Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-26
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

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near Portsmouth. Glaring eyes, long hair ant
very agile set Of heels is the description.
A Young wife recently came to East Canaan
ia search of her husband who went after the
cows one evening and forgot TO come back. She
discovered that he had bought ticket for the
far west.
Chas. f. T. Gealin of Portsmouth, who has
been missing for several weeks, has turned up al
the Buffalo insane asylum. How he got there
is not vet known.
At meeting Of the trustees of the state libra
| ry on saturday morning, the resignation OF w.
4 kimball, librarian, was accepted, and Michael
Gilmore of Concord was appointed librarian in
his place.
A meeting of citizens of Portsmouth, to dis
cuSs the proposed Portsmouth and Dover rail-
road, was held at the court house on Saturday
evening, Alderman Fernald presiding. There
was n large attendance and great interest is
manifested in the question. Andrew j. Pen
| hallow and John X. Rcding made speeches
against the city's aiding the project, and Alder
man Albert Il. Hatch ,gwho is elected one of the
| directors of the road, spoke very forcibly in
favor of il. Mr.. Hatch thought that much of
| the onposition to the down road comes from the
Boston and Maine Ii is believed thai the bill
will pass the council, but Dover is considered
| doubtful.
The state fair will open at Dover to-day, and
| the prospect is now promising for successful
| exhibition. Large entries are already reported
| OF cattle, horses, sheep, swine and poultry Col.
Frank Jones, Of Portsmouth,, will exhibit his
! famous Durham steers which weigh six thou
sand pounds. He viii also exhibit several of
! his horses, which were sired by the famous Fear
naught. c. II. Hayes, F. W. Miller, j. NJ. Weare,
| W. F. Parker, and Robert Elwell, will also make
fine display. j. S. Pierce, under the auspices
of the society, will erect tent upon the grounds
| 100 feet in diameter, which will furnish accom-
| modationS for thousand persons to dine at one
| time. On Thursday, Hon. j. Stanton Gould, of
| Cornell university, win deliver the annual adj
| dress Weston and staff limited Sfnfps
| Senators Patterson and Cragin, eX-Gove:Dors
Smythe, Stearns and Hartman, and many other
prominent gentlemen are expected to be present,
The music VIII be furnished by the Dover band.
VERMONT.
The Sudbury farmers union will hold its sixth
annual meeting at Sudbury, Sept. &c.
Burglars made an extensive raid on West
| Rutland, recently, entering and robbing in
| large number of houses.
Five young ladies have been admitted to the
| university of Vermont. The advent of the la
dies at chapel exercises created quite a fiutter
| among the gallant sophomores.
Some Scoundrel took from the stable of d. II.
Sabin, in Wallnglord, his fine horse and
| chained him to the railroad track, the other
day. The horse was killed, but the train was
not thrown from the track.
The Rutland Herald says: "The annual con-
venton OF the national organization of French
Canadians, assembled at Worcester. The dele
gates from st. Adams are eX-President Antoine
AOuSSHllt anu NJ. fIcu I1Ouut, TGudHUeuT OIL
lie Protector C0nddieH We understand that
the other French societies of the state received
no notification of the convention, and therefore
are not represented"
The second regiment of the Vermont voun-
teer militia has been organized by the choice of
the following officers: Colonel, John S. Tup-
per- of Montgomery; lieutenant colonel, Ed
ward N. Dean, Of Springfield; major II. +.
Pettengil, of North Troy; adutant A. ]. Rob-
bins, of Mortified; quartermaster, II. L. Ben
son, of Springfield; chaplain, the Rev, j. Ed
ward Wright of Montpelier; surgeon, DR.. j.
H. Hamilton, of Richiord; assistant surgeon,
4. Z. Drew, of North Troy.
All the insured parties who suffered by the
recent fire at St. Adams, with two or three eX-
ceptions, have been settled with, and those two
or three are getting ready. The companies rep
resented by Mr.. Hills one agency have thus far
paid about S1S,700, divided as follows: Ena,
SS315.54; Hartford, S2775.75; Home (about),
$1,000; Insurance company, of North America,
| $3.50; Imperial, $3.50; Roger Williams, $500.
| CONNECTICUT.
