Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-02
asylum for drunkards established in this

an asylum for drunkards established in this
state.
The supreme Judicial court held an extra ses-
sion in Nashua on Wednesday, for the purpose of
naturalizing aliens. Between one hundred and
| twenty-five and one hundred and fifty were Quail
flied and took the oath of allegiance.
d. d. Crombie, agent Of the Nashua manufac-
turing company, has resigned his position, and
on the first Of April will accept the lreasurrTship
of the Everitt mills of Lawrence, with an office
in Boston.
The young mems Christian union dedicated
their new rooms on tue corner OF Vaughan and
lslington streets, Portsmouth, on Wednesday
evening. This charitable organization has been
formed by many influential citizens AMI under
their care will prove of great benefit to the
| young.
Portsmouth despairs of increasing its cen
sus in the natural way, and wants to try the
| Boston fashion of anneXing the suburbs. The
Chronicle says many of the prominent business
men, irrespective of party, have declared their
purpose of supporting the project for the an
nexatiOn OF Newcastle.
At meeting of citizens of Portsmouth and
Newcastle, held on Tuesday, to consider the
| question of the annexation of Newcastle to
Portsmouth, Hon Dlnel Marcy WIS chosen
chairman and John Albee, ESQ., secretary. At
| ter q spirited discussion of the merits of the
question, the meeting, which comprised some
Of the leading citze and heaviest tax payers
| of both towns and of both political parties,
unanimously adopted a resolution in favor of
| annexation. Hon. Daniel Marcy, Chas. Men
| DUN, Esq, and Mr.. Y. Doane, Jr., were appoint
ed special committee TO further the project
| and report at q future meeting,
| coNNLCTICuT.
The Norwich Bulletin says that quite large
number of business men are abandoning Mer-
den, and settling in Wallingford.
Mrs Miranda Whitney, one Of the persons in
Stamford supposed TO have been attacked By the
tnchna spiralis, died on Wednesday.
The trouble among the workmen at Howe
sewing machine works in Bridgeport, has
reached such pitch that the life of the presi-
dent, Mr.. Stockwell, is threatened by the dis
affected ones.
At meeting of the directors of the Air Line
railroad in Middetown, Tuesday morning, the
Hon. Julius Hotchkiss was unanimously elected
president of the company, in place of David
Lyman, deceased.
The man Greene, recently on trial before a
magistrate in Waterbury, charged with setting
hre to his grocery store TO recover the insur
ance, some $4,000, has been bound over TO the
superior court, un1er $4,000 bonds.
The Plymouth granite company of Water
bury have recently taken contract for a SOL
diers monument at Woodbury.. 1t is to be
plain shaft thirty feet high, with the state coat
OF arms at the base, and appropriate inscription.
In removing the safe of the Fist national
bank of Bridgeport to their new banking house,
the other day, the lock became so dgranged that
1t has been impossible yet to open it, norwith
standing the efforts of the officers and experts.
Monday evening woman named Rachel
Miller, just out of the town hous3, applied for
shelter at a boarding house in Hartford, and
was taken in for the night. She was seized
with commissions during the night and soon
died; cause exposure and intemperance.
RHODE ISLAND.
Forty turkeys were seut to the Assonet fair
from Little Compton, Saturday, weighing in the
aggregate over 500 pounds.
A conductor of the Providence and Boston
railroad received from passenger a day or two
since, ticket issued some twenty years ago,
which had not been used in the meantime II
had the words first class" print upon it.
The Carpenter families in Rhode Island are
building ali castles. They have heard that IS
tates worth ten millions are waiting for them
'across the bigpond," and they propose to "com
bine for them" A meeting will soon be held in
Providence to talk the matter over.
Providence is at length to be immortalzed.
A play has been written, the scene thereof laid
in tLat moral city. The new candidate for
popular favt is the work of Nj. H. A. Weaver,
meritorious actor connected with the Boston
theatre. The proprietorS of said play are ChlS.
I. Parsoe and Master Sliffen, and the title of
same is remarkably sug gestive. Here it is in
| tull; FLASHES of City Life, or Providence in
| Three Glimpses, Morning, Noon and Night"
| The beauty OF this title will be readily appreci-
| ated by the managerial mind, inasmuCh rs it is
susceptible OF Innumerabe adaptations with re-
gard to locality. In Lowell, how easy to say,
| Lowell in Three Gimpses." But let that pass
New scenery is being painted for the piece, and
we understand it is TO be produced late in
| March.