Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-04

commencing on the 18th inst, to continue four
DAYS. Carl Zerrahn of Boston is to act as con.
| ductor.
purchased lot of land on the corner of Con-
cord and Union streets, upon which thew will
erect church at cost of about $4,000
Miss Wealthy L. Blake, Of Nashua, dropped a
| kerosene lamp while sitting down, last week.
| when it exploded and setting her clothes on fire,
| burned her seriously.
Caleb Richardson, who had horse and buggy
stolen in Nashua, on the 2Sth inst, found the
animal, which had been taken TO Brighton and
sold. The thief was captured and is in jail at
| Cambridge
Fire was discovered in the picker house of the
Warkawan mills in Meredith Village, about four
O'Clock Saturday afternoon, supposed to have
caught spontaneously in the cotton. Loss from
$500 TO 5000; partially insured.
Manchester man was so confident of the
success of bis party at the late election in that
CITY that he agreed, if beaten, to carry his child
from one hotel TO another the child TO be seated
IN rocklng-ehair and carried on the top of his
head; He accomplished the feat to the delight
OF a large crowd of spectators.
The News Letter says plan, furnished by
Messrs. Peabody & Stearns, architects, of Bos-
ton, has been approved by the trustees for the
new Phillips academy building, to replace that
which was destroyed by fire. The new structure |
will be of brick, with wings two stories in
height and will contain ten recitation rooms and
u Ash NtAHNhlC VI NOulNlUlu1 SEATS tOT OOU per |
sons. The cost of the new academy is esti- |
mated TO be little short of $4,000 and it is de
signed to break ground for the work Immediate
".
On Thursday, the 18th of April inst, the cit-
zeus of ramworth and vicinity will unite with
friends and relatives Of the venerable Stephen
u. Phllbuck, who on that day completes his
hundredth year, having been for ninety-nine
years an inhabitaut of the town. in a suitable
eommemoratiou of the day. Public exercises
y4-f1f kh hold i
Village, including appropriate religious services
and 3 commemorative address by Hon. Larkin
D. Mason, commencing at ten O'Clock 4. NJ.
VERMONT.
Wm. Mather, in the employ of the Union
MISUNDERSTANDING company, at Waterbury, was
caught in picker Friday morning, and serious
1 " injured.
Myrou E. Marshall has recovered s12, 900 from
L the Rutland railway company for injuries re-
| eeiyeu while crossing the track near North Clar
/ endon station, two years since. His wife and
/ ehlld were instantly killed by the same train.
/ do Old Catholic church at Burlington, which
| since the erection Of the new cathedral has been
used as hall aud parish school building, was
! burned last week; fully insured The fire de-
| prlves three hundred children of school accom-
/ modatiOus.
CONNECTICUT.
| The New York east conference commences its
sessions in Stamford Wednesday.
A chapel to cost $500 is to be erected in the
| A. ". Phelps has withdrawn his name as a
| labor candidate for congress in the second dis
trict. But in the first district Jones is making
hot fight against the democratic candidate,
| Goodrich.
The subject of establishing a new county,
| with Waterbury as the county seat, is revived
| and will probably come before the next legisla-
| ture.
Edward F. Briggs and Albert Jordan, the COM
| mission merchant swindlers, who have been
tirA0r in ffof, han,, So
each and costs, and sent to the Jail, in Hartford,
| for two months.
| The body of James Goodwin, who committed
suicide, twas thought, by jumping off the steam
I boat dock, at Hartford on the 18th inst, was
| found floating in the river opposite Middletown,
| Thursday morning.
Lewis Wheeler, an eIDploye on the Hartford,
| Providence and Fishkill railroad, was seriously
injured by falling from the top Of freight car,
| at Vernon Junction, last week.
| The chapel of st. John the Baptist, situated
on the eastern part of Trinity parish, Portland,
has been completed, and services are now held
in it regularly. The congregation numbers
about 100.
