Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-01

william Tarlton, a workman at the Ports
mouth navy yard, aged about sixty years, was
taken sick while on the S0th ult., and died in an
hour,
The case of Michael Howard, of Haverhi,
Mass, charged with killing David Cronn, of
HaverhIll, at Plaistow, is being tried at Ports
| mouth.
The Dover Gazette says it is reported thst
Hon. Frank Jones of that city has purchased the
Meserve pasture at Dunn's bridge, Dover, for
| the purpose of erecting an extensive brewery
Andrew J. Varnum, an insane mau, was found
| dead, hung TO a tree in the woods in Hooksett,
| on Sunday. He had been missing for month
past Last summer he was an inmate OF the IN,
| sane asylum, having Ind two children orO"nei
| at Ashland short time previous,
The body Of Knox, whom Marshall OF sea-
| brook is charged with numbering, has not been
recovered, although 5eBofts TO the contrary nave
been circulated, and il IS probable thst Mar
| shallS case will not come 1T thls term.
| A murder trial began at Portsmouth, the 3lst
| nit, in the supreme judicial couFt now in SEES
| sion I'M that city. The name of tie accused rs
| Michael Howard, indicted on a charge of push
| ing David Croniu from LOAF of hay, producing
injuries which resulted in the death of the latter
| The Concord board of Health has ordered very
stringent measures 10 be taken to preverf, the
| spread OF tIe small pOX at Baskerville, and the
street where II is will be fenced up if necessary
| 1t is feared that il viii spread in spite of all
! efforts, for Number of grown persons and
There are no cases in tile city proper.
A Portsmouth dispatch Of the 31si ult., says:
"The place OF resort of the crowd of bullies and
roughs who arrived in this city last night, is Ger
fieh's island situated at the mouth Of this harbOT
Nearly n score of large and ferocious looking
bull dogs accompanied. the party, ostensibly for
the purpose OF a canine contest, hut really as
blind to cover prize fight between two profess
sioHal pugIlists from New York"
Eighteen hundred sheep and six horses,
brought through from Canada by Rugg & Nc
Farlahd were seized on the Both ut. at White
river Junction by Custom House Officer Goff Of
st. Adams, fer under valuation. The train on
which they were loaded had backed over from
West Lebanon and was about 70 start. Twelve
car loads were seized at RoXbuTy,
There sSe some big hearted men left in New
Hampshire. 4 leading lawyer in Concord the
other day, on his Way to court, stopped and auc-
toned off load of wood which boy Of some
ten years of age from the country had spent half
a dav Vditlly cndcavOring to sell. Not long ago,
ole of the most popular governors Of the Granite
state, finding man in trouble because he could
get no oSe to carry in load of coal, took off his
coat, borr0Sed a basket, carried IN the coal,
charged fifty cests for the job, gave it to poor
woman, and was Gs good a governor afterwards
ss ever he had been btfore.
VERMONT.
Upwards of 100000 po'Hds of cheese were
made in the state last year.
A four hundred pound bruin unwisely put his
foot in trap set by Curtis Brown, at BeYidere,
a few dGys ago He was connolSSeur IN sheep.
Burt Matson, railroad employe, was Killed
at North Bennington last week, while Stacking
cars being crushed between the hunters.
The new grand list gives real estate yalua-
ton of SSt ,554 1926 and a personal valuation of
so, 46S 139 total of S102 ,023,064, which is a
decrease from last year of 1882 1852.
The residence, carriage house and outbuild-
ings of Nathan Whtlaw, in GreensbOrough,
were burned few nights since.
A barn, with its contents, belonging TO Simeon
Myers, at POwnal Centre, was destroyed by fire
last week. The barn contained ten tons of hay,
one hundred bushels of corn and quantity of
buckwheat. No insurance,
Alonzo Porter Of Hardwick, who last fall took
the agency for the sale of a patent ptchfork,
and signed what he supposed was IN order for
specimen, was lately surprised by notice from
a neigbboring bank that his note for S2O4 was
due at that institution.
CONNECTICUT.
A movement is on foot in New Haven to es-
tablish public dispensary in that city.
Henry Seeley Of Fair Haven was run over by
a horse car Saturday evening and his hip badly
injured.
j. L. Beaches's grocery store, in New Haven,
was burgarized Friday night, and SIS taken
| from the money drawer.
The Derby railroad will connect with the Naug-
atuck road the first of November, and COM
| mence at that time TO carry the mails.
A man died in Southington on Friday who
| has, for several years, kept his coffin in his
house and had his grave clothes prepared.
German named Kromp, while intoxicated,
fell from bridge of the Shore Line railroad
over the Quiunpac, at New Haven, on Friday,
and was drowned.
A laughter of Willard Morehouse in Brook
field, hung herself, Friday, in her fathers barn.
Her husband had abandoned her. and il is sup
posed her mind was affected.
A reward of 500 has been offered by the
Providence SrnnrnnfOu raj
for the apprehension and conviction Of the per-
son who set fire to the freight car on the switch
at the Westerly depot, on the morning of the
oath inst. A night Waterman has been stationed
at thctdepot to guard the cOmpany'S property
against any similar attempt in the future, as the
determination of some cvil-disposed persons to
burn this antiquated structure seems evident a
RHODE ISLAND.
The American wOrsted company at Woon-
socket are charging their works to make room
for new machinery.
Work on dredging the Paugatuck river has
begun.
On Friday last, while some men at the Tor
pedo Station were at work inside old Fort VOL
cott in Newport harbOr, the wheel of their cart
sank deep into the ground. Removing some of
the earth to find cause for this one of the men
struck his spade against what seemed to be an
iron plate. This excited the curiosity of all
and they set to work with will to dig away the
earth above the plate Soon their efforts were
'0hatuou W thC SltC Vi al IRON uOOT, fastened
with rusty bolt On breaking this open, they
came upon a flight of winding stairs, which
they descended and, arriving at the foot they
found themselves in dungeon whose gloom
was made more marked by the ray of dim light
which a solitary loophole at the top admitted.
Striking a light to dispel the darkness of the
dungeon, they found upon the floor few with
cred bones, skull and a lantern. The lantern
is of such an old fashioned construction and
shape that it must have been made over fifty
years ago. 1t was altogether most singular
discovery. Who can tell the deeds which this
secret old dungeon may not have witnessed?
VINO can supply, history for these few dry
bouess now brought 10 light after the lapse Of
yearsp