Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-22

| uullullg Il DuDllC nan.
Stephen Philhrick of Tamworth will be one
hundred years old on the 18th of April next.
| His health and memory are vet good. He
| voted for the first and last president.
On the 18TH house on Marlborough Neck
was moved across the neck into Marlborough
| village. 1t took call the kings" oxen, number
ing 124, and four horses to draw the load.
The fund for the relief Of the gallant Shoals
| fishermen, who lost their schooner, White Rover,
in saving the lives of two men at sea in an open
boat, now amounts to $1,000.
An article is to be inserted in the Nashua
election warrant to take the sense of the voters
as to the expediency of changing the time for
the election of city officers from March to De-
cember.
A stock company has been formed in Little
ton, with a capital of $4,000, for the manutac-
ture of scythes. A factory is to be erected at
once.
The two-story dwelling house, ell and barn
owned and occupied by H. P. Batchelder at Til
ton, with portion of the contents, was destroyed
by fire on Monday from a defective chimney
The house was insured for $1,000 and the con-
tents for $500
Mr.. William A. Hopkins, who died at Hamp-
ton Falls a few days ago, was an Englishman,
and since he took up his residence in II. in 1858,
he has cut one hundred miles of ditch in the
marshes of that town.
As John Burke, an Irshman Of Newport was
driving loaded team with two horses down ~, a
hill in Newbury, on the 9th inst, the HORSES De-
1
| throwing him upon the frozen ground and in
| hiring him so that he died on the 18th inst.
| The pipes of the aQueduct company in Enfield
are frozen up, and about forty famil es are de-
prived of water except from few wells which
are fast falling, or by going to the river and that
is about dried or frozen up. The ice in Mas
coma Lake is two feet thick and as clear as
crystal.
The Stat sman says that many years ago
Concord man was asked TO give one of his
IN ma ~ tn aNV,1in n
reply of the old gentleman was frank and COM
prehensiye: 'Yes, yes; and don't you know
some likely young man who will accept of an
othersP
Mrs Truell, of Canaan, the paraytic woman
who had her limbs frozen one of the terrible
cold nights this month, has since died from the
exposure. The Reporter learns that her legs
and feet were frozen while sitting in front of a
fireplace with good fire, Mr.. I. being up all
night tending it.
An ordinance has been introduced in the
Nashua board of mayor and aldermen, in
creasing the mayors salary to $780, and
adding to his other duties that of street COM
missioner, chairman Of the committee on sewers
and drains, and to have the control of the GENE
tereS and commons, and of alterations and re-
pairs OF public buildings except school houses,
and to settle claims against the CITY, The Iele-
graph protests against this attempt to centralize
power.
CONNECTICUT.
Hartford has opened its public dispensary, the
6rSt institution of the kind ever established in
the state.
The survey of the Housatonic Branch railroad
from New Milford to New Preston is completed,
and the whole cost fgrading and equipping es-
timated at 100000.
Judge L. F. S. Foster of Norwich has re-
turned home from Europe, having lett Mrs. Fo
Ter in Rome, and after attending the sessions of
the supreme court will return for a more ex-
tended tour on the continent.
A dozen persons at South Windsor the fami-
lies of E. r. Pitkln and Lester Dewey, were
poisoned, Saturday night, by arsenic contained
in some candy, sent to them through the mail
from Windsor Locks. There is an unconfrmed
report that Mrs. Dewey is dead.
Samuel +. Andrews, the coachman Of the
Grldley family now under arrest in Bridgeport,
writes from the Jail there some damaging stories
regarding the family affairs. He says Mis-.
Gridley hired him to play the gentleman for
them, and that he did till lie played out in Jail.
lie promises further Developments, il needed.
Mrs. Joel Smith, Milford oldest inhabitaut,
died in that town, last week, at the great age of
nlnety-seven years. She was of a family OF ten
children, five brothers and five sisters, the short
est-lived of whom attained the age of eighty
years. Mrs. Smiths youngest sister, Mrs VIM.
Iibbals, aged nearly ninety years, has completed
the sixty-fifth year of her married life.
A lady conducting private school in Green
wlch, some eight years ago, failed TO pay her ex
penseS, and after struggling along and getting
deeply in debt, sold all her effects and paid her
creditors seventy cents on the dollar the latter
cheeriully accepting for the whole amount. For
tune having since smiled upon her she has lately
paid up her old debts in full, with interest 10
| date.
patterson, the well known Hartford stone
cutter, monument builder etc. has "inter-
viewed" John Henry Cardiff. He scouts the
idea that it is petrifaction, fossil, a work of
antiquity, or of any merit as a work of art. The
material, he says, is rock gypsum, and nothing
| else, and he finds proof of its modern origin in
unmistakable marks of tooth chses and other
/ mechanical appliances peculiar to the present
and having no signs of the past, though their
| traces have been partially destroyed by chemical
means, or otherwise. These results, he says,
though ortnld fdcie the work Of ages, can be ac-
compllshed in a few days, or weeks at most.
VERMONT.
While two brothers in Woodstock, named
Clatiin, were coasting, last Sunday, the youngest,
about ten years old, ran against tree, throw
ing him off and breaking the thigh
A. H. Perry, superintendent of the COnnecti-
cut and Passumpsic River railroad in Vermont,
has resigned that position to accept the office of
general superintendent of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, with headquarters at Richmond,
Va.
Under the new consolidation of railroads the
central division of the Vermont Central from
st. Adams to White River junction, and the
southern division, from White River Junction to
CIRCUITS Corner, will be under the charge of Di-
VISION superintendent Ambrose Arnold; the
Rutland division, from Essex Junction to Bel
lows Falls, including the Montreal and Platts-
| burg, and the Whitehall and Plattsburg (north-
ern and southern divisions), will be under Di-
vision Superintendent Col George A. Merrill;
| the northern division, from st. Adams to Water
| loo Canada, and the eastern division, from St.
Adams to Richford, will be under Division SUI
perintendent George Stone; and the western
division, from st. Adams to Ogdensburg, under
Division Superintendent John Schrier. The gen.
eral superintendent is Gvles Merrill; the gen
eral freight agent John W. Hobart; the general
ticket agent NJ G. Elliot; the superintendent of
motive power James NJ. Foss; the master of the
car department Milton Sessions, and the super
intendent of telegraphs c. +. V. Randall.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mr.. Jonathan Crandall, shot some time since
by the woud-be bank robbers at Westerly, and
who, at the time of the occurrence was thought
10 to have been fatally shot, is rapidly recover
ing from his injuries, and no doubt is now felt
Of his final recovery.