Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-18

| road, possesses a family relic which has been
handed down in the Scofeld family since 1641
| Ii is a Bible that was printed in London in 1899
is now 272 years old. Ii is still in good state
of preservation, and is illustrated with quaint
| engravingS. There are, il is believed only four
copies of the edition in the United States
! Our Connecticut friends having failed in get
| ting up n heightened clambake, and feeling so
bad about it, the Hartford Times comes to their
relief by asserting that the failure was on ac-
count of the "elite of the colored population OF
HARTFORD, probably because the clans were so
scared by the colored gentry, they lost their
genuine sweetness. If so, it exhibits in proper
relief the misfortune of having TOO white a
population. Had the clans been properly edu-
Gated in "miXed Schools they would have be-
haved better, Next time try some CLANS from
this neighborhood; they know what to do on
such occasions,
A New York dispatch says the post office de-
taulter, Norton, was graduate of Yale college,
and is brother to Professor Norton of that in
stitution. His associates regarded him as man
of considerable scholastic attachments, rather
grasping in money matters, but gentlemanly,
None ever spoke of him as being fast or dis
sipatcd, his sole weakness appearing TO be a
fondncSs for horses. He was noted for his sta
Bile, which contained animals not unknown to
the turf. He had very little social intercourse
with his fellow employees rarely invited them
to his house, and they knew very little of his
family or habits outside of the office.
The letter left by Leonard Rogers, the New
London murderer and suicide, asserts that he
took charge of an Legitimate child of his vic
tim, Hattie L Lily, which was born in April
last, which he left at a house near Montville.
and that he did his best to shield the young girl
from dishonor though not himself the father of
her child, on condition that she should marry
nm, She, he SAYS, atterward repudiated the
contract, but becoming again encente, he en-
tlced her from New Haven, whittier she had
gone, under promise of aiding her to procure
an abortion at Norwich, and upon her arrival
at New London, murdered her. Some other
statements made in the letter have been investi-
gated and found true, and the rest will be at
once looked into. Rogers had a wife living in
Malone, N. Y, and is known TO have planned
the bloody tragedy some days since. Miss Lily
was short and slender blonde, quite good look
lng, and only sixteen years of age at her I'M
timely death
The Tolland county agricultural society offers
a premium of SIS for the 'meanest looking team
on the fair grounds" evidently intended to get
up rivalry in the "antique and horrible" line.
But the Woonsocket Patriot sees no joke in the
affair and thus vents its Indignation: "This is
a direct insult TO some poor farmer who ventures
out to witness the 'hoss trotS' of that asSocia-
ton. OF late years the agricultural societies of
New England have degenerated into mere jock
ey clubs; and now one Of these associations in
suits the very class which originated agricultu-
raj societies, and who have always given to them
their chief or only responsibility. The poor
farmer on a mortgaged form, paralyzed with
debt, and maybe by continual sickness in his
household cannot afford the fine horse and
costly equipage owned by more thrifty, lucky or
fortunate classes. Yet Connecticut agrcutu-
raj society (horse trot show, boldly offers pre-
MUM on the poverty of its humble tillers of
the soil! A more reprehensible premium has
never been offered by a society which claims to
be connected with agriculture"
RHODE ISLAND.
The Woonsocket Patriot says: "On looking
over the various branches of industry not rep
resented in Woonsocket, it is evident that sew
eral might be located here provided adequate
building room and motive power were furnished
TO mechanics. A building of large size, divided
into convenient rooms, with steam power could
be filled with tenants in a brief time. We are
frequently applied 10, personally or by letter, by
parties who wish to hire rooms and mechanical
power for various kinds of business. Here is a
chance for some of our capitalists to put up one
or more buildings of this character. The in
yestment would be safe and productive and the
new industries introduced would materially in
crease the business and population of the town.