Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-09
tom house officer, whose name is not given, is

tom house officer, whose name is not given, is
implicated.
Daniel NJ. Blackman, serving six months
sentence in the Bridgeport Jail for stealing
poultry, attempted to commit suicide, Monday,
by drinking kerosene oil, and not succeeding
wounded himself with a knife so that he nearly
bled to death. There are but slight hopes of his
recovery,
The Housatonic river is open from the Ousa.
tonic dam, at Derby, to the sound above the
dam, and the ice has set back the water to the
serious discontinue of many persons living
along the banks Of the river, where its waters
ran unobstructed to the sea-
The body of John Dickinson, spinner in the
wooden factory on Water street, New London,
was found lying in pool upon the side of the
road on Logger hill, Waterford, Friday morn
| ing. An examination showed that life was eX-
! tinct, and coroners jury was Immediately
summoned, who rendered a verdict ofaccidental
| death.
! The Daniesonville correspondent to the Nor
| witch Bulletin writes; "Muggins is first rate
game, and has been very popular here during
the winter. 1t requires considerable skill and
some experience 10 succeed tit sufficient 10 earn
good living, yet we have several citizens who
have supported large families through the en-
tire winter, and laid up money besides.
The Danbury News makes the following mys-
terious announcement: 1--WE understand that
one of the younger members of the legal pro-
fession has commenced an action of SANDER
against Young lady temporarily visiting here,
in which he claims 500 damages. As usual
in such cases, a lady is involved in the matter,
although we have not learned definitely in what
the Islander consists. She has been arrested
and compelled to give bail in the sum of S1O-
900, which was promptly furnished by gallant
young naval officer"
There is farmer near South Hampton who
has place for everything and keeps everything
in its tplace. A few days ago he sold horse
for $3.50, and on going home put the money in
its place, dilapidated drawer in an old bureau
Ills place for matches was the same drawer A
few days afterward, after using the milestone
he threw it into its place, the aforesaid drawer,
A few minutes later he saw smoke coming from
the drawer. On hasty examination he found
that the milestone, as he threw it down, had
ignited the matches, and the matches had set
fire TO the green backs, and the greenbacks had
burned to ashes. Moral-Have separate place
for matches, whetstoneS and greenbacks.
The Hon. Z. &. Bowen denies that he applied
for divorce from Mrs. Hicks in the court at
New Haven, and declares that he never was in
New Haven, and knew nothing of the applica-
ton until he read the report in New York pa
per. The Washington Chronicle says it can
state from personal knowledge that on the 18th
OF September, when the petition is said to have
been filed, Mr.. Bowen was in Charleston, S. G.,
and did not leave that state until the following
November. The New Haven people now want
Charles ii. Fowler, the divorce lawyer, to eX-
plain the case. They think that if people can
be divorced in Connecticut without knowing it,
the sooner Mr.. Fowler is put where he cannot
render them that service the better, even if it
should become necessary to board and lodge him
at the expense of the state.
RHODE ISLAND.
Madame Marie Seebach, the representative
actress of the German stage, will soon give
Providence her poetic and perfect impersona-
ton of Goethe's sublime creation, "Faust,"
supported by her own dramatic organization.
There were III deaths in Providence last
month. The superintendent of health says that
the number of deaths in February was greater
than in any previous year in the history of
registration in Providence, though the proper
ton of deaths to population was not as great as
in some other years.