Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-25

her room one day last week, and fell upon the |
floor in such way as to dislocate one limb at
the hip joint. i
E. w. Stoughton, ESQ.,, of New York city, has
recently presented Dartmouth college with |
$4,000 to found a museum of pathological |
anatomy in the medical department of the insti-
tuition.
John Conant, of Jaffrey, who lately gave the
agricultural college farm Of 100 acres, has now |
given $4,000 to erect an agricultural hall thereon.
MIR. Conant is eighty-one years old, and has be-
slowed 100000 on benevolent objects.
The Portsmouth Chronicle learns of lady in
that city who has the same kerosene lamp and
the same chimney which she bought when kero-
sene oil first appeared in the market, which have
been in constant use ever since and are still as
good as new.
The store of Mr.. J. L. Boardman, of New
market, was broken into Wednesday morning, |
and quantity of boots, shoes and other goois |
taken Two strangers who took rooms at the |
Washington house, but did not occupy them
during the night, are suspected.
A par of valuable horses, belonging to Hon.
L. A. Straw, were drowned on Saturday night
in the river just back Of the Amoskeag yard,
Manchester. They were employed in drawing
gravel to fill up the river, and were backed off
into the stream by the giving away of the bank.
They were valued at $1,000.
The Nashua Gazette says that Thomas S.
Worthley, of Antrim, has two sheep, which last
year produced six lambs. This year he has
three sheep, which produced twelve lambs, and
five Others ten, making with the six yearlings
twenty-eight by eight sheep in less than one
year M Two OF these sheep are less than year
old. His sheep are hybrid Nankin and South
Downs. Mr.. W. never washes his sheep, and he
hnds that it lengthens their lives.
The representatives elect from wards two and
three, in Manchester, all republicans, have been
notified that their seats will be contested on the
ground that there is not sufficient number of
ratabe polls in those wards to warrant the
| sending of so large a number of representa-
tiyes, and also on account of alleged illegalites
in the manner Of placing the names on the
ratable polls upon the check lists and in con-
| Quoting the election.
AT Plaistow, Friday evening, as the boat train
on the Boston and Maine railroad was passing
through that place, about nine O'Clock, the horse
of James NJ. Quimby became frightened and
rushed upon the track; the engine struck him
in the head killing him instantly, and the
wagon was reduced TO a perfect wreck. MIR.
Quimby fortunately escaped without material
harm, though thrown some thirty feet. The
train was going at the rate of forty miles an
hour, and was run mile before it could be stop
ped
The lectures on sacred music at the Methodist
and North churches, Portsmouth, by Professor
| rouriee, of Boston, were largely attended, and
| the ''praise meeting" at the North church, in the
! evening, was especially interesting. No such
chorus singing has been heard there for years.
Several OF the city pastors took part in the SER
wees. collection was taken for the Boston
NOilh lshu lulSSlOu, ana series Vi COlnpIl-
mentary resolutions were read from the pulpit
and adopted, thanking Prof Touree for his val
liable and gratuitous services.
VERMONT.
A discovery of corrodcd water pipes has caused
general alarm at Burlington, and, an exchange
says, the old topers are more careful than ever
to take their whiskey straight.
Alexander Riddle of johnson, prominent re-
publican politician, and for many years a men,
Der OF the house, drowned himself, Thursday
morning on account oftamily troubles.
Further accounts of the Bristol murder show |
that there was equal cause for Jealousy by both |
Ring and Thompson, and, on Thursday, Thomp-
sons wife went to hotel three times to get a
horse to visit her husbands muir ierer in Middle
bury jail. The funeral of Thompson was at
tended by large concourse of people,
The profound sorrow excited among loyal
men in Florida by the cold-blooded ASSASSINATION
of Captain j. @. Dickinson, of Vermont, mani
Tested itself at every depot at which the train
bearing his remains to Jacksonville stopped.
The coffin was repeatedly profusely covered
with flowers; at Tallahassee Gov. Reed briefly
addressed the persons who had assembled to
do honor to the remains of the martvred man,
and at Jacksonville there were impressive flu
neral services. The coffin was placed in a
hearse and covered with the American flag, and
surrounded with choice crosses, wreaths and
bouquets selected from the Thousands which
accompanied it thither. Over one thousand
persons, including the governor and other. state
badges OF mourning or sprig of green. Adit.
Gen. Varnum was designated to accompany the
body north, and the republican state committee
publicly requested all political and personal
friends of the deceased to wear the usual badge
of mourning for thirty days TO testify to the
high regard in which he was held as man,
citizen, and republican.
CONNECTICUT.
The Thomas girl, whose scalp was torn off at
a button shop, at Naugatuck two weeks since |
homes IF har |
A weekly journal, the Connecticut Weekly
News, is soon TO be started at Salisbury.
The storm at Branford on Friday was one of
the severest ever known there, hailstones falling
as large as hens eggs and breaking about 5000
panes of glass.
The defense of the Hartford police commits
'ionerS in the Chamberlin case is that they are
not prosecuting officers, their functions being
merely judicial, and that the case has never
been brought before them, except in the most
informal manner, and without any specific
charges being preferred If they had desired an
Investigation, however, the charges would have
been at hand, and it is understood that they will
soon be preferred
The board of canvassers met at Hartford on
Saturday to hear John Hendricks protest
against giving Mr.. Kellogg a certificate of his
election TO congress from the second district.
Mr.. Kendrick desired to present evidence that
ifty-three votes for him were deposited in the
wrong boxes in New Haven, and that under the
recent election law of the United States these
should be counted for him. Mr. Kellogg offered
to furnish evidence that the majority of these
wrongly deposited ballots were not for Mr.. Ken
Trick but for himself. Furthermore he called
attention to the fact that Connecticut did not
wall itself of the new election law, having
neglected to appoint supervisors of the ballotng,
rs provided by the law, and hence the case must
be decided under the state law. The board con-
Guided, as far as they had any jurisdiction, to
recognize the election Of Mr. Kellogg. II Mr..
Kendrick desires to press the matter, therefore,
he will be obliged to go to the legislature with
his claim, and if defeated there appeal to con-
gress.
RHODE ISLAND.
John B. Herreshoff, the well-known yacht
builder at Bristol launched from his yard on
Saturday last, steam yacht of about 800 bar
rels capacity, called the Ospray, which he has
been building for j. G. Nickerson, of Boston,
and Others
At Washington, D. c., few days ago. Patrick
McGnnis, who said he was from Pawtucket, X.
l., appeared at the office of the chief-of-police,
and applied for a force of police strong enough
to place him in the White House, which he
claims as his office he having been elected presi-
dent Of the United States by the people, and
that IT is all humbug about Grants election.
de had previously applied to a lawyer near the
police headquarters to prosecute his claim for
the ONCE OF president before the supreme court
OF the United States. He said that he has made
a formal demand upon the president TO vacate
his seat. Transportation was obtained for him
to Philadelphia on his way home to Rhode
Island.
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