Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-03


Hartford ice company, in place of J. F. Phillips,
deceased; and Charles d. Phillips, son of the
former president, has been appointed secretary.
A New Haven lady is one Of several who con-
tributes $40 towards public drinking foun-
tain which is to be erected in New York in honor
of Mr. Bergh,
A Norwich family, in which an Italian hand
maid is employed TO wrestle with the COOKERY,
found a mysterious mixture in the coffee pot
the other morning, which it was explained was
due to there not being much coffee in the
mouse, mum, and put in little tay 10 FIJI up"
Horatio Bolster, who was sentenced in WASH
ington, on Friday, to be hung, is well known
New Haven man. He was engaged in prize
fight near the Naugatuck junction, some three
or four years ago, and in a sham fight near
Savin Rock. His parents reside near Water
bury.
Little May Ives, the three-year old daughter
of Mr. Stephen Ives, of the Meriden House,
Friday afternoon, while sliding down the stair
rail of the hotel, in turning an angle was pre-
ciDitated to the floor, distance of fifteen feet.
She fell upon her left shoulder and the side of
her head, breaking her collar bone.
Wilson, the murderer, has changed his mind
again. Though he said last fall that he never
would allow himself to be hanged, yet the con-
viction he received by the compulsory beef tea
which fanked his attempt at starvation, has led
him to a ''new idea, and he is now apparently
determined TO face death upon the scaffold, and
will compensate himself somewhat for the pains
of his taking off by long exposition to the
crowd assembled to witness his horrible fate.
Enfield with its villages of Hazardville and
Thompsonyille, has now so many churches and
ministers that the latter have organized them
selves into an association for the purpose of So
cia intercourse and mutual helpfulness. They
meet on the second and fourth Mondays of each
month, at Thompsonville. The ministers of the
towns Immediately adjacent to Enfield have
been invited to unite in the association. The
organization is open to ministers of all denomi-
nations.
In 1862 George Washington, colored. swan
the Potomac, was fired at by the rebels and
brought over in one arm rebel bullet to the
| Union lines. He has been employed lately at
the Hartford Jail, and it was ascertained on Sat-
urday that he was carrying off meat and bread
for hungry mouths in the sixth ward. He was
| arrested, and on being asked about it by Jailor
| Fem, promptly replied: 81 cannot tell lie; |
did it with my little basket" He will be kept
| in his situation at the .iail-on compulsion.
As already stated in our dispatches, Governor
English backs down from the programme ar
ranged by the democracy for his Inauguration
as governor of Connecticut next Wednesday,
and has counlermanded his orders to several
military organizations TO parade in Hartford for
| escort duty on that day. The Times roars gent
ly, and is evidently convinced at last that the
| legislature will correct the returns where they
| are manitesty IN error, and declare Mr.. Jewell
duly elected. So there will be no election pa
rade to-day, but the legislature will meet, com.
| plete its organization, and appoint a committee
TO canvass the votes for state officers and make
such investigation as is demanded, when they
will probably adjourn till next week to hear the
| report of this committee.
The Middletown correspondent of the New
Haven Palladium has the following: Through
the courtesy of our gentlemanly city clerk, we
have been permitted to examine documents filed
in his office. Among them we find papers re-
lating to courts, iais, ETC., in Middesex county,
from A. D 1887 to 1917. We CLEAN from them
the following, which will be of interest TO the
people of Mlddesex, as It gives names, ETC., of
persons who were active in the several towns of
the county three generations ago. These old
records are written upon the famous stamped
paper, which caused our ancestors to make a
teapot of Boston harbor. The word jail is in
all cases spelled gaol. Most of the names men
toned have been gathered to their fathers but
few Of them still live to counsel their descend
ants. Ii is evident that during the period of
thirty years which they refer to, there was
much jealousy and 'log-rolling' between Mid
| dletown and Haddam."
| RHODE ISLAND.
The office of the Providence journal is soon
to be removed to elegant and spacious rooms on
| Weybosset street.
Rev. T. J. Munger of Providence has received
a call from the Elliott church, at Lawrence,
Mass.
Some boys, who were rambling along the
mill trench at Valley Falls, Sunday afternoon,
uisCOVeIeu Ine OOdy oil man nOalng IN the
| water. ] he deceased, who has not been iden-
! titled, appeared to he about ifty-two years old,
| and his dress indicated that he was an English
man, not long in this country.
The Providence Herald says: "The grand con-
cert TO be given by the Worcester Choral Union,
at Music hall, on Friday evening of this week,
must prove very enjoyable occasion, bringing
| TO our city, as it does, well trained chorus of
| nearly two hundred voices; the society, by this
concert and the excursion festivities attendant,
celebrating their quarter centennial anniversary.
| Believing that our citizens would prefer a pro-
gramme Of a miscellaneous character, at this
| time, rather than repetition of oratorio, so
| soon after the Creation, as finely rendered by
| our own chorus, the committee have arranged
something suited TO all tastes"
| The Providence Journal has among its CORPS
| of editors some one given to star-gazing. The
following celestial flight is from bis pen: "a
| great Irritation is going on in the celestial re-
! gions. 1t is between Venus, the goddess of love
| and Ibeauty, and Jupiter, father of gods and
men, Any one can see its nightly progress by
watching the western evening sky, where the
fair goddess may be seen displaying her airs and
grAces, and bewltching the god whose reputation
as faithful spouse Is by no means immaculate
Every night the artful cOquette comes nearer to
her lover, and we have been confidently in
| formed that she intends TO keep up the sport
until the 18th Of May, when she will haughtily
/ pass him by, and dart off among the stars
| directly in the track of the fiery god of war one
| OF her DAD admirers"
The report Of the state prison has been re-
ceiyed from the warden, General Nelson Wall.
The warden's report furnishes the following
statistics: In prison, December 31st, seventy-
hye; committed during the year, TWENTY-FIVE
discharged by expiration of time twenty-four
pardoned, FIVE; removed on account of insanity,
one. In the county jail, December 31st, eighty
two; committed during the year, 1898; dis
| charged, 1861. The average number in the
prison has been sixty-eght; in the jail, one hun
! dred and three. The number of commitments
| during the year has been eighy-four, less than
| during the year 1869. The income of the prison
and jail from labor has been S13, 249.03, and
from all other sources, 5,0S1.97, making a total
of s1S,31. 1t has been necessary TO draw only
$1,000 Of the appropriation of $1,000 made by the
state. The expenditures for the year have been:
for the ordinary supplies Of the prison and jail,
S18,56S1 49, for repairs and other purposes, 81, :
1850, making a total of $40, 1919. The in
come of the prison alone has been S10,047 %,
and the expenditures, ST ,654.49, showing a bal
ance Of 50 ,39274 in favor of the prison. The in
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