Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-02

| giving dinner Very cOnsiderate, OF the bear.
Miss Eliza Lyman, of East Greensboro, has
contracted TO furnish the lumber for the water
tank and depot buildings that are soon to be
constructed on the great bend" of the La
noble Valley railroad, near that place.
Isaac Hunt Of West Danville, was born in
that town in 1907, aud the tarthest he has ever
been from home was when he went to Oxford,
N. H., few years ago. He also attended big
| muster AT Bradford, fourteen years ago with
these exceptions, he has been quite steady.
The two pine trees, Of which an account was
| gi7en in Thompson'S Gazetteer, of Vermont in
| 1925, are still standing on the farm of John A.
| Sargent, OF POmpanOOSuc. They are neal ~
twice MS large at the base now as then, while
one, above the connecting limb is not larger than
It was fifty years ago.
CONNECTICUT.
Small pox sill continues in Brookfeld.
Danbury is going into the early closing move
ment.
Trumbull is waking up after6fty years sleep.
The railroad engine shrieks have caused it.
The New Haven Palladium declines TO notice
| large hogs and turnipS.
A new breakwatcr is TO be built in Bridgeport
! hGrbor, TO cost about $4,000.
Water will be let through the pipes from the
new reservoir at Norwak, this week.
| new temperance journal to he called the
| Fountain, Is to be started in New Haven.
| Large quantities Of pig iron from Salisbury
are shipped daily from Bridgeport by water.
1t is reported that mine Of some importance
has been discovered and worked in West Nor
walk.
The Kellogg concert in Center church, New
Britain, was a complete success. Miss Kellogg
was greeted with an audience Of 1000 people.
Mrs. ID. Wright, the New Haven city mission
airy, has been quite sick of typhoid fever but Is
better.
A monument erected in Allentown, 70 the
memory OF Campbell, British officer who tell
| near the spot during the revolution, has been
destroyed by party of students.
The New Haven Palladium says: "The Broad
way theatre company are roaming through
Fairfield county. A big name and dreadful
show"
Another town meeting to act upon the propo-
sition to subscribe $50 600 to the stock of the
Connecticut Central railroad, will be held in
East Windsor on Monday of next week.
There are one hundred and ten prisoners in
the Hartford county jail. The woman'S depart
ment is SO crowded that twenty-five women are
lodged in sixteen cells
The two dumb boys from Peabody, who have
led sort of wild lie and were recently carried
TO the deaf and dumb asylum at Hartford, have
botn escaped and are probably up TO their old
tricks.
The Connecticut labor reform party will hold
convention at Bridgeport on the Sd of January,
1872. We understand the object is to nominate
candidates for state officers, to be voted for next
spring.
The wife of Lieut.. Gov Yale, of Minnesota
died recently, and her remains were inferred ON
Tuesday, the 2Sth, in Norwak her former resi-
dence She was the daughter of Mr.. Bradley 0.
Banks.
The copartnershp of Tweedy & Co., hat man
utacturers in DGbury, having expired by limit
alton, new as ISOLATION has been formed, to be
known as the Iweedy manufacturing company
with capital OF SlOO,000. The gentlemen form.
ing the new company are W. Ii. Twccdy, Thos
L. TWeCdy kSAn T. Damn. Edmund Tweedy
I1-;.l a., !
institution of the kind in that city. and prob-
ably in the county. Ii is endowed in the sum of
$1,000, of which $4,000 was begueatbed nv the
late Alfred Bishop, ESQ, and $1,000 bv Mrs. DR.
Adams. The interest of this sum is disbursed
nv iu,iirious hands as time and nnnortuni+v
may su rgcst.
A Dlnburv man saw his dauobtpr into the
cars and noSsed round to nor ,vindoy, for a no
inr lool, M her. While he was nassino out tbe
daugbtpr Ieft the soar IA sneak 70 n rriend and
nj tLe same fine a nrim l6cking lady who oc-
cupied the seat with her moved nm 70 the win
dow. Unaware of the important change inside
our venerable friend bostiIv nnt biS a.. mn 10
| TSe window and bnTriedly exrIaimed ss9n No
| moro Kiss. sweet net" In another instant the
| point of \ bIne cotton umbrella caurbf his Sc
| ductive Inns followed nv the nossionate iniunc-
| ZION .sScat Won orov-beadrd wretrhf3 and he
| scattered
RuoDE ISLAND
Newoort is growing more ranidIv than ever
before The imnroyements ar, mostly first class
cottages chiefly huilt by non.residents The
Mercury of that citv saws carnpntprs and ma
| sons have WORT, enongb 70 keen them actjve ali
| winter The cotfaycS now bsiIdng will cost
unwards Of son 0O0 That "citv Inv the SEN is
nositiveIv n most deIiobtfnI nIace
| The Providence Star saws thot Alevis visitad
| Thar cit,- on Nondav hecama +, 1er1nonent c,,est
! Of one Of the cifizenS and received calls from a
rreat number OF ladies, He weighed ten ponnds
! NJ Cra,,corl Creora NJ, co-,ias, o. -