Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-02

in Baltimore, though he says that he shall never
live with her again,
A new railway enterprise is the reported ne
collation. between the Boston and Maine and
Berwick and the corporators Of the Alfred
Branch railroad, TO connect with the Portland
and Rochester road at Alfred, for the construc-
ton of said road, ~ miles long making a new
route from Boston to Portland, only six miles
longer than at present, over the Portland, Saco
and Portsmouth railroad.
The freight agent of the Grand Trunk rail-
road having appealed from the decision OF Col
lector Washburn of Portland, assessing dnty
upon certain fish caught in the Dominion VIM
ters Secretary Boutwell, has rendered a decision
sustaining the collector, the provisions admit
ting such fish free of duty not taking effect untll
after the enactment of laws to that erect by
congress.
At the convention held last week in Portland
for the purpose of promoting the location ana
construction of the line from that city 10 Chlca-
60, Mr.. Hamlin, in his speech on the occasion,
explained the object of the bill introduced Dy
him in the United States senate on the lsth OF
January, in aid Of the project. In summing up ne
said ait secures direct and rapid communica-
ton between the west and Europe by finding
an ocean outlet two hundred miles nearer
Europe than any other in the United States that
has commercial advantages and prevents the
extortions of combinations by placing regu-
lating power in the hands of the governments,
II does not take a dollar from the public treasury
or ask foot Oh land. 1t asks the government
TO become q guarantor, by the issue Of the
bonds and receive as security the first mortgage
bonds of firstclass corporation, on such terms
as will protect the nation from loss in any con-
tingency."
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Dir. G. L. Osgood the carpenter in charge of
DaFttsoIlth college buildings at Hanover, died
suddenly on the Goth ult. He was 60 years old.
Manson, sIe horse thief was arraigned in the
police court at Concord on Monday, and was
fined nine dollars and costs, amounting in all
TO thrtv-four dollars and eighty-eight cents.
He was then arraigned on charges OF stealing
clothes and Jewelry in HooSsett and bound
over in the sum of four hundred dollars TO ap-
pear at the supreme court.
Amos Manser, brakeman on the Concord
railroad, was struck by lightning Monday even
ing, near Litchteld's crossing, on the Ports
mouth railroad. He had been at work on the
brake, and had turned TO re-enter the car, when
he was struck and Frustrated, falling into the
door Of the car 1t is hoped that he is not seri-
ously injured, though his right leg is useless,
and he Is in great distress.
The following changes OF officials on the
Concord railroad were made Tuesday morning:
j. W. Wardwell appointed general ticket agent
in place of C. E. Twombly, who is made con-
ductor on the Portsmouth road, in place OF
George MAYNARD; L. NJ. Wright appointed sta
ton agent at Nashua, vice W. y. futile, re-
moved; Charles H. Wyatt appointed conductor
on the Suneook Valley road, vice A. 5. Messer,
removed.
A Concord dispatch says: "a very curious
phenomenon was witnessed on Lake Winnie
piseogee, Sunday afternoon, about hah-past TWO
O'clock by two men who were ancnoTed on
Rattlesnake Island in small boat. Ihere was
scarcely breath of air stirring, and the SURFACE
of the lake was unaffected by even ripple
when the centre of the lake appeared to sink
down, and Immediately following were three
large waves, the largest of which was over hye
feet in height, dashed over the rocks OF the
island, for noment threatening deStructon 10
the boat" The question naturally arises;
What sort of refreshment had the men takenF
VERMONT.
Charles Hartman, seventeen years OF age,
was fatally injured by falling between the cars
at East PutBey, few days ago
The usual republican victory in September
will be dispensed with this season, the state
having adopted the biennial election system last
year.
The Rutland Herald of Monday says: Adj
rOndack Murray and Prof. Eben Tonree OF Dos
ton left the Rutland depot seated on the cow
catcher of the locomotive, for the trip over inc
mountain, on their homeward journey, on Sat
urday.
