Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-17

| wanted the pTestnl law NDdllg0ut bbllSNlUH IUhI
| the application for divorce should be submitted
in the first instance to the tribunal before which
| ii is to be heard, under the oath of the party
| applying, and accompanied by such sworn evil
| dence as, in the opinion of the court, VIII war
| rant the issuing of process against the party
| charged with a crime therein, requiring his APP
| prehension and TecCgnizance TO appear and
| answer to the otfenSe before tribunal compe-
| tent to try the same; and when a vorce Is
| granted Il shall be solely in the discretion of
| the court to determine whether or not it shall
operate as a divorce TO such respondent BY
| this method they believe that much of the will
full crime charged in the frequent applications for
divorce will be prevented and society will again
feel that lewdness and incontinenCe in married
life are subjects of moral reprobation and legal
punishment
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Nashua has an educational club.
The state board Of agriculture recently paid
an official visit to the Agricultural college at
Hanover and all points of interest were visited
Manches er had two hundred and fifty per-
sons naturalized at the recent session OF the SUI
preme court.
Ii is said that the trustees of Dartmouth col.
lege will soon make change in the calendar,
shortening the winter vacation and frightening
the summer.
Officers of the Boston, Concord and Montreal
and White Mountains railroad have been look
ing over the country in northern Coos, with
view of extending the road into Upper Coos
county.
There being no prisoners in the Keene jail,
the local paper suggests that "as the rogues
seem TO be all outside, it might be used as safe
retreat by few honest people Of retiring dispO-
sitiou."
At a meeting OF the trustees of the state re-
form school, held in Manchester on the 18th,
Hon Oliver Wyatt Of Dover was elected puesi
dent Of the board in place Of Hon. Horton D.
" alker OF Portsmouth, who recently resigned
his place is i trustee OF the institution. Mr.
/ nEe a f4irhfu1
eral years, and committee Of two was appoint
Ell % prepare resolutions expressing the high eS-
TEEN n which he IS held by the board for his
valuable services IN behalf Of the school.
A meeting Of tie H1lshoro county agricul-
EllIsll assOeIaron WIS held II the town hall in
Bedford On the t5Gn. 4 very large number of
farmers and others were present. An interest
ing essay upon the Agricultural resources and
farming ospec5s Of New Hampshire was read
by Oliver Dodge Of Nashua Interesting speeches
we're made by the pr sident, J. B. Moulton of
Milford, Col G. " Riddle J. Q. Adams, Hon.
CIeo- H0l5rook and Dr.. Luther Pattee of Man
chester, W4rde Parker and B. F. Hutchinson of
Msrrimack, Messrs. HOlbroOk, Freeman and
French OF Bedford, 5 c. Pattee of Warner, Mr..
Meiendy Of Amherst, Mr.. Manning of Reading
Mass aud many Others. Those in attendance
partooE of an excellent dinner, which was pre-
pared by some OF the ladies of Bedford.
VERMONT.
4 Vermont man, who has been arrested for
misiook her fof a wild turkey.
There was singular scene at a wedding in
Bennington, a few days since. A large number
of guests had been invited, some by the expect
ant bridegroom and some by the bride. Among
| the number were some who were not on speak
| ing terms with each other, and scene ensued
| between the would-be happy young man and the
bride elects friends thatput to fight all thoughts
| of Hvmen, and it was not until long after mid
| night that the disturbance was quelled and the
| ceremony was concluded.
CONNECTICUT.
Harvard has accepted Yale's challenge for
| the univ ersity race
There were elghty-six deaths in New Haven in
January to eighty.nine in january last year.
A machine screw company, now doing very
successful and lucrative business in Brooklyn,
L. l., is reported TO locate at Essex on the open
ing of navigation About $40 900 in stock has
been taken in the latter place.
Forty acres of swamp land in the town of
| Westbrook, formerly considered to be almost
worthless, and now conveyed to the cultivation
of craDberrieS, are valued at not less than $1,000
| per acre.
Court street, New Haven, must be a cheerful
place to find out where man lives. The houses
| on one side are numbered as follows: II, 70, so,
SO, IS, p, 76, 101, q, Sc, Ill.
