Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-19

and the New York repcaters. If an investiga-
ton is had no doubt it will be shown that the
colonel is elected by seventy-five majority. What
n lovely country this would be under the pres.
eut Style of democratic rule.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The brick walls of the new town house at
Ashland are nearly completed
The West Lebanon library association has
now about three hundred Volumes
Typhoid fever is prevalent at Lebanon this
season, but not very fatal.
Sandown has subscribed $4,000 to the stock
Of the Nashua and Rochester railroad.
Inc boarding house connected with Bates Il
Aldrich's shirt factory in Walpole, took fire on
the 9th, and was damaged TO the amount of
81 800; partly insured.
The Cocheco print works are to receive an adj
dition for the convenience of the engraving and
finishing rooms. The works now turn out
twenty-five millions yards of print annually.
Samuel U. Dearborn, of Hill, man about 10
years DID, was suddenly killed on Thursday,
14th inst. by being thrown from cart, the
wheels crushing his head
The Union church parish of Claremont, is to
celebrate its centennial on the last wednesday
in this month. The commemorative address
will be delivered BIZ the Rev. DIR. Hubbard, of
Trinity church in that town.
Morse Bailey Esq, one of the oldest and
most prominent citizens of Salem, died recently,
aged 68 years He had held various responsible
Offices and represented the town in the legisa-
ture for several terms.
The Portsmouth Times says Mr.. Jefferson
Rowe of that city, who was injured at Revere, is
doing well, He has been removed to comforta-
bic quarters where his wife can care for him.
and is as comfortable as a man can he, who has
both legs broken, and his right arm amputated,
VERMONT.
Lyman Cumming, the oldest lawyer of Bur
lington, died Friday night aged IS years.
Rev. j. n. Fairbanks, rector ST. Thomas EpiS-
copal church, Brandon, died Friday.
II. }. Fay'S steam saw and grist mill, at North
Williston, was destroyed by fire on Friday
night. Loss S30,0O0 insured for $1,000.
Watson, the negro barber who attempted TO
commit rape on the wife of Alderman John
son of Burlington, has been put under $1,000
bonds TO away trial.
Brattleboro's summer visitors are fast thin
ming ont. There has been a much greater call
for accommodations than could be furnished
during the season.
CONNECTICUT.
Samuel Clemens, alias "Mark Twain" comes
to Hartford for his future home, and has tenn
porarily rented the beautiful residence in the
suburbs of Mr.. John and Mrs. Isabella Beccher
Hooker, and so will be next door neghbor to
Only Summer in the Garden" Warner.
The "modern Borgia," as Mrs. Sherman, the
Derby pOisoner, is called, will be arraigned at
New Haven, to-day. She manilests extreme in
difference at the result, and does not appear to
be haunted with the ghosts of her eight children
and three husbands, all of whom, it is alleged,
she poisoned within the space of few years, in
the most heaFtleSS manner imaginable.
The show of the Tolland county agricultural
society at Rockville occurs on Wednesday and
Thursday, September 9th and 2Sth. The
premium list and committee list have been pub
lisIed. One new class is added, premiums of
IS and So being offered for the meanest looking
teams OF turnouts exhibited on the track.
Hon. Horace johnson of Middle Haddam,
having invested heavily in Air Line securities,
has failed. 1t is rumored that other creditors
of the road will also be Swamped unless work
on the line is soon begun. 1t is to be hoped
That the town will soon guarantee bonds of
the company, and that general attack will
shortly commence all along the line.
Frank Blake, accused of numbering Nathan
Fem, of Milford, last summer, by shooting him
in his own house during the night time, is to be
tried at New Haven dssTing the coming term. 1t
is hardly expected that there will be proof pre-
scented to warrant the bulding of Blake, but he
certainly deserves to be punished for some of his
exploits. He strongly protests his in
nocenCe.
Thieves Paradise is the name given to the
place, on the New Haven railroad, where the
chief members of the ring have erected their
palaces, and where they live in infamous luxury,
surrounded by everything that wealth can adj
minister TO appetite and to pleasure, and enjoy
ing the contempt of their fellow citizens and the
LEGISLATION of all honest men. If they are n
little sensitive to public opinion, at this time it
is not from any conjunction OF conscience, but
because they apprehend that their little game
may be interrupted for while.
The Danbury News says: lNessrs. William T.
Hart, Charles p Clark, EdN ard l.. Pierce and
Robert Il. Bishop, trustees of he Berdell mort
gage bonds, arrived in Danbur Saturday after
noon, and continued TO Fishkill Monday. These
gentlemen have gone over the line of the road
u n tn
of the property. They inform us that about
of the earth work is completed
and that but little money, compare lively speak
ing, is required to complete the bed between
Waterbury and the junction with the Harlem
road at Brewster, New York.