Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-22

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will cost over $4,000.
bill authorizing the consolidation of the
New York and New Haven and Hartford and
New Haven railroads, was presented in the house
Friday,
Judge Sumner has bound over Edward Saun-
ders, OF New Britain, accused of incest, to the
superior court for trial, under 81 900 bonds
The testimony was of the most revolving char
acter.
The woods on Green mountain, Cornwall,
caught fire from an engine on the Housatonc
road, on Saturday week, and nearly all were
burned. The mountain Saturday night was
perfect mass OF flame, and presented magnlfl-
cent appearance
The friends of the late Fitz Greene Halleck,
one of the few Connecticut poets whose names
have an enduring place in literature, nave SET
on foot subscription for a full length statue OF
| him, a site for which has already oeeh selecteo
in Central park, New York.
At Hartford on Friday evening, an order was
| established consisting of gentlemen OF British
| origin, and called the "Allredians.' Its object
| is TO draw into closer bonds of fellowship all
people of that origin. This is comparatively
| new ORDER the first brigade being established in
Boston.
A New Haven paper says "there is a horse
| chestnut tree in front of the old General Green
place. on Water street, which blossoms only on
the north side one year and the south side the
next, while every seventh year it blossoms freely
on all its branches" This year the blossoms
are on the south side.
Gurdon Kimball, one of the oldest and most
esteemed citizens of New London, died on We'd
nesday at the residence of his daughter in Ches.
terrified, where he has been residing temporarily
He was in business on Church street for sixty
one years in succession, and his business career
dates back of 1905.
z. W. Calei, over eighty years old, was found
dead in bed at Easthampton, Wednesday, where
he had gone TO spend q few weeks on the old
homestead. Mr. ('alpf left Rnctnn a
He was soldier of the war 1912, and only a few
weeks since received his pension papers, but had
received no benefit from them. He had resided
in Easthampton many years and was highly re-
spected.
AT the recent session of the grand lodge |, O,
o. F., in New Haven, measures were adopted
which will tend to the revival of Odd Fellowship
in the state, and efforts will be made by the eX-
| ecutive council to cause defunt lodges TO reclaim
| their charters and resume work. AT the present
| time there are in the state twenty-seven lodges
| OF 3029 members, with a fund of 1000, having
| expended during the last year for relief over
| S11 ,000 The next session will be held a year
| from this time in Bridgeport.
Both houses of the Legislature have adjourned
| to Tuesday. large number of petitions, reso-
lutons, bills, ETC., are now in the hands of the
committees, and the more important committees
will hereafter have ample opportunity for work
Notwithstanding the fact that the third week of
the session has passed without making the
usual progress in general business, the session
can be kept within the ordinary length if the
committee work is pushed and reports promptly
made and acted upon. Several reports were
made in the senate on Friday.
The Legislature has appointed a committee TO
procure some speckled trout from a favored To-
cality way down in Maine" to be cooked for
the use of that august body of Connecticut law
makers. The Hartford Courant has but one
criticism on the matter. Itclaims that the reso-
lation is incomplete, inasmuch as it does not
provide tor subcommittee to dig angle
worms.
While Barnum's menagrie was at New Brit
am, the elephant gave an exhibition not on the
bills. Early Sunday morning the huge animal
escaped and thrust its head through Ralph
Kents barn door. Finishing his explorations
here, he went to the house and there put his i'm
pudent trunk through the open window of a
sleeping room, making circus of the interior
arrangements to the CONSERVATION of its occu-
pants. The keeper was sent for and finally
coaxed him away. Mr.. Kent instituted legal
measures and received a satisfactory sum for
damages and costs.
The South Norwalk Sentinel tells a romantic
story Of young lady who some months ago
was employed as a hat trimmer in a manufac-
tory of that city. One day being more than
usually disguised with her tedious and prosaic
occupation, on the impulse Of the moment she
wrote her name and address upon the lining of
a hat which she had finished and patiently
Others, was sent off to the Grade" and finally
purchased by young New Yorker who CHANGED
10 discover the name upon the lining. Being of
romantic turn of mind he wrote to the Young
Lady, an intimacy followed, and the upshot was
the marriage oil the two last week.
RHODE ISLAND.
). 5. Foss has resigned the position of presi-
dent of the commission on inland fisheries of
Rhode Island. He has rendered most efficient
service in that position.
+ba A.
consin, which sailed from New York, Wednes-
day, for Liverpool, were ex-Gov. Elisha Over
and wife, of Providence.
gentleman of Woonsocket, has presented
the Methodist church of that place, with a large
organ from the mandatory of Messrs Hook,
of Boston.
Hon. Thomas A. Doyle, of Providence. having
resigned his position as a member of the board
of state charities and corrections, Hon. E. d,
Pearce, of East Providence, has been appointed
to fill the vacancy.
Agnes Lewis, the young girl sixteen years
old who has this year plowed 100 acres of land
on her fathers ranch, near Antioch, California.
is cousin of Ida Lewis, the Grace Darling Of
Newport
Block island is rendered lively by work on
the breakwater. On a recent night seven YES
sells were in the bay at once, waiting TO be nm.
loaded. -Four finished unloading that night,
and three the next day. AT least one thousand
tons were unloaded in twenty-lour hours
The Woonsocket Patriot says that on the 18th
instant, son of Samuel Tabor shot upon his
farm, near Slatersville, a magnificent specimen
of the American eagle. 1t measured seven feet
and one inch across the wings, and weighed
eight and half pounds. The full grown male
bird often reaches double this weight.
The occupants of a house on Mary street,
| Newport, were somewhat frightened, recently,
| over what came near being a conflagration. A
child about five years old was missing, search
| was made for her, aed when found she was en-.
| Joying herself in the attic over nice warm fire
which she had built b chair, in the absence of
stove. large quantity OF combustible mat
ter was scattered abdp the attic, including sew
eral baskets of feathHrs. In a moment more the
fire would have bee1 beyond control, and the
house must inevitably have burned.