Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

life as well among the brethren where they hav
always lived, as they would if they had gon
out TO live among the "Gentiles."
MAINE.
Josiah II. Tilton, of Skowhegan, had one O
| his feet crushed on Saturday afternoon by
passenger train which was being switched on Il
| a side track.
Geo. H. Knowlton, United States assessor 70
| the Bddetord district, and one of the editors o
the Portland Press, young man of mucl
promise and highly respected, died in BiddeforC
on the Sd, after weeks sickness.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
AT Concord, on Sunday morning, fire broke
| out about one O'Clock, in a small wooden build
| ing on Main street, owned by Mr. James r. Hill
| and occupied by Mr.. d. B. Newhall as a fish
| and provision market. The building was nearly
| DESTROYED and building adjoining owned by
| Hill, was considerably damaged. Hills loss is
not over $500. Newhalps loss is not known,
but is fully covered by insurance. The cause Of
the nre is unknown. s4s1s aS.s
VERMONT.
Lucius b. Phillips of Rockingham committed
suicide by hanging last week. Rum was prob
ably the cause.
brakeman named Holland was knocked
from a train near Proctorsville, last week, and
seriously if not fatally injured
The iewelry store of Mr.. Grow, Chelsea, was
entered and robbed week ago last Friday night,
and the thieves, with the plumber, escaped, In
stances were forwarded to City Marshal Lang,
Of Lowell. Last Friday, box about foot and
half square, was received by Cheney & Co s
express in that city directed to Charles Weston.
On Monday morning, on the arrival of the
northern train, John E. Garvey called for the
box, and Officer j. G. Favor, who was in wait
ing, arrested him. Garvey acknowledged his
participancy in the robbery, and says he left
Chelsea last Friday. The box contains silver
ware and iewelry. Carney is about thirty-fve
years of age, was born at Chelsea, Mass, and
few years ago was engaged in a meat shop in
that city.
CONNECTICUT.
Glass day exercises occurred at Wesleyan uni
versity Thursday.
Stamford rejoices at the completion of its
water works, and will celebrate the event on
the Fourth.
The American Mutual life insurance company
of New Haven propose soon to erect $780, 900
building.
The Episcopal academy at Cheshire celebrated
its nth anniversary, Thursday, with interesting
exercises by the students.
Rev. Olympia Brown of Bridgeport, will adj
dress the Sons OF Temperance at Georgetown,
on the 4th of July.
The DeForest prize speaking took place in
the Yale college chapel, Friday. Howard
Mansfield of New Haven was awarded the
medal.
A four year old daughter of DR.. Barker of
received by falling down stairs three weeks
ago.
The South Norwalk mayor has granted per-
mission to the boys to discharge fre-crackers
and things between five O'Clock Monday after
noon and half past eleven Tuesday night.
One of New York's grand plans for future
Improvement, ii is said is said to buy up all the
mills and factories on the Housatonic river,
stop them, and then use the water to supply the
city.
Wilson, the murderer, now awaiting execu-
ton, having failed either to awaken interest by his
starvation plan, or to elicit sympathy by dis
cuorsing, Ia Rulloff, on ethics, has taken to
writing poetry.
j. H. Hammond and Fred Arlington were fined
$50 each in the Waterbury police court, last
week, for selling obscene pictures to boys of
that city.
E. Wooster Curtis, son of Eli Curtis, died in
Watertown, last week, from the effects of ball
playing, il is supposed, He had been sick about
six months.
The corner stone of the new Episcopal church
in UniOnvllle was laid with impressive cere-
monies, under the charge of Bishop Williams,
Thursday afternoon.
Thursday morning about two O'Clock o. B.
Leavenworth of New Haven died very suddenly
He retired in good health and spirits at eleven
O'Clock, and soon after was attacked with cpl
lepsv with fatal result.
A Cromwell fisherman drew up a small iron
chest in his seine the other day. He thought
he had drawn prize, but was affected to pro-
faulty when he found nothing therein but a
small German Testament.
