Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

! is little higher than the average for the last
| twenty years, that average being 100 7-10, and
| lower than the average for the last ten years,
| that being 1854.
traveller on the New York and New Haven road
| ''what kind of springs do they use~ Sarato-
go Springs" replied his facetious companion
al have heard of them," rejoined the rural
traveller, in gratifed manner.
Mrs. Elizabeth l.. c. Dixon, the wife of the
Hon. James Dixon, died at the family residence,
in Hartford, Friday, June 49, at five O'Clock
| in the afternoon. This announcement will carry
sadness to many hearts, for Mrs. Dixon was
well known TO many persons in this country and
in Europe During residence in Washington
| of sixteen years, while her husband was in pub
lie life, she made large number of friends who
| will mourn her loss.
A New Haven paper says: ut is gratifying
to know that the prostitution business, so openly
carried on all last winter, has almost entirely
disappeared. All the notorious haunts are
closed, and whatever is now done in this shame.
full business is done with the utmost secrecy and
caution"
Books for subscriptions TO the stock of the
Meriden and Cheshire railroad company were
opened at Meriden on Thursday. A town meet
ing at Cheshire on Wednesday, at which the &C.
tion was enthusiastic and unanimous, voted to
rive $4,000 toward building the road, and
wealthy citizens of that town are pledged to
subscribe literally What Cheshire and Mer-
troll of the road
| A case in Ellington at this time shows the
| danger there is in wholesale taking of patent
medicine throughout the country. A three
| years old child of Orson West has been taking
| worm lozenges, which have so salivated its
mouth that il is now losing all of its teeth and
il is feared may lose its life. ....
The death of the late Samuel B. Morgan of
Merden was very sudden and unexpected He
started out in the morning to make some col
inr1a md Iofn in fha daxr
friend, and reaching out his hands to him, was
at the instant Frustrated by a paralytic stroke
The Dwight place church at New Haven is to
be built of new building material known as the
Frear artificial stone, such as is manufactured
in Worcester, by the use of which saving of
$4,000 is claimed in comparison with hewn
stone. The New Haven high school building
will be constructed Of the material, at a saving
of $50, 900.
On Sunday, heifer calf, belonging to a Wal
lingiord gentleman, was bitten by small black
and tan Vagrant dog. In six hours after the
| calf became uneasy and nervous, and frothed at
| the mouth. In ten hours she was raving mad,
| running round biting trees and other things,
| and had to be killed. In a few moments the
| body Swelled 10 an enormous size. The dog
ran off, and has not since been seen or heard of.
RHODE ISLAND.
Ii appears that some of the statements pub
lished in the Providence papers concerning the
Olive Branch Temple of Honor were erroneous.
AS reported ny inc members, the temple mas
simply voted not to send delegates to the grand
temple Ofthe state, and not to recognize the au-
thority of the grand officers in the regular bust
ness of Olive Branch temple, until after the
meeting of the supreme council of the United
States, in August, The members claim that the
present rule,-making past Chief Templars and
no Others members of the grand temple
operates greatly to the disadvantage of Olive
Branch temple, inasmuch as the older but much
smaller, temples have large representations in
the grand temple, Olive Branch, with its eight
hundred members, has only a small representa-
ton, the latter having been in existence but
few years, and, consequently, having but few
past officers. 1t is alleged that the action of
the grand temple has been preiudcial to the in
terestS of Olive Branch temple and it is expected
that the supreme council will so amend the con- |
stitution as to allow representation in the grand
temple by membership and not by age.
The Providence papers say that young man |
from Hartford appeared in that city few days |
ago and obtained permission from the police 10 |
introduce certain kind Of soap by means of |
the prize package process. On Thursday even |
ing while the sale was going on a drunken |
sailor appeared and made liberal investments |
meantime accidently dropping package of |
bills which were grabbed by the crowd. The |
package men were "going for him extensively |
to get all his cash, when the police interfered |
and arrested the managers of the sale and also |
| took the drunken man to the station house, |
where it was found that he had S145 left which |
| the soap dealers would probably have got but
| for the appearance of the officers. The sellers
| were released, though confessing to taking con-
siderable of the mans money, as mo warrant
could conveniently be obtained at that late
hour"