Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-15

pointed superintendent of the Cold Water Or
ganization, which embraces y temples and 5000
children. A committee was appointed to attend
the conventions of the various religious bodies.
The next semi-annual session is to be held in
Portland in October.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Miss e. Il. Colburn has been appointed post
mistress at Franklin, and Mr.. L. D. Sinclair at
Osspee, in place of M. V. Kicker resigned.
Of 1875 tickets in the Keene gift concert swim
die, held in Troy, VT, one drew a pair of hose,
one dollar, and one fifty cents
James D. Wood, of Nashua who is supposed
TO be insane, has been a mysterious disappear
ance since Saturday night.
Franklin Rand, fifty years old and resident |
OF Exeter, fell from bridge across the Squam- |
scott river, Tuesday night, while drunk, and |
was drowned |
Lake Winnipiseogee is open. The steamer
Chocorus made her first trip of the season yes
terday. She will begin to run regularly on Mon
day.
The Rockingham cooperative boot and shoe
manufacturing company at Portsmouth has been
fairly at work for about month, and has every
prospect of success.
The Nashua iron company has shipped to New
York two monster graphing anchors, weighing
three tons each. They are intended to steady
the ships from which divers descend in the
work of widening the channel at He'll Gate.
Capt. Samuel P. Thrasher, who died at Clare
mont on wednesday, was very generally known
throughout the Connecticut valley and central
Vermont as a contractor for stone masonry. He
was hfty-hve years old, and leaves a wife and
thirteen children. He was a member of Hiram
lodge of Claremont, and Will be buried with Ma
sonic honors on Sunday.
VERMONT.
Jesse Burditt of Arlington has been appointed
superintendent Of the Rutland railroad, succeed
ing Col. George A. Merrill, who resigned to
accept the SUPPLEMENTARY of the New Lon
don Northern road. Mr.. Burditt has a large
axfFA aNaaY VasI. col -
for several years conductor on the Hudson
River railroad, and afterwards its assistant SUI
| perintendent.
CONNECTICUT.
Gen. Mcdowell will spend the spring and
summer at Fort Trumbull, New London.
Greenwich, with population Of 1900, lost
only forty residents by death in the past year.
The Housatonic railroad carries about 600
cans of milk daily to New York, and the Manga
tuck about 800.
Hugh Mahan, an intoxicated railroad laborer,
was drowned by the upsettiug of boat on the
river near Middle Haddam, a few days ago.
A shaft is being sunk on the farm of Sher-
| man Smith, near New Canaan indications of
coal bed having been discovered
The grading of the Connecticut Western rail-
road will be finished, and the laying of ties and
| rails begins about May 1.
Gen. Hawley lecture, next season, will be on
| Rings and Lobbyists" a subject he will doubt
| less handle without gloves.
Stonlngton has elected as one of her justices
Of the peace, gentleman of seventy-five years.
BY law man is incapacitated for serving at
the age of seventy.
| The Methodist conference has decided to erect
a seminary at Stamford at a cost exceeding
| SlOO,OOO. A large amount has already been
subscribed 1t is to be located on Noroton
| hill
In the case of Charles Shelton VS.. the New
Haven gas company, brought to recover dam
| ages for the killing of a tree by gas verdict
| was rendered giving damages to the plaintiff TO
| the amount Of S375
During the worst of the shower on Tuesday
| evening, lady cling1ng to her husband at the
| corner of Asylum and Main streets, Hartford,
was heard, just after a sharp fash TO eXcam
| frantically, COIL OH take me home in a car
| riage if it costs ten dollars."I
Elias E. Coe and wife, of Middlefield, aged re-
| spectyely eighty-four and eighty, celebrated
their diamond wedding last week. They occu-
| py house over one hundred years old and
have been members of the Methodist church
more than sixty years.
Miss Ellen A. Hammond, daughter of DR.. JUS
tin Hammond of DanielsonYlle was one of the
graduates of the Women's Medical college of
New YORK, at the recent commencement, and
she will have charge of her fathers practice
| during his absense at the legislature, to which
he has recently been elected
| Charles H. Virgins, a New Haven book
| Keeper, who disappeared last September, and
| was at first supposed, from the finding of his
| clothes in boat in the harbor, TO have been
| drowned, has turned up at last in Chicago, thus
verifying the suspicious entertained by many
at the time that he left his clothes in the boat
to mislead his friends and secure a little cheap
notoriety
The Hartford Post mentions a beautiful arti-
Gle oil jewery, recently made in that city, for
prominent citizen there. 1t was magnificent
solid stone cameo, cut from photograph into
perfect likeness of the citizen aforesaid, and
superbly mounted in red gold, with twenty-four
lustrous whole pearls, aud four sparkling dia-
monds, the whole forming a splendid brooch or
locket. The cameo was cut by an Italian ar
list, and the mounting and finish was designed
by member of the firm. The cost was about
$500.
Rev. W. H. H. Murray has had the old fami
~ mansion at Guilford repaired and fitted up
outside and inside; has park of five deer, four
of which he brought from the wilderness, the
city Of Boston presenting him with the fifth
Besides he has many valuable horses of differ
emit breeds, and superb stock of poultry, in
Guiding fancy pigeons, pheasants, &c. A fine
trout pond is also one of the fixtures Of the
place; all of which will be elegant adjuncts to
splendid residence he is to build on the grounds
at no very distant day.
Town meetings to prolong the Air Line rail-
roads agony will be held, next week, in most of
the towns on the route, New Haven and Middle
town included. The question whether they will
| double their subscriptions or surrender the
| stock and bonds already held by them and thus
| sink all they have paid, will be considered.
| Unless radical measures are adopted the road
| will go into the hands of the first mortgage
| bondholders in seven months, or perhaps into
the possession Of the New York and New Haven
road, in which case it would probably be run
east of Middletown within fifty years.
The time OF trial of the roughS arrested for
participating in the Edwards-Collyer prize fight
on Charles Island, about year ago,-which was
so completely and effectually "squelched" by
the militia under Gov. JEWELS orders,-is near
at hand. One John Calvin, keeper of a sailors
boarding house on Water street, New York, was
one of the arrested, and was released on bonds
given by Charles Bradley of New Haven. On
Monday the bondsman wrote to Calvin to come
to New Haven. That worthy replied in the most
insulting terms, that, having once been fool
enough 10 be caught IN the state of Connecticut,
its authorities would never see him again. The
bondsman Immediately applied for a warrant,
and on Tuesday Detective Carpenter went to New
York and applied to Superintendent Keso for
help in the case. Late in the afternoon New
York detective arrested Calvin and delivered
him into the custody of Carpenter, by whom he
was at once taken to New Haven to stand trial.
RHODE ISLAND.
A new Temple of Honor was instituted at Val
ley Falls on the evening of the 18th, with sixty
seven members, among whom are several of the
most prominent men of that locality.
Edwin A. Capron, man of forty-six years,
committed suicide near East Greenwich last
Monday night. He had been working in mill
IN that village, and being discharged became
tired OF life. He leaves a wife and several chill
dren.
SOMETHING NEW FOR WORCES.
~ TEk-We would respectfully announce to the citi-
zens of Worcester and vicinity that we have removed
our Marble and Stone works. from Trumbull to No As