Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-30

The Houlton Times says a party consisting
| of ninety-five Swedes to Join the colony at New
| Sweden, arrived on Saturday, Goth. They were
| forwarded by teams TO their destination. Some
half dozen of them bring gold drafts for nearly
| four thousand dollars, which looks as if they
had the means for making good start in the
new home of their adoption.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Rockingham house, at Portsmouth, is to
be opened on Thursday, June list.
Portsmouth congratulates itself upon yoke
of cattle weighing trife over $40 pounds.
The occupants of the summit of Mount Wash
lngton experienced terrible thunder storm last
| week. The lightning PLAYED around the railroad
track in the liveliest sort of way.
Rear Admiral Taylor arrived atthe portsmouth
navy yard on Monday, to serve as Judge adyo-
cate on a court martial for the trial OF a sailor
for desertion from the United States snip llcon-
| deroga, which vessel lies in the lower harbor,
| waiting orders Capt. Bradford, Commander
| Breeze and Others Will constitute the court for
| the trial of this and other cases.
| Manchester will have to turn over new leaf,
or it will speedily lose all hope of everybeiug
numbered as a church-gong community. Its
| population, as given by the last census, was
| 2S, 800, but last Sabbath an actual count re-
vealed the fact thar the attendance at the twenty
| places of worship in the city did not exceed
5000. OF this number, too, 1900 souls were pre-.
sent at the three Roman Catholic churches of
the town, and nearly 700 at the Universalist,
Evangelical attendance of the day at only about
5000, out of population of nearly eight times
that number. Of the Evangelical sects the
Congregationalists are by all odds the strongest
in point of numbers, the Methodists ranking
next. The figures given above are not hatter-
ing figures.
VERMONT.
Asa z. Chase, of Bakersfield, committed sui
eide by shooting, last week, after family jar.
The body of young man named Edward
Ames was found under the saw mill of Golf &
scott at Rlchford, few mornings since, with
the appearance of having been caught in gear
ing under the mill, as ii was terribly mangled.
He was last seen in the mill
CONNECTICUT.
The corner stone of the new Dwight place
church in New Haven was laid on Saturday.
On Wednesday, the Forest City club, of Rock
ford, Ill, will play the Yales at Hamilton park,
New Haven
The Congregational church in Meriden has re-
fused to accept the resignation of the pastor,
Rev. j. j. Wooley.
The Episcopal church of St. John the Baptist,
in Portland, was consecrated Saturday, Bishop
Williams officiating.
W. H. Carey, the man shot by Treat in New
britain, few days since, will recover, though
the bullet cannot be extracted
keV. Il. >. Kendall, formerly of Vernon, sailed
Tor Stras burg last week, where he has been APP
pointed consul
Kew. MIR. Guenzburg, of the Hebrew syna-
gogue, in Hartford, narrowly escaped death
Thursday, having taken a dose of saltpetre for
bitter salts
Several hundred acres of woodland and large
amount of wood already cut belonging to Miles
Merwin, in Durham, were burned Wednesday
and Thursday.
New Haven county representatives are to meet
on FRIDAY, TO lay a tax for paying for the pro-
posed new county court house, which it is esti-
mated will cost S150,000.
A patent snuff" man in Hartford, advertises
his commodity in glaring letters painted on the
sides of large Newfoundland dog, which has
been closely sheared for the purpose.
The new Church of the Redeemer," on Orange
street, New Haven, was dedicated with appro-
pirate services Thursday evening.
Inc town OF New Haven has voted to release
the Air Line road second mortgage bonds of
half million, and accept in lieu thereof the
common stock of the company
The old Savin Rock property in West Haven
has been purchased by Geo. r. Kelsey, who, in
| connection with Gen. Russell of New Haven, in
tends to remove the military school of the latter
thither.
| c. Astor Bristed (Car Benson) of New York,
has sent $500 to President Woolsey for the libra
| ry OF ale college, to be expended for books in
the clerical and pathological departments of the
| library.
