Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-16

wlymon. M 80 mnnov dtm77jel. On r.
! insin 10 ave il ur h. was ;arown 10 the
ground, and the rascals Jumped into the wagon
and drove off. This is the story he tells, and he
| has put several detectives on the track.
Saturday night an inebriated Scotchman liv-
| ing in Waterbury, returned home from saloon
and accidentally fell from second-story win
dow striking verandah in his descent TO the
ground. His injuries proved fatal.
The I'd Connecticut heavy artillery start on
their excursion TO Richmond, Va, on Saturday
next, August 10th, for the purpose of visiting
the old battle grounds. They will spend ten
days on the trip
A Bridgeport family on Friday evening went
out to vista neighbor, and on returning found
out that thieves had entered their premises and
stolen large amount of jewelry and $40 in
greenbacks. The robbers proved 10 be four lit
tie boys, who were arrested
few years ago man came from England
and settled in New Haven. He soon after mar
ried, and is now the father of TWO children. He
was q little disturbed day or two ago by the ar
rival of a former wife and two other children.
The question will probably soon be aiSed as to
which woman is entitled to the man.
The Meriden chief of police forcibly entered
house in that city which has been closed for
several days, and the occupant of which, lady,
was supposed TO be inside. He found her upon
the floor insensibe, and PROSTATE with severe
illness, having been uncared for nearly week.
She was temporarily relieved.
There have been sixty applications for admis-
sion to the Yale theological seminary since the
than ever before known. There were only fifty
nine in the whole school last year.
On the occasion of the 95th birthday of Mrs
Sarah H. Smith of Southngton, the oldest per-
son in that place, grand celebration of old
folks was INDUCED in Sixty-one old people,
ranging in age from 60 to 95 years, were present,
the aggregate of their ages being 1916 years, an
each Among
exhibition was a clock 100 years old, spinning
wheel-a wheel for spinning tow-an old
wooden cider bottle, $50 years old, belonging to
the father of Mrs. Smith, Peter Hall, an ancient
wagon seat, etc.
A butcher in Bridgeport has little son three
and half years old, and recently presented him
with young goat The boy had been in the
habit occasionally of accompanying his father
10 the slaughter, and witnessing the process of
killing and dressing cattle for the market. The
little fellow would frequently seize the animals
by the horns in their last moments, and hold
fast during the struggles. The other day he
took advantage of his fathers absence from the
market TO do little butchering on his own aC-
count. Calling the goat he slung it across his
knee, and, seizing huge knife, he drew it across
the animals throat, cutting a frightful cash,
which nearly severed its head from the body
There, said the young butcher, as he stepped
back from the scene of blood and looked on
with the utmost complacency, "nOw kick" A
few kicks, gasp or two, and the goat lay dead
at the feet of the bloodthirSty little wretch.
RHODE ISLAND.
No successor to President Caswell has been as
yet elected.
Capt. John NJ. Knowles has been elected chief
of police, in Providence, in place of the late
Chief Gross, deceased.
Over sixty applicants for admission to the
normal school have already been enrolled.
Dedicatory exercises will be held at normal
hall, on Wednesday, September 9Th, at ten
o'clock A. M. Short addresses may be expected
from several gentlemen connected with the edu-
cational interests of the state.