Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-24
Gb 9aH spp: satOrtssr. Mronoap orning guIp q l87

/ ward, who was soon alter J0lned Dy hnOtuer
| Vermonter named Chamberlain. Chamberlain
| at last became discouraged, but Hayward stuck
| to il, but his men all left him, and ne was on
| the point of starvation. He then went to
Chamberlain for some money but was refused,
| but before he closed the interview Chamberlain
| gave him S80O0-all he had in the world. Take
it, old fellow" he said, with California hearth
| ness: "do your best" With this money Hay
ward recommended, and he had worked until 1t
was all spent, and his men were reduced to a
bag of beans for nourishment, when to the
CLEAN of hope the precious ore blazed up.
When the mine was paying $4,000 month,
| Hayward made over to his friend one perfect
| third of it. Chamberlain retired upon 81 $780,
| 900, and moved east to educate his children,
| Hayward buying back the whole. Finally,
even Hayward grew tired and he sold out the
mine 10 stock company. The mine VIII make
$1,000,000 net this year, and its president said
last week: "The Amador mine will hold out
longer than we will"
| CONNECTICUT
| The tobacco crop of Connecticut is unusually
/ large and is doing we'll.
One thousand dollars was raised among the
alumni of Wesleyan university, Thursday, and
| presented to President Cummings.
A large number of students are fitting them
| selves for the next freshmen class at Yale I'M
| der private Tutors at New Haven.
The barge J. W. Andrews, with $50 tons Of
| coal, sunk off Black rock, Bridgeport, last week
| in eighteen feet Of water. The cargo was fully
| insured.
Litchfeld county uneaTths another curiosity.
| Lucius Burr of Torringiord is the posseSs0r OF a
| pork barrel that has been used as such by his
| family for two hundred years.
| The horse disease has been prevailing among
tle animals employed on the New Haven horse
| railroad but the seventeen cases thus far have
| not interrupted business.
Rev. e. p. Grovesner having dissolved his
connection with the church at Canterbury, will
supply the Congregational pulpitin West Wood
stock for the coming year.
Gideon Beardsey, an inmate of Thomas G
Barnum's family at Bethel, committed suicide
a few days ago, by taking a heavy dose OF
aconite. No reason for the act is known.
The man Broderick, who kicked Sheriff al
| word of East Hampton so seriously, about year
ago, as to cause his death recently, has been ar
| rested, and will be tried for manslaughter
| An enthusiastic Yale student recently gazed
| long and earnestly at the movements OF Saturn,
| and aiterward discovered that he had been
watching the receding headlight of the New
| York steamer
! The Mansfelds of Middetown, the so-called
| champion base-balists of the state, were beaten
| on Thursday by the jefferson club of Hartford
| an organization new and hitherto unknown to
| fame, by score of 16 to 12
A Ffenchman, employed in Baltic, named
Duharnelle, cut his throat Friday morning when
in fit of temporary insanity, caused by illness.
The cash is very deep, and there can be but little
hopes of his recovery
Isaac N. Flowers, a wealthy farmer of Rox-
bury, has been falling in mind and health for
some time past, and on Thursday night cut his
| throat with an axe. The main artery was not
severed, and he will probably live.
There are in New Haven 374 manufacturing
establishments, in which was invested capital
amounting to nearly S10000,00O Of this
amount over 81 900 900 is invested in the fourth
and fifth wards, where are located 217 Of the
manufactures.
r ~. IT. II.
| on the track of the Hartford and New Haven
railroad at Meriden on the 21st, he was struck
| by switch engine, knocked down and one Of
his legs cut off and other injuries sustained. Nc
| hopes are entertained of his recovery. He was
under the influence OF liquor.
A yOnng New Haven lawyer who occupied a
room in the AIR Line house, in Mddetown
| Wednesday night, was found next morning
| upon the ground beneath the window of his
| room, which was in the second story, badly in
| jured. He had evidently fallen out while in @
| somnambulistic state.
The officers of the Hartford county, agricultu
/ raj society have voted 10 omit the usual exhibit
| ton and fair this year. The sale Of the rink
| and the imp0ssbility of procuring any other
| suitable building were the principal reasons
| for the action of the officers. The usual "cat-
| tie show" will also be omitted.
FL Nfno Eddie, with Trowbridge and Blood
| goods MINISTRIES, while on wire rope in front
| of Union hall, New Haven, Thursday evening,
met Withtan accident. The rope broke and he
fell twenty-five feet TO the pavement. His ankle
was spraned and his head bruised, but he is not
| dangerously injured.
The house on Friday defeated by close vote
bill to increase the salaries of judges of the
supreme and superior courts to $4,000, passed
the new military bill by vote of 80 to 80. The
senate passed the bill appropriating $4,000 for
repairs and improvements on the state prison,
and put over the railroad consolidation bill I'M
til this week.
Andrew Birdsey, son of Sheriff Birdsey of
| Meriden, while chasing a rabbit near the resi-
dence of the latter, unearthed a pocket book
| that had been in the ground five or six years.
Inside were four five certificates OF shares OF
| Hartford and New Haven railroad stock, also
receipts and cards, the former of sums amount
ing to two or three thousand dollars, and signed
| C. G. Hubbard, Middletown. 1t is suTmised
| they were taken from q store in Mddletown bur-
| glarized six years ago.
A little Milford girl, named Sophia Cornwall,
discovered several large stones placed on the
| track of the New York and New Haven railroad
at the Milford crossing, the other day, and, re-
aliZing the danger TO the train already APP
| preaching she succeeded in rolling the obstruc-
tons off the track just in time The conductor
saw the action of the heroic little girl, and,
stopping the train, thanked her, and offered her
bank note, which she was too modest to ac-
cept.
Kimball, the man who it is alleged stole six
hundred dollars from the house of VIM. +.
Smith, in Hanover, Sunday week, was brought
before Justice Covin, of Baltic, Thursday. He
pleaded not guilty, and was put under $500
bonds, and bound over to the September term of
the superior court. By his request he was taken
to Hanover, on Friday, to procure boudsmen
and while there asked for razor to Shave him
self. While the officers back was turned he
took the razor and cut his throat. 1t is thought
that he cannot survive.
Hartford insurance companies are feeling sore
over the escape from their hands of Robert A.
NASH who swiudled one or two of them adr0it-
ly last October, and was subsequently arrested
at Philadelphia for similar ottenSe, and was
jailed therefor for term of nine months. The
Phoenix mutual company then got Tequisition
for him when his term should expire in the
Pennsylvania pecitentary, but on preparing TO
receive Nash, few days since, found that their
prisoner had escaped his sentence having been
COMMITTED from nine to eight months, and he hav-
ing now three weeks the start of the Connecticut
officials.
RHODE ISLAND.
Rev. F. Denison has closed his second pastor
ate of the Baptist church at Westerly.
A new bank building in process of erection at
Wexford was blown down during furious rain
last Saturday.
There have been already forty applications for
admission TO the new normal school, which
opens in September, and the number is daily
increasing
The fire at Providence on the ed at Elliss
wheelwright shop occasioned loss of $780, 900;
insured for $4,000 A large quantity of valua-
bic wood was burned.
An exchange says: "The Rumford chemical
manufacturing company of East Providence,
run three printing presses, one of them the
largest cylinder press in the state"
DR.. Worthington W. Miner of Ware, Mass,
Of the class of '68 at Amherst, and a recent grad
uate of the Buffalo medical institute, has been
appointed assistant physician at the Butler in
sane asylum at Providence, and will enter upon
his duties about August l.