Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-29
CONNECTICUT.

CONNECTICUT.
Michael Umberg, of Preston, while chopping
wood recently, drove the axe into his foot, near
ly severing it from the ankle.
The public schools of Willimantic raised over
500 toward the soldiers orphan home.
Willimantic has accepted the donation made
them by the WilmGntc library association, of
the library valued at about $4,000 and authorized
the warden and burgesses to appoint a commit
| tee TO manage the same. A tax to the full
| amount allowed by law was also voted to sus-
| tain the library for the coming year. 1t is
| hoped under new management to make this IL
Drary an institution that shall be not only a
| great blessing to the reading community at large,
but to make its contents accessible TO every fac
| tory boy in our village, and thus counterfeit in
some degree the effect of our drinking and bill
lizard saloons.
The Hartford Post has the following: They
have been having in New Haven mysterious
noises. Reference not being had to the speech
OF MIR: Gallagher to the colored men. 1t was
remarked several nights ago, by policeman
who happened to be awake and on the street,
that things were very shaky; that the store
doors were playing tattoo, and the windows
were keeping an accompaniment The police.
man walked up detective-not being detec-
tive himself, and so disqualified from finding
out about it-and the detective commenced
working it up" at once. After careful exam
nation of the premises whence the most noise
proceeded, and a deliberate search through the
neighborhood with dark Lantern and revolver,
he unhesitatingly pronounced it "pheuOme-
non. Taken in connection with the discovery
OF bushel of roots in the well on the green,
and the address of Gallagher to the colored
men, it was enough to create great excitement
in New Haven.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Hartford Post has made a valuable geo.
graphical discovery. 1t says that Union vii
llage, IN the new town of North Smithfeld is a
manufacturing hamlet" There is tradition
that this hamlet once had a gristmiIl some
where IN its neighborhood, the site of which is
now unknown. This fact may have been in
cluded in the editors latest information from
thar district, and thus given origin to the idea
OF manufacturing hamlet" When last
heard from, Union village, or "OId Bank" as il
Is more tamiliarly known, was still wrapped in
the Rip Van Wrinkle sleep that has character
lied it since it used to be stopping place for
stages on the road from Worcester to Provi-
dence, being still the quiet abode of Ouakers
old maids and good people generally.
AS stated in our dispatches Saturday morn
ing, the Rhode Island legislature adjourned Fri
day, after a session of twelve weeks. One of its
most important acts was the division of the
township OF Smithfeld into three towns, besides
slice of about four square miles in area given
to Woonsocket. Smithtield was the largest
town IN area IN the state, about seventy-fye
square miles, and contained humber of popu-
l .1lus and thriving manufacturing villages.
Moohsocket gains about three thousand in pom
Iiauon and two millions of taxable property.
lne new Town Of North Smithfield has an area
Oh ABOUT Twenty-Five square miles, with a yalua-
ton Of 81 1872 ABB ~ " 'i""