Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-15

orphans home, getting over 500. Rev. Messrs,
Hartman and Jewett were called up and spoke
On the subject Of the general management Of
the poor, Mr.. Hartman aSsailed the conduct Of
the county farm in a most savage manner, tell
ing what he claimed to have seen on officiating
at the burial of a colorcd child. He claimed
that the county convention didn't see things as
he did, and that appearances had been improved
for their benefit. The Settng-up by Mr.. II. was
truly savage.
CONNECTICUT.
The various factories in the state are daily be-
coming more and more active.
Mr. p. Dwyer was Instantly killed on Sunday
last while at work on the dam at Platrs mill,
Waterbury.
MIR. Robert Harbisen of Hartford, graduate
at Princeton college, has been appointed pro-
iessor in the university Of Michigan
The Insurance Monitor gives Il list OF the pow
er of the water works in ninety.siX cities OF this
country, by which it appears that waterbury
| has the heaviest and best, the fall being about
| two hundred and twcnty-siX feet.
Hartford is forming stock company TO estaO-
! fish brewery in that city, with capital OF
| $4,000. Among those interested in the project
are several prominent citizens, Americans MS
| well as Germans, OF ample means.
The Connecticut Western railroad is nearly
| finished aud by Thanksgiving day, at the fur
| finest limit the managers agree TO run their
trains to and from Hartford, the entire length
| of the road
! al
the Watertown fair was boquet made of grass
! hoppers strung on wires in such manner as to
| resemble bunch of flowers. Ii is a relief TO
know that there is some use for these insects.
| Bridgeport has not many youthful scamps
| like Ed Callahan. Being released from a six
months term in Jail for theft, a few days since,
| he appropriated suit of CLOTHES belonging TO
| one brother and then ylaid younger one rs
| he was taking his months wages, SIS, TO his
mother, asked to see the envelope, slipped 1t into
| his pocket, hand the little fellow one which
he had previously directed and filled with paper,
and took the first train for New York.
In 1862, the first blast furnace for smelling
iron ore and making cast iron was erected ut
Lakeyille. Pig iron and heavy castings were
made until the breaking out of the revolution
airy struggle, when the owner, being an English
man, left the country. The state then took pos
session of the furnace property, and by agents
engaged in the manufacture of cannon, shells,
cannon balls, grape shot, ETC., for the use of the
general government
The directors of the Saugatuck Valley rail-
road company, having fully considered the adj
vantges of a narrow gauge for their road, have
decided to build upon that plan, provided the
necessary funds are obtained. For the present
they will content themselves with building
portion of the road, say as far rs the Redding
line, twelve miles from the station at Saugatuck.
In the aid of this plan they ask the town of
WestpOrt TO subscribe fifty thousand dollars.
If this is done, the road will be Immediately con-
tracted for.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Ocean house at Newport is closed.
In speaking of the forthcoming vote on
amendments TO the state constitution, the Proyi-
dence Journal says: "When, in 1913, the old
charter that had carried us safely so long was
superseded by a constitution, conservative pro
visions unknown 10 the constitution of other
states, and in the line of the pecularitieS to
which we have referred, were laid at the base of
the system. The liberaity with which the suf
frage, in other states, was thrown open to all
classes of citizens, was not intimated here. The
landed qualification that had hitherto been re-
quired of all the electors was still retained for
those who were born in foreign countries; and
for those of American birth, who were not tax
payers, and who did not render military SER
vice, voluntary tax of one dollar. called the
registry tax, for the benefit of public education,
was required as a qualification for voting. This
provision has been perverted from the intention
of the constitution which was that the registry
tax should be paid by the voter himself, and in
the calendar year preceding the time of voting,
| this being an evidence of his interest in the
| government of the state. still further re-
strictiOn was put on suffrage by combining it to
tax payers, on all questions of imposing taxes
| or eXpending money. The equal representation
| in the senate and the restriction in the repre-
sentation of the largest town or city to not
more than one-siXth of the whole number of
the house Of representatives, were also intended
as conservative provisions. They have not al
| ways operated So"