Hartford is not happy. She complains that
the fish in that vicinity use her water pines as
cemeteries, and that the festive eel chooses TO
end its days within their confines. The papers
demand grand elbow OUT of the water mines
to clean them of the accumulated filth.
VIM. Lewis, driver in the employ of the
Adams express company, in Hartford, stole
two valuable gold watches from the baggage
room in the depot, few days ago, and fled.
He was arrested in Chicago, and now awaits
trial.
The soldiers monument recently erected in
Litchheld is said to be one of the handsomest
in the state. 1t is of Italian marble, twenty
feet high, exclusive of the granite base, and
the various devices which it bears are highly
artistic.
T. NJ. Allyn of Hartford has offered to give TO
the young mems institute of that city $40 900 in
United States bonds and the building known as
Allyn hall, for the purpose of establishing a
tree library and gallery of art. A committee
has been appointed by the institute to take ac-
ton in the matter
A Bridgeport man had a $500 horse taken sud-
denly i'll and he was pronounced incurable by a
of the city. A dealer in matches hap
pened along that way and offered a gross of his
commodity for the horse The bargain was i'm.
mediatelY made. The animal is now recovering,
and will probably regain his original value %
Miss Mary Warner, young lady about seven
teen years old, was found drowned in the Broad
Brook stream, near the residence of Carlos
Kibbe, in Ellington, Friday morning. She left
a note for Mrs. Nelson Warner, where she was
visiting, saying she was tired of life &c. She
was daughter of Dan Warner, now of Vernon.
but formerly of Ellington.
Commencement week at Middletown will be-
gin on Monday, July 18th. The dedication of
Mn sln al han NrFtNh n
James, and the dedication of "0range Judd Hail
Of Natural Science" with an Grafton by Alexan-
der Winchell of Ann Arbor, Michigan, will be
the chief attractions of the week. In addition to
these there will be the anniversary address, a
exhibition, a regatta on the Connecti-
cut, concert, alumni festival, &C., &c, making in
all a very interesting week.
The jury of inquest into the death of a little
son of James Nichols, in Hartford Thursday.
rendered a verdict of accidental shooting. the
result Of criminal carelessness and in direct VIC
ation of the laws of the city," 1t appears that
a son of the Rev. DR.. Turnbull seventeen or
eighteen years old, was practicing with rife in
company with young friend in the rear of his
fathers residence. The mark was affixed TO a
board fence, and the little boy hearing the sound
Of firing came up behind the fence and was in
;tanty killed.
The fifty-ffth annual report of the directors
Of the American asylum for the deaf and dumb
at Hartford, shows that there are at present 1852
pupils in the institution. There have been dis
missed during the year 80. Lip reading and
speaking have been taught during the year with
success. The pupils are supported as
follows; By Maine 81, New Hampshire 10. Yer
mont IS, Massachusetts iii, Rhode Island I.
Connecticut 81, New Jersey 1, friends ii. The
fund of the institution amounts to 1926. 819.
A man.in Stratford, few days ago, discover
ed among the hay in his barn what he supposed
to be skunk" and proceeded with caution to
eXterminate the animal with a pitchfork. Plac-
ing the fork within few inches of the object.
he was in the act of driving the tines into il.
when, on leaning forward, he saw what looked
to him like a mans ear, and which it really was.
The man had crawled under the hav for nan.
His hair was black, cut short, and the position
in which he was found was calculated to deceive
any one. Mr.. c. retired from the barn, leaving
the man TO sleep on, unconscious of the danger
he had been IN.
The advocates of woman suffrage have been
presenting their claims before committee of
the Connecticut legislature, the leading advocate
being Mrs. Middlebrook, of Bridgeport, who.
under the advice Of Mrs. Victoria Woodruff.
argued that under the recent constitutional
amendments women are qualified to vote. But
1t is evident that the fair pleader relied not so
much upon her arguments as upon a sort of
threat with which she closed her address. leay-
ing the thorn of apprehension ranking in the
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