Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-13

| farmers who were engaSpE on their lots in get
| ting up their fuel, andAnot to persons engaged
in logging in the woods.
| Moses Richardson, of fremont, has chail
one hundred and eleven years old-odd looking
with back and arms which extend around
three corners, leaving one corner to sit on
There is quite romance connected Herewith
the chair having been rescued from a sinking
snip IN mid ocean, and presented TO a Miss
smith, Just one hundred years ago, as an en
gagement gift, by Mr.. John Rich, who afterwart
became possessed of Miss Smith and her chair
enjoying many fine Setting therein.
In Milford, a day or two since, Edward X
Longley fell on a circular saw in rapid motion
cutting frightful cash nearly foot in length
| over his right hip, extending TO the lower par
OF the abdomen, and penetrating nearly through
its muscles. A knife in his pantaloons pocke
caught between tooth of the saw and the table
| thus stopping the saw, and saving him from be.
ing severed in twain, As it is, had the saw cu
| the least distance deeper the wound must have
| resulted in speedy death.
Mrs. Stoves "Uncle Toms Cabin was wholly
| prepared for the press in a little wooden house
| in Maine, from week to week, while the story
| was coming out in a Washington newspaper
Most of it was written by the evening lamp on
| pine table, about which the children of the
| family were gathered together coming their va.
| nous lessons for the next day. Amid the busy
| mum of earnest voices, constantly asking ques
\ AOho VI iiC IuOluNls lubCnl vi llGI NOElu-lE-
nowned task, Mrs. Stowe wove together those
thrilling chapters which were destined to find
readers in so many languages throughout the
| globe.
Kittery navy yard items: The United States
| steamship Wyoming will come out of the dry
dock in few days, having been repaired, and
the Tuscarora 90 in.-The citizens rejoice at the
passage of the bill TO restore Naval Constructor
VIM. L. HanscOm to the service. He was born
and learned the trade of shipbuilder on the
banks of the Piscataqua, and is highly esteemed
as gentleman and a naval archi ect. Both
MIR. Hanscom and Admiral Porter were former.
ly attached TO this yard, and, in any contest be-
tween them, Mr.. Hanscom would have the Kit
terry people largely on his sde.-The amount of
the Tuscarora payroll was thirty thousand dol
rs.-Commander C. Z. Carpenter, recently al
tached to this yard, is ordered to the command
Of the Narragansett.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Nashua claims the largest bookstore in New
England, outside of Boston.
1t cost Christopher Hart, of Concord, S65 to
sell glass of liquor The amount was assessed
by the justice of the police court.
Richard b. Kimball, of New York, is to be the
orator before the Dartmouth alumni at the next
commencement.
Levi Whiting, stage driver between Laconia
and Alton, had his hands, feet and face badly
frozen on the 4th inst.
The G. A. R. of Concord are 10 perform
drama next week entitled "Ghe Old Flag; or
the Spy of Newburne"
Three-fourths of the people of Enfield Centre
are dependent on their neighborS for water on
account of the drought.
Murphy, recently acquitted in the Plaistow
murder case, is in Jail for thirty days, because
he hadn't SO with which to pay a fine for get
ting drunk.
The general outlook for the republicans
throughout the state is favorable, and nothing
but earnest work is needed to make certain
handsome victory.
A few days since hound belonging to Geo.
Lock, of Hopkinton, got within a rod or less of
fox, when the latter plunged into an open
place in the ice on mill pond and went under.
The dog wasn't to be outdone, and went after
the fox. The pond has not been dragged.
The directors of the Concord railroad have or
dered five new passenger cars of the most ap-
proved pattern, also new passenger and freight
engines, and sixty new merchandise cars. The
board have other important improvements un-
der consideration.
Moves C. Hill, of Wilmot Flat, while at work
in the woods on the 10th, with his father had a
heavy log roll on him, terribly crushing one of
bis legs and bruising his body in various places.
