Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-24

| ton with the rich ores oil IRON among the
Adirondack mountains of New York No iron
+ was found, but strong indications of it. The
= party is now engaged in fixing the limits of this
I | formation.
On the afternoon of the Odd man who called
himself Isaac Anderson, appeared at the Mirror
r office in Manchester, and stated that as he was
. walking, about eleven O'Clock, upon the track of
the Concord railroad between Hookset and
Martins ferry, he saw a man sitting upon the
bank of the river under tree. He stated that
the man was about fifty years of age and seem
= ed to be in great trouble The stranger would
give no account of himself, but asked Anderson
to deliver to the editor of the Mirror lot Of
shoemakcr's tools and some other articles
which he handed TO him. Among the articles
was memorandum book, in which appeared
the name of Walter Lawson, and some other
citizens of Concord. Anderson says he took
the articles in his hand, when the stranger slid
off the bank into the river and was drowned,
though he tried to save him. City Marshal
Patten went to Concord to look up the matter.
Anderson is a shoemaker, about fifty years oil d.
and says he was on his way from Franklin to
Lynn when the affair happened. 1t is conjec-
tured that the drowned man belonged in Con
cord.
VERMONT.
The potato bug has appeared in Orleans
county.
Essex county calls for rain. The ponds are
| getting low.
A hedge hog weighing eighty pounds, was
| recently killed in Lowell.
An eleven years old son Of Edward Hammond
of Bethel, weighs 100 pounds.
| Parties are washing for gold in Locust creek,
| in the town of Bethel, and find little.
Cars will run to Hghgate on the Lamoille
| Valley railroad in few days.
| The hay crop in Newport and vicinity is only
about three fourths of an average, owing to the
| drouth.
Henry W. Webster has been appointed post
| master at West Bolton, vice Smith A. Hall, re-
| signed.
Public interest at Brattleboro now centres in
the new hotel building, the last brick of which
was laid on Friday.
The house of Moses Bass of Braintree was
| burned on Sunday. Loss $2OO0-insured for
| $1,000,
The Lamoille Valley railroad company began
laying iron on Tuesday. They will have the
iron horse in HiShgate in few days.
In Washington, ten sheep belonging to Mrs.
| ROXana Abbott, were killed by lightning re-
| cently-more than one. third of the flock.
| The first station on the Vermont division of
| the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad has been
| raised in Danvile.
The residence of Moses Bass of Braintree was
burned on Sunday last. Loss about $1,000, and
| insured for $1,000.
Leonard S. Warren of st. Adams, a brake
man on the Vermont Central railroad, fell thirty
feet through the treStle work of a bridge upon
some rocks, Monday night, and was killed.
The Vermont Central road have just placed
upon their track new through express and
baggage car, which is considered the best cou-
yeyance of any in Boston.
The Sunday schools of Newport recently mode
an excursion TO Jay Peak. Speeches and songs
were the order on the summit and good eating
at the Long house on the side.
There is a walnut tree in Addison five feet and
ten inches in circumference, one hundred and
twenty feet high and it is sixty feet to the first
limb.
A man called at the Central house, Swanton,
the 9th, and hired horse to 20 to Franklin.
He has not been seen or heard from since. Mr..
Smith and assistants are in pursuit.
Dexter Wood, a Canadian Frenchman, thirty
one years of aye, while at work alone in the
woods at Vernon, was struck by the limb of
falling tree, which fractured his skull in a
shocking manner, causing instant death.
Some comment has been excited in Chester
by two libel suits recently commenced by prom
inent citizens, Richardson VS.. Shedd, and Rev.
MIR. Foster VS.. G. P. Spaulding
| Butter at Richmond, this week, sold at prices
| from 90 to q cents apound fancy selections sell
| ing at 26 and % cents. Cheese sold at to 81
for plain, 81 for farm dairy, green sage 81 to 10t
| and 8! to 10 cents fortactory.
