Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-11


Rockville is to have steam fire engine.
Hartford is to have Sothern in Dundreary
Ono hundred and torty-two scholars at the
Hartford evening school,
The sales of the Cromwell quarries this sea-
son will reach $4,000.
Mrs. Sherman will be tried in the superior
court next week
Geo. W. Rogers of Meriden has received his
papers as sheriff of New Haven county.
The Hartford central conference will be
hereafter known us the Pennington valley con-
ference.
L. L. Barlow was quite severely injured by
falling from load of hay in New Haven, We'd
ncsday morning.
Captain Mott of the Hartford police, has been
acquitted Of the charges against him The SUI
pernumary force Is to be increased to ten men,
An able-bodied Brdgewater man wants to
know what this Alexis is that is coming, and if
vaccination will staye it Oft
Charles WhcdUX of Fair Haven fell dead of
apoplexy while going to his work Tuesday
morning.
Two hundred shares were subscribed on the
9Th to the capital stock Of the new Merdcn in
surance company.
The spire on the new Congregational church
in MiddletOwn is being raised. When completed
it will be 200 feet high.
The business men of Holyoke, Mass, will
make an excursion to New Haven, next week,
via the new branch road to Wcstfeld and the
Canal road
Hartford will not have a new county prison
at present. AT meeting of the representatives
of Hartford county, on the Sth, motion to sell
the Avenue street site was defeated.
Thomas Martin, charged with the murdcrous
assault on Eben Whitaker in Wallingford, was
arrested at that place on the Sth, just as he was
| taking the cars. He gave bonds in the sum of
500 for appearance at the superior court
Two colored boys at Bridgeport wishing to
contribute TO the Chicago relief fund.- but whose
pockets were empty, got up a little conce, /.
which netted fifteen dollars for that worthy OBJ
ject.
The satisfaction with which Yale senior re-
garded the spots on the sun as seen through the
college telescope, was lesscned by the discovery
that the spots were equally visible at whatever
part of the heavens the telescope was directed
Subsequent discovery showed several fly spots
on the object glass of the telescope rather than
on the "obect aimed at"
An applicant for the position of domestic in a
Dan6ury family was asked if she understood
how to use kerosene. Her reply exceeded the
most sanguine expectations: "Use it, is it?"
she exclaimed, in tone of reproachlul explain
alton; "glve me a can of karYosane and I'll
never ask for tue lift of Shawn" She was
not engaged
This is how New London drunkard put on
his hat when the wind blew it into the gutter:
He knelt down slowly, like a superanuated
camel and inserted his head into it, pressed it
firmly down with his head against the curbing,
and then arose with a sort of ridiculous ma1es-
| ~, and the broad smile of big success parting
| his bps.
The World reports that Gov. Jewell and ex-
| Gov. English, left New York for Washington.
Tuesday night, TO have an interview with the
| secreta OF the navy and president to obtain
| their cooperation if possible to aid in the
project of establishing a naval depot at New
| London, abolishing the Brooklyn navy ward.
| and removing all the material to New London
Gov. Jewell interviewed the president on We'd
nesday.
They are making ticket punch at Hartford
for parties in Buffalo, designed as a detective TO
be used on horse and steam cars. Whenever n
ticket is purchased spring bell is rung a num-
| Der is registered ON Il hidden dial in a small
stout case like that of Il watch and the piece of
| card or number punched falls into a RECEPTACLE
| prepared Tor 1t, where 1t is kept until removed
| by the proper authorities. Ii is said TO be n
compact and curious piece of mechanism and
| tells lis story as does the dial of a watch
Amusements appear 10 have been running
empr'ins' in New Haven. The Register SAYS
That poor, brainlcss, unsuccessful, third rate
stock performers should find here their paradise
| Is natural and true. The pity is that so many
| fools can be found to pay for such papabie
frauds. Yet they exist and the result is, so far
as TINS city is concerned, that hardly Il decent
play has been put upon our stage this season
1--we can appreciate good things
| ~ u9 navy llch, II we cannot, then give us a
ehahce 10 cultivate our tastes. AT any rate free
US, IN mercy, from the shams and sensations
with which we are being smothcred"
MIR. NandenhoH is unfortunate in Norwich.
AT one OF his previous visits the west side
| bridge broke down, and his audience was CON
| sequently diminished. On that visit while
reading deeply pathetic selection tbe leo Of
the desk on which he leaned suddenly collanscd
| and Wednesday evening while he was deliverinG
one of Charles McKay's poems, an Irishman in
search of physician in the audience, found
| his way behind the scenes, and appearinr nj
| the stage door inquired in hoarsc whisper
heard all over the house: as the doctor in thc
| room2 The effect was so subimey ridicu
Ions that Mr.. Fandenhoh, wifh some irraSci
biy, brought the reading TO an abrupt close
Fears are entertained that Mrs George Hol
| comb OF WesWille, who has been partially de
ranged for a time, has committed suicide. o.
the It'll she went TO New Haven and asked he
little niece TO accompany her to Savin Rock, bu
on arriving there gave the child her pocket bool
aud Yaluabes and sent her back 10 New Hayel
on the cars. No trace OF her has since beel
loud except part OF her clothes on the rock
and it is feared she Ieaped from il into the water
ana was drowned, though a thorough dredoin,
has lailed 10 bring the body up. She left twt
leltefs; one for her husband, who is in Chicago
anu Tue other for his mother: and the latte
cohlalhed a request that her own motbe
might not be Informed of the manner of he
death ''O' VI "e
New Haven paper has the following. A
the Informal inceiing Of the uneasy women
at the Temple on Tuesday morning Mrs. II .
Hartford gave the pleasing iutelIi1ence ~
brother Burr, Of the Times and friend Warne,
OF the Conrant were almost converted to Won
ans rights Why-hless the heart Of the dea