Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-12

men in the collar Sor7rtimes thare is the clat-
lei Of hools on the root. AT other times there is
the noise of pick and shovel in active use.
These strange and ineXplicable noises have at
last determined the owner of the house to send
his family away, while he will try and ferret out
the mystery
VERMONT.
The Good Templars' lodge at Barton Landing
is dead.
Foxes are raidiug upon poultry focks near
Brattleboro.
Wool sells for so cents per pound in Wood
stock and vicinity.
The new shop building on the state prison
grounds has been completed.
About $4,000 of bonds of the Woodstock
railroad have been taken.
Parties are washing for gold in Locust Greek
in the town of Bethel, and find little.
Walter b. Cobb, a successful merchant and
bank director, died at Derby Line, June goth.
Rev. d. A. Mack, of Royalton, has collected
or obtained pledges for $4,000 to endow an
orphans home
John Shipman, of North Springfield, died re-
Gently at the advanced age Of 100 years less I
days. He voted for Washington the second
time he was president.
The international telegraph company is put
ting up a new line from Swanton, along the line
of the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad to the
New Hampshire boundary.
The delicate young ladies of Groton find 1t
necessary to play croquet under tents to protect
them from the sun. Their dear papas didn't use
TO hoe potatoes in that way, though.
The seectmen of Cambridge refuse to fur
nish the agent appointed by Col. Boynton, E. N.
Burnet, with liquors, so the town has no agency.
We understand the liquor agency in Rutland to
be in similar condition.
Messrs. A. & VIM. Felt of Andover, who re-
Gently lost their mills by fire, are going to re-
build Immediately. The citizens have sub
| scrbed several hundred dollars to aid in rebuild
| ing, and more will be added.
A monster "bird of freedom" whose wings
| measured seven feet two inches from tip to tip
was caught in a trap at Coventry few days
ago. His love for spring lamb led an indignant
farmer TO thus plot for his capture
An atfray occurred in Groton, Caledonia
county, last week, which resulted in the death
of Frank Randall, at the hands of j. Q. Adams.
There had been an old feud between them. On
that day, as Adams and another man were going
past Randalls house, the latter attacked and
drew him from his wagon; then Adams threw
him down and started for his wagon again, when
Randall again returned to the attack, and
Adams stabbed him, causing his death that
night
CONNECTICUT.
Charles Webster has been elected chief of
police in New Haven.
James MCGEE committed suicide last week by
hanging himself nnder the foot-bridge over
pender company, in Waterbury.
Over 5000 persons assembled on the college
campus at Yale, on Monday night to witness
the burning of analytics by the sOphomores of
Trinity college. A burlesque Grafton and poem
were delivered and songs sung. The class oc-
cupied platform dressed in the most hideous
costume imaginable. An immense female fig
ure, filled with fire crackers, which was sus-
pended from a tree, was finally set fire to, the
band playing dirge. The faculty were pres
ent and enjoyed the proceedings.
RHODE ISLAND.
The professor of elOcution at Brown Uni
versity is a ladv.
The Second R. l. REGIMENT reunion is to be
held at Rocky Point, Friday, the Dist inst.
The hotels at NarraganSett Pier received over
thousand guests during last week.
The splendid stallion Narragansett formerly
known as Civil Rights, owned by Amasa
Sprague, Esq, died at the breeding stables in
Cranston, Sunday.
Mr.. Charles Koppitz, of the Globe theatre,
Boston, announces his intention OF giving tine
summer visitors at Newport some excellent
music. lie has organized fine orchestra of
twenty artists, and proposes to give concerts
every day, and also in the evening. His mu-
steal season will commence about the 18th of
July, and we congratulate the summer resi-
dents at that popular seaside resort upon the
prospects held out in Mr.. Koppitz's programme
Mr.. H. A. McGlenen has the business manage
ment of this affair in hand, which is a guaran
tee of its complete success.
We mentioned yesterday that Professor ]. c.
Greenough of Westfield, Mass, had been unani-
mously elected principal OF the Rhode Island
state normal school. The full list of appoint
ments made by the board of trustees is as fol-
lows: Professor j. C. Greenough, principal
Miss Harding, Long Meadow, Mass, first assis.
tant and teacher of vocal music; Miss Mary L.
Jewett, Hadley, Mass, second assistant; Profess
SCR George |. Chace of Brown University, lee
turer on moral science and physiology Profes.
scr 5. s. Greene, lecturer on English grammar
and phiology; Professor T. W. Bancroft, lee.
turer on English literature and in rhetoric;
Professor E. W. Blake, recently of Cornell
University but now Of the faculty of Brown,
lecturer on the natural sciences; Professor Ben
jamin F. Clarke, instructor and lecturer in
mathematics, surveying aud engineering; Pro.
fessor ]. Lewis Diman, lecturer on history in
| general, but to devote special attention to the
history of England and America; and Miss
Miller, of Concord, n H., instructor in elocu
ton. The board of trustees did not fill all the
vacancies in the list of instructors for the nor
NAL school, as one or two minor positions have
yet TO be supplied.