The Boston, Concord and Montreal PaSsump-
/ sic, and Montpelier and Wells river railroads
| have agreed upon and obtained the land for a
common station and junction at Wells River, so
as to make direct connection between the three
| roads,
The Rutland Herald says: zone day last week
| Little Palmer and his wife, of South Bristol,
had little "set to- about the proper correction
| of their child, and Palmer came off second best
in the melee His. wife entirely demolished bis
| best and probably his only shirt, by stripping
| it from his back. Palmer is indignant, and says
| he shall never live with her again."
Two boys, about eighteen years old, named
| Moore and Lest, stole S. U. Kings horse and
| buggy at Windsor Sunday afternoon where he
had hitched them to attend church. They drove
to Wesmoreland, N. H. put the horse up, and
| slowed themselves away in the straw in Robert
Green's barn, and when Mr., Green went to his
barn in the morning he found a strange horse,
and presently the two boys, who had oversight,
crawled out of the straw, but denied knowing
anything about the horse. Mr. Green thought
there was something wrong, and detained the
team and had them arrested; and on Tuesday
they were sent back to Windsor from Keene
handcutfed and in custody of an officer
The firm of Colby Brothers & Co., at Water
bury, are about selling their chdren's cab
mandatory department to a stock company
in Montpelier, which has been organized 70 buy
and run it. The company has also barganed
for the water power and machinery of ID. Taft &
Son, on the Berlin side of the river, and work
will be commenced some time this fall. This
will bring to Montpelier one hundred md fifty
new hands, who will be apt to infuse new life
into the business of the capital. Colby Broth
ers have done over 100000 worth of business
in their cab department alone the past year, and
their whole business has been so on the increase
that they find it necessary TO sell portion.
The following are the main points of the de-
cision OF the supreme court of Vermont recent
ly given under the legal tender act: A petition
was presented, praying the court to order the
payment of certain state bonds in gold, in ac-
cordance with the act of congress of February
o. 1862, and with an act Of the state legislature
passed last year. While the court held that the
legal tender law, as it is called, was cOnstitu-
tiona it decided that the state law was not man
datory, and only authorized the treasurer to pay
the state bonds in such currency as should be
| lawful at the time the bonds became due and
that, inasmuch as the supreme court of the
United States had decided in May last that.the
United States legal tender notes were legal
tender inipayment and discharge of obligations
incurred before the passage Of the act of con-
gress, the relator had no legal right under the
| resolution to demand and receive his pay in COIN
| This will save the Taxpayers of the state large
sums of money, while it preserves the credit of
the state. Five of the supreme Judges heard
the case, and all concurred in the opinion.
| CONNECTICUT.
| The Knights Tempar of Connecticut are 90
ing into encampment for three days, at West
| Haven Aug. 20.
A large barn at Norwalk, owned by Charles
Selleck, was burned with its contents, Saturday
night.
John Case, doorkeeper in the house of repre-
sentatives two years since, who had lost a leg
during the war, fell from a wagon at Avon one
day last week, and badly fractured the stump.
sylvester Deet, aged twenty -eight, was drowned
1T ouatlord, saturday, while bathing. He
served in the navy under Farragut during the
war.
John Forbes, a waiter in the Eagle hotel New
Haven, has been arrested, charged with stealing
over 500 from the room of VIM. A, Howe. y
travelling agent for a firm in Bangor, Me. 4
number of stolen articles were found in his room
During the evening service in a New Haven
church, recently, the pastor observed a man in
a back seat hitching about in an uncomfortable
manner, and thinking his conscience troubled
him, said, docs the brother want to speakYj
The man rising, said, ''No sir the brother wants
a drink of water" walked to the altar and took
a drink of water and resumed his seat. after
which the services proceeded.
An insane woman has taken up her abode in
the woods near Savin Rock, West Haven. and
although frequently in the edge of the woods is
so feet as to defy pursuit. She is represented as
middle aged, with light hair, bare-headed and
! bare-footed All efforts of the town authorities
to capture her have been unavailing so far,
though she sometimes goes to farm houses for
bread.
RHODE ISLAND.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Mcfarland left Providence
on Monday for Hartford, Conn, where he is TO
| Stav for few DAYS and then Ipava for Mon