Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-26

manner with music!and other social festivities"
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Holding camp meeting at Epping will |
commence August % and continue eight days.
In the mountain region of New Hampshire
eternal vigilance is the price of a seat on the
top of a coach.
Joseph Lambert, who was injured by fall
while feeding salt to a colt, at Pelham, fort
night ago, receiving compound fracture Of the
right leg, submitted TO an amputation on Sum
day forenoon and died in the afternoon.
The chief engineer of the fire department at
Portsmouth, has resigned because the board of
aldermen has refused to pay certain bills lfor
services rendered by the firemen, who refuse to
serve any longer unless paid.
A little son Of Albert p. Titus, of Columbia,
three years old, was with an older brother in
double team at Colebrook on the 18th inst On
their way home they stopped at a watering
trough, and when the team started the little one
fell to the ground and the hind wheel passed
over his head crushing it, causing almost instant
death.
On the 10th as the coaches were going from
Centre Harbor to North Conway they were
warned at Madison of bad washout made IN
the road by the storm. The first coach passed
the narrow spot safely, but the second was
more heavily loaded and had to run closer,
when the soft earth gave way, and the vehicle
went crashing down the bank, distance of
eighteen feet, among the trees and rocks.
Though nine persons were inside and two but
toned in the boot with the driver, the injuries
were merely bruises. Trunks and the coach
suffered The front wheels and horses were de-
taehedd by the tip-over, and The driver, hanging
on 10 the 1eins, was dragged a long distance.
Considering that the coach was so full and
turned completely over once and a half, il is re.
markable no one was killed.
VERMONT.
On Monday, Hon. Barzai Davenport, a
prominent citizen of Rutland county, died sud-
denly, aged eighty-two years He was forty-one
years town clerk of Brandon, and for three years
judge OF the county court. He was among the
oldest and most prominent Masons. having
been deputy grand master, grand high priest
and grand commander of the several Masonic
bodies these Offices represent.
CONNECTICUT.
The New Haven Palladium reckons the cost
of the capital lobby of that city at $4,000 for
the present year; and nothing has been accom-
plished either.
Anthony Moore of Collinsvie, the happy
father of nine stalwart boys, desires to match
them against any picked nine of brothers in the
state for base ball contest. We fear he will
not be gratitied.
turtle, marked "Isaac Roberts, 1922" was
found on Long IIfH, in MiddletOwn, a few days
ago, by Mr.. Baldwin Mr.. Roberts is still
living, and remembers marking his turtleship
half a century ago.
A chime of ten bells has been placed in the
tower Of St. PauPs church, East Bridgeport, by
the liberalty of Rev. DIR. Shears of New Haven.
The heaviest weighs 500 pounds, and they cost
81 500.
The Norwich Bulletin says: "Augnstus r.
Babcock, employed by Smith & Marble of Mid
dletOwn, accidentally knocked out one of his
eyes Friday. He Immediately replaced il, and
although the eye is swollen and painful, yet
it probably will do duty nearly as we'll as the
other"
hypocrite pretending to be Roman Catho
lie priest assisting Father Lynch went
around Middletown Friday, collecting for the
new orphan asylum. He succeeded in raising
forty or fifty dollars from servant girls before
his true character was exposed. The scoundrel
escaped arrest.
The little city of Waterbury is to be congratu-
lated on the prosperous condition of its Bronson
library. There are now about 1860 volumes,
and the number drawn during the year was 49,
179. The income last year was S17 ,1O4.S7, prin-
Cipally from the interest of bonds and mortgages,
amounting to $1S3, $50.
The Irishman Broderick, who kicked Deputy
Sheriff Alvord, of East Hampton, year ago,
| so severely as to cause his DEATH has been held
for trial before the superior court on the charge
| of "assaut with intent to kilP' Sheriff Alyord,
and for similar crime against David Dickers0n
of Chatham.
| Friday morning promising youth Of South
| Windsor, named Hermon Kibbe, was found
| hanging by the neck, dead, in shed near his
| fathers residence. 1t is supposed he was ex-
| perimenting with "haDgman's knot" which
| the hired man had taught him to tie the day be-
| FORE and by an unfortunate slip lost his life.
A tract of las acres, to be known as the Char
| fer Oak park, has been purchased within the
limits of West Hartford, and adjoining the track
of the Hartford and New Haven railroad for the
Connecticut stock breeders association. The
park proper, situated two and One-half miles
from Hartford, will contain about seventy acres,
| and it is proposed TO hold upon it next year
| grand state fair, and perhaps also the New En-
| gland fair and also the poultry shows. The as
socaton's capital stock will be ST. 900, of which
/ One-haH has been already subscribed.
| A singular case of somnambulism has trans
| pired in Hartford. Recently q lady and her
| husband returned TO their residence in that city
| from Ltchfeld, where they were spending the
| summer. On the morning after their arrival
| the lady missed three diamond rings, valued at
| over $500, which she remembered to have worn
/ on the night previous, Search was made by
| the police high and low, but to no effect, until
some days after the family had returned to
| Litchteld, when the house was subjected to a
thorough search, and the rings found in small
bureau drawer, carefully wrapped in cotton. 1t
is supposed the lady got up in the night in her
sleep and put them there, Immediately forgetting
| all about it.
The village of Miamus, in the town of Green
witch, has its gossip and sensation, like many a
larger community. The Stamford Advocate
| gives the particulars of a story, the hero of
which is knight of st. Crispn. The facts in brief
| are these: He several years ago won the heart,
| if not the hand, of widow, who, in addition
TO her other attractions, had a little daughter
some nine or ten years of age The girl reached
the age of sixteen, when her charms outshone
those of her maternal parent; so deep was the
impression thus made upon Sir Knight that he
gave the mother "ticket-of-leave," and in
stalled the youthful beauty as head of his house
and heart. Quite recently, however, the youth
full housekeeper listened to the persuasions of
an unlearned blacksmith in the neighborhood,
and has gone with him 10 parts unknown leav-
ing the Sir knight to keep his castle alone.
| RHODE ISLAND.
The Harvard freshman crew bear testimony
to the cordial sympathy and magnanmity
shown by the Brown freshman crew, after the
result OF the race at Springfield. Instead of
disappearing from the scene, boat, badges and
men alike, as has been too much the way with
the vanquished crews at Worcester the last few
years, they came in a body to the presentation
of the cups they failed to win, congratulated the
winners, and took pains to say that they had
done their best and were fairly 0utrowed.