Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-08

vicinity by a killing frost. In some localltNs III
that county corn, potatoes, beans ana otner .sn,
der things were badly cut down. Some corn 4
fields were so badly injured that farmers plowed
them up and sowed India wheat. This irost
was not general, but in certain localities IN 81
Johnsbury, Lyndon, Wheelock, Burke and Dan
vile it left black mark.
CONNECTICUT.
The summer exhibition of the Yale school OF |
fine arts opened Thursday evening,
The legislature has passed general railroad |
law.
There was a general celebration Of the Fourth
in CRANKY. Gov. Jewell and Hon. ). L. Strong
delivered addresses.
A lucky Danbury man found pearl in
round clam, which sold for $50. Danbury now
devotes its attention to claiming.
Sterling Hill Baptist society gave geneIaii
clam bake on the 4th. An grafton was delNereu
by +. W. Spalding of Plainf,fld.
A Young man named Miller, hoStler ~ tle
Attawaugan stable, Daniesonvue, had sloV ~ gll
money and nice suit of clothes ;uoe u lIoii ms
room in Mrs. Pray's, on Railroad street, last
week.
A man named Brennan, who was attending
a Catholic picnic Tuesday, at Noi-WalR, accl-
dentally fell down high bank and SroKe MS
teek. He was taken up dead.
a fire cracker frightened W. L. HunaSons
horse IN New Britain, Tuesday. The ca. -riage
was turned over and both Mr.. and Mrs. hu-
mason received severe injuries.
The wife of Daniel Claffev, Of Hartfo I'd,
drowned herself Tuesday night, 4th, in ne
river, while laboring under a temporary abena
ton of mind caused by sickness.
Tuesday afternoon the roof of Joseph Ham 4
Ions house, in Waterbury, was discovered to be
burning, and before the fire was extingushed
damage TO the value of 81 200 was DONE
A. Mrs Mgeon of Wolcottville, passenger
by Che steamer Lafayette, which arrived at
New York from Brest, Thursday, died July
Both.
Two men, named Whaley and Ready, have
been arrested at Cold Spring, Long Island,
charged with committing the Sanger murder in
Bridgeport
Lewis y. Bloodgood, a young man, nineteen
Years old, and a nephew of Rev. DIR. Goodwin
of M;sa1letown, was drowned while bathing on
the 9th.
The dead body of an unknown man, partial
" decomposed, was found in Bridgeport harbor
on the ID. He had evidently been murdered, as
there were several stabs in the region of the
heart, and then thrown from the dock.
About 1000 persons attended the Good Samar-
itan Temperance society's picnic in New Brit
ain on the Fourth james Gallagher, of New
Haven, the inevitable H H. Barbour, jr.," of
Hartford, and others made speeches.
On the 4th a man named Peter Neehan,
resident of Salisbury, started to walk across the
railroad bridge at that place, and slipping, fell
through to the ground, breaking his neck and
killing him instantly. The deceased was sixty
years old.
The Norwich Bulletin appears in a new dress,
and the typographical appearance is now almost
as good as its editorial management. The Bull
letin richly deserves the success that thus en-
ables it to appear with new type even before the
old had shown signs of age.
Henry Curtis, Of Huntington, was examined
in Bridgeport before grand jury, on the 9th, on
the charge OF killing Charles Morton, June 18th.
He was discharged. 1t will be recollected that
Morton endeavored to break into CurtisS house
to see the latters wife, and was shot in the at
Tempt
Henry A. Dyer, of Brooklyn, CT, died sudden
" in Newark N j., on the I'd. He was well
known in the state, having formerly been secre-
tary of the Connecticut agricultural society and
secretary of the Travellers insurance company.
He was in the insurance business in Newark at
tine time Of his death.
A drunken fellow who was put OIL OF an &C
commodation train near ThompSonYllle, on the
9th, for not paying his fare, sought revenge by
putting pile of trees on the track, which would
have caused a serious accidept to the express
train but for the timely discovery of the ODstruc-
ton. He was arrested and taken TO Long
Meadow, Mass for trial.
A young man about fourteen years of age,
named Miller, with a companion, was playing ON
| the Sd, under an embankment near Sayles new
| mill at Dexterville, when a considerable amount
| of gravel caved in, and the Miller boy was par
| tally covered and seriously injured. He had a
part of one foot crushed off, the skin scraped
from one leg nearly TO the knee, his hands and
| head also bruised.
While firing salute in New Britain on the
| 4th, gun was prematurely discharged as Will
| liam COnnor was ramming the cartridge. his
| right hand was torn from the arm, and his
| shoulder and face burned in fTightfnl manner.
| The citizens contributed $3.50 for the aid of the
| sufferer in few hours.
A son of DIR. Baldwin, of Seymour, aged
| fourteen, was fnghttully burned and mangled
on the fourth, while emptying flask of pow
| der upon q small cannon, which did not go off
as soon as expected. In his frantic efforts to
put out his burning clothes he rubbed the skin
aud flesh from his chest and stomach but hopes
are entertained of his recovery though he will
| probably lose his sight.
| Lightning played some curious freaks during
a thunder storm on the night of the goth in
South Glastonbury. The house used as the
| Episcopal parsonage was struck, and every
| room, except three, used as sleeping rooms,
bore the marks of the fluid. None of the occu-
| pants of the house were injured. The pantry
windows had been taken out the day before,
and the two portions placed close together
against the wall. The glass in one sash was
smashed into small fragments, while the other
sash was wholly uninJured. In shed in the
rear of the house pail had been left standing
in a large cheese box; the pail was converted
into kindling wood while no damage was done
to the box. A portion of the fluid passed along
the bell wire, tearing the casing OF the front
door to pieces, and throwing the bell knob
several feet into the yard. In the study of Mr..
Fogg some manuscripts were torn in singular
manner, but were not burned. Two or three win
dow blinds were thrown open with great
force. The crash, when the stroke came, is
said by the inmates to have been terrific beyond
description, shaking the house to its founda-
tons
RHODE ISLAND.
The most noticeable turnout so far, says a
Newport letter, is that of Mr.. August Belmont,
who drives four magnificent bays, with lackeys
in gorgeous liveries.
Hartford Jenckes of Cumberland, has in his
possession glass bottle which has been pre-
served by the Jenckes family since the year
1907. That date is cut with diamond upon
the glass. Mr.. Jenckes believes the bottle had
been in possession of the Jenckes family fol-
two generations before 1907.