Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-02

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GLASS in one of the windows. Mr.. Nye was in
his office at the time, but was not harmed.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
An eating saloon at Newmarket Junction was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday. Loss $500.
Mrs. J. d. Hidden, of Nashua, has two hun
bred and six pounds Of citronS from one seed.
The state orphans home is TO be dedicated on
the 10Th Of October.
A lad named James Strong fell from the new
academy building in Exeter, on the 25th, re-
ceiving serious and probably fatal injuries.
The Junction house at White River junction,
was damaged by fire on Friday afternoon to the
amount of about $1,000. 1t began in the roof OF
the L part,
The house and barn of Mr.. Thomas P. Nut
ting, of Hebron, were burned on the evening OF
the oath ult., together with most of their con-
tents. Loss, $500. The fire is supposed TO
have been of incendiary origin
It is reported that the democrats have sent
out secret circular asking the opinion of their
prominent men on the propriety of calling an
extra session of the legislature under certain
contingency, which it Is thought, may occur.
The opinion among many is that the fish
commissioners are, by the provisions Of the law,
not removable by the governor or council. II
such be the case, the appointments Of fish COM
missioners made last week are void
The Grafton at the dedication of the Keene
soldiers monument, on the 10th OF October, is
| TO be delivered by Gen. JudsOn Fitzpatrick. Gov.
| Weston and staff and other distinguished guests
arc expected to be present, together with all the
posts of the G. A. K. in the vicinity. A town
meeting wifi he held on Monday next TO make
an appropriation 70 defray the expenses of the
! celebration. The committee are making every
! eXertiOn 10 ensure the success of the affair.
| Capt IL. G. Mahurcn, of Boston, while dry
| ing from Chester to Manchester, on Friday eve
| ming, was met about mile east OF Lake Masso-
| besic by two highwaymen, who sprung from
| the bushes and seized his horse BY the bits.
oil m frnto Of the purriaEp
when two other men sprang upon him, and one
dealt him a heavy blow on the forehead. He
defended himself with revolver, and fired four
shots at the Williams, who wore masks, when they
turned and fed. The captain was considerably
injured.
A. dau4hter of Henry Gee, of West Concord,
two years old stepped into a pail Of hot water
on Monday aHd was SO badly scaded that she
died on Iueshay.
The ST. Adams Messenger gets off this para
graph: 1--WE know tha5 autumn is here from the
fact that the swallow syndf3.tes discuss the ques-
ton when to hOmeward fly, and the yellow
pGtrpkins now dot the rural landscape like
golden fatmegs on the sands of Opbir,'
CONNECTICUT.
Joseph f. Sheffield, founder of the scientific
school at New Haven, is dangerously i'll.
Elizabeth Barnum, an elderly lady of Dan
bury, bung herself to 4 bedpOst Friday morn
inc,
Three prisoners escaped from the itchfeld
jail, Tuesday afternoon, by cutting out bar Of
Il window, and are now at large
David Wakeflsn, Il young man living I'D
Southport, while riding with his mother in
Bridgeport, Wednesday morning suddenly eX-
PRED. Heart disease was the canse of his death.
Thursday morning the Shore line freight train
struck q wagon containing Two ladies and boy,
at Blackst0uus crossing near Braniord. The
boys arm was broken, and the ladies badly
bruised, ii is feared injured internally.
The Norwich Bulletin says: bridgeport boys
have improved the old-fashiODed sport of bell
pulling. They construct an etiigy, set it up
against the door, pull the bell and run. The
domestic answers the call. and is frightened into
Mysteries, when the man falls down and Is
dragged round the corner"
A servant girl at S. c. Weeds, in New Ca
naan, procured through New York agency,
during the absence OF the family, recently stole
all the jewelry and otIIer vauables she could
lay her hands on, and then getting drunk on
port wine, departed She was captured aud
awaits trial.
Recently the officers of school district in
Windham drafted call for a school meeting,
writing it with purp e ink and signing it with
black. The notice was posted as usual, bus the
purple soon faded entirely out, leaving the sig
natures A citizen took down the notice, filled
out a draft for several hundred dollars over the
signatures and presented it. Although the money
was not demanded yet those committeeman will
hereafter use black ink.
