Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-20

/ by the great.gTandfather of Messrs. S. H. and
H. +. Parsons.
Portland has voted by large majority to
guarantee 100000 of the Air Line railroad
bonds. Chatham, it is expected, will endorse
$4,000 of the bonds. Middlefed's proportion
is $4,000; but the town, says the Sentinel, is
dsinclincd to assume the risk.
The directors of the Mountain grove cemetery
association, Bridgeport, have recently purchased
of David W. Sherwood forty.fiye acres of land
adjoining the Cemetery. With this enlargement
the cemetery grounds will be sufficiently extern
Sive to meet the wants Of the public for many
years TO come, remote enough from the centre
of business to secure exemption from intrusion
and ultimate abandonment or removal, and will
be one OF the most beautiful burial grounds in
the state.
The satiuet mill at Newington, which was
operated by a couple OF Massachusetts men,
was burned Tuesday night The building was
owned by Henry {, Kellogg Of Newington, who
loses about $4,000. The loss on stock Will prob
ably reach $1,000. The dye shop and Storehouse
were saved.
The Valley road has completed arrangements
with the Hartford and New York steamboat
| company 10 run its boats during the winter, to
| connect with the road at Saybrook Point. The
| boats will leave the Point at p. NJ, reaching
| New York city early in the morning, and will
| leave New York in the evening, connecting SO
| that passengers will reach Hartford early in the
| morning. The arrangement will 90 into effect
about the first of December.
A new course of higher instruction has been
begun at Yale, under Dr. Woolsey Prot. Wheel
er and Prof Lounsbury, for those who wish TO
obtain thorough knowledge of English histo-
~, political ethics, and English literature. Each
of the instructors has laid out a general plan
for reading and study in his department. the
whole time for which will he two years. This is
the only course Of the kind in the country, and
already ten or Twelve graduates of Yale have en-
tered upon it.
Elias H. Cooper has been perpetrating his
vinegar fraud in New Haven, and now knows
what it is to reside in the lookup. He has been
in the habit of personatng an honest country
man, DESTROYS of selling vinegar, and after eX-
bibiting fine sample to housewife, he would
take pay for as much as she ordered, and then
suddenly recolect that his wagon had broken
down Just out of the city, and would soon he
along with the driver, who would deliver the
vinegar. 1t is needless to say that the article
never comes to hand. An irate female happened
10 see him on the street, recently, and he was
glad to fee from her clutches to the protection
of the police.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence Press says: "The inspector of
kerosene oils Capt. Geo. A. Cole has investigated
the cause of the recent explosion of an oil lamp
at the Elm house in johnson, which endangered
the safety of the building. The oil used was
found TO be pure naptha, which is very infam-
mable and dangerous. The naptha was pur-
chased by the landlord of the hotel of Mr. Thos.
T. James, oil dealer on Washington street, in this
city, for twenty cents gallon. Mr.. James has
been complained of before for selling dangerous
oils, and had his former store on High street
closed up by the inspector. An action will now
be brought against him for his violation of the |
aw by selling dangerous burning fluid"