Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-04

The Manchester Telegraph says: "The Lowell
| Courier thinks New Hampshire is getting ahead
| of Massachusetts in the matter of farmers meet
| ings. It's comfort to know that we are ahead
| Of Massachusetts in something"
Joseph Morrill,, Esq.,, one of the most promi-
| nent and wealthy citizens of Dover died on the
I'd, aged seventy-fve years. Mr.. Morrill, was
native of Salisbury, Mass, but has been for
| many years leading business man of Dover.
One of the Mt Washington meteorolgists re
Gently descended TO the base on a piece of board
placed over the central rail containing the ratch-
| ct work of the railroad, in about forty-fve min
utes, regulating the velocity with pair of short
legs from sleeper to sleeper-distance three
miles.
The Bristol correspondent of the Monitor says
a man by the name of Shaw, recently froze one
of his great toes, and it giving him considerable
| pain and trouble, he sought relief by cutting it
| off with a chse. The remedy proved worse
than the disease, and he was obliged to consult
a regular practitioner to find out how he
| could get rid of the pain and Inflammation.
| VERMONT.
An extensive revival of religion is prevailing
in Tinmouth.
A temperance revival is going on in Mendon,
and weekly meetings are held.
fellow has been swindling the Free Dlasons
at Bennington, pretending to be a detective look
ing after certain criminal.
The Rutland cheese factory sold last year
1925 boxes of cheese for 500, 972 36. The average
amount of milk used to make pound of cheese
was nine and one-half pounds.
The normal school at Castleton will in future
make no charge for tuition to such as intend to
teach for a certain length of time in the schools
of the state.
Mrs. S. Onion of Chester, who died last week,
left by her will $1,000 to the Dartmouth college,
and the remainder of her property to her cousin,
the Rev. Asa D. Smith, d. D., president of Dart
mouth college.
Ira is the most peculiar shaped town, not only
in Vermont, but in the United States. if not in
the world, running from point to about two
miles wide, and is fourteen miles in length.
very interesting cave exists in Clarendon.
The descent into it is through q passage about
two and half feet in width, and thirty-one in
length, leading into room twenty feet high and
nearly thirteen wide. From this room a similar
passage leads into room thirty feet long and
twenty wide. This room is sometimes filed
with water.
CONNECTICUT.
1t was excellent sleighing up the HousatOnic
river, on the ice, last week, for six miles above
the Derby Dam.
The Congregational church, of North Nor
walk, numbering 804 members, contributed
$4,000 last year for charitable and other pur-
poses.
F. N Judson, graduate of Yale of the class
of 1866, and resident of New Haven has been
appointed private secretary to Gov. Brown of
| Missouri.
Mrs. Scott Siddons is so charmed with New
| Haven that it is reported she is about TO pun
| chase q residence IN ] Ork square ana lluhe IL
| her American home.
| Rev. Mr.. Strong, who was injured by the
| railroad accident at Hartford, at the time DR..
| Stone was killed, is recovering but he has as
| yet no consciousness of the cause of the disas-
| ter, nor of DR.. Stones death.
| There is considerable feeling about the cutting
down of one of the elm trees on Temple street.
| New Haven. 1t mutiates the famous arch of
| trees in Temple street, which is, without doubt,
the finest in the country.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson gave a reading at
| Norwich few days ago, before large and
| fashionable audience. Her modest demeanor
and the pathos of her rendering made her effort
| highly acceptable.
Calvin Campbell of Stonington recently killed
eleven hogs-sow and ten pigs, pigs fifteen
months old-which weighed as follows: $50, 500,
497 SIS, 536, $40, 553, 558, SIS, 502, $50; total
weight 1922 pounds, averaging $50 pounds each.
The New Haven Register says the interest due
on the 100000 boads of the Derby railroad
guaranteed by the city of New Haven't has not
been pBid by the company. The city treasurer
has given his check for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
$1,000 and $4,000. The work will have to be post.
poned until spring.
Three prisoners escaped from the jail at Mid
dletowu, Wednesday night Their names are
Antoine Wetz, VIM. Ahern and Thos. MCGOWAN.
The Jail is left unguarded at night, and no one
to interfere with efforts to escape. Several
prisoners, confined for various offences, refused
TO leave, and one of them the next morning in
and he started in pursuit.
The New London correspondent of the Nor
witch Bulletin says that had the crowd of roughs
who attended the prize fight on Wednesday re-
turned to that city, they would have received a
warm reception. The commandant at Fort
Trumbull, at the request of Sheriff Raymond
and Others, had promised the ser ices of 100
armed men, to assist in preserving order, and it
is more than probable the whole crowd would
have been arrested.
The official salary lists show some curious
comparisons. The governor gets $1,000 year,
and the secretary of the board of education
$4,000 and his travelling expenses; the lieutenant
governor is paid $500 for presiding over the sem
ate and the clerk of the same body $1,000; the
adiutant, quartermaster and paymaster generals
each receives $1,000, (as much as the governor),
and the school commissioners the same; the
Judges Of the superior and supreme courts are
paid $500 apiece, and Of the court of common
pleas $500 apiece. The salaries paid in Hartford
are also somewhat peculiar: The mayor gets
$1,000, the first selectman $1,000, the chief en-
gineer of the fire department $1,000, the city
clerk $3.50 and fees, and the street commissioner
$1,000
RHODE ISLAND.
The third annual exhibition of the Woon-
socket poultry club will take place on the 21st
and 22d.
Editor Foss, of the Woonsocket Patriot, has
been presented with an eight-pound pickerel,
by some of his townsmen.
L. NJ. E. Stone has been reelected superin-
tendent, treasurer and secretary Of the Warren
and Bristol railroad.
The measles and the humps have been very
prevalent among children in Woonsocket and
adjoining towns during the present winter.
An old gentleman named Marley, of Vans
| kuck, fell into an excavation caused by the
grading of Wilbur's hill, North Providence,
last week, and has since died of his injuries.