One OF the Ierryville companies has obtained
the new contract for supplying the post office
| department with mail locks and KEYS.
The old school house in Windsor was DESTROY
lie
built over one hundred years ago, and Roger
Sherman, one of the signers of the declara-
ton OF independence, taught school there for
a term of years.
A Christian convention was held at the Suf.
| neld Congregational church on the 18th, COM
posed of ministers and laymen of that denomi-
| nation from half dozen adjoining towns
| Ihe annual DINNER of the Mddetown Conn,
| WESLEYAN university alumni of this city, took
| place in the Astor house this evening. Judge
/ RpNnnIdC n Aa1 III
| pal address was made by President Cummings
| of the university.
| The New York association of the alumni of
| Trinity coll ge tonight appointed an annual
dinner on the 18th OF April, and elected a com
mittee of arrangements.
The New York association of the alumni of
Dickinson college gave second annual dinner
at Delmonlco's tonight. Letters were read from
| Postmaster-Genera Creswell and Assistant
Postmaster-General Marshall, both former stu
| dents of the college.
| fire occurred tonight in the fur store of
| Juiens Weinburg, Brooklyn. The family mar.
rowly escaped being burned. An old man,
named l.. Ecksein, was burned to death Loss
| 100; covered by insurance.
AT the sale of unclaimed packages by the
Adams express company, in Hartford myste-
| rlouS and nicely labeled package, which sold
for one dollar, was found to contain two shin
| gle nails Another dilaDidated parcel brought
seventy cents, and contained 1000 fine white
envelopes.
Another suit has been decided against Alonzo
M. Goodrich, the fugitive Rocky Hill barnburuer.
Mrs Hepzibah Kelley of that place having re-
covered Sl4OO from him for burning her barn
His flight has saved him a ten years term in the
state prison, but his property left tehind is be-
ing rapidly swallowed up by his victims.
Inc Rockland paper company at MOntville
have purchased the property known as the
Wheeler mills at Palmertown. The price is not
given They intend to raise the dam a few feet
mold fha mat h.,aI
thus improve their.water power at the Rockland |
mills.
A step in the right direction has been taken
in Hamden and North Haven. No beef cattIe |
eali DC slaughtered IN either OF these towns I'M
I'll 1t has been inspected by competent person |
under the direction of the town. There is ouite |
number of cases of cattle down with the new |
cattle disease in North Haven,
Two one-armed soldiers were arrested in the |
democratic city, New Haven Monday. for SELL |
ing backing without license. The Register
says 1t takes month to get license from the |
board OF aldermen. One of the soldiers re- /
celVed nine bullets in his body in front of Peters
ourg, one OF which entered his windpipe and |
almost deprived him of speech.
Charles L. Bacon, of New York the m all aoent
on the New York and Boston line who was de- |
tected in the act of robbing the mails al New |
Haven, the other night acknowledges that he |
mas Deen IN that business for years, and saws he |
expected some time to be caught but the temnt. |
tation TO steal was so strong that he could not |
resist it. He has gone to Jail in default of S25OO
bail, to await trial. Bacon is about thirty-fye |
year old, and has wife in New York He has |
served three months In the army, three wears |
in the navy, and six years in the postal ser.
vice, and was formerly clerk in the New York
office. VA"
The Springfield Republican says that there was
music" as everybody expected, in the repub-
iean congressional convention at Norwich on
Wednesday. Editor Stone, of the DanieIsonyiIIe
Transcript, made bitter speech against the re-
nomination OF H. H. Starkweather, but New
London county went solid for him, and he was
made the candidate by seventy-one votes against
thirty-tour for VIM. H. Chandler, the Windham
county man. The excitement at the convention
was intense, but it is believed that Mr.. Stark.
weather Will command nearly the entire vote of
the party in both counties. In the first conqres.
slonal district the democrats have nominated
Or Alfred X. Goodrich of Vernon to run against
Mr.. Strong. The republicans of the second SEN
atoral district have nominated Ezra Hall of
Hartford, and the democrats of the fourth. Hen.
ry futile of Hampden.
RHODE ISLAND.
One Of the chief attractions in the eves of ,Aa
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