Worcester daily spy., 1871-12-07

square timbers, and, as some claim, was safer
Jail than the present. This stood till 1888 when
ii was torn down and twO-story brick building
put up in its. stead This was burned in 1854,
| as is supposed by Moses Bacon, who was con-
fined there al the time. For the next two years
the iails in Caledonia and Orleans counties
were used by Essex county, and in 1906 the
present Jail was erected.
CoNNECTICUT.
AT the election in NOrwalk Monday, the en-
tire republican ticket was elected.
The New Haven woman suffrage association
formally announces that 1t docs not fight nit
Woodruff.
Upon the arrival Of the Grand Duke Alexis in
| Bridgeport this morning, he will be welcomed
! by Gov. Jewell in behalf Of the state.
The store OF Joseph Harper, in Waterbury,
| together with his stock of goods, were burned
on Friday. Loss about $4,000, and insured for
| $500.
The six Hartford suspended fire insura nee
! companies had declared in dividends from the
! date of their organization to the Chicago fire,
! St612 800, and lost at Chicago S4,500 900.
Mrs, Sarah Butler Of Meriden, eighty
| five years of age was dangerously burned Sat
| urlay, by her clothes taking fire from stove.
| 4 Mrs. Spencer, who attempted to quench the
| flames was quite seriously burned.
| The Rockville manufacturers begin to feel the
! duh time. The Springfield company (Satinet)
| will shut down the works in II few days, TO
await better times, and other mills are talking
a
their production
A dozen young Cyntonians Of both sexes got
on a platform car on the Connecticut Western
road, Sunday evening, for the fun Of the thing,
but they set 1t agoing on a down grade and it
ran six miles to Simsbury street. They did not
enjoy The ride back-aloot
The barn of Mr.. Bradford Marcy, in Collom-
vile, was burned on Saturday morning with
most of its contents. Three valuable horses
we're with difficulty removed. The public
academy was slightly damaged, and the lumber
yard of Alderman & Son adjoining caught fire
but the greater portion of the lumber was saved
Loss $4,000; partially covered by insurance. 1t
is supposed to have been the work of an incen-
diary.
In the case Of the First Ecclesiastical society
in Hartford VS., the town of Hartford TO recover
taxes, heard by the supreme court in Septem-
Der, a decision has been rendered, Judge Sey-
mour giving the opinion. He decides that the
south store under the Centre church, which was
purchased by the society Of Nathaniel Terry in
1881, Tor which $4,000 was paid from an ancient
fund which was exempt from taxation, is
exempt; but that the north store, which was
purchased at the same time from Daniel Wads-
worth for $3.50, is not exempt, as il was paid
for in part by funds of the society not
exempt from taxation.
The Norwich fire insurance company is adjust
ing its losses on the basis of thirty-iYe per cent
At the time Of the Chicago fire the company had
large risks in that city, and its losses amounted
to S47j 600, on one hundred and forty policies
The claims of siXty-one Of these policy holders
have been cancelled by the payment of thirty
five per cent and the settlement is still progress
inr. AT the time of the fire the company had
elsewhere about S3S 900 in unsettled claims
part Of which has been settled on the basis of
thirty-iive per cent, the remainder being now in
litigation. The company is al present doing no
business but merely setting its losses.
The grand jury summoned in Hartford last
week to the limited Stotps dis
trict court were so lealSy that their findings were
published IN the newspapers before they were
presented tn the court. ThercupOn Judge Ship
man refused to accept their return, and ordered
them to assemble again on Monday of this
week. Onthat day he sent them out TO do their
work over again, giving them sharp rebuke in
his charge, which concluded as follows:- q
deem the preservation Of this rule of secrecy of
great importance, and shall use whatever power
| the law vests in me to maintain it. When the
| jurors in this court, or in any other with which
! may be connected can no longer be preserved
\ from approaching, or being approached by
| Others, or OF communicating the nature or prog
ress of their deliberations to the public or to in
| diyidualS, the administration of justice win be.
come farce, in which shall not participate"
| RHODE ISLAND.
| Mr.. jeremiah BoswOrth, well know citizen
of Bristol, and for many years actively engaged
in politics, died on Sunday, aged eighty wears.
The wholesale hat and cap establishment of
Is. A. Nhitcomh IN Providence was damaged by
the bursting OF a water pipe on the 9TH to the
am0Rnt OF about $1,000 or $1,000.
| The new Providence opera house, on Dor
| rance street, has a front Of one hundred and
eleven feet, and the building covers a superice
! of about ten thousand feet The facades are of
/ pressed brick with trimmings of rose colored
| westerly granite; the cOrniceS are of iron, and
/ the roof is surmOunted by ornamental crestingS
/ The main entrance is twelve feet wide, the doors
swinging ont, and no care has beenspared to rem
! der the building strong and safe. The audi
torium is seventy by tity-lour feet, comprising
/ parquet, balcony and family circle There are
| six proScenium boxes elaborately Ornamented
| The aiscs and floors of the parquet are carpet
| ed; the seats, of bronzed iron and scarlet cloth
| are ample and easy. The balcony, parquet and
boxes viii seat fifteen hundred persons, comfort
and convenience being paramount to numbers