A convent is to be established in Meriden
| Edward Laid, saloon keeper, committed sui
| eide at Baltic, Thursday, by taking laudanum
| The effects of the delunct home insurance
| company Of New Haven were sold at auction
| last week.
| They arc having more spiritual manifestations
at the old Arcade building in Stafford Hollow,
| formerly notorious in this line.
K. Cook Sons axle factory with Moore &
Clark's bolt factory, at Winsted, was burned
| last week. Loss $4,000; well insured.
| John Moore was killed and Geo. Clark terri
| bly, injured at the Higganum moving machine
works Thursday, by the falling of derrick.
As an indication Of the extent Of the paper
| box manufacture in Danbury this season, is
| tue tact that twenty-five tons of paper board
arrived there in one day of last week
| thomas NOOnOn was crushed in a horrible
manner by the fall of large pile of lumber, at
Birmingham last week. He lived only an hour
after being eXhicated from the ruins.
The case of the democrat Baron Schliegel of
New Haven, charged with fraudulent voting has
been continued to the next term of the United
| States circuit court.
Bids for 81 100000 bonds of the Connecticut
Valley railroad were opened on Saturday. The
amount of the proposals is SOB 000 of which
$4,000 are accepted at 80 and accrued inter
est.
few nights since doctor in New London
was called up late at night to dress the wounds
of man whose name and locality must not
be known. The physician was bindfOlded
and rowed TO vessel, where he found a man
horribly beaten and wounded. He attended to
him, was paid, and was rowed back to the office.
There are now about 900 members of the
Danbury Good Samaritan society. When the
number attains thousand the association will
march through the streets and stopping before
every saloon demand the suppression of the
sale of liquor therein.
James G. Vallett, of Sprague, caught a fox
one day last week, and presented the same to
the town treasurer, who cut Off its ears and
paid the two dollars bounty as the law directs.
The fox was let loose and a number of hounds
put on IFS track. The chase was spirited one
for few moments, but the odds were against
| poor Reynard, and he had TO Succumb
The grand jury at New Haven found true
bill on Thursday against Mrs. Lydia Sherman
OF Derby, the modern BOrgia," charged with
poisoning her husband at Derby; and she was
remanded for trial at the next term of court
which will begin the first week in October. They
failed to indict Frank Blake, charged with the
murder Of Matthew Fem at Milford, and he
was discharged.
New London has voted G64 yeas to 247 navs
on the water question That city may therefore
eXpectin few months to have good and rem
erous supply of the healthy beverage Richard
| A. Chapel was chosen as one Of the water com
mlssloners. Joshua Z. Learned is also a mem
| Der of the same board.
The Bridgeport Standard is responsible for
the following: cine other day three wears Old
| child in one OF our Bridgeport families was
| slightly punished for some trivial offence, and
| commenced crying About the same time its
| little baby brother, aged ten months fell over
| on the floor, and he began to cry too, The
three years old ceased suddenly turned to its
| brother, and said, Baby, you stop that scream
ing, am crying now and then Immediately
commenced to cry again"
q. NJ. Ferguson, who has amassed a fortune
| A'T'i"S /,
and who was arrested last June, and sentenced
to the extent of the law, appealed at that time
to the higher court, which has let him off with
sIOO and week s Imprisonment. New Haven
is indignant, and no wonder Ferguson hmm
IDENTIFY boosted on the cards with which he adj
vertised his villainous business that he gnaran
teed his patrons against interference on fhe mart
of the police. pau
singular accident occurred in Waterburv
| few days ago. L. S. Blackman a carnenyyer
while exploring the ruins of the flask and can
company for piece of timber be wished to ,ISi
stepped on quantity OF illuminate used in the
manufacture Of caps, aud as a consequence his
right foot was badly shattered by the eyploSion
and the great toe was almost entirely Torn az
His leg was acerated from the knee to ,ba sm,
kle, but the surgeon will probably save if
Blackman was wounded in Che lett leo at +bc
battle Of Winchester, where he was figbtiuG
with the 18th G. V.
The Danbury News says: Gan old lady on
Main street read somewhere that, when a per.
son was bitten by dog the tooth shat inflicted
the wound SHOULD be extracted from the CANNES
Jaw, creased well, aGd then hung up in the fire
place This done, the wounded person would
never go mad. The other day her little dor
drew lew drops of her blood, and a tootbist
was immediately called in but nnt ho;,,r -;