Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-16

| ington county are furnishing the several towns
a form of temperance pledge to be circulated
among the entire people of the county who are
| asked to sign ii.
The following is statement of the failures
and liabilities in Vermont for the past three
years; 1S6s-number, 81; liabilities, S163, 900;
1869, number, 81; liabilities, $4,000; 1870
number, 30; liabilities 1851 900: making the
total number of failures in three years 80, and
total amount OF liabilities 81 ,013,O00.
Montpelier voted last Tuesday that no more
money be paid on the subscription to the Mont
| pelier and Wells River railroad until the con-
| tractor executes his bond. The directors have
| commenced suits against James r, Langdon and
George G. Shepard, Esqrs, to compel the pay
ment Of their subscriptions.
Geo. Rich, of Montpelier, charged with the
crime OF adultery, was under examination in
| that town on Monday The complaint was made
by Mr.. Kellogg of Worcester the other party
in the transaction being Keogg's daughter.
| Rich claimed that he was not married man,
but il was proved that he lived with woman
whom he had designated as Chs wife"
| CONNECTICUT.
| Watertown is being placed in telegraphic COM
munication with the rest of the world.
The Germans of Norwich celebrated the re-
turn of peace on Monday by procession, ban
| quet and the usual speeches, etc.
| Elijah Stevens, the oldest inhabitant of Rocky
| Hill, died last week. He was born in the year
| 1772 and leaves numerous family.
Torrington, a promising little town of Con-
necticut, owns nearly million and half of
property.
Father Dagget, Catholic priest of Bristol
was tried at Plymouth on Saturday for drunk.
enness. A few Sundays ago he was guilty of
the same offence, and fined therefor
A little son of F. |. Chafee of Middletown fell
from the roof of shed, the distance of fifteen
feet, and received internal injuries which will
probably prove fatal
The New Haven gas light company announces
material reduction in rates to those patrons
who pay their bills within five days after pre-
sentation.
The Air Linerailroad managers are trying TO
eajole New Haven to invest another half NIL
lion dollars in their enterprise, at the town
meeting, this week, but the sentiment of New
Haven is against it,
John B. Cough lectured in New Haven:on
Monday evening, though suffering severely from
catarrhal fever.
VIM. Sturges, mayor of Meridian, Miss. who
was driven away by the kuklux, under Il
promise not TO return, is a native of Wilton
During the storm in Hartford on Sunday
tobacco shed, belonging to Edwin Winslow, at
North Meadows, was blown down. Damage
$1,000.
Ground was formally broken for the founda-
ton OF the new Congregational church in New
Haven, at the corner of Chapel and Dwight
streets, on Monday.
Chas. Bramer of New Milford, a laborinr
man, aged fifty-one, died of lockjaw recently,
W SulbliiS MS manu- StNGICly, ana AFTER
wards taking cold.
About 460 persons have been registered in the
first ward, New Haven 800 being applications
from colored men. In the second ward about
175, in the third about 300, and in the fourth
2oO. Returns from the other wards have not been
received.
Barney Hand eloped with the wife of John
Flnton OF Andover, recently. They were first
heard ofin Cincinnati, Ohio, but soon returned to
Providence, and Hand was arrested on the Dor
ders OF the state, and now awaits trial at the
next term of the superior court of Tolland
county.
An exchange says" During the time the ice
was breaking up in the Housatonic river the
people of New Milford observed a season of
| solemn fasting and prayer that the big dam at
Birmingham might be carried off so as to allow
the shad to run up to New Milford as they used
to do; but the dam was too strong and stood
| the test of the ice pressure"
Two painters, Jefferson Sherman and Joseph
| Martin, were at work upon a house in Birming-
ham on Saturday, standing upon ladder sus-
pended at both ends by ropes, when their tenn
porary scaffold suddenly parted in the middle,
and Sherman fell distance of thirty feet, sus-
tanning serious injury. The other saved himself
by grasping rope.
An action of law is now going on at Bloom
field, which presents one or two interesting
points to prospective litigants. The amount
originally involved did not exceed 81 so but the
costs OF the controversy already amount to up
ward of $500, and the fight still progresses.
Another stroke of i'll luck has befallen the
New Haven and Derby railroad. The pier OF
the bridge over the Naugatuck river near Derby
has cracked badly, owing to the heavy pressure
OF water consequent upon the late rains, anG
probably it is damaged so as to necessitate tb,
building of another The rain of SATURDAY
night and Sunday has swollen the Naugatucl
river so that the water is even with the banks
The state board of visitors to the Sheffield
scientific school, held their annual meeting Al
the state house in New Haven on Monday. Sew
eral professors connected with the institution
were present and communicated many points Of
interest. S125,000-one half the proposed sun
has been subscribed to the school since the en-
dowment movement. Several new professor
ships have been instituted and many valuable
accessions made to the cabinets. The progress,
during the year has been highly satisfactory
At the close Of the interview, Gov English stated
that the day was the 59th anniversary of his
birth, and he would signalize the event by prom
ising $1,000 per year for the next three years to
the school. After the formal meeting, Gov En-.
glish, ex-Gov. Hawley and the other gentlemen
inspected the various departments of the insti-
tuition, and expressed themselves well satisfied
| herewith