Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-18

president of the Keene national bank Ademo-
GRAFT in politics, he was never partisan; out was
frequently in nomination by his party for Varl-
GUS offices, He was a lawyer OF marked ability;
and was widely known and universally respect
ed He owned a fine residence in Walpole,
where he has always resided. His father, Judge
Roger Vose, died of apopleXy, in the office Of
Gov Dinsmore, in Keene, many years ago.
Boston parties are making arrangements to
put in a very large saw-mill on the shore of
Sunapee Lake. Among the things spoken offs
a boom to reach across the lake, and iron
steamer to tow lumber TO the spot, the steamer
to be large enough to take turn at excursion
traffic occasionally.
VERMONT
Mr.. Camp, of the Newport Express, has
bought the Barton Standard and Will unite 1t
with his paper.
Rev. Dir, Howard has resigned the presidency
of Norwich university which office he mas heid
for two years or more.
In Ripton, Hancock and Lincoln, bears are
reported to be numerous and quite too familiar
with veal, pigs and mutton.
Reuben C. Denton, of Ripton, was hned one
cent and costs, by Justice Mcleod, at Middle
bury, for stealing neck ties.
The first newspaper ever started in Vermont
was at Westminster in 177S, by Spooner Green,
under the title of Vermont Gazette.
ST. Johnsbury undertook 10 get up an excite
meut by a fox chase on the fair grounds, but it
wasn't a success. The managers hal three
foxes, and the first one let 20 chased the dog,
and scared him so that he ran into crowd and
they kicked him out.
The Boston Journal is responsible for the state
mCnt that "mOrc boys run away to sea from
Vermont than any other OF the New England
states" The Rutland Herald says: 1--WE do not
think this statement founded on fact"
Twelve inches of snow fell at Chester last Fri
day and Saturday, and at Mount Holly the snow
was fifteen inches deep, which is as much as fell
in that section last winter. At Woodstock the
mercury fell TO zero last Monday.
CONNECTICUT.
rubber mandatory is in process OF cree
ton in Fairfield.
The stock of the Meridian cutlery company
has been increased to 100000
VIM Clair, fireman on the steamboat o. V.
Coffin, committed suicide at Mddletown, on the
18th.
A Washington letter saws that A. H. Bying-
ton of Norwalk is a candidate for sergeant-at
arms of the senate.
A pompOus hut benevolent Bridgeport man
has had his photograph neatly framed and sent
on to the Wisconsin sufferers.
Owen Finnegan, employed at the Covington
| manufacturing company, Waterbury, had his
| hand badly smashed in a stamp, Wednesday.
The store of Geo. ID. Bartlett, on Ford street,
| Hartford, was burgarized on the night of the
18th, and goods to the amount of $500 were
taken.
The body of Adam Lamb, drowned with his
| daughter at Lewis bridge, near New Haven,
Monday, was recovered on the 18th. The body
| of the young lady has not yet been recovered.
From the heart OF tree recently blown down
in Meriden, piece of tin five inches long was
taken, and the Meriden people are at a loss to
| account for the singular circumstance.
| The Shoddy mill belonging to S. w. Gladhill,
| situated in the western part OF Chester, was
| burned last week. Ii ca lght from the machine
| ry. One was burned ON the same spot about
year since.
The Danbury News saws: "They are feeling
| A lpVinO
| wife on the deceaSc of her husband sent the fol-
| lowing thrilling telegram to a distant friend:
Dear John is dead. Loss fully covered by in
| surance."
An emery wheel at the Scovill manufacturing
| company, Waterbury, exploded on the 10th, one of
the pieces striking another wheel and causing it
also to explode. A piece of the second wheel
| struck man, breaking his arm. This is the
second accident Of the kind within a fortnight.
On the 10Th, as an express train from New
| York was passing through WestpOrt, pedder
named Abbey sought to drive his team across
t he track IN front of the locomotive and was
killed. The wagon was smashed but the horse
escaped without injury. The body of the untor-
tunatc man was found upon the forward part
Of the locomotive.