The homes of the broken limb came out through
the tesh. The unfortunate man was taken home
and medical aid summoned, and there are hopes
of his recovery.
The headquarters of the republican state COM
| mittee have been established at the Eagle hotel
| Concord. The general work of the campaign is
| now fairly under way, and arrangements for
public speakers will soon be made. For the
present all matters of business and correspond
ence relating TO the campaign will be attended
TO by the secretary, B. +. Prescott.
A Mount Washington letter reports that on
Thursday forenoon while the thermometer indi-
Gated fourteen below zero and the wind was
blowing at the high rate of seventy-fiye miles
per hour, Professor Huntington went down
the mountain some distance TO splice the tele-
graph wire, which had broken, and he was COM
PEELED TO make six journeys down from the
depot before the damage was repaired. Some
OF the parties have descended the mountain
| about once week, and the mails have gone up
| from the lower world with corresponding regu-
larity.
West Randolph letter to the Boston Journal
| says: I'VE have not had snow enough this win
ter for good sleighng; it seems odd TO see in
this usually snowy country people on wheels as
in midsummer"
On the sth, Justice Chadwick of West Rut-
land and Charles w. Boyce of West BrookfeId
were hunting foxes. The two were walking
together, when Mr.. Chadwick slipped on the ice,
bringing his dOuble-baueled shot gun, heavily
loaded with buckshot, in such position, by the
hammers striking on the ice, that both barrels
were discharged, killing Mr.. Boyce instantly
Mr. B0yce was man forty years of age, and
leaves a wife and three children.
CONNECTICUT.
The twenty-ifth Connecticut regiment will
hold its next reunion at Hartford, April IA.
All but half a mile of the track of the Derby
railroad has been laid.
James Ryan, Of Stamford, accidentally shot
his thumb off recently, and died two days after
ward from tctanus.
1t is not yet believed at Willimantic that Nc
| Mel, of the firm OF Snow & McNiel, had hand
| in the recent embeZzlement.
The largest shaft ever made at the Bridge
water iron works is now being forged. 1t VIII
weigh when finished thirty-two tons, and is to
cost 81 900.
The Saugatuck Valley railroad has frozen up
| for the present. The engineers have sent in a
report that it will cost $780, more to build the
west route than the east.
MIR. and Mrs. Leete, on Leete's island, near
Guilford, live in house built by Mr.. Leete's
ancestors in 1876, and which shows scars left by
British bullets.
stakeholder in a manufacturing company
at New Haven has realized $500, 900 from his in
Vestment of $4,000 twenty-five years ago. and it
is paying well yet.
mail bag from New Haven TO Milford was
thrown from the baggage car Thursday, and fall
| ing upon the track, was run over by the train
and completely used up.
The efforts of the fish commissioners to stock
the Thames and its headwaters with salmon are
progressing with very prospect of success. The
ova were obtained from New Brunswick.
One of the sensations of the W EEK at New
couple who obtained divorce about a year
ago.
What draws us to France, in this her hour
| OF peril! shouted an orator in Newtown, Fri
day night tits plaster-of-Paris, was the con-
| ddent response from back scar,
More ladies have been insulted in the streets
| OF Bridgeport by wanton rascals. The papers
always say "the offender is well known, /" but we
never hear of any arrests.
Three canal boats from Canada, bringing 5000
| tons of British cannon, with some old shot and
shell, to be used in the foundry at Ansonia,
have arrived at Bridgeport harbor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitney and their children of
Stamford, were recently stricken down with
"trichina spiralis," according TO the physicians
of the place, after eating some raw ham.
A portrait OF President Woolsey of Yale col
ege, drawn on paper by blackened poker is
edi wing the New Haveners. The name of the
artist is not given, but he is undoubtedly an
| adept at draw poker.
The Congregational society of Stafford is rails
ing funds to build parsonage. The sum pro-
posed to be expended is $4,000, of which 5000 is
already subscribed, two names on the list being
| pledged for $1,000 each
| Charles Kenyon, of Willimantic, has the