Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-09

CONNECTICUT.
Sarah Jane W inters of Chapinvile, 27 wears
, of age, recently committed suicide by swallow
ing two ounces of laudanum. No cause for the
| rash act is known.
The third annual reunion of the 9th Connec-
ticut volunteers will be held at the Sea View
house, West Haven, Wednesday, September
| 9th, 1871.
Patrick Garvin, IS years OF age, was drowned
while bathing in Snpsic lake at Vernon, a few
days SINCE
George Cooper, who was suspected of shoot
ing German girl, on the street in New Haven,
last winter, installing her for some one else, re-
Gently committed suicide in New York state.
Edmund +. Tracy of Jewett city, while labor
ing under temporary alteration of mind, cut his
throat with razor, and died about seven
O'Clock on the morning of the 18th.
On the afternoon of the 9th a man named
Dwight Beecher, of Bristol, was bitten by rat
tesnake on one of his fingers. He was climb
ing fence and accidently put his hand upon
the serpent, which Immediately few up and
struck him. 1t is feared that he will die.
The Willimantic camp meeting will commence
on the oath inst, and preparations for it are al
ready begun. Among other novelties this year
the Journal mentions one which il terms the
leasing of hOu Sc Gin our village for lcentious
purposes during camp meeting week..
On Sunday morning a sister of William H.
Bangs of Meriden went into his room to call him
to breakfast, when she discovered that he was
almost dead. A physician was at once called,
but before his arrival Mr. Banks died. He took
some kind of poison to get rid of the sorrows of
this life, which weighed heavily on his mind.
An entirely new work on American nanufac-
lures is in the press of Messrs. j. B. Burr &
Hyde, entitled, The Great Industries of the
United States: a Historical Summary of the
Origin and Growth of the Chief Industrial Arts,
including Personal Sketches" etc. The book is
compiled by l.. w. Chase and assistant writers,
and will appear in the fall
RHODR
The various lodges in Massachusetts of the
order of the Knights of Pytbias will make an
excursion to Rocky Point in the early part of
September
A large number of sharks, in shoals and sim
gly, are daily observed summing in the harbor at
Bristol. Many of them, as they come to the
surface of the water, appear to be from eight to
ten feet in length.
Dr. John P. Abbott of Warren is sick with the
small pox. He had the care of those afflicted
with the disease, and does now, being himself in
the hospital. The cases thus far have been of
very mild, modified form.
The wife of Charles Crows, a workman in the
paper mill at Burnside, died Thursday, after on
Illness OF few days. 1t is reported that her
death was occasioned by small pox, which she
caught from picking over pile of rags in the
mill which il is supposed were infected.
MIR. and Mrs. j. G. Chadsey of Wexford, who
were born near that village in the year 1880
were married on the 10th Of August, 1904, are
SUN blessed with good health, and both attend
service every Sunday. SiXty-seven years of
happy welded life is a boon not often vouch-
safed to mortals in these later times.
The iremen of Newport wish to raise $4,000
for the grand muster and review in September;
$1,000 has been appropriated by the city, another
Thousand they will raise among themselves and
by the use of part of the regular appropriation
for the fire department, and the remaining thou
sand they hope to secure by outside subscrip-
ton.