Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-13

/ taken for several years has been about 10000
yearly, and the cost between $4,000 and $1,000
The senior class held meeting Wednesday az
ternoon and received the following proposals
Prescott & White, Hartford, S25 per hundred
| Warren. Cambridge, sos; Pomeroy & Pheps
New Haven, S24; Rocher Chicago, s4S: How
ell, New York, $40; hoffman, Montreal $50
| The vote was unanimous for hoffman, who will
therefore, take 72's class pictures.
| An exchange says: "A Connecticut clergy
man, who has some connection with a ncwspa
| per there, is in the regular habit of PUBLISHING
extracts from his sermons, some of the mos
| elegant passages of which certain individual,
have stolen and put in type years ago. Acct
| dent led us to make this discovery in two sever
al instances, and we have no doubt the piracy
covers many othrs. 1t is rea ~ discourage
| ing to have ones thoughts stolen long
before they were born; bat il is perhaps some
| consolation for n good man to know that great
regulations have been bull. upon this thcv-
ing principle, even if his own has gained moth
ing"
RHODE ISLAND.
| Robert McAlecr, aged seventy two, was killed
ON the Worcester railroad, Saturday afternoon,
| while walking on the track ut Providence.
Ncwporers put camphOr bags around the
nccks of pet dogs to prevent them taking the
| small poX.
A seaman on the sloop Clean, named Gibbell,
| of Clinton, Conn, was knocked overheard at
| Newport, last week, by the sudden Iibing of
the main BOOM and probably fatally injured.
man named Allen was fatally injured at
Newport last week, by falling forty feet from a
building. He was from Chicago, and had been
at woI k bu; a few days.
The Providence Journal states that one of the
chief difficulties encountered in the courts
in that city, in attempting to procure the con-
yction of criminals, is the reticence of wit
neSSCs.
The Rev. John g. Beugess closed his labors
Y. Al ~ - III.
Sunday. The Rev. MIR. Bacon Of WalcOttYie
will accept call to the Congregational church,
in the same place.
The Rhode Island Schoolmaster sets a bad
example to its pupils by coming to hand at
late hour, the November number being Just re-
ceiyed. The contents, however, are OF the usual
degree of excellence.
A notorious gambling den on Orange street,
Providence, kept by Joseph Mcmahon and VIM.
Smith, was entered by the police on Friday
The proprietorS were arrested, their fmachine-
ry' confscatcd, and the names of the twenty
gamblers present taken for future reference.
The Bristol PheniX says that bright little
girl of four summers, daughter of a professional
gentleman Of that town, went TO Providence
few days AGO. In The depot she was accosted by
a Quaker lady, who asked, | How old art thou,
little grip She looked up in the face of the
QuakeresS and replied, 'Pm not art hOu-Pm
little Jennie"
EXrin Mccartney, a state farm graduate,
broke into his mothers house at Providence
late one night last week, and in a drunken fury
beat her terribly and putting ont one eye. A
Younger brother who supports the mother, find
ng he could not make the wretch desst, went
for the police and had him arrested.
The Westerly Weekly saws: "Erastus Went
Worth, better known perhaps as Father Went
WORTH is closing up business hercabouts, with
l view of taking up his residence with q son, at
Norwich, Conn. AT a meeting of the Congre-
gatioual church in this village, last Sunday, he
odd them he was eighty-three years old that
lay; that he Lad been a member OF the Congre-
gational church sixty-two years, and of that
church about thirty years"
The Narragansett Times says: South Kings
Town has sixteen houses of worship, erected cx-
clusively for that purpose. Calling the popua-
ton 400 in round numb .rs, we find ourselves
accommodated with Westinghouse for every
275 people. But this is not the least of our
privileges, One hall and one sch0Ol-house are
regularly occupied by congregations in regular
weekly worship, and one hall is thus occupied
during the summer months. For the two halls,
two church edifccs are soon to be substituted