Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-14

A man and a woman, inmates of the Meri-
den poor house, eloped few days ago. Il is
expected they will return after their Wedding
tour.
The wife of Henry Liski, Of New Haven, is
missing and il is thought that she has com
mitted suicide, as she had threatened 20 poison
herself.
Hartford saws through the Courant: ave con-
graduate New Haven upon having secured the
Jaryes gallery. Ii is the next best thing to haV-
ing the state house"
a large paper mill in Seymour, owned by W.
| W Smith, was burned Friday The fire caught
in the picking room Loss $4,000; insured for
| SIS, 900.
An old lady in Hartford who had during her
| life broken nearly every principal bone in her
body, fell, Thursday, cracked her skull and add
| ed one to the score.
| Portland stone, il is reported, will enter into
the composition of one of the finest business
! blocks 10 Chicago, 70 be erected by Mr.. Pullman
| of palace car fame.
The First Baptist church and society of Mcri-
! den have given Rev. MIR. Cordo, former pastor,
a call, and he has accepted. He will commence
| his labors on the first Sunday in December.
A movement is on foot among the different
| church choirs in New Britain, to organize a so
| cety for rehearsing oratOrios, and also with
| view of assisting the Beeth0vens of Hartford in
| their coming concert.
| A New Haven special says: Mrs. Lydia Sher-
man, the alleged poisOner, expresses every conf.
the last Tuesday in December. She shows no
signs of insanity. Few believe her innocent
Postmaster Durham, of Hartford, on Thurs
day appointed Oliver WoOdhouse chief clerk of
the post office, restoring him to the position nom
which he was removed by Postmaster Whitaker.
VIM B. Smith, Of Hartford, has been offered
very nearly 100000 for his Pennington avenue
property in that CRY. There are fifteen acres in
all. He purchased it few years ago for about
$1,000 an acre, and has sold a portion for S15-
&c iroNra tpap m dot in tbn r.ig
proved very handsome one-indced fortune.
Last week, while filing Il stove with fuel, a
daughter of Mr.. Andrews, who resides in Birm-
ingham in some manner got so near that her
dress took fire, and losing ncr presence eff mind,
she aided the flames materially by her actions
A little brother present rushed to his mother and
Informed her of the sad state of affairs, but the
flames were not eXtinguished until the girl had
been severely burned, She died shortly after
ward.
An exchange says "The sale of the Jarves col
lection of paintings to Yale college was bona
fide one, though the very low sum for which it
went has caused a suspicion to the contrary.
That the result has proved source of disap
pointment and modification TO MIR. Jarves we
may well believe, and we shall be surprised if
there is not lively correspondence and startling
revelations in consequence There is not the
slightest doubt that the pictures would easily
have brought $50 coo if sold separately or to-
gether either in Boston or New York"
Inc Hartford COurant mas the follOWlng:
| can embarrassing incident happened at the
opening of Mark Twain's lecture, Wednesday
evening. just as the lecturer began he took
from his pocket a dilapidated piece OF linen in
stead ola handkerchief The audience laughed,
and Mr.. Clemens, after moments annoyance,
turned the matter off with joke. 1t was only
an accident, resulting from a servants putting
some old linen in the drawer where Mr.. Clemens
was truStingly taught to expect to find his
handllerchiels, and it might have happened to
Edward Everett himself We only refer to it
because we hear that some of the audience re-
garded it as an arranged joke. Mr.. Clemens
likes joke as well as anybody but he is
the last man to attempt cheap trick of that
sort"
RHODE ISLAND.
w. A. Clarke, the venerable president of the
National bank of Rhode Island, Newport, has
been connected with that institution ifty-three
years.