Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-14

JAY, was working in the Pennington steam
mill, when he was caught in the main shaft,
while putting on the belt, and sent revolving
around the shaft at the rate of one hundred
and sixty revolutions minute The steam was
Immediately shut off, and the young man extri.
Gated from his perilous position. His clothes
were wound around the shafting so that he was
obliged TO be cut loose. Strange TO relate he
| was not killed. No bones were broken, al
though he was terribly mangled. Even his
| boots where thrown off while making the cir
cult. He will probably recover, as he is doing
| well.
Skowhegan is a regular Yankee town for go
| ing ahead. With a population of 1900, that
| town has three axe manufactures, one OF Whlch
| turns out about IA, 900 dozen axes each year;
sash and blind factory; skate factory; slate
-four mill, used for the grinding of slate flour
used in painting oilcloth; an Oil-cloth factory,
employing fifty men; paper mill; shovel
handle factory, turning out some 10000 dozen
per year; corn broom factory, producing 4O,-
900 brooms yearly; planning mill; two corn
and -four mills, saw and shingle mills and
foundry, all carried by water power. The bust
ness men of the village are also talking of build
ing wooden mill
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Lebanon physicians complain that IT is q dis
| tressngly healthy time.
Next wear the standard for admission to Dart
| mouth college is to be advanced.
| A free passage over the Portsmouth and Dover
ised TO the individual will first solve given
problem in arithmetic.
The editor of the Littleton Republic acknowl-
edges the receipt of cargo of live grasshop-
pers," captured on side hill in Lisbon, on the
9th of March, 1871!
The barn of Leonard Elms, at Lisbon, with
twenty tons of hay and thirty head of cattle,
was burned on Thursday night. No insurance.
The Free Press says that upwards of 900
lbs of wool were brought into the Lebanon mar
l-aA l. Al. 1.,.. L.
for washed, and from 20 to 80 cents for unwash-
ed.
VERMONT
Ira Clifford of Wolcott, few days ago, took
strychnine but medical aid was summoned and
the poison removed. The next morning he
was found suspended by the neck in a piece of
woods near by, having used pair of harness
spices for the purpose. His toes touched the
ground, and on being released he showed some
signs of life, and at last accounts was doing
well, though quite feeble. He is thought to be
insane.
Vermont must be poor state for moneyed men
TO live in. The Rutland Herald says that Pittsfeld
has 'yoted tax of fifty cents on the dollar. Ac-
cording to the same paper, the town tax OF Jeri-
cho is fifteen cents on the dollar, and that of
Williston is twenty-five cents. These figures are
bad enough, but we find in another column
that Morristown votes a tax of 1875 cents on
the dollar" The taxpayers of Montpelier must
be Mortified to read, on another page of the same
sheet, that in that town, " the taxes for the
coming wear are estimated as follows: town eX-
penses 1876 cents on the dollar; highways IA
cents railroad bonds rs cents, making in all
224 cents on the dollar"
NJ. C. Reyes, who went to Lyndon from Rut-
land, where he left a wife and one child, has got
into print by his shameless Ebertinism. One
night recently, the landlord of the hotel where
he boards went to his room at midnight, broke
in the locked door, and soon after elected from
the room and from the house, Keyes and
young woman from the village The next day
Keyes left town for st. Johnsbury, boasting, the
Lyndon Union says, Of his great achievements.
He even unblushlngly gave the names of his
victims, with the names OF others who were
spared on account Of tender years, but marked
for future ruin.
CONNECTICUT.
Danbury has housed three thousand tons of
ice, which it imagines is sufficient to carry it
| through next summer.
The cattle disease has broken out among the
| stock in Bridgewater, and quite number are
| sorely affected with it.
| A diamond was found in Stamford the other
day, and sold for 5000. 1t is now claimed by a
| party living in Chicago.
| Rev. Rufus Emery, formerly rector of the
Episcopal church of Southport, has received a
| call from Calvery church, Stonington.
| A collection OF about $4,000 was raised for the
missionary cause after a recent sermon of
| Bishop Simpson, in the Methodist church in
Stamford.
