Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-23

been sold by G. P. Carpenter to Mr.. Roden, of |
New York, for $4,000.
| During the absence of Walingford fish ped
Ter from his wagon the other day, two boys
| took possession and sold out the load at ruin
GUS prices, pocketing the proceeds
The Methodist camp meeting for te Bridge
portdisrict will be held this year at the Milford
| camp ground, commencing August 14th. Rev,
| T. G. Osborne is presiding elder.
Mr.. John Beck of Bridgeport who was
charged with stealing two thousand cigars on
the night of May 9Th, was honorably acquitted,
! it having been proven that he was at home on
the night Of the robbery.
| 1t took only about twenty minutes after the
sermon in the Methodist church at Waterbury,
Sunday afternoon, to raise by subscription and
contribution S2,210, to pay for the recent inn
| provementS of the church and parsonage.
The Danbury News tells story of new boy
| in one Of the Ridgefcld Sunday schools VINO,
being asked who made the beautiful hills ABOUT
them, replied that he did not know, as ms
parents only moved into town the fllday oe-
fore.
1t is rumorcd that Miss Clara Louise Kellogg
is to sing in Waterbury. A lady correspondent
of the American says that the musiclovlng
people of Waterbury desire TO have Parepa.
Patti and Nilsson pay them visit, that in
their own hall they "can get close around them
and enjoy them"
The Hartford Courant mentions, as an indica-
ton of the rise in real estate in the outskirts of
that city, that the Norwich savings bank has
| granted a loan of one hundred thousand dollars
on the "Babcock farm" which but few years
ago was rated by the acre as ordinary farm
| property.
A simple-miuded girl of seventeen years, liv.
| ing with S. Durand, at Wallingford lately went
| off in the night, barefooted and wearing her
| kitchen Clothes, in company with negro man
of twenty, also in Mr., Durand's employ. A
| young white man named Mooney, from Center
vile, is supposed to be interested in the alb
| duction.
As a saloon keeper of Bridgeport was waiting
on his customers a few nights ago, an explosion
was heard in his cellar, and on investigating it
was found that a hogshead OF ale had burst and
knocked Tic faucet out OF cider barrel, the
| joint mixture of which on the cellar bottom
caused mud-dle, ending in the angry explosion
of the saloon keeper, who was out $40.
As Mr.. Edward Morrill,, of Black Point, East
Lyme, was quietly enjoying pork stew peace
: ably at his own table, bis teeth encountered
| some Intangible object therein. The object
| was elected and eXamined-it proved TO be
. small diamond! oval shaped and handsome,
| supposed 10 have got into the salt somehow or
other. This is probably the richest pork stew
: | as YET reported.
E On Friday evening" in New Haven, shortly
r before ten o'clock, policeman was summoned
: | by a lady living on George street, who said
there was a man in the house A search was
commenced, which resulted in the capture of an
individual, and as the officer was proceeding
/ with him to the station house, the burglar man
| aged to get away, and rs he was running the
Il
man stumbled and fell on the sidewalk, when
/ he was quickly secured and locked up.
The legislative committee on contested cleo
tons are, en- Wednesday, to hear the case of
Lloyd Il. Baldwin, democrat, of Windham, who
claims a seat in the house as a representative of
South Windsor. Mr.. Baldwin had voted IN
Windham within six months preceding the
state election, and only three weeks before the
latter event had personally requested the regis
trar OF Nindham to retain his name on the list,
and it would seem that this town was his
: permanent residence. The constitution provides
that representatives shall consist of electors
residing in towns from which they arc elected
consequently the aspect OF the case is rather
dubious for this aged aspirdDt for political
: l hOnOrs
One of the expeditions sent from New London
to the B9Tth Pacific to capture live sea lions,
4 seals, walrases, &C., for Barnum's travelling mu-
scum and menagerie, returned to that port on
f Thursday with some fine specimens. A special
car, with water tanks fitted up expressly for the
occasion, has been engaged to ship these inter-
esting maratime animals to the great show. The
sea lion (OCGrid jltbdtd) belongs to a remarkable
group called phOcide, and will be viewed with
much interest by the student of natural history.
The trouble and expense of capturing them and
keeping them alive is so great and hazardous,
that nobody but Barnum woGld incur the risk.
RHODE ISLAND.
Providence was never better supplied with
southern fruits and vegetables than it has heen
this season, and the prices were never so reason
able.
: In reference TO the item that a writing desk Of
D Benjamin Franklin was lately sold in Newport
for ten cents, the MercuTy says: This hoax has
had its run. The desk referred TO has been in
/ the Mercury Office many years, and was former
| ly used in Judge Joslin's school, and Benjamin
: Franklin never used it or saw it. We had no
further use for it, and it was sold at auction for
d all it was worth. 1t is now used for peanut
q stand"
S, L. H. Humphreys, who has succeeded in
n making the hotel at Rocky Point one of the most
r. popular resorts for summer boarders in the
le world, will open this establishment to the pub
lie lie for the season on the first of July. The
T. beauties of nature have been supplemented by
art to such extent that it is difficult to imag-
N is probable that the number of excursion par
IF ties to this favored resort will be larger this sea
son than ever before,