Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-12

pitched violently down the steps and out upon
the sidewalk. He struck upon his head, and his
laws were broken. He died in about three hours
afterward from congestion OF the brain. He
was about fifty years of age and leaves widow.
A French lad in Nashua, by the name of
Donne, was stricken down with smallpox, and
without medical attendance or proper care,
died at the residence of his father on Sunday
night. The city physician was called to view
the remains, and he pronounced the case to be
one of the very worst. The body, (which was
but a mass of putrefaction," was buried at mid
night. Dionne has other children who are
members of the public schools, and the fact
that nothing was known of their danger until
Monday morning has caused a good deal of I'M
easiness among parents.
A lad sixteen years old, named Joseph t1ar-
ris, was held for trial in the sum of eight hun
dred dollars, at Concord, on the 10th, for steal
ing wallet containing twenty-seyen dollars
from Gen. Lawrence Brown, at East Concord
He was helping on the repainting OF the Congre-
gational church opposite, went Tor pau Oh
water and committed the thett WINE Gen' |
Brown was drawing the water for him, taking
il from trunk in the shed. City Marshal Con- |
mel found new tin trunk in his possession con-
tanning the wallet with sixteen dollars left Of
the money also pistol with fixed ammunition
and box of matches. Harris acknowledged
the theft 1t is thought he also committed the
theft of nine pounds of tobacco and a guam
tity of scrip at John Putney's store in East
Concord last week.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Cheshire railroad was held on Wednesday at the
passenger station of the company in Keene:
The following board of directors was reelected:
E. Murdoch, Jr., Thomas NJ. Edwards, Charles
W. Cartwright, VIM. A. Brigham, ]. Henry
Eliot, Samuel Gould, Isaac NJ. Murdoch. The
earnings of the road for the five months ending
March /, 1871, were 1896, 1877 so, being an in
crease of ST ,109.42 over the same five months of
the previous year. Beside keeping the road in
excellent repair the equipment has been ill.,
creased by the addition of three locomotives,
one passenger and twenty freight cars, one of
the locomotives and all the cars being built at
the company shops at Keene. The casualties of
tie year have been one passenger killed and one
injured and four employees killed.
VERMONT.
A young woman, name not given, is reported
| to have been run over and killed by the down
| express train on the Vermont Central at Sharon
| on the 10th. The story is that she was walking
| on the track with her aged mother, and fell
| down in fit. The old lady covered her with
| white shawl, made an Intellectual attempt to
lift her off, and was looking for assistance when
| the train came along and passed over her, cut
| ting off both feet and part of her head. The
| engineer supposed the obstruction to be sheep
| or some animal.
| CONNECTICUT.
The taxes of residents of Middletown amount
| to "a IL mills on the dollar.
Hartford, for the present, has given up the
idea of having free public baths.
Another case, similar but less revolving in its
| details to that in Litch6eld, has come to light
| in Hartford, and the guilty party, Edward
Saunders, a widower, aged AZ years, is under
arrest.
The whites Of ten eggs saved the life of Jesse
| Crazy of Mystic, Sunday, after the foolish boy
| had eaten a slice of buttered cake spread with
| arsenic, which his mother had prepared for
black ants.
There are residing in one family in Bailey
vile brother and two sisters, aged respectively
| 80, 50 and "a years. one of the sisters, widow,
| has in preservation piece of her wedding cake
made fifty years ago.
The body of James Goodwin, of Hartford,
who was drowned on the night of the 18th of
| March, was found in the Connecticut river, near
Colts ferry, Monday morning. 1t was much
| decomposed, but was readily identified by his
| family and friends.
E. c. Bassett Hartford's water inspector
while assisting in some operation at the West
Hartford reservoir, Monday, lost his balance and
| jumped fifteen feet down an embarkment, strk-
ing on loose rock and badly fracturing the bones
| of his right leg.
At the annual convocation of the grand royal
| arch chapter of Masons of Connecticut at New
| Haven, Tuesday night, Charles NJ. Stems, of
Middleton, was elected grand high priest; w.
| w. Lee of West Meriden, deputy grand high
| priest; Edmund Tweedy of Danbury, grand
king; John N. Lewis of Greenwich, grand scribe;
| and Cyrus Goodel of Hartford, grand chaplain.
| There is queer tombstone in Bridgeport, ac-
/ corning W Tue Farmers account. 1t is erected
| over the grave OF man who was killed by his
| mother in a fit of rage by being knocked down
stairs. So goes the story, and the most marvel
GUS part of it is this There is on one side of the
monument a representation, by a shadow or
stain, of woman with appraised hand grasping
what is termed club, and in the act of striking
The body is bent, and the entire attitude sug-
gestive of anger. The figure is not perfectly de-
fined, but enough is visible to warrant the above
statement All attempts to remove it by scraping
have proved Intellectual. The monument is
daily visited by large number of persons, and
If it is deception it is very cleverly kept up.
grand excursion is being planned which
contemplates party of several hundred ex-off-
GERS and soldiers from Connecticut, who served
in the department of the gulf during the late
war. The scheme is to charter an ocean steam
er, which shall leave New York about the first
of October, for New Orleans, stopping one day
at each of the following places: Fortress Mon.
roe, Richmond, Charleston Savannah, Havana
and Mobile. Having arrived at New Orleans,
the steamer would remain there for about ten |
days, then proceed to Port Hudson, tarrying at |
this point two days, then steam up the river to |
SttLouis, stopping at Natchez, Memphis and |
Vicksburg. Return by the same route The |
party propose to take their wives. The follow
ing Connecticut regiments were in this depart
ment: 9th, 18th, 18th, 23d, oath, 25th, 26th and
2Sth.