Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-21

A fox was killed in the western mart

CONNECTICUT.
A fox was killed in the western part of Hart
ford, Sunday evening.
The New Haven horse fair is TO be held at
Hamilton park, Oct H. IS and 10.
The New Haven labor relOrmers have nomi-
mated full ticket for city officers.
The sportSmen are Gathering al Stoney creek
to enjoy the splendid duck shooting.
New Britain has put the German language as
an obligatory study into all its public schools.
The New Haven theological seminary opened
with over seventy students last week.
There are 1870 places in Norwich where liquor
is sold.
The estate of the late w. W. Boardman, of
New Haven, is estimated at one million and
fifty thousand dollars.
The second Connecticut heavy artillery will
| participate in the dedication of the Woodbury.
| soldiers monument, on the 26th.
New Haven boy of twelve, while begging
at a house the other day, stole a gold watch.
| He was arrested and disgorged his plumber
| Or. Gideon II. Sweet Of Middletown, the dis
tinguished bone-setter, broke his own arm last
| Friday.
The New Haven Press says the abominable
practice of "hazing" is being carried to greater
extent than ever by the Yale students
| The Connecticut state poultry society have
voted to hold fair at Allyn hall, in Hartford,
on the 18th, 18TH and 10th days of October.
Rev. A. l.. Frisbie, pastor of the First Congre-
gatonal church of Danbury for the past six
years, will soon remove to Des Moines Iowa.
The largest auction sale of real estate that
ever was held in Connecticut occurred at Plain
vile on Tuesday, when 1900 building lots were
| disposed OF.
| N A. lamar, a passenger on the New York
| and New Haven steamer Continental, was
| robbed of a gold watch and $3.50 while asleep in
a berth, last week.
The Hartford Evening Post is making war on
the state legislative Hobbies, and finds that the
| Hartford lobby in 1870 got SIO57, and the New
| Haven lobby of 1871 twice as mnch
The directors of the Air Line railway COM
pany held meeting at Hartford last Saturday,
and voted to accept the resignation of Gen Ser
rel as engineer-n-chief, and appointed Mr..
Bottsford in his place.
The Hartford Courant says the commissioners
for the new state house, at their last meeting,
accepted the park site rendered them by the
committee of the Hartford common council.
Slate has been discovered in Woodbridge.
about two feet below the surface resembling the
Maine Slate. quarry will be opened immedi-
atey, and the slate placed in market as soon as
practicable.
} Orwyn H. Perciva brother of the late poet
John q. Percival, died at the New Haven hos
pital few days ago. being in INDECENT circum-
stances. He had been for many years partially
demented.
Thomas Willard Titus, a well known and
much respected citizen of Vernon, committed
suicide on Sunday morning by hanging himself
in his horse stable. He had been mclancholy
fore.
The Waterbury American SAYS: cat the re.
cent WATERFOWL fair Jacob N. Blakeslee eXhb
tied thirty-fve head of thoroughbred Devons
leaving twenty more behind on his farm. W.
believe this is the greatest exhibition ever made
of thoroughbreds by any one man in the United
: States, at any single fair.
RHODE ISLAND.
The fourth annual meeting of the Rhode
Island 6 temperance union will be held in Proyi-
There were seventeen hundred thousand six
hundred and twenty-five bottles of soda WAFER
4 consumed at Rocky Point this season, during
the ten weeks the place was open, and six thou,
! sand bushels of clans eaten
Rufus W. Frost was found Saturday nipbt in
Newport, nude with the exception of his shirt
He said that he was employed in a sbop on
Chauncy street, in Boston, that he was at work
Friday afternoon, and remembers nothing from
that time until he found himself on the beach
entirely naked. He is only eighteen, does moi
drink, and says his head troubles him.
The Providence Press says: ut is with pleas.
ure that we notice the spread of a custom i'm
Providence which brightens and beauties so
many cities abroad; it is the growing of flowers
on the sills outside of the windows of houses
They are more than merely ornamental, and
give people outside an idea at least of bright
scenes and faces on the other side of the win
dows"
Mr. Nathan Hall, the oldest printer in Provi
dence, who reached the PsalmisPs measure of
, lie last Friday, was the pleased recipient of q
present OF gold bowed spectacles recently from
ms fellow craftsmen in the same office with him.
l sell. A presentation address was made TO which
! Mr. Hail feelingly answered. The spectacles
have Mr.. Halls name on the one side and ssGror,
) the craft on the other.
Inc providence journal says: "Our business
men are subscribing quite generally to fund ia
! pay Tor preliminary SURVEYS of the ronto for /
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