An old man named Wilson Kellogg, formerly
an an1uent and respected citizen of CRANKY, but
iatterly reduced to poverty, was found in a barn
from ear to ear. 1t is supposed he committed
suicide while under the.inhuen0e of LIQUOR
ihomas Mack, brakeman on a Bridgeport
train, accidentally fell from the cars, on Friday
evening, near Wallace's factory, Ansonia, and
was run over and killed. He belonged in Wa
terbury, and was about twenty years of AGE
Revenue officers last week seized $4,000 worth
OF liquors in the store of G. F. Tuttle New Ha-
ven, and on the next day $4,000 worth in the
| store OF A. l.. Chamberlain & Co., in Fair Haven.
hor,s j
commencement week at Yale begins Sunday.
July 9Th. The anniversary of the Sheffield
| scientific school occurs on Monday; Tuesday is
| presentation day; Wednesday is the day for the
graduates meeting, grafton, etc.; Thursday,
July 10Th, is commencement; and examinations
| Tor admission to college on Friday, after COM
mencement, continue to Saturday or Monday.
Serene A. stanton, of Wilmington, was ar
| rested by Sheriff Pomeroy, of Toliapd. last
week, charged with an assault on his half-sster
Mrs. George Cushman, of Tolland, and on the
next day was taken before Justice Sherman
Chapman, and fine and costs amounting to
about $50 imposed upon him. He was also put
under $500 bonds to keep the peace.
destructive fire ragged at West Cornwall
thursday evening, which destroyed the Housa-
touic railroad station, large ice house, water
| tank and woodshed, with about seyenty-iye
| cords of sawed wood; loss $1,000. The West
| ern Union telegraph Office in the depot and a
| private barn were also destroyed. The freight
| Win tne ralroau DOCKS, was saved. The fire
| originated in the barn, which was about thirty
feet from the depot and was caused by fire
dropped by man who was there smoking,
Charles Sawn, in the employ of Michael
| OGrady OF New York, was sent to the bank by
the latter, Friday, to deposit 5000, with bank
| BOOK representing $1,000. He failed to report
| and telegram caused his arrest at New Haven
during the evening, stylishly dressed, but pepni-
| less, having spent the whole amount before his
| arrest.
Two Hartford young men, while out sailing
on the Connecticut river Thursday afternoon,
were capsized by flaw of wind, and the boat
| turned bottom side up. One of them managed
| 10 SWIM ashore, against a strong current while
| the other chung to the boat. Several schooners
laden with stone passed him, but, as the breeze
| was good and they were sailing fast paid no at
| tention to his cries for assistance AT last a
kind-hearted captain came along rescued him
and assisted in putting his boat in order SO that
ne was able to return to Hartford in command
with no more damage than a severe wetting
and fright
Edwin K. Webb of Stamford has been held in
the sum Of $500 bonds for trial before the
superior court for attempting 10 poison his wife.
MRS. WeDb, who has been deserted by her hus-
band for some months, claims that recently IN
the promise Of returning to her, he induced her
70 take dose OF strychnine and paregoric for
the purpose of destroying her unborn infant,
which she agreed to do, believing that il Would
accomplish the wicked purpose. The first dose
was Intellectual, and the second rendered her so
low that prompt medical attendance only saved
her.
The Norwich Bulletin says: zone of the most
melancholy egg stories ahoat is that in copnec-
ton with gentleman whose hens modestlv but
firmly persisted in incubatng in the woods near
the free academy, and whose productions were
as modestly but as persistently appropriated by
those little lower than the angels. The owner
resolved to apprehend the theves-seoreted him
self one afternoon a few feet from the nests
fell asleep through weakness Of the flesh. and
awoke to find that even the hens had been stolen
while he slumbered, Can there be stronger evil
denee in suppors Of the doctrine of total depryi-
tyr"
The fifth report Of the commissioners of fish,
cries, made TO the legislature, is published, DR..
Hudson and his fellow commissioners have per
sonally visited various rivers and places. and
have made report OF some Importance to every
body in Connecticut, Especially jmportant e
their exposure of the violations of the law on
the part Of the fishers Of shad by means =" nf
pounds" in the sound, off the mouth az tho
Connecticut These pounds" sweep in nearIv
all the shad before they reach the river and
little and big, they are sold either to New Ynrl
for market use, or, in some cases of small ish
fo farmarg On the ghnra for rno n,,sa -