Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-26

Mr.. O. Vaughn, New Hampshire man, got
cane by majority of $50 votes out of total of
1928, awarded to the most popular man. at
Bloomington, H., fair. The fair realized the
sum of s1565.60 from the voting.
The Congregational society at Hillsboro
Bridge have invited Rev. H. R. Underwood, re-
Gently of Baxter Springs, Kansas, to become
their pastor. The church at this place has been
undergoing repairs for more than year, which
are now nearly completed.
In Littleton, recently, Miss Angelina Brown
of Bethlehem, fell through a trap-door in Til
toms block, dlsocated hip and shoulder, broke
an arm and injured her spine. She is, probably,
crippled for life. A handsome purse has been
made up for her.
Miss Mary Sherburne, an old lady Of eighty
seven, living in the outskirts of Portsmouth,
fell i'm her yard on Sunday, and laid an hour or
two before being found. Her ankle and hip
were badly injured by the fall, and both her
hands were frozen as she lay, She is the daugh-
ter of the late Col. Samuel Sherburne and draws
a pension. After receiving $50 few days since
it was picked from her pocket, but her friends
made up the loss
CONNECTICUT.
A civil suit has been brought by the Yale stu
dent, Watson, against police officer Kelly, to re-
cover damages for clubbing him.
The Norwich Bulletin says: The brown
stone quarry at East Windsor hill has for some
time been sending ten tons of brown stone daily
TO Worcester, for buildings"
Rev. j. L. Wright, of Haddam, an old and
faithful Congregational minister, died last
week, aged sixty-one. He was buried at Glas-
tenbury.
A fire occurred in Haliwell's tea store, New
Haven, Monday night, which with the water
used in extinguishing it, damaged the property
to the extent of about $4,000. Fully insured.
Church thieves are doing thriving business
in Middlefeld. The Methodist church was
robbed of some furniture, and the Episcopal,
FL cnpOOd time within n of IFS Garnet,
Bible and prayer book, FRIDAY night. 1t is but
a short time since the Congregational church
also lost carpet
A young man named Charles Lille, of Leba-
non, was recently badly injured while grinding
down grindstone, piece of the stone weigh
ing some two pounds flying off, tearing away
the upper lip and the end of the nose, and
splitting the upper jaw almost to the palate.
Hon. David Lyman, prominent citizen OF
Middlefeld, died few days ago. His life was
insured for $4,000. A large amount of the in
surance was obtained within the last four years,
and it was Mr. Lyman's intention to increase IL
10 100000.
The case of Mrs. Sarah S. Sherwood, of Green
field Hill, who was some five years since impris-
oned, on complaint of her husband, because she
refused to deliver her own personal property,
amounting to few thousands, to him, has re-
Gently been revived by the action of the jaior,
who now brings a suit for board furnished her
during her incarceration.
RHODE ISLAND.
Miss Luckey the young lady whom Calvin X.
Cross, the New York bachelor-benedict, es-
poused when already married man, is in Yves
terly with his friends, her parents, it is said,
having disOwned and abandoned her.
At funeral in Newport, last week, instead OF
a hearse being used to convey the remains TO
their last resting place, an express wagon com
pletely enveloped in evergreenS inside and out
was used for that purpose. raised dais in
the centre of the wagon also covered with ever
greens, sustained the coffin, which was prcfuse-
" licked with flowers. The novelty was in ac-
cordance with the expressed wish of the de-
ceased.