The house. shed and tool house of Francis 10
gan at South Burlington, were burned Satur-
day morning at an early hour; insured for
S12OO which will nearly cover the loss. The
fire was undoubtedly incendiary, and Patrick
McCabe Of Shelburne has been arrested and held
in $1,000 bonds for the crime.
The Vermont Central railroad are completing,
at their shops at St. Albans the last two of the
Pullman palace cars they propose TO run on the
route between Montreal and Boston. One OF the
cars will be called Concord" and the other
Nashua" One sort of wood used in the ele-
| CANT finish of these cars is amboyne, which
| comes from Africa, at a cost Of $3.50 pound.
CoNEECTICUT.
John Barrett, representing himself a World
| correspondent swindled the Atlantic hotel,
Bridgeport last week, out OF four days board
and extras"
Last week, Dwight somes of Greenyille had
the natural pupil Of one eye removed, and an
| artificial one substituted for it, thus ayerting
the total blindness threatened.
There is such large stock of sugar and mo
lasses in New Haven that vessel which ar
rived on Sunday, with large cargo, was
sent back to New York, where the stock is very
small.
The Rogers ice company of New London have
! commenced shipping the first installment of 800
tons of ice, which they have sold to parties in
Willimantic, their crop having failed last year
| for want of water
The First national bank of Bridgeport issued
two drafts recently for $40 65 and 1850, which
were recently altered throughout with the
exception of the cashiers signature, to 1851 .35
and $96O.75, and cashed by the Security
bank of New York, which is consequently the
loser.
New Haven paper tells a story of a young
woman in WalingfOrd, in feeble health, who
| lately gave mortgage on death to young doc
tor of the Elm city, her husband endorsing the
nOte-or, in other words, for certain dollars duly
| paid bv the physician, she agreed to give up her
body at death to his dissecting knife. The doc
tor expected to foreclOse early, but after the
| transaction the woman began to recover and
the doctor refused second advance demanded
by the husband of the feeble fair which, we are
told "called forth from the heart-hroken hus-
band an indignant and awful protest" The
woman is now well. and the doctor has an idea
that he has been swindled, but hopes TO live
long enough to get his money out of her pelt or
bones.
In the dizziness of news in some quarters
snake stories are in order. Some thirty years
ago, on Prospect HILL what is now called Board
mans quarry, were discovered the bones of an
enormous snake, supposed to be, from measure
ment of the remains, thirty feet in length, and
at about the same time several parties saw a
second monster which was alive in the same
neighborhood, but never succeeded in killing OF
capturing it. Mr.. Isaac Selew at that time
measured the reptile as he ran into the crevice
of rock after smart chase, as nearly as he
could calculate, thirty-two feet Mr.. Board
man, for the past eight years, as he has quarried
in the rock, has been on the lookout for the
remnants of his snakeship, and Thursday his
efforts were crowned with success, he digging
out bones as they lay many feet below the rock
measuring over twenty feet in length, and the
head is not yet discovered, though the ground
|
| RHODE ISLAND.
White leather harness is the fashionable thing
at present at Newport.
The diplomatic corps Of the principal nations
of Europe were present at the graduating exer-
cises of the Newport high school, Friday.
Viccy Woodruff and Tennie Claflin are an
nounced to lecture in Providence on the 18th
inst, on 1.-THE Great Political Issue" and "The
Free Love System"
An imposter was recently arrested at Newport
for collecting several hundred dollars from sum.
mer visitors for the purpose, he claimed, of pur
chasing library for the engine companies
there.
Considerable alarm and rapid rush to dis.
penSers of vaccine virus is characteristic OF
Warren just now, as a case of small pox ter.
minated fatally there on Sunday, and another
case set in.
The wife of Charlas Rounds of Pawtucke
committee suicide at the Butler insane asylum
Providence, Sunday, by hanging herself with {
rope made out of a sheet. She had been in tn,
institution but week, and had made two OF
three Intellectual attempts on her life in tina
| time.
The Norwich Bulletin says that "the potato
bug-the real original burglar proof bug-i
wandering through Rhode Island, and the ma
tives are betting odds that the only Sure wav 4.