Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-14

| a half miles south of Rutland, on the Rutland
railroad, between a wood train and mixed
| freight train. Six persons connected with the
wood train were seriously injured. Jenness,
the acting engineer of the train was probably
fatally injured.
CONNECTICUT.
North Haven has appropriated $4,000 to build
a town hall.
R. W. Whits, the governors private secretary,
had 5000 diamond pin stolen from him while
in New York, recently.
The remains of President Woosey's two
daughters who died at Jerusalem some weeks
ago, have reached New Haven.
Rev w. Z. Walker, of New Britain, has re-
| signed the pastorate of the Baptist church on
account of his need OF rest
The New Haven Lever, after Monday, the
| 18th, changes back to a morning paper, when
it will be enlarged and called the Elm City
| Press.
German, twenty-three years old, who had
been working for j. H. Schneider shoemaker
of Middletown, in fit Of dependency Thurs
day, committed suicide by cutting his throat
course OF entertainments is being arranged
in Waterbury for the benefit of Prof H. b. Buck
ham, who lost his library and other valuable
property at the late high school fire.
Some Yale students went to Stamford last
week to spend Sunday, and spent Saturday
night in breaking door bells, carrying off gates,
removing signs, etc. Their names are known,
and it is said warrants have been issued for their
arrest.
1heopolis Won Michaelowsky, an ex-army
officer and good scholar, who lived very high
and fast at Hartford some time ago and was
hauled up for obtaining money under false pre-.
fences, has just been pardoned after serving half
of his two years sentence.
Francis OCOnnel was arrested in New Haven,
Thursday, charged by young woman of Der
by, Mary J. Maher, seventeen years old, with
being the father Of her newborn babe. He re.
fuses to marry her, and stoutly denies the
charge. The affair is creating great excitement
in Derby.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Irish temperance society at Providence
has just received sixty-nine new members.
The transactions in printing cloths in the
Providence market for 1870 amounted to 5,54O,-
800 pieces, exceeding the sales of 1869 by ,S62-
800 pieces, and those of 1868 by S3S 900 pieces
The price OF sIxty-four squares opened at 81
cents-the highest price during the year-grad-
ualy declined till June when it touched the low
est point, 63 cents, and closed at It cents Sales
were reported every week during the year. the
smallest being made during the week ending
July 2, when $4,000 were reported sold and the
largest, during the week ending Nov. s, when
667 900 pieces were sold.
H. c. L. Dorsey, the eccentric "prisoners'
friend" of Pawtucket writes, concerning an
item which we copied from the Boston Herald
and credited TO that paper,-as follows: "ln an
article in your paper, it is stated that / have
made money by manufacturing and selling
chips, splits, counters and cards, used by sport
ing men, and that by this means l am enabled
to give dinners to convicts in some penitentiary.
have carried on the business of Sign and Or.
namental Painting, in this place for eleven
years, but never made, or kept for sale, single
one OF the articles mentioned in your paper.