Among the graduates at the Harvard medical
school, at the commencement on Wednesday
were John Cotton of Pomfret, and Abner Post
Diversified.
The Hartford Post says: Thenumber Of in
luries by machinery is becoming so considera-
BILE in Bridgeport, that, if you see anyone short
of finger or SO, 1t is safe to conclude he belongs
in Bridgeport. or has been at work there.
Southeast boasts of mathematical prodigy
in the person OF boy not thirteen years of age
: INNrltN RaNNN TaIl fta ~ Z
metics, and all in as many algebras. He is now
, studying astronomy.
One evidence of the prosperity of the new city
of South Norwalk, is the fact that seven store
are being erected, and are nearly ready for oc
cupation, and ten more are to be put UP imme
dia tely.
The Sunday afternoon temperance meetings
at the Rockville opera house have become SC
boisterous that the local paper, a stauneh pro
hibition organ, calls for their suppression on the
ground that they desecrate the day.
| Some nights ago a servant girl of New Haven
was brutally outraged upon Hillhouse avenue by
an unknown villain. Several citizens have
offered $500 reward, and the mayor another
$780, for the arrest OF the perpetrator of the fou
deed.
Another attempt was made by burglars last
week TO enter the house of Mrs. Pond of Mil
ford. A man left in charge of the house was
awakened, and seeing the would-be robbers
fired his revolver at them, when they made haste
| to escape.
In the lecture room of the Uniyersalis
church, Hartford, Thursday night, at the clost
of an entertainment, small fluid lamp in the
hands of the sexton exploded in the face of Cal
vim White, injuring him severely, and probably
destroying his eyesight.
new stock company of New York and Con-
nectlcut capitalists propose to locate large iron
furnace in Canaan, with a turnout from the
| Connecticut western railroad, TO work Salisbury
ore into pig iron. They are offered six acres of
| sandy land at $500 an acre, which three years
| since could not be sold for $780,
A Danburian was somewhat surprised last
week, by receiving the amount of bill con-
| tracted twenty-one years ago, which he had long
| since forgotten about. The amount involved
was $40, exclusive of interest which was offered
but refused. The creditor further showed his
delight by giving One-half the amount TO be in
vested for the benefit of the debtors two chill
dren.
A young man living in Woodbury. one eve
ming recently went $50 see his girl" but was
prevented from approaching the door by the fe-
rocious house dog. Getting desperate, the young
man drew pistol, and not only killed the dog
but put an end to his engagement. Loves
young dream suffered an abrupt termination,
and the culprit is held to answer in the superior
court for shooting darling doggie."
The Bllddletown Constitution tells a story of a
prominent legal gentleman of that vicinity who
was made the victim of the following practical
joke: Having recently been detained in East
Haddam until evening, he made his way 10 the
river and enquired of wag whether the ice was
safe, and was told that it was not unless he
crawled over on his hands and knees. Being
anxious to go, he humbled himself according to
directions, and having scrambled tortoise fash
ion half way across, he heard rumbling be-
hind, and looking round he saw gentleman in
buggy driving leisurely after him. 1t didn't
take long for him to resume the end posture
There are fifteen or twenty villages in the low
er Housatonic valley, varying in size from 300
to 1000. The manufactures Of this section are
already great, and there is much unimproved
water power. At Newtown are the extensive
works OF the New York rubber, betting and
packing company. There is a hat factory at
Bridgewater. Kent, Cornwall, Bridge and Falls
Village have iron works. At Lakeville Lime
Rock and Canaan the Barnum-Richardson COM
pany manufacture car wheels and cast iron TO a
great extent. lnexhaustible beds of iron ore are
worked in Salisbury and of clay in Sheffieid
| Mass. Goshen butter and cheese are famed. and
from West Cornwall and Sheffield immense
| quantities of milk are sent to the New York
market The time cannot be distant when the
resources OF this valley will be better known
and appreciated Three new railroads will tan
| 1.-THE Boston, Hartford and Erie at Hawley