Professor Marsh and the scientific party from
Yale college, have returned to Fort Bridger,
Wyoming territory, from the eastern Untah
Mountains, where they have spent the last five
weeks in geology and explorations. large
| collection Of extinct animal remains has been
| secured. The party leave on Friday, for Salt
| Lake City, and Will go through Idaho to south
| ern Oregon.
The Danbury News says: "a man hearing,
| Thursday afternoon, that there would be n
| heavy frost in the night which would ruin every
green thing, actually took up his carpet and put
| il on his fence, which partOok of that elegant
color. About two O'Clock i'll the morning he
suddenly awoke his wife by the startling an
nouncement My gracious, Jane, that carpet
was green one,' and was about to spring ont Of
bed to rectify the horrid mistake, when his
wife, who evidently shared his views of frost
prevailed upon him to keep in doors"
Lunatic asylums have been so accused il
newspapers, and novels, and magazines of false
ly imprsoning sane people, that the danger now
is that there will be too much laXity in dis
charging patients. HoratiO 7. Cook who blew
his house up and killed himSelfat NOrwalk, las
week, had been an inmate of the Hartford
Asylum, and had been let out Of that institu
ton either as cured or incurable. 1t is terri
bic crime to put sane man into an asylum fol
selfish and sinister purposes; but it is equally
culpabe for families from false feelings o
delicacy or pity, to permit crazy persons to re-
main at large.
Hartford is unfortunate in its post Office man
agement. The troubles with the late poStmas-
ter have alteady been recounted, and the fact o.
his being removed has been settled. The APP
pointment of Henry G. Beckwith was followed
by that gentleman's declination. Charles c
Cole also declined the position. The name o
| Col. John H. Durham has been forwarded t
the department, and he will probably receive the
! appointment, when it is hoped that the unfortu.
nate reputation of the office may be reclaimed
a1sn RI bo in ri rnI1 Ia.
towns in the state to-day The republicans c
Hartford have nominated VIM NJ. Hudson fol
town clerk, A Ign 5. Stillman, Samuel Hubbard
Mason Smith, Louis Gundlack and f. L. Ken
yon for selectmen. The democrats have select
ed a very weak ticket, says the CouTant. Lev
WoodhOuSe is put up for town clerk, Fred A
Marcy, Michael Donnelly, Louis Gundack, N
b. Stevens, Fred W. Cady, for selectmen. Ii
New Haven the democrats have cast over boarC
the old candidates and nominated new ones
who viii meet with strong opposition.
RHODE ISLAND.
The WOonsocket Patriot urges the completior
of "the much needed Woonsocket and PascoaI
railroad"
The excitement in relation to the small poX il
| Warren has been renewed to some extent, during
the past week, by the appearance of several new
cases of the disease. And yet, there is no Suff1
Gent reason for the slightest alarm among tn
people generally 1t is impossible that the dis
ease can prevail 10 any great extent after til
general vaccination that has been had there
, No individual has had the disease whose Yacci
, nation had been recently considered good by an.
respectable physician.
The Providence journal of Saturday says
9 The interest in vaccination on the part of tn
people seems to continue unabated, and this at
tords the sureSt guarantee, in fact the only guar
antee of any value that we shall escape sucl
: | frightiul mortality, as has occurred from small
poX in Lowell and in many other places durins
the past year. Some hundreds Of children an(
Others have been yaccinated, as we are informed
by physicians in the city, during the past week
, The office of the superintendent of health wa
crowded to suhocation on Saturday last, and w
: presume will be again to-day. To relieve thi
! pressure on Saturdays, that officer has held pub
! lie vaccinations on Thursday and Friday OF tb
, present week at the school-houses on Potter
avenue and on Greenwich street. and has yacci
mated about one hundred and thirty at thos
places. He proposes to continue this publ
vaccination, in addition to the weekly vaccina
ton at his office, at school-houses in differen
: parts of the city, until every individual in tn
city has had convenient opportunity to atten
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