Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-28

| yer, Brooklyn, N. I. sophomore Glass;. A.
| Aiken, Greenfield, Mass; S. t. Conlee, Green
wich, N. Y; r. Kerr, West Killingly, Conn. II.
| U. King Woodstock, VT, +. A. Thayer, New
Ipswich, N. H.; A. Wswall, Fitchburg, Mass.
The Nashua Telegraph, which peculiar fond
ness for dog and fish stories, has the following
in its issue OF the 25th Tasso," the sprghtly
and intelligent canine companion of B. F. Ken
drlck, ticket agent of the Nashua and Lowell
railroad, mysterously disappeared on the last
day of March. To-day he was accidentally
found under the stage platform in Franklin hall,
having suffered solitary confinement for twenty
nVe days as penance for too much curiosity
about rats" Tasso was so much emaciated that
his intimate juvenile friends in Mr.. Hendricks
family hardly recognized him. Unless he cap
tured stray rat he must have been without
food during the whole period of his incaicera-
ton.
Mr. VIM. s. Burnham, foreman of the print |
ing house of +. c. Eastman & Co., and organist |
at st. Johns Roman Catholic church, died on the
9th at Concord, after brief illness OF typhoid
fever, at the age of nearly thrty-three years. He
was native of Bow, and, we believe, a grand
son of the late Rev. Abraham Burnham, d. D.,
of Pembroke. After graduating at Dartmouth
college in 1864, be was for time in Boston, and
while in Concord he was for about two years
writer for the People. He was aEoung man of
ability, and had many friends Rev G., W.
Burnham of Hopkinton was his brother. A
short time before his death he was engaged to
one of the most accomplished and esteemed la.
dies of Concord
The Concord Patriot relates that as Mr.. A W.
Gibbs, commercial agent from New York, was
leaning over the Phenix counter Monday eve
ming, suddenly white fame burst from his
right vest pocket, in which there was nothing
but gold pen and holder and two ten cent scripts.
Mr.. q. tried to suppress it by smothering it with
his coat, but the flame not only burned off one
side of the vest, but through the coat, making
large hole and burning three fingers of Mr.
lIllDS' riuht hand
was also somewhat burned. On investigation,
the pen was found completely melted or shat
tered to pieces, looking hattened out, as if rolled
when very hot. The pen was pocket gold pen
with butt and black handle, and had been used
for sometime daily. The most reasonable theo-
ry to account for the singular affair is that some
adhesive filling of an explosive nature and been
used in constructing the holder, and that on
leaning over the counter the pressure had ignit-
ed it,"
VERMONT.
The town of Poultney celebrates its centen-
NAL this year.
A residence in course of erection at St. Johns
bury for Col. Franklin Fairbanks will be, it is
said, the finest in the state.
The butter market at St. Adams this week
was active, prices having downward tendency.
Prices ranged from % to 80 cents.
Rev. Luther Cole, Baptist clergyman at
EnoSberg, died few days since. He had re-
sided there forty-seven years.
The spring term of the normal school at RAN
dolph closed on the Dist inst. There was an at
tendance of $50 during the term, and the grad
uating class numbered nineteen.
CONNECTICUT.
new Congregational church is to be erected
i'll Middletown, at a cost Of S65,000.
The amount due the state on the war claim,
| $4,000, has been paid.
Rev. c. II. Tremaine has accepted call to be-
come rector of the new parish of St. Thomas,
| Hartford.
A three-eyed cat is a Noank production, and
| Noank would like to know how is that is for
| eye.
The town of Plymouth has voted to 60 into
the new county, to be formed, with Waterbury
as the county seat
A petition is to be extensively circulated in
Derby this spring, praying the legislature TO
pass general railroad law.
VIM. Clark of Fair Haven was stabbed three
times in New Haven, on Tuesday night, by
James Reilly, during dispute about young
lady.
The Greenwich negro, arrested on suspicion of
being the murderer of Mr.. Gregory, will be
taken to Norwalk for examination before the
jury of inquest.
The revenue receipts in the Hartford district
in March, were SIS, 514.25, of which over $4,000
were obtained from tobacco, spirits and beer
stamps.
