Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-19

Tho r071cs s-oHo"l quickly oYa nr's,lr8S'v
anil the pLf,.n;s dg. min Il mere fright, uu
helevmgly paciiiad their tumultuous babies
Other houses were visited, and the marauders
escaped unscathed, after one Of the boldest raids
on record.
CONNECTICUT.
Six young ladies desire TO enter Wesleyan uni
versity, but the proper authorities have not yet
acted upon their petitions.
On Sunday two Quakeresses, laying aside
their ordinary exclusiveness, preached in the
Congregational church in New Milford
The body of an unknown colored man was
washed ashore on Griswod's beach, in Say
brook, Tuesday. A belt was around the body,
with sheath attached containing a knife.
During the storm which prevailed at an early
hour Thursday morning the residence of Ezra
b. Stevens of Danbury was struck by lightning,
and his daughter Addie, eighteen years of age,
killed.
The New York and New Haven railroad likes
the patent air brake which it has been lately
using so we'll that, notwithstanding the great
expense, it will apply il TO all of its trains as
fast as it can be manufactured.
pleasure party in New Milford who were
riding to Waramaug lake on Monday, were
thrown from their carriage by the running away
Of the horses, and Miss Trow6ridge OF Pough-
keepsie, was it is feared fatally injured.
The Scotchmen of Norwich declined to cele-
brate the hundredth birthday of Sir Walter
Scott, because "his merits as poet and author
were not OF such character as to warrant the
success" of any public undertaking, and "that
he was a mere writer of fiction"
An excursion of the Redding Methodist
church to Cedar Point was interfered with by
the owner of the property where they had
spread their FEAST and ordered off Immediately.
The gentlemen protested and resolved to keep
possession OF the ground as long as they pleased.
Legal proceedings were threatened by the en-
ragged owner.
"0f what does the surface of the earth con-
sist" asked a Bridgeport teacher of her class
in geography. Land and water" promptly
responded bright boy. In order TO impress
the matter upon her pupils the teacher attempted
to elicit the same fact by reversing the question
and answer: "What then do land and water
makeP and the bright boy readily answered
"mud." He took the prize.
On Sunday morning in Mianus as Walter
Palmer was crossing from his brothers resi-
dence to his own, he passed near the property of
Charles Cings, and the dog of the latter sudden
" sprang on him. Palmer kicked at the ami
NAL TO drive him away, when Cings attacked
Palmer and beat him in shocking manner,
cutting his face terribly and brutally kicking
the PROSTATE man in the body and side.
The Danielsonvile Transcript says: "Mr.
Luther Alexander, the owner of the large brick
mill in this town, tells us that he has found the
probabilities about the weather, issued daily,
so reliable, that he has recently invariably fol-
lowed the advice there given about the weather,
and has not yet been misled in a single in
stance. Ii the prophecy says there is probabili-
ty of cloudy weather, his bricks are not put
where the rain will touch them. If fair weather
is predicted, out goes the clay. Science is doing
things in this age, and among them
there are few more marvellous things than the
weather prophecies which are sent to us every
morning from Washington"
The new Harris mill at Putnam, which has
for some time been ready for occupation, has
been rented TO Messrs. Lamb & Holt of Provi-
dence, for the manufacture of cotton goods, and
it is expected that the machinery will be placed
in it and ready for occupation about November
1st The building will contain $50 looms, or
$4,000 spindes, and the room will all be occu-
pied. Several out-buidings are TO be erected.
About thirty more tenements will be required
for the operatives, and Mr.. Harris will probably
erect them, this fall. This arrangement will add
some $50 to the population of the village.
RHODE ISLAND.
An archery class, composed entirely Of young
ladies, has been formed in Newport.
At Hope, d. Rowland has been appointed
postmaster in place of H. B. Bodson, resigned.
The two granite quarries in Westerly now
give employment to about six hundred men.
The largest number are employed by ]. G. Bat
terson & Co.
Baraue Charles W. Morgan, which arrived at
Providence on Wednesday, had on board the
remains of Alvah H. Davis, late her first Off
Ger, who died suddenly on board some months
since.
The amount of money deposited in the saw
ings banks of Rhode Island last year was $780,
708,000, and the number of depositors was
1881. In the year 1868, the amount on deposit
was only $9,570,000. According to population,
Rhode Island has more money in savings banks
than any other state in the union. This speaks
well for the industry and sobriety of our labor
ing population.
During the thunder storm of Wednesday
morning the lightning struck the residence of
Henry Hamilton, in CentralVile, breaking off
the upper end of the lightning rod and parting
the rod before it reached the ground, also shat
tering the windows and doors, and breaking
down plastering generally. From the entrance
of the rod into the earth the course of the bolt
could be traced by furrow some six inches in
depth, across the yard, until it reached the cor
ner of Mr.. L c. MeTrilPs residence, where it
entered, tearing away window frames, mop
boards, plastering, unhanging doors and raising
up the porch. 1t seemed to have played pretty
extensively also around the basement kitchen,
and had the family been at breakfast at the
time they would have experienced serious if not
fatal injuries. A daughter of Mr.. Merrill was
sleeping over one Of the rooms that was nearly
demolished the door of her apartment was
torn off, and it required considerable effort to
awaken her, she having been partially stunned
by the shock. Both houses were provided with
lightning conductors.