Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-23

number Of model tenement houses are being
built for the accommodation of the Canadian
! French who are employed in the mills.
| The New Kccue sodiere' monument recently
| dedicated, stands at the extreme south end of
| the park in Central square, facing the south
! and at once attracts the eye on approaching the
| square cast, west and south The monument
| was designed by Martin Milmore of Boston and
| was cast by the Ames manufacturing company
of Chicopcc. 1t consists of bronze figure of a
soldier, eight feet in hight, standing AT rest but
IN no recognized military position; the butt of
ms musket is placed upon the ground, and pass
ing up between the right arm and the body, is
supported by the right hand, which is raised
toward the shoulder and graspS the piece in a
nrm but plant manner. The drapery is that of
common soldier in the late war, including the
overcoat, which was so useful in active service,
and which now serves so admirably MS foil to
the stiffness Of the ordinary costume, and gives
to the figure something OF the grace necessary
TO work of art. The figure stands upon a
pedestal of Roxbury granite.
VERMONT.
Passengers from northern Vermont reported
the ground white with snow at st. Johnsbury on
Saturday morning
Sufficient snow fell at Burlington on the after
noon and evening of the 18th to enable the bows
to enjoy their first game of snowballing this
season.
About one hundred and twenty of the Sth
regiment held a reunion at White River juno
ton on the 18th. Gen. Stephen Thomas, the
first colonel of the regiment, presided.
lady asked the postmaster ut North BEN
nington the other day for a letter for my COW.
The uDctionary politely replied that there was
nothing for anybody's cow. Thereupon the
female remarked that she inquired for Mike
Howell
A ST. Johnsbury paper says; "Chicago was
largely made up of New Englanders, and it is
surprising how many Vermontcrs were either in
business in that city or had capital invested
there. The loss falls heavily upon the cast
Among those in this vicinity who are losers we
notice Fairbanks, Greenleat & Co., the company
being Charles II. Morse, son of the late John
Morse of this town. Their stock OF scales was
all consumed, but they did not own the store
they occupied. Fortunately a large invoice of
scales was on the way there from this place, but
had not reached their destination. The stock
burned was insured. They Immediately secured
another store, and on Tuesday (the next day
after the fire. their advertisement appeared in
the Evening Journal, the first paper printed
after the fire. Such is western energy"
CONNECT CUT.
The Potter printing press mandatory of Nor
witch has alIcady sent two new presses to Chica-
20, and will continue to send one week for
some time 10 come.
The black bass fishing in the HouS1tonic
river this year reported to be excellent, and
fishermen are enjoying the sport to their hearts
content.
The Berkeley divinity school at Middletown
began its fall term with forty students. There
were many more applications for, admission, but,
forwant of room to accommodate larger num-
Der, they had to be refused.
The Middletown gas company and the water
commissioners arc in middle about bill of
s12O0, on account of water the company is
thought to have used. The city will probably
take $500 and call itsquare.
The annual meeting of the American mission
ary association is 10 be held in Hartford on
Tuesday of this week. The sermon ON the oc-
pos uill bn l,, ,a pa, nr Of
Ign.
The report that the Odorless rubber company
of Middlctown were losers by the Chicago fire,
the Constitution pronOunces 10 be incorrect.
The Messrs. Douglass win realize $4,000 on
their property destroyed, which was valued at
5000.
1t is said the Boston, Hartford and Erie rail-
road will he completed as far as Willmantic in
four weeks. The trustees are having all por-
lions OF the road which are in need of repairs
attended to, and 100 rails are now on hand for
the purpose, and new bridges are rapidly
taking the place of old ones. Two new lOcomO-
tyeS have been purchased, and all these i'm
provements are paid for out of the earnings of
the road
The Norwich Bulletin saws: "a well-known
justice of the peace subscribed five dollars to the
reliet fund, yesterday and returning TO his Office
immediately received the amount. Thus is
virtue rewarded. Another man was requested
TO contribute, but declined, and within two
uouTS nciIu tlat MS lDOtnef-lll-aW nau come 10
stay a month with him. Can any one hesitate
which course TO pursueP
Forty years ago Prof Dennison 0lmstead of
Yale college gave parting benedictiOu to three
students Of the graduating class. He had Sc
lected them, and them only, for seats at his own
table, favor INDUCED them to the end of theft
college course. One Of the three is the Rev. DR..
n. Porter, who has so recently (0ct. ~ been n-
augurated president of Yale college. Another,
the Rev. DIR. E. D. Saunders, who has just
| founded the Presbyterian hospital in Philadcl-
| phia, The other is the Rev. L. L. Langstroth OF
| Oxford, Ohio, the great naturalist, who has
made his knowledge OF the bee so practical by
his inventions as to revolutionize the whole sys-
| TEN of bee culture, adding yearly, especially
throughout the west, thousands of tons Of
honey to the market. Like his two early COM
panions he has in his forteth year of their
| common graduation attained to his greatest dis
| tinctiOn.
| RHODE ISLAND.
| The NJ. F.. society at Paramount pawtucket
has outgrOwn its chapel and is soon to erect a
| new church e1ifce.