Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-14

with misrepresenting his district, has published
letter signed by one hundred ana eleven clti-
zens OF Hebron, stating their Satisfaction Ut tue
course he pursued.
In digging cellar on the northwest corner
| of the Yale college yard, several curious things
were unearthed, among them lar OF currants,
| n cannon ball and wooden coffin, which speed
| ily crumbled TO dust containing not bones, but
decanter and several gasses-the sole remain
ing witnesses of some drunk of the past An
old well, forty feet deep, was uncovered, and
found TO contain seven feet of water.
The Young Mems institute of Hartford, at its
annual meeting last week, reported total MEM
bership of 1872. Their library contains % ,22S
volumes and financially the institution is a
fourishing one, having 81 900 invested, and
having cleared during the year by public con-
ceris and lectures nearly $500. This insttu-
| ton is found to be exceedingly valuable and is
something which ought to be established in
every city in the state.
Inc Middletown Constitution says: d" The in
| crease OF shad in the Connecticut is worthy of
| note. Reports reach us from all parts OF the
| river ABOVE and below our city that the fisher
men are hauling so many fish they cannot find
market for them. The best Shad sold for ten
cents piece last week in Saybrook, and also in
| New York city. 1t is also reported that inn
mense numbers Of young shad are seen, and
the prospect now is that this excellent fish will
be so abundant and cheap that the poorest can
have all they want"
| The Waterbury American has the following
| In the historical history of Watertown can be
found the following records: "Died, JAM 18th,
1873, Betsey, I'd wife of James Merriam. Died,
| Nov. 18th, 1913, Abigail, Bird wife of James MeT-
RAM Our informant adds: "rhe precise date
| when number was installed is not definitely
known, but the writer, who was young at the
tlme, recollects it was said that Mr.. Merriam
| lived with the three wives within hCelpe months
This reminds us of the cemetery in New Lon
| don county, where is a lot containing five
graves, one in the center, the others near by at
the four points of the compass. The inscrip-
hons on the latter read respectively, after the
| name of deceased, "My Wife," ''My II Wife"
MY Ill Wife" "My iii Wife" while the CEN
trail stone bears the brief but eloquent express
sion, sour Husband"
Connecticut by the corrected census of 1870
has total population of 537 ,554, an increase of
77,307 since 1860. The number of foreign born
Is 1884, of which the Irish population is TO-
63O, or more than one-half. There are two
Chinese, 235 Indians and 9,96S colOred The
vital statistics for 1870 show the number of
births to have been 13, 1856, or 655 more than any
previous year. The ratio of births to the popu-
latlon was one to every 409 More births Oc-
CURED in March and September than in any
other month. More males were born in January
and more females in May. The deaths reached
the number of $685., the rate being one out of
every 6O.5 OF the population. Deaths from
cholera infantum were 7.45 out of every one
hundred. The largest percentage of deaths,
(20.S5) is charged to Zymotic diseases and the
next, (24.57) to affections of the respiratory
years.
Alvin Bumstead the West Springfield bond
robber of youthful years, was captured Friday
afternoon, about half a mile beyond Stafford
Springs, by Assistant Marshal Parks. This lad
who is but fourteen years of age, was formerly
employed by James E. Champion of West
Springfield. During the afternoon of Decora-
non day he went up stairs, ostensibly to change
MS clothes, but really to steal a tin box trunk
containing one 500 bond, one $500 bond, S62
IN money, and quantity of valuable papers,
two bank books, etc, with which he decamped.
Mr.. Parks traced the boy to cousins about
four miles beyond Stafford Springs, thence to
the woods, where he found him preparing alder
wood for making gunpowder. He acknowl-
edged the theft, and the trunk, bank books, and
some papers, with the 500 bond discovered in
the road day or two ago have been found. He
says he expended the money, and sold the $500
bond.
o. NJ. Ferguson, who has been figuring be-
fore the courts lately, as the wickedest man in
New Haven, being proprietor of two or three
houses of ill-fame in that city, made speech in
the city court Friday, making the very sensible
announcement that he had made up his mind
not only to give up the business for which he
was under arrest, but also that of selling rum,
which he thought the worst of the two, and
that he would earn his living in different
manner, even if he he had to work on the
streets to do it. He didn't propose TO run away
from New Haven, but wanted to redeem him
self, live there, and show people that the
amendment was real. The court, however, was
slow to appreciate the zeal of the new convert,
and insisted that Ferguson should in one case
give $1,000 bonds not to keep such a house, and
in the other should in addition pay a fine of
500 and be imprisoned six months. The lat
ter case was appealed and the required bonds
given. Other keepers of such establishments
are suffering the penalties of their misdeeds, and
New Haven has an altogether remarkable
spasm OF virtue just now.
The New Haven Courier thus explains the
dispatch from that city, a few days since
On Saturday warrants were issued by the city
attorney for the arrest of the parties who have
headed and directed the conspiracy which was
entered into by the New Haven typographical
union last week to injure the business of this
paper. Our readers will recollect that posters
were issued, informing workingmen that if they
would stop their subscriptions TO this paper,
The Palladium or Press would be sent to them
free of charge for one month, upon application
TO the office of the Union, at No. go Chapel |
street. Only one of the parties, Charles L.
Jillson, was arrested on Saturday During
Sunday the following named, hearing they were
wanted, delivered themselves up: Jefferson j.
Young, chairman of the business committee of
the Union; Thomas Sherman, VIM. A. Denni-
son, JudsOn Grinnel and George K. Holmes.
These parties gave bonds for their appearance
before the city court this morning. One other
party was in Waterbury, and has not responded
yet"
RHODE ISLAND.
-Four little children of Mrs Marcy of Provi-
dence, nearly lost their lives few DAYS since by
eating the bark OF the linden tree, which in taste