Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-11

tory in North Chester are making arrangements
TO hold a celebration, carly in October. They have
now in the press cheese containing 1900 pounds
of milk, which they think will weigh 700 pounds
| when pressed. On the day of the celebration
| this cheese will be cut and distributed TO the
! crowd. Leander Wethcrill of the Boston Guilt
| vator will deliver an address, and the affair will
| wind mp with dance
Washington correspondent relates the par
ticularS of the recent discovery that relieves Yer
mont OF the odium Of having been a slavehold-
ing commonwealth. In the original census re-
turns OF 1890 sixteen colored persons were men
toned as free blacks, but the clerk in TRANSCRIPT
ing the census for the printer put them under
the head OF slaves, and this error has been re-
peated in all the following histories.
Vermont paper says: "Faut is found in
the Boston market with much of the Vermont
butter because il is too salt. Our daTDmcn
| should remember this, thereby making thelr
productions better adapted 10 the tastes OF taclr
| customers, whose approval they should earnest'
| ly aim to obtain. Too often sIBG4 Pumps oil
| salt arc found in the butter, which is anything
but agreeable, giving the character Oh inc aFtI-
| clc any other name than that OF gnu edgtd'
| Salt should be thoroughly powdered ana tlof-
Oughy worked through and through the put
ter, that all parts may be sailed allke, using
zone bat the best quality, and Just enough To-
| make II palatable, and 10 iDsurc ITS safe Keep
| I'M. Farmers must see to st u tney would keep
tile market and thus promote their own inter
est. Their avn should be to improve. 1t will
| not do to fall Behind as some do"
! CONNECTICUT.
Miss Kellogg viii sing in Hartford on the t0th
| of October.
The fall term of Yale college will begin Sept.
| 18th.
Mrs. Patrick Kelley and Maggie Scanlon died
| in Hartford last week. by eating toadstools, sup
| posing them 70 be mushrooms.
On Monday night, 4th, the dwelling house of
| Daniel Afford, in Avon, was entered by a bur
| glar and robbed Of seventy dollars, sxty-fiyc of
| which was secreted in a clock.
One night last week, William II. Morris
walked off the embankment at the east end of
the Housatonic river bridge at Falls Village,
and striking on his head, crushed in his skull,
causing instant death.
st. PaupS, Episcopal, church at Woodbury.
celebrated the Tooth anniversary OF the settle
Inent of its first minister, last week, the rector,
the Rev George Powers, delivering a historical
address. The parish is one of the oldest in the
diocese.
Mrs. Christine Braham, of hartford, was
robbed of $3.50 in Broadway stage, New York,
Thursday, by two young men, whom she chased
and caught one at the ST. Dennis ieOfel He
gave the name of William Brown, and was
locked up for examination.
Danbury has orr anized a new club, tire OBJ
ieCt OF which is an annual visit TO the water to
catch fish. The News says: "The full name Of
the association is the Aquenuck aquenauck PTS
caiorial club, but it will be simply known as
the acknowledgements club"
Inc morse tnle1, Taylor, Se0t 10 LltCnHcl0 |
some time since for stealing horse in Box
bury, has escaped from Jail. He was at work |
in the fields under charge of the sheriff, and |
managed TO escape He is the third one within
a short time who has escaped as a result of I
the practice of working prisoners outside of the
Jail.
A singular accident happened at Grace church,
New Haven, on a recent evening. Soon after
the service began, the gas nearly went out.
The rector, Rev. Mr.. Leek, asked the congrcga-
m mi nd T,rnp rod n lirrhf
he proceeded with the service. Suddenly, as he
was reading the words, THE Lord shall light |
my candle, he shall cast my darkness away"
the gas resumed its usual flow, again lighting
up the church.
George Kellogg and wife of Rockville were
one evening recently invited into one of the
church lecture rooms "to hear little singing"
and on their arrival there found assembled the
operatives of the Florence mill, who presented |
them a full solid silver set of eleven pieces, |
valued at $500, also two large statuettes and
French clock. Mr.. Kellogg was for
twenty years, and until recently agent of the |
Florence mill, and this gift testifies the high
regard felt for him by those employed under
him.
RHODE ISLAND.
The new freshman class at Brown university /
will number nearly seventy.
Several parties from New Jersey have pur-
chased lots at Narragansett Heights.
Politics were never more quiet in Rhode Island
than at the present time
Typhoid fever is the prevailing disease in
Providence at the present time
There were twelve deaths from heart disease
in Providence last month, and ten from old age |
AN unusual number from both causes.
DIR. Barker, who has been cutting the corns
of the NewpOrters, suddenly cut stick without
paying his bills.
The Newport News says these are hard days
for the roosters. All the shop boys have come
to wear feathers in their hats la Belmont and
the hen yards suffer accordingly,
A number OF New York military officers are
expected in Providence next Saturday, TO partici-
pate as guests of the city companies in the mon
ument celebration. A delegation from Worces-
ter will also probably attend
The superintendent of health thinks that as |
cold weather approaches small poX is liable to
get foothold in Providence and spread quite |
rapidly. He recommends general vaccination, |
and invites all the inhabitants of the city to come
to his office and have their arms prcked without |
money and without price.
Mr.. Bonaparte, who was married at Newport |
last week, is the grandson of Madame Patterson |
Bonapafte, and granddaughter of Napoleon |. |
He was born in this country in 1882, graduated |
at West Point, and entered the French army |
where he won for himself much honor. At the |
siege of Sebasopol he received a decoration
from the sultan for gallant and meritOriOus con-
duct His appearance is handsome and martial,
and his physique very fine. His face has some
thing of the Napoeonic cast, and he is said to
possess fine abilities, amiable manners, and a |
disposition which gains him friends always He
is now forty years of age, and his destiny at
present is a mere matter of speculation. By the |
laws OF the Catholic church he is, in case of the
death of the prince imperial, heir to the throne
OF France, should the family again come into
power. The church never declared the marriage
OF Jerome Bonapartc 10 Miss Patterson null
and void, and Madame Patterson Bonaparte has
always prophesied that her grandson would
eventually occupy the throne,