Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-09

degree of "persecution which might induce
them to. He thinks the present troubles will be
settled in one OF two ways. Brigham Young
proposes 10 test the legality of the prose buttons
that have been SET on foot in the supreme court
of the United States. He will quietly await the
decision of that tribunal before taking any fur
,her steps whatever, believing that Mormons
cannot be convicted of adultery under the terri
torial law passed by a Mormon legislature If
the decision is against him, Elder Trip hopes
that an arrangement can be effected by which
all marriage contracts already made can he
legitmated, orat least undisturbed, on condition
that no more polygamOuS marriages are permit
ted. lie is not prepared to say thar his people
would he willing to make such a concession,
but he himself seems to favor it. The other al
tentative to he resOrted TO in case the cOmpro-
mise is rejected, either by the Mormons or the
government, is the abandonment of Utah and
the building Of anew city beyond the limits ofthe
United States. For this the Mormons are fully
prepared, though they confidently hope to es-
cape the terrible necessity of another exodus.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
DIR. c. j. Frost of BaltebOrO, VT, has been
chosen to the chair Of theory and practice in
the Dartmouth medical college.
Mr.. Dumas of the Bears Head house, Hamp-
ton, was thrown from carriage few days
ago, and received broken leg.
Mr.. Samuel ROwcll of Lancaster aged ninety
FIVE has husked two hundred and fifty baskets
of corn lately,
Rev Sanford P. Smith of Gardner, Me-, has
accepted a call to tie Iniyersalist church in
Claremont and will commence his labors there
November 18th.
Ira OsgOod of LoudOn raised 266 bushels of
corn on one and three-eighths acres of ground
equal to 96 Sill bushels Of shelled corn to an
acre.
In the supreme judicial court at Portsmouth,
the Indictment against Joseph Marshall of Sea-
~ 40 11.fn Of Kun hoe
been mol pressed, and Marshall discharged, it
being impossible to prove the death of Knox,
MIR Horace Barber formerly of Canaan, was
not burned up, as supposed, in Chicago. Mr..
Henry c. Welch of Oshkosh, Wis, formerly of
c., loses his lumber mills and holds worthless
insurance policy.
BIessrs. A. i. 6 O, +, Barron, proprietors of
the Twin Mountain house, have purchased the
Crawford house and some 1900 acres of land
in the vicinity of the White Mountain Notch,
for $4,000.
An important case came up for trial in the
supreme judicial court, on the Sth, in which
Harrison l.. Davis Of franklin sues the Mount
Washington turnpike company for SO 600 dam
ages, for severe injuries caused by the upsetting
OF his two-horse express wagon, Aug IL, 1869,
on the sand hill midway between the toll gate
and railway depot. The defence is that the road
was in a safe condition, and that the plaintiff
was intoxicated and driving careessly.
CONNECTICUT.
The East Haddam Advertiser declines to in
sert, at any price, notices of the deaths of de-
Inquent subscribers.
Mr. Ahial Sherman of Haddam, while out
hunting recently, was accidentally shot by n
friend, having one eye put out and the face
otherwise disigured.
Miss Julia Gilbert who fell last May on a de-
fective sidewalk on Sexton street, New Britain,
and broke her arm, not being able to get her
demands from the city, has sued for $1,000
damages,
A Connecticut farmer sold lamb to a butch
er at a certain price per pound, with the agree
ment that quarter of the animal should be re-
turned to him after killing. The butcher
charged the farmer retail price, and, on strk-
ing the balance, the latter found himself indebt-
ed to the cunning butcher by the operation.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mrs Frances Warfeld, who lives at Black
stone, Mass, and who has a husband at work
there, but who has been stopping at the house
of her father, Mr. Vincent Brown, in Valley
Falls, for few weeks made two attempts to
drown herself on Thursday, but was discovered
and prevented each time. A recent illness is as
signed as the cause.