Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-21

nice Young man at IOIIlhnu KEPT luohlhS
into the window of amarried lady until he saw
her shake handkerchief when he called at her
room. After being picked up at the bottom OF
the stairs, and having his bones set, it was eX-
planned that she was only shaking some apple
peengs from napkin.
Mr. Whitney, the proprietor of the Whitney
vile fire arms factory, was examining pistol
of new design, Saturday afternoon, which he
supposed to be unloaded, and in testing the
trigger, discharged it. 1t proved to be loaded,
and the ball entered the body of T. G. Bush, an
employe who ii is feared was fatally injured.
Mayor Brandegee Of New London has opened
his administration in a manner highly satisfsc-
tory to all good citizens, by issuing proclama-
ton declaring his determination 10 enforce
strict observance Of the Sunday liqa0r law, ana
the closing up of all saloons, stores or SHOPS IN
which intoxicating liquors are ofiered LOT saIe,
between twelve O'Clock Saturday nights and
twelve O'Clock Sunday nights. ,,,-,.,.
There is an iron bridge over Dickenson's
stream on the Air Line road, near Colchester5
that is larger and stronger than anyinmg Oh lts
kind in the New England states. According to
measurements taken from the books Of the en-
oineers. il is, at its highest point 1870 feet high,
and very near 800 feet in length. There will be
nsed in its construction 100000 pounds, or
ZOO tons of wrought iron. The iron is all
brought from Pennsylvania, and is landed at
Haddam.
On Friday, Thomas Mcclure visited Hartford,
from New Haven, and fell in company with sew
eral roughs, who learned that he had consid-
cradle amount of money in his possession. -Four
of them prevailed on him to accompany them
ont to East Hartford, and reaching bridge they
robbed him and threw him over to the ground
beneath, a distance of twenty feet. He was
much injured, and being found next day was
removed 10 the hospital.
Several Trinity college students have lately
been disturbing the quietude of that classical
retreat. For loug time it has been customary
for the classes TO go out of the chapel in the or
der of seniority; but the sophomore thought it
an old fogy notion, and resolved to rebel, on
several occasions rushing out in advance OF the
digniied juniors. In consequence q sophomore
was abducted Saturday night, and so dealt with
that he has lost all desire to usurp the time hon
ored privileges of the junior class; and as he
was leader of the instruction it has accord
ingly ceased.
The Hartford Times has taken a new de-
parture" and ventures out of its stereotyped
political writings, thus: "a Miss Smith, of
Bridgeport, has Just closed her dancing school
in that city. We mention the fact as Of interest
in a certain direction. We know not how eX-
tensive may be the custom of ladies keeping
dancing schools. We saw, not long since, a no.
tice of a pleasant exhibition given by the pu-
pills of a dancing academy in Louisville, KY,
which is presided over by a lady. Is there not
here field of employment upon which ladies
might enter more largely than they do, with
both pecuniary benefit to themselves and salts
would like to have instructed in so fashionable
and agreeable an accomplishment as is dam
cling"
The Hartford Times says: at is hardly
known how favorable is the prospect of rapid
growth in west Birmingham. Contracts have
already been made for six or seven separate
factories on the western canal, which must in
sure in a short time thrice that number. Mr..
Nelson H. Downes builds large planning mill,
the Shelton 4 Co., move their business there,
Mr.. Sharon Bassets puts up a bolt factory, Mr..
Edwin Wooster builds for a griSt mill, &C.,
company from New York put up large bleach
ing establishment MIR. Brinsmade builds saw
mill, and the gas company have already begun
their works. Others are already looking in that
direction"
DIR. J. W. Phelps, of Walcottville, who was
a delegate to the national medical convention at
San Francisco, has returned. According to a
correspondent of the Ltchfeld Enquirer, he re-
lates stories of rather large magnitude about
what he saw on the Pacific slope. This cores
| pendent says: "He tells of their cutting pea
| brush where eight men had been at work five
| weeks and had not got near enough to one an
| other to speak; and of a hollow tree that they
| have been up in six thousand feet, and found a
family that had moved up there before the
"deluge," to keep out of the wet. Eitherxthe
| doctor or correspondent, perhaps both, can Spin
something of yarn.
