Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-09

appearance of fisherman, healthy looking,
with red curly hair, and a bunch of whiskers on
his chin. He had on a guernsey irock, blue
cap, gray pants, and rubber boots. He was five
feet ten inches in height. The body remains in
a tomb for identification.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Camp meeting at Epping will begin on the
2Sth of August, and continue over the following
Sunday.
DR.. i. G. Clough, of Greenland, the only
physician in the town of Greenland,
died on the 18th. He had been sick only few
days.
The saw mill of C. W. Bachelor, at Bristol,
was burned on the 9th Loss about SlOOo; no
insurance. The fire was caused by the breaking
of kerosene lamp in the mill.
Mr.. George Cummings of Northumberland
Jumped from a runaway team one day last
week. dislocating an ankle and breaking leg.
This is the third time he has suffered like ac-
cident within year
burr, was burned few nights since, together
with all its contents. The family barely escaped
with their lives. Among the articles destroyed
were 1900 pounds of sugar.
Loren Ayers, who murdered his wife in Man.
chester on the 9Th, died at niue O'Clock Thurs
day morning at the county Jail from the effects
of the wound he inflicted upon himself. His
body will be placed in tomb to await the or
ders of his relatives, who live in st. Johnsbury
and Glover, VT. The mother of Mrs. Ayers ar
rived at Manchester from Island Pond, VT, on
the 18th, and the funeral of the murdered
woman took place in the afternoon. Her re-
mains were buried in the Pine Grove cemetery.
Commencement week at Dartmouth college,
Sunday afternoon, July 16, baccalaureate dis
course, by President Smith; Sunday evening,
address before the theological society, by Pro-
fessor j. c.. Bodwell, Of Hartford theological
seminary; Monday evening, prize speaking;
Tuesday afternoon, class-day exercises; Wednes-
daxy MOI add al aS
alton, by Richard b. Kimball, of New York;
Wednesday afternoon, anniversary of the united
literary societies-address by Rev. DR.. McCosh,
president of the college of New Jersey, and
poem by B. P. Shillaber, of Chelsea, Mass.
Wednesday evening, concert by the Mendelssohn
quintette club, of Boston; Thursday morning,
commencement exercises; Thursday evening,
levee in the library at Reed hall.
| VERMONT.
Vermont, in putting in a claim for the pos
| session of the Coolest Mason" introduces Ma
thaniel Fullerton, who, it is claimed, has been a
master Mason for seventy-nine years, and is
| now only seventy-nine years of age. Unless
| there's something rather wrong in figures,
| Brother Fullerton must have been in the order
for six years before the age when less favored
mortals are admitted to their first degrees.
AT Mortified the storm on Sunday last blew
down several barns twisted off trees eight
inches in diameter, and the hail fell so large
and thick as TO leave the ground white for more
than two hours after the storm had passed. hot
as it was that day. The Messenger says Con-
ductor Wallis train encountered the storm i'm
mediately after leaving the Mortified station,
and so great was its violence that it took a
strong engine, with 1870 pounds of steam, TWEEN
ty minutes to haul the train mile. Passen-
gers turned pale with fright, and every moment
it was expected the train would be blown from
the track. The rain and hail fell in a sheet.
Objects could be distinguished only few rods
Tn
passed the track was washed out in several
places, so that it had to be repaired before
another train could cross. During the twenty
minutes that the train was in the storm the
water rose so rapidly in places on the track that
the train passed through it eighteen inches in
depth, compelling the engine to stop after it
reached dry land to clean out the mud. A man
coming over Brandon mountain" on Tuesday,
two hours after the storm, picked up hail stones
two inches in diameter, and drove through heaps
four inches deep. Another person picked up
hailstOnes seven inches in circumference.
CONNECTICUT.
An aged French woman, named Adelaide
Query, fell dead at her residence, in Putnam, on
Saturday morning.
The New York bleaching company have pur-
chased a lot at Derby, and are to have their fac
tory completed in hundred days.
