Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-31

Horace Greeley wrote letter, the other day,
TO MIR. Ansel Warren, in whose newspaper ofhce
at Poultney he first learned printing, TO con-
graduate the old gentleman on his golden we'd
ding celebration at Quincy, ILL.,, ana ne TOOK
occasion to say, en- PEASANT; am poor, put IL Is
my own fault because | endorse other folks,
notes. One was brought me to-day for $4,000,
which | must find a way to pay wltnn iew
days. have fooled away at least Sl5O,OOO try
ing to help Others and it has done no good.
Now / guess my foot is down that | will not
endorse another note. So you see the stables all
get locked after the horses are stolen.
law suit has just been decided in Rutland
which has attracted considerable attention.
Some two years ago as Myron +. Marshall, wife
and child were crossing the Rutland railroad
track near North Clarendon station, they were
struck by the engine of the train due at that
time. Mrs. Marshall and child were instantly
killed, and Mr.. Marshall seriously injured. On
his recovery he brought suit against the trustees
of the road Messrs Birchard ard Page, and it
was tried at the present term of the county
court in Rutland, and Wednesday the Jury re-
turned verdict in favor of the plaintiff for S12,.
900. Exceptions were taken and the case Will
be appealed.
The New Haven Palladium is soon to remove
to the "Home insurance building" Orange
street.
tape-worm eighty feet long was removed
from girl only ten years old, at West STAFFORD,
the other day.
The contract for a soldiers monument in
Meriden, to cost $4,000, has been awarded TO
Patterson, Garfield & Co., of Hartford.
pack of wolves is reported as prowling
about on the mountains near Bethany, and the
citizens are considerably alarmed.
man named Briggs has been arrested in
New Britain for fraudulent transactions as a
bogus commission merchant under the name OF
Chaplin & Co.
At a recent meeting of directors of the Air
I I,,1,,,
kiss rendered his resignation as president, but
it was not accepted.
That part of Salisbury known as Ore hill is
alarmingly infected with small pOX. The board
of health of the town have taken measures to
| prevent its spreading.
The harnesses for p. T. Barnum's great
| American circus and menage;ie" are being
manufactured at Bridgeport, and the factory is
| run day and night to finish the contract by the
| specified time.
| Hon. James Gallagher and Hon. Thomas Brin-
| ley, a couple of prominent Connecticut demo-
cratic politicians, engaged in a very vigorous
personal encounter in New Haven on Monday.
Both of the amateur pugihsts were badly
bruised
A fire occurred on the 2Sth in Joseph Troy's
grocery store, on the corner of East and
wooster streets, New Haven, and his stock was
totally consumed and the building badly dam
aged.
The New Haven City Guard has recently been
| reorganized and is now in a fine condition.
| New uniforms have been purchased, exactly like
| those of the Prussian guard, and the Prussian
| infantry helmet is to be used.
The Norwich Bulletin says The Hartford
| Courant has quoted Gideon Welles' epithet,
| ''shams," as applied to the democracy, so fire.
| quenty that it has worried the old gentleman
| into writing a letter, in which he denounces the
| republicans as "shams" also. We presume that
| since Andy johnson and his Staunch old navi-
gator, Gideon, were laid upon the shelf, they
both feel if the reality of life had pretty much
departed.
A correspondent of the New York Sun, in re-
| porting an interview he had with Marshall jew
| ell, the republican candidate for governor of
Connecticut, says: 81 began the conversation by
expressing regrets that he was so embarrassed
| by unlavOrable circumstances in the campaign
he was waging. He replied that his prospects
were never brighter, and that unless lightning
struck the state between this time and the cleo
ton day he would certainly be elected the next
| governor"
The New Haven journal says: "The Cheshire
| democracy backed down from their attempt to
browbeat and disfranchise the adopted citizens
who wished to be made electors to vote the re-
publican ticket. They found that there is law
to protect the rights of such men, and that
those who violate those rights incur severe pen
alties 1t gave them great pain to permit the
sturdy miners to become freemeu and TO vote for
Jewell and Kellogg, but they had to come to it,
and Cheshire will give healthy republican ma.
jority."
| RHODE ISLAND.
Providence has organized a soldiers colony 10
emigrate to some eligible point at the west
Messrs. William A. Phillips and S. w. Budlong
were appointed agents of the colony, to visit the
west and locate the lands, as far as possible, in
a single tract The colony is chiefly designed
for those soldiers and sailors who may be en-.
titled to bounty land, but is not confined &c
them.