Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-02

unknown mau was killed on the Central
railroad near Plainyille, Monday night.
Barney Williams and wife have been playing
at the new Bridgeport opera house, before large
audience.
Eleven hundred dressed hogs the largest con-
sgnment this season, arrived at New Haven on
Monday, from Chicago, via the Canal road.
Probably no action will be taken this year to-
ward building county court house in New Ha-
| ven. Ii is suggested that the City hall be eX
tended east and make the desired accommodation
for county purposes.
Congressman Kellogg of the second district,
announces that all young men who desire TO
compete for an appointment to West Point, are
to be examined before a board selected for the
purpose, and the one passing the best eXamina-
ton will receive the appointment.
The New London Star says that the Elwood
female MINISTRIES gave such poor show that if
they should give free concert in that city, there
would not be an audience large enough to pass
around the programme.
The floating debt of New London county,
April LIST, will he $4,000. AT meeting of repre-
sentativeS and officers of the county, Friday, at
Norwich, tax of three-quarters of a mill was
voted on the grand list of $50 to raise $4,000 to
erect conformity with the town and city of Nor
witch new court house.
A Connecticut paper ays:-The Congrega-
tional church in Colchester have just put
in new furnace and thrown out their
comfortable but questionable stoves. Now the
ludH pTcdcueS MS OVercO3t, ana some OIL
his hearers provide themselves with buffalo
robes to keep themselves warm during service.
A thin congregation and much grumbling is the
result.
Willimantic has 971 dwelling houses, 5,41S in
habtants, and 30 manufacturing establishments,
which employ 1926 hands and pay out annually
s452 $40 in wages. The town valuation, real
and personal, is over So, 10000
colored man named Fred. Peterson, who
was walking on the track of the Central rail
road, half mile from Plainville, on Monday
evening, was run over by the up train and in
stantly killed, his body being badly mutilated.
At meeting of the friends of the Air Line
railroad, at Middletown, Tuesday, A. NJ. Cole
grove stated that the sales of first mortgage
bonds had only realized $4,000, instead of
S250,OO0, which, if they had received, would
have completed the road to Willimantic. ready
to receive the rails. A committee was appointed
10 urge upon towns adjacent to the road their
duty to contribute literally and hasten its COM
pletion. No steps were taken towards appoint
ing successor to the late President Lyman.
RHODE ISLAND.
Rear Admiral William Rogers Taylor of Rhode
Island has been relieved from the command of
the Pacific squadron. He will return home and
await further ORDERS
The Boston Traveller says that "fev places in
this country have grown more, or more solidly,
than Providence, in the last thirty or forty
years.
The Providence Press says; "The Grand Army
posts of Massachusetts are talking about par
ade in Boston. We should like to see all the
veterans in Rhode Island on parade in this city
as soon as suitable weather arrives"
citizen of Providence was arrested about a
week ago, on a charge of adultery, his own
daughter, who was encientc, and sent to the
Dexter asylum, having made the complaint.
The crime alleged was really incest. On investi-
cation, it appeared thai there was no proof of
the marriage of the alleged offender and his re-
putcd wife, the clergyman supposed to have mar
ried them being dead and there being no mar
rage register kept at the time. A marriage GER
tifcate was probably in possession of the wife,
but she was in favor of her husband. The
daughter, also, repented of having brought the
charge, and stated that she had been impelled to
do so in order to plague her father. The case
was therefore discontinued.