Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-21

Subscriptions to the Nashua and Rochester
railroad to the amount OF 100000 have been re-
ported, and $4,000 has been raised to pay the ex-
pense of a critical and final survey. The Tele-
graph thinks il can see daylight for the enter
prise now.
As already stated, the arrangements for the
annual celebration by the Amoskeag Veterans
seem to be not only well devised, hut are now
pretty well perfected. The corps dispense en-
tirely with the usual parade and address, and
will limit the ceremonies to dinner in the
afternoon and ball in the evening. The season
is generally untavorable to outdoor display,
and the suspension for this year of any outdoor
exercise seems very proper 1t affords a
change. saves expense, and relieves of much
extra labor.
At Keene, a severe rain storm began on Sun
day forenoon and continued with great violence
all day. An immense quantity of water fell.
The large sewer on the east side of Central
square became closed by ice, or from some her
cause, and all the cellars from the Town hall
building TO the Unitarian church are flooded
with water. The new bank block had three feet
of water in the cellar and the fire boxes Of the
engines in the cellar, and in the Cheshire house
block, were under water. The Cheshire house
cellars were Inconvenience and damaged.
Nearly all the cellars in the lower part Of the
town were flooded. The streams in the vicinity
rose rapidly, and the meadows OVERLOOKED. The
rain ceased about five O'Clock, a beautiful rain
DON appearing III INC east
VERMONT.
ST. Albaus is.taking measures to have water
introduced into that city.
The Episcopal church Of Montpelier IS without
O pastor and is likely TO remain so for the
present. as but little effort is being made to OBJ
tain one.
Bishop BisselL of the diocese of Vermont has
lately, during the indisposition of Bishop Will
liams, ordained four persons in the diocese of
Connecticut, and administered confirmation at
each service.
The Rutland Herald says: eve arc called
upon again to record the decease of another Of
Vermont's prominent citizens-one long and
well known especially to the people of the east
ern section of the state-one largely identified
with the agricultural interests of the common
wealth. and with the financial affairs Of the i'm
mediate community, in which lived Hon. Joseph
W. Coibum of Springfield, who died at his resi-
dence, (Mont Vale,) on Friday, at the age of
seventy-one years"
Col, Franklin Fairbanks, superintendent, has
caused TO be put into the North church, st.
Johusbury, very valuable library for the use
of teachers in the Sunday school. The library
includes commentaries on the old and new tesla
mentS, works on standard theology, church gov
eminent and worship, treatises on the Bible, ETC.,
in all to the number of nearly one hundred and
fifty yolumes.l
CONNECTICUT.
The scarlet fever RACES among Bloomfield
children to such an extent that the schools have
all been closed.
DIR. Paul NJ. Brennan, of disgraceful Connec-
ticut notoriety, has been sent to Jail in Albany
for stealing an umbrella.
There are in Haddeu Neck "a voting district of
less than one hundred twenty-five persons whose
average age is seventv-siX years.
A resident of Connecticut boasts that for
eighty-four consecutive years he has eaten his
Thanksgiving dinner in the same house.
Rockville has not been weary in well doing
For fifteen years her people have been laboring
to convict some liquor seller, but without sue
cess until last week.
Hartford is much elated over the government
appropriation for building in that city for the
post office, and revenue and pension offices, the
cost of the whole not to exceed $500 900.
Henry Beckwith, of Barkhamsted, seventy
five years old, fell from a ledge fifty feet high,
one night recently, and being unable to raise a
cry for help remained where he fell until some
time the next day. He was probably fatally in
jured.
Rev. J. W. Strong, who was injured by the
accident at Hartford which resulted fatally for
the Rev. Collins Stone, has so far recovered that
he was able to preach on Sunday, and he will
return to his home IN Wisconsin this week.
Maria Griffith stepped out of the door of her
house at Clinton, for few moments, Thursday
morning, and not returning Immediately, was
looked after, and found lying upon the ground
near the house, dead. She was about seventy
years of age.
