Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-17

past season, on seven and one half acres of land,
1885 bushels of onions $50 bushels of potatoes,
and 500 bushels OF beets.
Senator Edmunds has gone to Washington
for the winter.
Major W. R. Gibson, who was recently mar
ried at Rutland is assigned as chief paymaster
to the department of Texas.
Rev. A. +. Bailey and Mrs. Slocum are hay
inT a discussion through the columns of the
Middlebury Register on the Subec. of Spiritual
ism.
The village of Bristol has been organized into
fire district. T. d. Viutou has been elected
first engineer, J. A. BiXby first assistant, W. r.
PCake second assistant tax of ten per cent
has been voted for the purchase of the Beees
sary fixtures for Il fire company.
At Bristol this week, AlesSrs. Dunsbee &
Barnes Of Bristol, bought and shipped 5000
pounds Of butter at % to 2S cents per pound,
Messrs. Dixie, BiXby & Co, shipped two barrels
ct eggs at 25 cents per dozen. From 10 to "a
cents was paid on Monday for 900 pounds OF
poultry.
Several outragcs have been perpetrated at
Bellows Falls recently that are attracting the
attention of citizens. On Sunday week there
was much noise and disturbance in the vicinity
of the square, and on Canal street a railroad
Waterman was assaulted and knocked down. At
the depot several OutragcS and assaults have
been perpctrated upon passengers of the night
trans and others, and on Wednesday following
railroad official was at the Fails looking after
the matter.
CONNECTICUT.
Twenty-cight divorces have been grautedrdu-
ing the present term Of the superior court in
Hartford.
little girl eleven years old, arrived in Meri-
den, few days ago, having come all the way
from ireland alone.
Daniel Andrews of South Glastonbury, prob
ably the Oldest Free Mason in the state, was
bGried few days ago. He was ninety years of
age,
Some young men, while returning from sing
ing school in Warren, fired their revolver at
dog and shot woman.
There is an old silver mine in Orange, which
yielded superior quality OF silver, though not
in very large quantities. Ii bas been closed for
years.
The evening school in Meriden opened this
week under very favorable auspices. There were
siNty-nine pupils in attendance, including five
ladies.
The rumor that ''Boss Tweed" is, or ever has
been. stakeholder in the New York and New
Haven railroad, is authOritatively denied by The
treasurer of the company.
package Of fifty railroad passes, issued by
companies in all parts of the country, was
found in the Wauregan house, Norwich, recent
y, and, with rare honesty, forwarded to the
owner in Worcester
Woodbury. takes pride in the fact that it is out
of debt and has $1,000 in the treasury. During
| the past year nearly $1,000 have been paid for
soldiers monument tax of six mills on a
dollar, 1t is estimated, will meet the necessary
expenses of the town for the year to come.
Dr.John Young, of Tiompsonyille, who has been
serving out two years sentence at the Wetl-
erstied state prison, for horse stealing at Thomp-
sonvlle, has Just been liberated having gained
seventy-fve days by good behavior. He pro-
poses to return to Thompsonyille and regain his
lost character.
The Providence Press of Wednesday evening
says: The Shore line train which arrived here
at halt-past seven o'clock last evening, came in
collision with carriage mt Southport, Conn,
making wreck of it. The occupant, a farmer,
whose name we could not learn, was found on
the pilot Of the engine, dead, but without any
apparent scratch upon him.
Very serious charges have been brought
against Harrison Johnson, Putnam lawyer, by
committee of three persons, for tamperng
with the superior court records in Brooklyn.
johnson issued a writ of attachment in 1869,
demanding $50 damages for a client The case
came before justice and he decided in favor Of
the defendants, who carried the matter up.
During the interval, johnson took the writ and
| altered the Judgment from 500 TO $50. John
son at first denied the truth, but afterwards adj
mitted the facts. The case comes up the first
week in December.
| RHODE ISLAND.
| A Boston paper SAYS: "Many people in Bos-
| ton know scallOps, but only Rhode Islanders and
| their autumn visitors know Soup
Mrs Joseph Coggeshall, of whose wanderings
while insane the public have already been in
formed through the papers, attempted suicide at
| her home in Portsmouth, on the 10Th, by taking
| poison, having purchased the drug in Fall River.
| She was alive at last accounts.
| A special election is TO be held in Providence
| on Monday next, for the purpose of elcctng Il
| representative 10 the general assembly, in place
| of Stephen Waterman deceased.
| Henccforth the Providence Herald must be
| looked upon as the ''poetical interpreter of
meteorological events" The other day we quot
| ed from its article concerning the aurora. This
| is what it says of the recent storm: "In the
swirl and torment of the elements yesterday
morning, the wind came down nightly upon
the sea and overcamc. As a consequence we
hear Of many marine casualties and became
acquainted with several detentions of usually
prompt arrivals"