Now that the Connecticut legislature has
| given up its time-honored privilege of nominally
| filling six seats in the corporate board of gov
eminent of Yale College, the Hartford Times
fears that the change will not prove a desirable
one, since it "surrenders all voice in the direc-
ton and control of the college the part of the
| state" The Times evidently mistakes. The
state is still represented in the corporation of
| Yale College by the governor and lieutenant
| governor, members who are usually faithful in
their attendance at corporation meetings, and
| who are generally qualified, by education and
| disposition, to take a practical interest in the
management of the college. All that the legis-
| lature has done is to give up the right of hav-
| ing its six "senior senators" named among the
| Fellows. These eX-officio members of the cor
pOration, as the Times acknowledges, are mo
| better than so many wooden men, their chairs
being regularly vacant"
RHODE ISLAND.
| Three thousand four hundred of the Sprague
moving machines, manufactured at the works
| of the Perkins sheet iron company, in Provi-
| dence, have been sent away this season, and
they are still going off at the rate of from 500
to 900 per week.
At the new normal school, the full course of
1 study will embrace period of two years. Nor
| NAL methods of instruction, the theory and
practice of school organization and government,
| and the school laws and civil pOlity of Rhode
| Island and the United States will enter into the
| school work. In connection with the foregoing
| studies, constant and careful attention will be
| gwen throughout the course to drawing and
| delineatiOns on the blackboard music, spelling,
| with derivations and defnitions reading, in
| Guiding analysis of sounds, vocal gymnastics,
| and writing. The Latin and French languages
| may be pursued as optional studies but not to
the neglect of the English course General ex-
ercises in composition, gymnastics, object les
sons, etc, will be conducted in such a manner
and at such times as the principal shall deem
best.
The Providence Press says: Brown uniyer-
| Sity has thus far resisted the change which is
| going on in older universities. The PROPOSE
/ ton to allow the alumni to be represented in
| her corporation was stoutly and even bitterly
| opposed. But there is an evident determine
ton upon the part of the alumni to insist upon
| this right, and if it is refused the injury to the
| university will be incalculable. Close corpora
| tons are regarded with suspicion always. A
college that is exclusive, seeking to prevent the
management from falling in any degree into
/ the thands of those who, from their relations
to her might be presumed to be the most deeply
interested in her prosperity, has no valid excuse
| to offer. The party now in power may be able
| for time, by dint of industrious effort to Sc
| cure majority against the proposed improve
| ment. But it must come finally, or Brown uni
versity will be reckoned among the educational
| institutions of the past She cannot cling to q
policy which Harvard and Yale have abandoned
as obsolete and injurious, without great detri-
| ment and unpopularity."
Hon. 7. W. Bcknell, state commissioner of
| public schools, has issued the following: "The
| huoAOCo VI tlc Sldlc HOTildl SCHOOL announce to
| the people of the state that the city of Provi-
dence has been selected as the proper location of
| the school, Its central position in the state,
and the numerous railways which connect with
our capital city, by daily and hourly trains, will
enable many students to board at their homes,
and go in and out daily, to and from their stu
dies. This plan is practiced in all the normal,
| and many of the high schools of Massachusetts,
| and often saves large item in the educational
expense book. To facilitate travel the railroad
officers will undoubtedly grant reduction of
fares, as is usual in the case of students. The
mileage appropriation of fifteen hundred dollars
Will also be distributed among those pupils who
reside at distance exceeding five miles from
| providence, and the students from the more re-
mote parts of the state will thus be favored with
pecuniary aid. Pupils from the country towns.
j they prefer to board with their friends in
Providence, will receive their mileage apportion-
ment, which will aid them in paying their board
Dllls or other expenses. This aid will not in any
case exceed forty dollars per year."