Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-18

ana DauIN Duft,
The South church at Hartford has hired n
guartette of male voices.
Q. b. Booth Co.'s store, in New Milford was
robbed OF II 900 worth Of dry goods, Tuesday
night. No clue TO the thieves
An uncomfortable tenant, ten-inch lizard
was recently elected by medical measures from
the stomach If a New Milford woman
j. L. Northrop, of Sherman, has been nomi-
mated by the republicans of the eleventh district
for the state senate.
A human skeleton was found in New Milford,
IN the woods near GaYlord'S bridge Saturday.,
1t is supposed to be that of a man named
Barnes, who mysteriously disappeared from that
vicinity two years ago.
The dreful effects of intemperauce are welf
Illustrated in the case of Daniel Vredenburg, a
workman in the gun shop at Bridgeport, who
suddenly dropped dead on Tuesday having been
in an almost unbroken state of intoXicaton for
the last five weeks.
A part of a knife blade has been taken from
Frenchman'S throat, in Kent. He was stabbed
in the back of the neck some ten months ago.
The blade broke off in the wound, but it healed
over, and nothing was thought OF the piece of
steel until it worked out in front
NOrwak has received 3S2 applications to be
made electors, about 100 more than have ever
been made before in the town al one election.
rhe number of republican applicants is largely
i'm excess of democratic.
Rev. Dr. c. X. True, financial agent of Wes-
leyan "MiddletOwn" university, promises to be
successful in the plan he proposed at the last
commencement for raising a $4,000 endow
ment by securing contributions of $40 each an
nually for five years from 5000 persons, having
already secured nearly 500 subscribers.
middle-agcd man named VIM. Mccarthy,
who has been employed in the paper mill at
Windsor Locks, fell into the canal at that place
on the night of the 18th, about midnight, and
was drowned. The body was recovered the next
Nbnrp a mr.
CURED. The deceased leaves a wife and seven
children, in destitute circumstances.
The meeting at the court room in the state
house at Hartford, on the evening of the 18th,
to consult upon measures to secure funds for
monument in honor of the late DR.. Horace
Wells, the discoverer of an@sthesia, was. fully
attended Gen. Hawley presided and earnest
remarks were made by Rev. DR.. Bushnell, Hon.
VIM. j. Hamersley, and Drs. jackson. Riggs,
Stearns, McManus, and others. A committee
was appointed to take the matter in charge.
An exchange says:-The Bridgeport Farmer
publishes in the same issue two communications
on the subject of negro voting. The first &C.
cnpies column, and undertakes to Drove that
the negro has no right TO vote at the coming
election, and ought not to be admitted as an
elector; the second is addressed to "0ur Col
ored Voters, and is an attempt TO induce that
class of citizens to vote the democratic ticket.
Admirable productions, both; but TO a man
up tree they look to be a little too close to-
gether.
There are in the town of Hartford one hun
dred individuals, firms or corporations that nav
taxes on over $4,000 and under 100000; fifty
seven on over 100000 and under 5000 600; seven
on upwards of 5000 900 and less than 5000 900:
four on more than 100000 and less than $780,
900; two on more than 100000 and under
100000; one on upwards Of 100000 and I'M
der 81 100000, and one corporation Colts Pa
tent Arms company on upwards of 81 100000.
The Hartford Post says: "Mai. Gen. McCord,
who has for several years sat serenely on the
fence and accepted office with the utmost i'm
Partially from both sides, has come down and
promised TO vote the democratic ticket. 1t is
believed that he will take over to the democratic
side all the state militia the soldiers of the war
OF 1872, the Grand Army of the Republic the
remnant of the Pequot tribe, and the Preston
drum band. There was great enthusiasm when
he went over, and Maj. Gen. James b. Colt
made speech"
The boys on Long wharf, New Haven, have a
novel way of getting molasses into their stom-
achs. They take a long string, dip ii into the
moasses, and putting one end between their
teeth, swallow the rest. After calmly enjoying
| the delicious sweetness awhile, they take hold
of the end of the string and pull it gently out,
and repeat the operation.
| Nearly all the six car loads of cattle brought
| from Albany over the HoIsatonic railroad, I'M
loaded at Milford and distributed in New Mil
| ford, Bridgewater, RoXbury and Warren, have
| come down with the cattle disease At Bridge.
water few native cattle have caught the infec-
ton, but the commissioners expect by isolation
to prevent its further spread. 1t is believed that
the cattle yards and cars at Albany are still in
fected.
The Bridgeport Standard saws: "Another
stroke of i'll luck has befallen the New Haven
and Derby railroad. The pier of the bridge over
the Naugatuck river near Derby has cracked
badly, owing to the heavy pressure of water
consequent upon the late rains, or some other
cause. 1t is feared the pier is damaged so as to
necesstate the building of another The rain
OF Saturday night and Sunday has swollen the
Naugatuck river so that the water is even with
the banks"
RHODE ISLAND.
Many of the first families of Providence will
S0Iourn IN Europe during the summer, instead
OF boarding at fashionable watering-place.
The Providence Press of the 18th SAYS: owe
stated Yesterday that George James, recently in
dlcted Tor burglary IN Kent county, was the
brother of Silas James. This was a mistake
George being a brother OF Charles T. James.
Silas never had brother, but has a sister re-
siding in this CITY,"
In speech in the legislature, on the 18th; on
the prohibition question, Hon. G. N Bliss said
he believed that nine-tenths of the members of
the Temple of Honor in the state were opposed
to the passage of the law, for the reason that it
would not promote temperance. He believed in
total abstinence for the individual, and moral
suasion to promote temperance; that the great
est aid 10 the cause of temperance would be to
make drinking questionable, which the tenn
perance societies are fast doing. The bill was
indefinitely postponed by large majority.
Two of the candidates of the democratic party
in the state,-Col. Thomas Steere, nominated
for governor, aud Capt. George n Bliss, nomi-
mated for attorney general,-furnish examples
of rare cases among Rhode Island soldiers, mas
much as they fought in the army, enlsting as
democrats, and retaining their political faith
after the close of the war. Their former polti-
cal associates who served in the army, including
many prominent gentlemen, are many of them
now in the ranks of the republican party. Both
were brave and efficient officers, both have
served in the state legislature, and both are
known as able and accomplished gentlemen.