Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-24

Stub, S. & F. p. j., the Adotable, Togy, Web
| foot, Weeder and Wharf Rat.
| The Newport Argus says: A maple stump
! on Mr. Samuel Crowells farm yielded, the past
| season. two and one-half barrels of sap. 1t was
| about two feet in diameter, and shows no signs
of life excepting when tapped The wind had
| blown off the entire top and much of the body
of the tree; while the iorlorn old stump was left
to drop two and a half barrels of tears for the
loss of itsifair proportions.
About one o'clock Tuesday morning the wife
of Charles B. Hall, OF Dover, attempted suicide
by shooting herself with a revolver Ii appears
that GOODNESS had for some time existed be
tween Mrs Hall and her husband, and they
were living apart. Monday evening he called
at her boarding place for the purpose of recon-
Citation. During the interview she took a re-
volver from his coat pocket and concealed It,
carrying it TO her bedroom. Shortly after mid
night she woke, and placing the muzze OF the
| pistol to her side, shot herself. The bullet
| glanced, making severe, though probably not
dangerous wound She expresses regret that it
| was not fatal, and says that she intended the
| bullet to reach her heart.
VERMONT.
Parties from Cleveland, Ohio, have leased the
| Ames Italian marble quarries, at Pittsfield.
The Sapathic iron company, of Tyson's fur
mace have stopped working and blown out their
furnace.
| CONNECTICUT.
| A Connecticut paper says; "a short time ago
| the kuklux of Wallingford treated a man to a
coat of tar and feathers, and now comes Water
| ford and its gang of midnight avengers visiting
their wrath on Q helpless Individual. The ku-
| kluX are at our doors. Where are the troops?"
| The Episcopal archdeacou of eastern Connec-
ticut summoned the clergy and lay delegates of
the eastern convocation of the diocese to meet
| in st. Paups church, Genital Village, on Tues
day. Right Rev, Bishop Williams preached in
the morning, and Rev. Rufus Emery of Ston-
ington preached the convocation sermon in the
| evening,
An unusually large number of persons in the
eastern part of Greenwich are reported on the
sick list, and the local medicine men are said to
have their hands full. No illness of an epidem-
ic nature is known to exist in the place. The
cases of small pox, so far as known, have been
confined to the members of one family, who are
now convalescent.
Wilson, the murderer, has prepared an elab-
crate petition for the Communication of the sem
tence of DEATH to that of Imprisonment for life
This will be presented to the legislature this
week by his counsel, and will be acted upon at
the hearing given by the committee to those
convicts who have pettoned for release He
sets forth his treatment by the late warden as a
palliation of his crime. But it is not at all like
ly that the legislature will go back on the SEN
tence of the court.
phan asylum had returned from Sunday school
at the Center church, Sunday afternoon, man
rushed in and seized one of them named Michael
Taylor, and before the matron, who was Alone
couiu yet assistance, nau carried nun on. he
said he was the father of the boy, and lives in
Boston, where his wife also lives. The
mother left the boy at the asylum. 1t is not
known whether the parents have separated, or
who is legally entitled to the custody of the
child.
The origin of the recent incendiary fires in
Mystic has been traced to two boys Henry NJ.
Cliff and Charles Whittlesey, who have been ar
rested.
The Mystic correspondent of the Norwich Bull.
| lott. A., LII
conductor Ripley, passed New London Tuesday
night, 18th, bound east, there came on board
three colored men, all residents in Mystic. One
of them, Alfred Lee by name, as he came aboard,
jostled the legs of rough fellow, and high
words followed, resulting in the kicking Of Lee,
who was taken off at Mystic and died of his
wounds within forty hours"
| Saturday night, a German named Nicholas
Sanger, who keeps beer saloon in East Bridge
port, on the corner of Clarence and William
streets, was murdered in front of his saloon by
two drunken men. The occurrence took place
about midnight. There were several men
drinking in the saloon when the two men enter
ed and demanded of him something to
drink. As they were already intoxicated and
| the hour Tor closing had arrived, Sanger refused
to give it to them An alteration then ensued
, which ended by each of the men picking upea
l chair and walking out of the saloon with it..
Sanger followed to get his chairs, and immedi-
ately upon stepping out of the door one of the
| hiSh obuSh upon lllS up vi luC uOtu WIN
the chair he held, and crushed in Sanger's skull.
The other man threw the chair he had through
the window, breaking it into pieces. Both men
then fed, and are still at large. Sanger was
picked up in a senseless condition and taken
into his house, where he died about O'Clock
Sunday morning.
RHODE ISLAND.
A. II. Freeman, Esq, of Orange, N. j., most
worthy templar of the supreme council of the
United States and England, on his way to a
meeting of the supreme council at Boston, made
an official visit Monday evening to the Temples
of Honor in the jurisdiction of Rhode Island
being DESTROYS of seeing the Olive Branch TEN.
pie with its eight hundred members As soon
as the contemplated visit of Mr.. Freeman was
known, the several temples of the city made ar
engagements to give him worthy reception on
his arrival. The Grand Temple, with several
subordinate temples and brass band, made up
the procession.