Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-24


was again committed TO the lookup, this time
| the precauton being taken to leave him hand
cuffed and locked in cell. He told the city
marshal he would be out within few hours or
forfeit five dollar bill; and though his words
were regarded as vain bravado, he made them
true. He escaped about noon Sunday.
Stockton is the banner town of Maine, accord
ing 10 the Gospel Banner. 1t says: No purer or
more orderly or more intelligent class of people
can be found anywhere in the state or country
In Stockton there is no rum shop; nor has there
eUer been any. No bar-room or gambling hole
OF den for drinking and other immoral purposes
has ever found a Judgment in Stockton; nor has
there ever been known such thing as town
pauper there; and so triaing is the quarreling
and disposition TO litigation in the place, that no
lawyer has ever thought of earning his bread
and butter in the midst of such people. -
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Frank Caroline, a man who worked at the
Manchester mills, fell into a cellar-way on Ce-
dar street, on Sunday morning, while in state
of intoxication, and died of sutfocaton. In fall
ing his head was bent under his chest. He was
forty years of age, and was native of Glasgow,
Scotland.
Mr.. Joseph Morrison, citizen of Derry,
died very suddenly on Thursday last. He was
about during the day, and died in the evening
from no apparent disease. He was eighty-seven
years of age, He was a Free Mason, and his
funeral was attended by the members of st.
Mary's lodge in Derry.
A beautiful monument has Just been put up
over the last resting place of Gen. Pierce. IL
stands upon base of hammered granite, two
feet high and forty inches square. The plinth
is two feet three inches square, and ten inches
high, the die twenty inches square and two feet
two inches high, cap thirty inches square and ten
inches high. The shaft is fourteen inches square
at the base, and eight at the top, and is seven
feet high, twelve wide and four thick. The cross
is beautifully draped with folds. The height
of the entire monument is fifteen feet, 1t is of
the finest Italian marble, every part cut from a
single block, thus insurlng evenness of quality
and of color.
CONNECTICUT.
The Winchester arms company of New Haven
shipped 5000 stands of arms TO ConStantinople
Thursday.
The inmates of the state prison will be made
happy on the S1st, by dinner given by the &C.
centric Dorsey
The strike at the Bridgeport iron works is
ended, the workmen icing promised their usual
wages.
The barn of Mark Howard, at Zoar's bridge,
Ansonia, was burned by an incendiary fire last
week.
The African NJ. E. Zion church, of New
Haven, are about to erect a house of worship
on the corner of Eeaton street and DiXwell
avenue.
The late Mrs. Diadema Stevens, of Danbury,
left her property, valued at 81 800 to the Con-
necticut Unversalist convention, for missionary
purposes.
The Hartford Times says there is good evil
dence that four diseased cattle have been
slaughtered recently in that city and one in
Pennington, and the meat sold. The authorl-
ties are investigating the truth of the report
A gang Of four young roughs, who have long
been terror in the northern part OF the city OF
Hartford, knocking down peaceable citizens and
committing many mischievous FRANKS, were ar
rested Thursday night by the police.
Last week, as A S. Beach, of Trumbull, was
leaving Bridgeport on his way home, his team
was stopped just out of the city by highway
man who demanded his money or life. Not be-
ing inclined to give either Mr.. Beach knocked
the fellow down with his whip and drove on.
A fire occurred in a house in Hartford Friday
night from kerosene lamp, which being placed
in such a position that its chimney nearly
reached the ceiling, burned through, between
the ceiling and the floor, ard the fire was hrst
discovered in the room above, where it was ex-
tinguished.
No particular excitement appears 10 be mani
Tested over the approaching republican state con-
vention, although the prospect is that it WIS be
well attended. We have heard no opposition
expressed 10 the denomination of Mr.. Jewell. lu
regard to the rest Of the ticket many feel that
changes might be advantdgeously made In two
or three places.
A. d. King, Jr., recently shot spotted seal
Weighing seventy-eight pounds, on the shore OF
Long Island Sound little outside the harbor
of CLIFTON, where he and his father now reside
This is sad 10 be the only seal killed there for
sixty years. It has yielded two gallons and
halfof oil and rs skin has been stuffed for eH-
hibition.
A marriage license vas recently obtained in
Waterbury for parties residing III Plymouth,
and of course the ceremony could not be per-
formed in the latter town. fhe difficulty was
overcome by going through With the lntroducto-
~ portions of the ceremony where the parties
were then assembled; after which the clergy
man and others particularly interested TOOK a
short walk over the line, where the strictly es-
sential part took place, and the knot was lnlly
tied
RHODE ISLAND.
There was played the other evening, at Prov
idence new drama called Treason, or the
Man without a Country" the plot of which Is
taken from the famous story of Edward Everett
Hale, first published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Mr. Rip Van Wrinkle Murray acted the charac-
ter of Philip Nolan, who is the leading figure in
the tale,
The Boston Herald SAYS: "This destruction of
gambling tools, which is done by order of coSTt,
is big thing for one well known business man
of puritanical New England gentleman
whose peculiar philanthropc tendencies are pro-
verbal throughout the country. All these beau
tiful embellished chips, splits, counters, and
cards, are manufactured at Pawtucket, by Ii. &.
L. Dorsey, the gentleman who every fall pro-
vides an elegant Thanksgiving dinner for the
convictS of some penitentiary, the funds for
doing so coming into his pockets out of the
large profits made on the cards, chips &C., that
he manufactures for the gambling fraternity.
Since Major Jones opened his batteries on the
gamblers, Dorsey's business has largely in
creased, every seizure, like the one here de-
tailed enabling him to make another sale, and
| perhaps profit enough to outfit one Of his
Thanksgiving dinners. So you see that even in
| that most beautiful virtue, philanthropy there
Is who wit W revolutions