Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-22

Of general interest and happiness to members of
the orner.
For year or more the farmers and hen fam
ciers in Nashua and vicinity, have been greatly
annoyed by thieves, whose boldness at times
has been equal TO that of ''Dick Turpin" One
night last week Amasa Esty, of Merrimack,
missed fourteen choice Drama fowls, and il han.
pening during the storm, and consequently at a
time when the earth was soft, he traced the
track of horse TO the house of Frank Smith,
and from thence to Charles Farwells, both on
the Concord road, where he discovered the
feathers of his bipeds. Continuing the track, it
led him 10 Lowell, where he found his poultry
for sale. The unsuspecting thieves returned to
Nashua, where they were "gobbed up" by the
police, and, in default of bail to the amount of
$500 each to appear at the September term OF
the superior court, they were sent to Jail. The
penalty is not less than three years in state
prison.
A Middletown letter says: "Any one would
naturally think that serving sentence in prison
would blunt the finer feelings which prisoner
| NAV have possessed. But this is not so in every
| instance A prisoner who had served his time
and was set at liberty entered the house of
person he had formally known, and as the fam
lily were eating dinner, the released convict, OBJ
serving platter of tempting-looking soup, said,
with modest air: Mr.. -, | want some of
that soup, but won't ask you for any if | don't
ever have any This shrinking diffidence or
bashfulness on his part had the desired effect,
ana Tue soup WIS llHIueulately forthcoming.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the shore line railroad company was held in
New Haven, Monday, and the following gem
tlemen were elected directors for the year en-
suing: Serene NJ. Scranton, Madison; Simeon
B. Crittenden, New York; Cornelius S. Bush
nell, New Haven; Charles G. Landon, New
York; Edward Ingraham, New Haven; James
NJ. Townsend, New Haven; A. N. Ramsdell,
New London. AT subsequent meeting of the
directors the following officers were chosen:
Serene II. Scranton, president; Simeon b.
Crittenden, yice-president; Edward S. Scranton,
secretary, treasurer and transfer agent. div
idend of three and three.quarters per cent was
declared, payable Monday, Julyn3d, 1871.
Wilson, the state prison murderer, having
failed to secure sympathy or aid by his sensa-
tional and decidedly STACEY" performances, has
evidently concluded to follow the example of
Rullotf and discuss ethics. He argues that
wickedness is inherent in mankind That to
sin is natural to the human race. He said all
boys are natural thieves Their theving pro-
pensltles crop out in every conceivable form.
Some confne themselves TO stealing fruit from
orchards and stores; while others steal from
their parents, and still others rob the money till
OF their employers. He speaks from his own ex-
perience! He claims that the only difference
between himself and those who are accounted
honest, is that at the point where most of the
boys, as the result of good teaching at home,
turn off from the natural bent of their inclina-
tons and strive to become honest; he didn't;
that's ALL He cannot see any difference between
himself and those who turned off from the
wicked road in season to escape the punishment
he has endured and what he has yet to suffer.
CONNECTICUT.
The starting of a daily paper is talked of in
Middletown.
A man named Bonnar fell from New Haven
steamboat Sunday, while intoxicated, and was
drowned.
A large land turtle, whose shell bore the in
ScriDtlOn " A ID 1872 ~ SfOuOd in WalliDnfOrd
recently.
The town and first church of Winchester, will
celebrate their joint centennial on the 10th and
18th of August.
j. r. Atwater of Wallingford, commander of
Z. A. X. Post No SO, and formerly a member of
the 18th c. v, died on Saturday from disease
contracted while in service
Mayor Brandegee's proclamation brings ter.
ror to the Sunday rum sellers of New London,
some OF whom have been doing very profitable
business on that day.
AT New London fight occurred on one of the
wharves Monday night, btweeen two men. One
OF the combatants lost diamond pin during
the melee, by third psrty who interfered, and
snatched it from his shirt bosom.
The Norwich Bulletin says: "a Bridgeport
lady, who had recently purchased some valua-
Die Jewelry, took care to let the fact be known,
and the consequence was that an attempt was
made Saturday night to burglarize the house.
The lady, hearing the robbers, leaped from
bed, and being very corpulent person shook
the house from garnet to cellar, awakening a
man on the lower floor, who arose, and the in
truders hastily retreated."
A remarkable gathering of aged masonS took
place at Birmingham on Saturday afternoon, a
special communication of King Hiram lodge
No. II, with large number of delegates from
the masonic bodies of New Haven, being held
for the purpose of giving to the aged brethren
OF adjacent towns an opportunity to witness the
work" which had not been seen by some of
them for twenty or thirty years.
As the Naugatuek train was leaving Bridge
port Friday evening, passenger stepped upon
the platform of the rear car while crossing a
bridge, and elevated a "litte brown Jug" TO his
lips. sudden swaying of the car threw him
overheard and he lodged in the mud below, up
to his neck. The police rescued him.
James Poole, the boy now in Hartford Jail
awaiting trial for attempted rape on the daugh,
ter of George Leete, is very respectfully con-
nected in Enfield. Several years ago he served
part of term in the state reform school, and
the papers were made out to send him there q
second time, but his mother prevented his re-
turn there by spriting him away, and keeping
him among some friends in New Jersey for a
long time.
RHODE ISLAND.
A gentleman from New York who was in
Providence, the other day, was SO anxious to
visit Newport that he paidfifty dollars for tug
BOAT to take him down there. Ifhe had reached
the wharf only short time previous he could
have saved torty-nine dollars and fifty cents
On Tuesday morning, the brig Nelly GAY
| bound for Cumana Bay, in search of millions Of
| long buried gold, was towed out of Providence
| horbor, very large number of citizens assem-
bling on the wharf TO see her off. Nearly score
OF ladies were on board and went down the har-
Dor, to return on the tug-boat.
The main subject of agitation in Providence
now seems to be whether man can sell cotton
short, and still be Christian. The Journal
admits articles on the question from writers of
all shades OF opinions, and the discussion grows
warm.
Rev. Oliver C. Wiggin, formerly milk in
spector, OF Providence, bears the following
testimony to the value of milk: The nu-
tritive value of milk, as compared with
other Kinds o! animal food is not generally ap-
preciated. There is less difference between the
economical value of milk and beefsteak, or eggs
or fish, than is commonly supposed The
quantity of water in good quality of milk is
81 per cent, in round steak IS per cent in fat
ter beef, so per cent in eggs about IS per cent.
From several analysis, made last winter, esti-
mated sirloin steak, reckoning loss from bone
at 10 cents pound, as dear as milk at "a cents
quart; round steak at 20 cents a pound. as
dear as milk at 20 cents quart. Many laborers
VINO pay IL cents for corned beef would con-
slder themselves hardly able to pay ten cents
1or mix, when, in fact, they could as well af-
ford TO pay Is cents. Milk is the most whole
some and economical food for either rich or DOOR
1t ought to be more largely used. If the money
expended for veal and pork were expended for
milk, doubt not il would be an advantage to
both the stomach and pocket, especially during
the warm season.