The Manchester, Eng, Guardian, in abiding
to the account of the ordination of Mrs. Celia
Bureigh, says Some English ladies may soon
be fired with the same ambition, and English
newspapers may have TO chronicle some like GER
|
to find a congregation willing to receive lady
| as pastor than to discover a lady who is pre-
| pared to undertake the office"
| According TO an exchange, at a recent fire in
| Connecticut town the members of the new steam
| fire engine company ran quickly TO the scene,
but forgot their engine, and before they could
| go back and get it tbs hand engine had put out
| the attempt at combustion.
I. II. Read of Lisbon shot a curious bird the
other day, the like Of which nobody in that sec
fTfnfa laaf.u IIoe II g.
when he shot it, but its bill and claws are unlike
a crows, and its size is twice that of the largest
crow, Its wings spread measured over four feet,
and its weight was over two and half pounds.
fine specimen of the striX nivea, or snowy
owl, was shot at IIaddam on Saturday last by
Mr.. Alvin V. Spencer, and is now in the posses
sion of Dir. Barrat of Middetown. The snowy
owl is a rare visitor in these regions. There is
at least one specimen of the bird in the Judd
cabinet of the Wesleyan university at Middle
town.
In seven towns of the state the amount of tax
able property according TO the grand list of
| 1870 and the population are in the following re-
! lation to each other: Norwich, with a pOpula-
ton of 1868, reports S13 210 POP; Danbury,
| population $751; taxable property S5973 1853 ;
New Haven, population 50SS6 property S41 :
3O,831; Hartford, population 81 ,S25, grand list
| Sal 1884 ,165; N0rwak, population II 122, grand
list o6,5U,I44; Waterbury, population 1314S,
grand list S6,90O,005; MeIiden, population 10, :
/ Ill llSl 60 tUl. lOldl pOpulaIlOn III
the foregoing seven towns, 149 ,909; total taxa
bic property, 1922, 1850 416; average amount of
| property TO each one thousand inhabitants,
| 1850, 600.
Among the recent arrivals at the deaf and
| dumb asylum, Hartford are twin brothers named
Rand, OF Peabody, Mass, twenty-one years of
age, who have lived in partially wild state;
| having never had the rift of speech, although
they are able TO understand each other They
are experts at hunting and fishing, but had be-
come so troublesome to the neighbors by their
| Yagrant habits, that it was thought best to re-
| move them TO an asylum.
! Samuel j. Baisden, prominent citizen of
| Cromwell, died very suddenly on the 10th He
had been in his usual health and attended to his
business all day Tuesday, coming home at his
| usual time in the evening and retiring at his
! accustomed hour. About eleven o'clock he
awOke his wife and asked for something to drink
! 1t was given him, when he fell INTO an uncon-
| Scious state in which he remained until he died
about seven o'clock Wednesday morning. Mr.
| Baisden has represented Cromwell in the legiS-
lature, and held other offices in the town of To-
| cal character.
! RHODE ISLAND.
| The Providence water celebration is left some
what in doubt The aldermen say yes aud the
councilmen say neither yes nor no. In the
meantime the work is rapidly approaching com
| pletion.
The prospect of having free public library
| IN Providence on scale worthy of popula-
ton containing so much wealth and intelli-
gence, is now very encouraging. The Press says:
| AT an early day we shall give the particulars
OF the progress Of the work up to the present
| time"
The reorganization ofthe police force of North
| providence, under an efficient head, is said 10
have brought about wonderful and satisfac-
| tory change of affairs there to the peaceful and
| law-loying citizens Such of the r0gues as are
not already provided for, keep well in the back
| ground, and do not commit their wicked deeds
with impunity, as formerly.
The Woonsocket Patriot has the following:
Byron asked, "What is the end of fame?" Its
last "end" came TO our knowledge thus:
WOonsocketer, in looking at some statutes in
Boston on Tuesday, asked the dandifed sales.
man if he had bust of Websterp "Webster?
what Webser2" "Daniel Webster" ''Don't
know him, SIR. Here's one of Ben. Butler" The
disappointed Woonsocketer walked out of the
shop, musing on the mutabilty of fame. The
greatest statesman and orator which the western
hemisphere had produced has been dead nineteen
years, yet the city of his residence, which was
won't TO make itself hOarse with poems of praise
! tin .....