A New York dispatch says: George w. Chad
wick, the alleged accOmplice in the Van Eten
forgeries, who has been arrested, is also await
ing trial on the charge of passing one of the
$4,000 United States bonds, stolen from the
Cuban mission. Chadwick is q native of Con-
necticut aud has wife and nine children.
A temperance societyin Litchfeld was Greatly
quite futtered,,' to use the expression Of local
paper, the other evening, by singular address
from Rev. Dr. Henry. Instead of advocating
teetotalism, he recommended the use of wine at
meals, and attempted to prove that it was sane
toned by the scriptures.
According to a communication in the Hart
ford Times the fire insurance companies of that
city are in a quandary as to the stamping of re-
newal receipts. 1t is stated that in accordance
with Commissioner Pleasanton's decision dated
Washington, Jan. %, that renewal receipts, if
issued previous to the expiration of the fire
policy which they renew, require no stamp, the
agents of nearly all the Hartford companies
were directed not to stamp such receipts. But
it now seems that Commissioner Pleasanton, in
reply to an inquiry of Congressman Strong, an
nounces his decision to be directly to the con-
trary,-that renewal receipts do in all cases re.
quire a stamp.
From the will of Lewis Morris. recorded in
the SurrOgates office of the CITY of New York
Nov. 10, 1860, is the following: DIT is nv wish
that my son Gouverneur shall have the best ed
ucation that eau be furnished him in England
or America; but my express will and directions
are that under no circumstances shall be be
sent to the colony of Connecticut for that pur'
pose, lest in his youth he should imbibe that
low craft and cunning so incident to the people
of the country, and which are so interviewer in
their constitution that they cannot conceal it
from the world, though many of them, under
the sanctiied garb of religion, have attempted
to impose themselves upon the world as honest
men,"
Tho Now Haven horns di1oroa casa IN ,rb;ob
Lucius Randolph, of New Jersey, obtained re-
lease from the bonds of matrimony and speedily
married again, has a new phase. When Mrs.
Randolph's friends read the divorce they suspect
ed fraud, and finding that Randolph had never
been to New Haven at all, pettioned to have the
divorce annulled, which was done. The New
Haven police then obtained a requisition for
Randolphs arrest, and two or three days ago Sc
cured him and brought him to New Haven. He
tells an apparently straightforward story, that
he applied to House, the New York divorce law
yer, and signed a blank petition on which House
agreed to get him divorced for $40, in monthly
payments. AT last House said he conld get the
divorce in two weeks in Connecticut, but must
have 500 extra. This Randolph agreed TO give
him. At the end of the two weeks Randolph
called at the office, and found that the divorce
had been obtained. On Wednesday the New
Haven officers arrested House, and and on
Thursday he was arraigned on charges of per-
jury and Subornation Of perjury, in the city
court. His examination was postponed under
$4,000 bond.
prominent Irish citizen OF Hartford in a let
ter in New York paper, says GO into those
hellish dens, the rum mills, kept by the uncon-
scious allies of the devil and despotism, the
Irish rumsellers. There you will see the portraits
of the Fenian heroes and martyrs, together with
the Irish harp and green flag displayed over the
bars, just as the fiendish wreckers show their
false lights so as to allure and decoy the unwary
mariner to destruction. Those rumsellers, car
ing as little about Ireland as they do about Lap
land, display those sacred emblems that they
may che more readily rob their countrymen, not
only of their means, but Of their manhood, of
their character, nay, even of their very SOILS
! ask ODonoyan Rosa and his compatriots to
carefully examine thi question, and ASK them
selves what is best to be done for the cause of
Ireland and the welfare of the Irish people gen
orally; and | trust they will come to the con-
cluson that temperance is the key to the posi-
ton, and that by agitating temperance in con-
junction with Irish nationality they may hope
to master the situation. Let us, then inscribe
on our banners O'Donovan Rosa for our leader
and temperance for our guiding star.
educational.
BIRMINGHAM STATE NORMAL.