manchester, alderman
| from ward three, died on Tuesday of lung fever.
He was member of the legislature the past two
| years, and was about fifty two years of age.
His dwelling house was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 25th of January last. The night
was intensely cold. Since that time the wife oil
Mr. Flanders has died Of lung fever, and now he
has been taken away by the same disease. The
exposure and excitement attending the fire
were probably the principal causes of their
death.
The republican st9te committee have issued
their address to the republican voters of New
Hampshire, and call on them, as in times past
TO join the army and prepare themselves fol
another victory. The issues between the re-
publican and democratic parties are clearly
drawn, and the importance of the election is EN-.
phatically set forth. The committee calls upon
| every republican in the state TO interest himself
as in times past to bring out a full vote, fol-
| whenever ii has been done the party has never
failed to achieve decisive victory over its pc.
litical opponents. The address closes as follows
I'VE again say, let no effort be spared in this
campaign. The enemy are quietly at work, and
rely for success on the apathy of the republican
| party. Let there be no apathy in our ranks
but let every man feel the responsibility thai
rests upon him, and go into the contest with a
VIII and determination to succeed, and on the
fourteenth of March you can again throw up
your victorious banner Of twenty-One continu.
GUS victories to the breeze
VERMONT.
Monckton is to have fat mans convention
next week.
R. Flint is appointed postmaster at Hancock,
vice S. McAllister; and B. Benoit at North Dan.
vile, vice D. W. Barchelder.
The state agricultural society will hold its
next fair on the 18th, 18th, 14th and 18th OF
next September. The place is not decided upon
CONNECTICUT.
New London county has voted money TO erect
q new court house at Norwich.
On Monday, Rev. j. W. Partridge was or.
dained and installed pastor of the Green street
Congregational church in New Haven.
Elihu Burritt, of New Britain is to be the
leading contributor of the Manufacturer and
Builder.
Two fishermen caught 600 pounds of suckers
in stream at Beckley's quarter in Berlin, in
| one afternoon, last week.
Samuel Hewitt, of Derby, who has recently
| been on trial in New Haven for causing the death
of his wife, while intoxicated has been sentenced
| to ten years in the state prison.
| Philander Porter was found dead in his bed
Saturday morning, at his house, corner of Frank,
lin and ST. John street, New Haven He seemed
TO be quite wei the evening before. He was
| eighty-three years old.
Charles Lewis was arrested in New York on
I Saturday, for passing spurious $50 bill on the
First National bank of Portland 1t was a new
counterfeit. His defence is that there is no bank
OF Portland.
In Hartford, two members of the police force
are specially detailed to enforce the state truapt
law, compelling idle children to attend school
Good results are obtained by this method
The Connecticut Western railroad company
| have contracted for their iron in New York, and
part OF their rolling stock is also contracted Tor
| and building. 1t will be but little more than
two months now before they can begin to lay
| raj on portion of the route
Friday night a COW in the barn of George
| Daniels parted its halter and savagely attacked
horse standing in the next stall. The animal
| apparently resisted desperately, but was found
| next morning nearly dead, its bowels protrud-
| ing nom wounds caused by the horns of the
| cow
Deacon Smith, the city missionary of New
| Haven, three years ago established a mission at
Newhallyille, and it has grown SO rapidly that
| on Sunday a church was formed II was
named after the late DR.. Taylor, of the theoogi-
| cal seminary, and the Rev. A. b. Brown is act
| ing pastor.
The keeper of the toll-gate in Oxford, a day
| or two since, received a note, inclosing twenty
cents principal and interest), from a man who
says that thirty years ago he, with two other
| boys, got through the gate on fraudulent pre-
| fences. The other two are dead, and thinking
IT likely that they had not rectified the error he
/ iNuiAS AhN oi1A SSubnJ Win lulCTtst.
| The Palladium and the Rev. Mrs Hanafonl of
| New Haven, have had serious falling ont. aris-
ing from the reverend gentlewoman's severe de-
nunciation of the city hospital authorities, who
had pauper, Mary Grey, buried from the hos
pital without funeral services. Mrs. Hanaford,
learning of the woman's death, offered her serv.
ices as a minister, but too late. The Palladium
says if the family of the unfortunate Young
woman had desired funeral services they would
have obtained them 1t adds that nine-tentbs
of the citizens of New Haven would consider
the services of Mrs. Hanaforl at a funeral in the
light OF an unseemly burlesque and quotes n
text from st. Paul, where he says "charity
yaunteth not itself"
| RHODE ISLAND,
Inc son OF VIM. Cornell, aged eleven years. of
harrington, was drowned in Warren river on
Tuesday evening, having fallen through the ice
A IRE in Warren on Wednesday morning mar.
TALLY destroyed Bowen & Franklin's ewerv
mandatory Loss probably from $500 to
$4,000. The building is owned by Lewis r Hoar
Nathan Cards dwelling house in Warwict
was burned on Tuesday night. Insured for
The Rhode Island Schoolmaster for Fehr,arr
says: an Rhode Island are more than ten thoT;,.
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