A man laboring undera serious mistake or an
enormous quantity of whiskey, was seen in New
Haven, Sunday night, embracing lamp post,
which he was addressing in the tenderest of
tones, beseechingit to open the door.
Hartford has peculiar character who, when
ever he wants drink, throws dice with himself,
to decide whether or not he shall indulge. He
does it fair, only he is apt to leave it an open
question as TO the number Of throws which shall
decide. If he gets skies in his own favor he lets
one throw decide the question, but if his luck is
poor at the start he insists upon three.
Three persons, two Irish girls and a young
IL ~ l.-1..
pit at the "Old Ore Hill" The young man is
said to have been intoxicated The inhabitants
turned out and dragged the pond, and the bodies
were recovered.
meeting of the Meriden and Cheshire rail-
road company was held at Meriden, Monday,
and presided over by Mayor Lewis. 1t was
thought the road could be built for $3.50, 900.
After considerable discussion it was voted that
subscription books be opened on the 18th. 1t is
believed such a road will save ten per cent. on
freights and twenty-five cents on every ton of
coal used in Meriden.
As party of men whose duty it is to keep
the track between Suffield and Windsor Locks
in repair were going to their work on the 7th on
a hand car, and when moving very rapidly, the
revolving crank struck one of the number,
named Hayden, throwing him from the car, kill
ing him instantly: His neck was dislocated by
the fall.
''The late explosion at Hazardville, Conn. blew
open the door of the tomb of DIR. David Allen,
who formerly owned the premises where the
powder works now are, and his remains and
those of his wife were exposed to view" This
item has been copied by most of the New En-
| gland papers since the last explosion at Hazard
| vile. The facts are, the tomb of Dr. David Al
| len has been open most of the time for twenty
| years. Occasionally the door is swung together
| by passer by, and sometimes an obstacle put
| against it, only to be removed by any one who
wishes to enter. In the sale of Dr. Aliens farm
in bn
this spot where he built family tomb, and al
though the surroundings now make it an inap-
propriate place for the deposit of the dead no
one is at liberty to remove it or the skeletons it
contains. As there are no family relatives TO be
interested, it would seem proper that the select
men Should bury what remains of DR.. Allen and
wife and remove the tomb.
The decision of Judge Woodruff, declaring
the coast islands of Connecticut to belong to her
jurisdiction, does embrace Mystic Island, in the
opinion of eminent lawyers. Judge Woodruff
distinctly intimates that only the most explicit
declaration TO the contrary in the patent Of the
duke of York itself, Gould take the jurisdiction
of adjoining islands from the colony or state to
which they naturally belong. Now the War
wick charter, under which the duke of York
and his successors claim jurisdiction for New
York, makes no mention of Rams Goat Tor
Mystic island. Hence it is in the same category
as the Norwalk island Fishers island is not
named in the patent, though Nantucket and
Martha's Vineyard are. The case of Fishers
island is otherwise peculiar. Governor Winthrop,
who came into possession, minding only the
main chance of personal ownership, received
his title first from Connecticut, then from Mas
sachusetts, which claimed as far west as the
Mystic river, and actually exercised it in the ap-
pointment of magistrates in Stonington, then
Southerton; and he also took his title from
New York, to meet every possible conflict of
jurisdiction. But he himself regarded it as
rightfully belonging to Connecticut, and Com
necticut by her legislation continued to assert
her rightful jurisdiction till the matter went by
lapse of time and sheer default to New York.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mr.. Bethuel A. Slocumb, an old resident and
one OF the most prominent citizens of Woon-
socket, was instantly killed at the depot in that
place Saturday morning, while attempting to
get upon train of cars. His body was horri-
bly, mangled. He leaves wife and family.
The permanent summer residents at Newport
number two hundred and fifty-live OF these
one hundred and fifty are from New York, if
teen from Philadelphia, forty from Boston, If
teen from Providence, and thirty-five from other
cities.
The LIST of August will be made a gala dav
for colored people, at Providence. The Neptune
yacht club is making arrangements for a grand
celebration. Delegates are expected from Wor-
cester, Boston, Hartford, New York, and in fact.