A female reporter of one Of the New York pa
pers is In Merden, and intends to make tour
through the state to make inquiries concerning
the earnings of women in manufacturing estab-
| lishments.
The Mystic wooden company have sold their
property to the Norwood manufacturing com.
will be devoted to the payment ofFebruary wages
due their recent employees. The mil will begin
running in few weeks.
An ingenious Hartford man has discovered
new use for the Connecticut white-fsh, which
is caught by the million on the Connecticut
| shore, and used to manure the fields. He
prepares the fish in some pickle or prepaTa-
ton by which they are made as palatable as sar-
dimes.
The dead body of an infant was recently found
| IN some bushes the Knnlyann riypr in
Canaan, and woman named jackson, who
has been living in the family of H Gardner,
of East Sheffield, Mass has been arrested for
| its murder, and committed to the Litchield
county Jail.
Rumors affecting the reputation of Chief of
Polce Chamberlain have become so rife at Hart
ford that the police commissioners have ap-
pointed next Wednesday for hearing. Several
letters addressed to women, of which the chief
acknowledges the authorship bear rather I'M
favoraby upon the case
A woman named Bridget Kelly was left at
| Meriden, Wednesday, by the conductor of the
noon express tram, on which she was endeayor-
| ing to ride free. She wandered about the streets
some time, and finally secured room in the
City hotel, where she took refuge, refusing to
admit any one The police were consulted, and
decided to take her in custody, which they
finally succeeded in doing, though she attempt
ed TO Kill herself by leaping from her win
dow. A medical examination showed her to be
insane.
The superintendent of the census reports that
there are ,646,752 acres of improved land in
the stare, and n 1858 acres of unimproved in
GLIDING woodland, making a total of 1854, 416
acres. The total value of the farms of the state
is S124 ,241 1882, of farm implements S3246, 500,
and of live stock 81 ,545,O3S. Hartford county
takes the lead in tobacco culture, producing
nearly three-quarteTs OF all the tobacco grown
in the state Litchtield county shows the larg-
est in dairy products and hay, Fairfield and
| New Haven counties in market garden products,
| New London county in wool, and Windham
| county in seeds
| L. Cass Carpenter, Windham county man.
| for some time the correspondent of the Daniel
| sonVille Transcript and the Norwich Bulletin,
and recently editor of the Columbia Is. ca I'm
ION, has met with narrow escape from the ku-
| kluX. lie and two Others were taken TO swamp
| by disguised men, tied to trees, and were about
| to be shot, but were saved by making the Ma
| sonic sign of distress. The kukluX gave their
| victims twenty-four hours to leave the state,
but all made their escape to Columbia,
Norwalk gentleman, who was a heavy loser
in the late bank robbery in that town, was re-
| Gently informed by a person of reputed re-
| spectabiity in town on the New
| Haven railroad that all his stolen bonds
might be reclaimed by the payment of
fifty cents on dollar, or that twenty-five dollars
| cash would secure for him three hundred dol
| lar bond. The latter offer was accepted the
money paid, and the lost property returned
through the oblging acquaintance" After
/ ""iuo, " llIe an Vi detective, ne Traced tOur-
teen OF his bonds, and had the holder arrested.
The person, however, is ward politician, and
one OF Boss Tweed's pet lambs, and of course
nothing more could be done about it, and he
| was released on straw bail, and all attempts to
| bring on trial ended.
RHODE ISLAND.
There is hardly cottage at Newport which
| has not been already engaged for the coming
| season.
The sad story of the two little children of Bru-
nell Bonaparte of Wexford, who were buried
alive by the falling in of the wall of a cave has
as sad sequel. Mrs. Brunell, who was ill, died
from the shock, and Mr.. Brunell, the father, has
become insane.
The young man who "does the locals" on the
Providence Herald thus gives vent to his feel
lngs: The race Of gentlemen is fast dying out,
while the generation is producing but few, very
lew, to take the places they have vacated The
good Old times when honor to woman, be her
faults what they might formed a fundamental
element IN the principle of manhood, have
| passed away, we fear alas for eyer