Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-01


pal school in Concord began on the 30th ult,
about one hundred of the students leaving for |
their summer recreation on the early morning |
train south, and joyful set OF lads they were.
The examination commenced on Tuesday,
closing Thursday. The quiet retirement IN |
which the school is located and its excellent |
management by the Rev. Dr. Colt places il |
among the best New England school for boys. |
The accommodations of the institution are not |
equal to the number of applicants. This will in |
time however, be in q measure remedled by new |
buildings, already commenced and contem-
plated.
Hon. L. W, Cogswell, the newly elected state
treasurer, is a native of Henniker, and is about
forty years of age. He received an academic
education, and when young was teacher. He
went to California as one of the earliest plo-
neers, and was president of the first mining
company in that state that had land claim SET
tied by jury. Returned to New Hampshire
about 1855, and went into trade at hehhlker,
where he has since resided. In 1851 nc was
made mail agent between Hillsborougn ana
Manchester. In 1862 he enlisted as private IN
the 18th regiment; was commissioner captain
before the organization left the state hnu, gong
with It to the war served faithfully III WITHIN
one month of the return OF peace, When I'M
paired health compelled him to resign. lie
served one wear on the staff of MAJ. Gen. Griffin,
and returned home as lieutenant colonel Of his
own regiment He made splendid war recorC
This is his fifth year as representative from
the town Of Henuiker. lie was a republican up 4
TO the formation OF the labor reform organiza-
tion. which party, with the help of democrats,
made him representative last year and also the
present term.
VERMONT.
Foster Crows jewelry store, in Chelsea, was
robbed of $500 worth Of goods on Saturday
night.
Twoboys, George Carley and Walter NJ. Smith,
were drowned in a mill pond at Halifax, on the
DIST ult.
Leonard Sprague, of East Randolph, hung
himself on Saturday for some unknown reason.
He was sixty-five years old.
Montpelier celebrates the GLORIOUS fourth"
by a procession of the fremen and military,
balloon ascension, Grafton, boat race and fire
works.
Tinnouth claims the oldest practicing physi-
clan in America in the person Of DIR. Theophilus
Clark, who is ninety eight years of age, and has
been practicing for three score years and six.
Henry NJ. Foster, who borrowed so much
money at Montpelier about n year since, and
then absconded, has just forged the name of A.
J. Phillips of that place for $500, and obtained
the money Foster has been in Chicago for
some time, and, it was supposed, was behaving
himself His wife has been in Montpelier for
the past three weeks, and has caused quite
sensation with the airs she has put on.
A man in Brattleboro was recently urged by
an insurance agent to take out policy for the
benefit of his wife to the amount of $4,000. Be-
fore deciding he asked his wie's opinion, when
she replied, with charming franknesS, "Why,
i0y dear YOU will of course act according to
your own judgment; but, in case of your de-
cease, ii would make me rather more desra-
BILE widow.
CONNECTICUT.
on the Doth ultimo the Episcopal academy of
Connecticut, at Cheshire, celebrated its seventy
seventh anniversary.
The lortr vacant Sharp's rife works in Hart
ford have besp leased by the Weed sewing ma
chine company,
the platform for the pulpit, and breaches ac-
ceptably in Hartford church during the alb
seIce Of tbe regular occupant.
Hon. Henry G. Deming and Mrs. Annie p.
Jillson were married on Thursday, in ST. Johns
church. East Hartford, in the presence of
large number of invited guests.
The old railroad bridge at South Norwalk,
where terrible casualty occurred some years
ago by which over fifty lives were lost, is
about to give place to more substantial strnc-
ture of wood aud iron.
The village Of Fitchville, with mills, water
power, ETC., has been sold to Henry Waterman,
of Providence, for S65,O00. A new manufactur-
ing enterprise will be established there.
The Norwich Bulletin Of the 29th says: "The
senate yesterday took start in the right direc-
ton, by voting the half million appropriation
for new state house in Hartford. We see no
reason why the house should not concur with
out delay, when the question comes up there
again"
News, a weekly journal, will begin in Salisbury,
July 18th. The paper will be in the republl-
can interest, and has prospect of being well
sustained.
Daniel Flanagan of Middletown, while intoxi-
Gated recently assaulted his late employer,
James Vandewater, with carving knife, but
was secured before doing any harm, and now
languisheth in the lookup.
rha or riDO bucinpEs is progressing
favorably at the Daeville mills, Wilmington:
Part of the machinery has been started up, and
the whole works will soon be in motion. The
| village has been thoroughly repaired and won
| derfully improved.
| escaped serious injury few days ago, beng
| thrown in front Of a moving machine and
/ dragged considerable distance. He finally
extricated himself, having received but slight
| wounds.
The name of the lad killed on the Hartford
and Providence railroad track, near Manchester,
| Tuesday, was William O'Neill, and he was
| pupil i'll the deaf and dumb asylum in Hartford.
| He was returning from visit TO friends IN
Rockville when the accident occurred.
Danbury was electrified by the appearance OF
an ancient chimney sweep, Thursday, whose
CHEEKY cry of sweep-ho resounded through the
streets. One lady ran after him, and thus
| raised his expectations, but dashed them again
| on announcing that she had an umbrella to
mend.
Thursday afternoon, the little son of Judge
James Nichols, of Hartford, was found in some
| bushes not far from his home, dead, bullet
| having been fired into his mouth. His death
| appears to have been accidental. A son of the
| Rev. DIR. Turnbull was practising at shooting at
a mark, and one of his bullets hit the little fel-
| low unknown, as Turnbull says, to himself
when he fired it. The deceased was only about
4 eight years old
| At the Wallingford community, for the past
| year or two, less attention has been given TO
| horticulture than before, and the main indus
| tries are now confined TO printing and silk manu-
| featuring. The capital Of this family IN 1891
was Sc, 34222, and at present is $54 ,391 66, show
ing that it has been a profitable institution
| The Oneida community, of which this IS
| branch, showed capital in 1857 OF Sal, 47O
The total net earnings Of the two in ten years
was S1S0,05S.26, being a yearly income of $751;
05S.02 above all expenses. The average income
| of the past four years has been even larger, and
in. 1870 the sales of their manufactures were
1862 ,S11.23
RHODE ISLAND.
! The Providence Herald hastens to endorse
| Chief Justice Chase as democratic candidate for
| president.
| General Baker, the new commissioner of pen
| sions has reinstated DR.. CORTLAND Hoppin of
| Providence, as pension surgeon an office from
which he was removed some time since on ac-
count of the method of his practice, hom9o-
pathy, not having been considered orthodox by
| the former commissioner.
Many will be surprised to learn that MIR
Thomas Nixon has rendered his resignation as
master of transportation of the Stonington rail-
road. The gentleman has long filled the posi-
ton, and has discharged the duties of his office
with prompness and good Judgment.
Brown university has lost during the past
year its oldest aumnus, the Rev. Morrill, Allen,
of the class Of 1897, who died at Pembroke,
Mass, August II, 1870, at the age of "a
years, months and IA days. At the time of
his decease he was the sole survivor of his class
the only living graduate OF the last century and
the only one who was born before the declara-
ton of independence.