In Leesvile, there was not republican vote
| cast at the last election. There was a republic
can living there at one time, but it was too hot
| place for him, and he moved away
Messrs. Blackstone & Norton brothers en-
ploy 800 hands in their factory in Attawaugan,
aud turn out 100000 yards of cloth per week,
Inc mill contains 525 power looms and about
10000 Spindles.
Blackman, of Ridgefeld, who recently at
tempted to take his life in the Bridgeport Jail
by cutting his throat and drinking kerosene, is
lingering in great suffering. He is now unable
to swallow any nourishment, and can live but a
short time
An unoccupied house at New Britain, owned
by Cornelius Andrews, was burned last week,
with $500 worth of A. Andrews & Co.'s i'm
proved school furniture, temporily stored in it.
The building was insured.
Charles E. Bacon, OF New York, pleaded guilty
OF mail robbino before the United States circuit
court, at New Haven, on Tuesday, and was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for one year and to pay
fine of $780,.
Mr.. Dayton a respected citizvn of Centreville,
committed suicide on Monday afternoon by
taking dose of corrosive sublinate. A phys-
clan was summoned, and would have saved his
lie but for the mans determined resistance. He
leaves family
A little Sherwood boy of Brookfeld died at the
state reform school last week. He was dis
charged last fall for good behavior, but was sick
and his parents TOO poor to care for him proper
ly, and he returned of his own accord, and was
tenderly cared for till his death.
n lew udyS ago. fGCucTlck fafref made q
brutal attack upon John Harper, the keeper Of
saloon in Mulberry street, Hartford, and Mrs.
Harper, who went to the assistance of her hus-
band, was knocked down and seriously injured.
Farrer escaped on the train to New York.
baron" Schleigel, a prominent democratic
politician in New Haven, was recently arrested
FOL having aided and abetted another unadul-
terated democrat to vote illegally, by answering
to name on the check list, not bis own. On
Tuesday, the 18th, the grand jury in the U. S.
district court found true bill against Mr. Sch
leigel, and he was bound over for trial.
Wallingford correspondent of the New Ha-
ven journal says on the 25th: "The man Speight
who has been the cause OF so much excitement
and trouble at Southington and elsewhere, by
his practices so grossly at war with morality,
has been about our village with two of his
women for number of days. Last
evening, about ten o'clock, he was met by two
men, who seized him, placed him in a wagon,
and drove to Wallingford, stopping in Main
street, near the school house. Here they exacted
promise from him that he would leave the state
at once, and never return, after which they let
him 90. He then started down the hill, When
about half way from the Center to the Plain he
was seized by pa ty of about a dozen of our
citizens, who proceeded at once quietly and in
order to remove his outer garments, when they
gave him glossy suit of good thick tar, not
forgetting to shampoo well his head with the
same raw material"
RHODE ISLAND.
-. providence is soon to have Joe Jefferson in
Rip Van Wrinkle.
Nilsson will spend month at Newport This
summer, and it is said that she and KELLOGG
will give concerts there
A Providence paper asserts that it is safe to
say that at least 100000 will be spent in thai
city for amusements' during the present and
next month.
The Rhode Island people are becoming inter
ested In narrow gauge railroads. The plan is
looked upon with much favor by many citizens
OF the little state, as it saves room.
AT Newport, Sunday morning, a man named
Lloyd, filled an oyster can with water, corked il
tight and set it on the stove to heat The result
was an explosion of the can, a badly scalded
face and a doctors bill.
II Is stated by a Providence daily that Proyi-
denee comes to Worcester to-day, and Worces-
ter goes TO Providence on the Friday following
me paper adds; "The frequent visiting indi-
estes good feeling between the citizens Of two
vi T Ile pest regulated cities in the country y
w Ing NEWPORT News exultingly excaims. The
Mlcklofd railroad is done. The dennts o. lnI
constructed and everything is in rnnpin5. "ie an
Inc steamer Eolus will be ready to cors Uluel.
her trips next Monday. The c0ntrectnri ilence
believe, were to finish the road by the teS'. we
May but it seems that their Job is fnisbed o ol
eral days ahead of time. By the comnie G seVr