Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-12

crowd assembled by Mayor Lewis and Lieut..
| Gov. Tyler.
On Thursday and Friday the railroad commit
tee of the Legislature were occupied with the dis
| pute between the New Haven, Middletown and
| Willimantic railroad company and their con-
| tractors. The company have brought up bill
authorizing them to Issue 100000 of bonds in
place of the second mortgage bonds recently sur
rendered by the various towns on the route. The
contractors present an amendment whereby the
present indebtedness Of the road, $500 ,000 must
be paid or secured before such issue can be
made. The road claims that such a provision
viii virtually stop the completion of the line
The annual meeting of the Connecticut SOL
diers' orphans home was held in Hartford on
the 18th. Directors were chosen, those for New
London county being VIM. A. Buckingham, H.
?. Haven and the Rev. S. G. Willard. At sub
sequent meeting of the directors Governor Mar
shall Jewell was chosen president, and eight
vice presidents were chosen. T. 5. Gold was
elected secretary and David Clark treasurer.
The report of the superintendent SHOWS tnat
year ago the home had thirty-fiYe boys and SIN
teen girls; has received during the year fourteen
boys and one girl has placed out or returned to
| guardians thirteen boys and two girls, leaving
| ffty-one now in the home. The school has been
| prosperous. The superintendent states that he
| finds it extremely difficult to obtain good homes
| for those under his charge ready to be placed
out The expenses of the home during the year
were S4671 rs, which covered by the receipts.
The grounds have been improved, new outbuild
idgs erected, and the institution is now in a
fiourishing condition.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Woonsocket Patriot thinks Independence
day will not be celebrated in that town, no move
mentto that end having been made as yet by its
citizens.
About 100000 worth of land in Newport was
sold for villa sites to New Workers recently, and
there now remains very little land near the sea
| inappropriate.
The oath of June is to be celebrated by the
French citizens of Woonsocket. A procession,
a picnic, and dramatic entertainments in the
evening, will be prominent features in the dem
| onstrations of the day.
The eighty-frst annual convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church in the diocese of
| Rhode Island, will be held in Trinity church,
| Newport, on Tuesday. Rev. c. A. l.. Richards,
rector of st. Johns church, Providence, will
1 preach the convention sermon.
Everything has been put in excellent order at
| Narragansett park for the races next week. The
| SetteeS in the grand stand have been reprinted,
| and look bright and new
The Narragausett boat club will have their
first regatta of the season next Thursday on the
Providence river. 1t is expected that entries
will be,made Of single and double SOULS and of
crews. One of the contests will be for silver
cup, pulled for by single SOULS.
| The habitues of Newport are beginning to ar
rive. n letter from there says: sit is very quiet
here; a country village is not more free from ex.
| element and gayety than is Newport to-day
| There are people enough but there seems to be nc
| desire on their part to hasten the season of fes
| tivity and dissipation; this quiet respite is evil
| IDENTIFY very enjoyable after the winters cam
| paign. There is no dust, the weather is cool
| and the drives are in perfect order"
The Providence Press tells a story of a Grip
| pied soldier who used to vote the democratic
ticket before the war, but who declared that hi!
| vote must tally with his bullet, and hence ceased
| to do so after he doomed the army blue; hearing
| of the "new deDarture" in Ohio and the cOurst
| of Vallandigham, asked to see the platform. H(
| read it, remarkng thereafter, THAT is the voice
of Jacob, but the hand is the hand of Esau."
A young married man in Providence to whom
fortune has been adverse recently, had his attic
| ton aggravated Tuesday, by the loss of the en-
tire money in his possession-aecumulated by
| economy for the purpose of moving from hi:
| present locatiOn-the house in which he reside:
having been sold. Sickness and death in hi!
| family had pecuniariy embarrassed him, bu
| his steady and industrious habits were enabling
him 10 get his head above water, when one o
| his children took from drawer all the money
saved and went into the yard to play, since
which nothing has been seen of it.
The Providence Press says: 1.-THE schsm in
Olive Branch Temple of Honor is the principa
subject of conversation in Providence, and
many are anxious TO know what the final result
will be. Some predict that many of the mem
bers will find in the movement an excuse to re
turn to their old habits" But those who maxi
the prediction know little of the Templars' obi
| CATION and do not appreciate the determined
character of the men who compose Olive Branch
temple. The Herald says: 1--WE can't see how
'schism' can absolve an oath to live temperate
forever, and we think no member of Olivt
Branch would avail himself of so absurd pre-
text for returning to his old habits, even if HI
| desired il, which would be strange desire
we are to believe the reports concerning the bet
tered condition of those who have entered thu
organization"