Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-25


CONNECTICUT.
Miss Rose Terry, the authoress, is spending
the winter at Winsted
A horse and wagon worth $500 was stolen
from the shed of J. l. Prosser, Of Hartford, FRI
day night.
The greenhouse recently built by Robert NJ.
Crane, near Thompsonvlle, ada cost of $1,000
was burned Saturday night.
Mrs. Isaac Hall an aged widow residing in
Wallingford was severely and probably fatally
burned Thursday by her clothes taking FIRE from
a stove
Rev. DR.. S. Dryden Phelps, pastor Of the
Wooster square Baptist church in New Haven,
preached his 18th anniversary sermon last Sun
day.
A Bridgeport lady, while out walking the
other evening. was met by a man and two
women, who stopped her to make some inquiries
and then passed on. When she reached home
her purse was missing.
breach Of promise suit is on the taps in
Bridgeport, wherein gar young fellow of fifty
claims damage for lacerated feelings by the
neglect OF q widow of seventy-iOur 10 unite
heart and hand with him for the journey Of
life.
The friends Of the pastor of the Methodist
church at East Hampton made call al the par
sonage in considerable numbers the other night,
when a crowd of Juvenile rOughs cut MP the
harness Of the callers. The young scamps
were found out and settled the matter.
Two men employed on the Valley railroad,
twenty-fourth section, at Haddam, tShaleryille
society D got drunk on Saturday, aud went on to
the river near Goodspeed's Landing They
broke through the ice and were drowned. The
bodies we're recovered shortly afterward.
An exchange says. "ElwOod's female min
strels who have been doing Connecticut Of late,
are nnder the weather. the band has mutiDied
because they could not collect their wages, and
the manager has elOped With the clog dancer;
these ittie irregularities do not affect the useful
ness Of the organization, however.
During a recent revival in the church Of the
Rev VIM. Thompson Of Greenwich, a domestic
named Ann Lloyd, in the employ Of the pastor,
became the victim Of undue religious excite
ment. On Tuesday, the 18th, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thompson went away TO be gone until the mex
day, leaving the servant alone in the house. On
their return they found the house locked. Mr..
Thompson got in through the window, and on
going to the garnet found the girl hanging 10 a
raiter On the table was an empty laudaBum
bottle, and lumber beside it was eol0red with
the poison. She had apparently been hanging
aDont twelve hours.
The Norwich Bulletin saws: ''The seleetnen Of
the cOpperhead town Of Lifch6eld on the an
thority Of a disused statute have warned ont az
town an industrious negro named Willis Car
ter, With his wife and child, 10 avoid the al
legged risk Of the town being responsible in case
he should need assistance through the winter
Carter has never called on the town for aid ant
there is no reason to think be would now, ant
the license Of this law, when carried 10 such ex
tFemes, Is singularly arbitrary and oppressive
The extent to which the cattle disease has in
creased, has caused quite an alarm among bee
eaters, and many families in Hartford hay
given up steaks and roasts, unless they can &c
what is called Kosher beef; that is, that whic
has been killed and examined after the manne
OF the Hebrews There are two "killers'' !
Hartford who slay all the beef and poultry use
Wy the Jews, and after killing the animal max
strict examination of its carcass. They il
date the lungs, blow up the bladder, examir
the liver, heart, and other parts, and If they sn
Dut the taintest trace Of present or previous di
ease, they vii refuse to afix the seal to II
meat. A. The lsraelites do not eat any excel
me iore quarters, the other parts are sold !
me butchers TO any who may call for cuts
RHODE ISLAND.
Iae receipts Of the recent Cathol;c ornban
fair in Providence were So 940 ss ar abo,
teen nights. VI
The Providence Herald Of Tuesday says: aTf