Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-05

| which is at the best little confused. The
democratic side contend that since the death of
Mr.. Thrasher there are no 1.-TWO highest candi-
dates" 10 select FROM and the legislature can ill
with any one il pleases; while extreme republi-
cans argue that their candidate must be taken
being the only highest candidate living who
was voted for. The Exeter News Letter advises
the republican members OF the senate IN block
the wheels of legislation altogether. by REFUSING
to meet the house in convention.
VERMONT.
In the st. Adams market, this week. fair TO
prime diaries brought from twenty-five to thirty
two cents.
One of the piers of the Vermont side of the
proposed" bridge at Ticouderoga has sunk
twelve feet below the surface OF the water. Not
withstandlng the repeal of the law, wolkmen are
still engaged at the bridge.
A very aged couple, Reuben Mason and his
wife, after living together for sizty-fve years in
| Morrisville, died suddenly few days since-she
at eleven O'Clock in the morning, and he only
| ten minutes later. The shepherd kings elegy
| upon Saul and Jonathan viii well apply here:
"They were lovely and pleasant in their lives,
and in their death they were not divided"
| CONNECTICUT.
Rev. VIM Thompson, d. D., of Hartford, has
been elected chaplain of the insane retreat.
| The man Bridgeport looks up to is Fred
| Bailey, who measures six feet and nine inches
The Connecticut state dental association will
| meet in Hartford, May 16.
| The Rev. DIR. Carmody, pastor of ST. Johns
abroad to regain his health, was on Monday
evening presented with purse of 81 900 by the
members Of his parish.
Hartford is TO have new steam roller, TO be
used on her streets. 1t will weigh twenty tons
and cost Sc 500
The young mems Christian association of
New Haven propose to pitch a-tent beside Bar
NUNS circus tents on the day Of his exhibition
in that city, and will hold prayer meetings in it
during the afternoon and evening
oil rs,f
tic medical association will be held at Hartford,
| in the parlor of the Allyn house, on Tuesday
| the 9th day of May.
The imports into the port of New Haven DUR
| ing the month of January, amounted to S21,-
| 795, and the exports TO $40 ,465. During the
month of February the imports were S42 ,955.
The military companies of Hartford and New
| Haven have been to great expense at hiring
music for the parade, which was TO have taken
\ place on Tuesday. The companies are very in
dignant at the order countermanding the pa
rade.
man 10 Davenport avenue, New Haven, had
his hand badly injured a short time since by the
explosion of nitro-glycerine fuse, which he
had lighted to show some admiring friends how
the thing worked.
The grounds of the Wesleyan university, at
Middletown, are being graded and laid out in
very tasteful manner. The two new buildings
are nearly completed, and will be ready for ded-
icatiOn at the coming commencement. bod
| worth's band will furnish music on that occa-
| sion.
The national convention of the Alpha Delta
| Phi fraternity is to be held with the chapter of
| the Wesleyan university in May. Edward Ev-
| erett Hale of Boston, is to deliver an Grafton,
| and Ex-Governor Chamberlain of Maine, Henry
| Ward Beecher, and other distinguished members
of the fraternity are expected TO be in atten-
dance.
Henry Potts of Williamsburg, n Y, took
passage on the New York and New Haven
steamboat Monday night, intending to visit New
Britain. He "turned in" to his berth, having
at the time $40 in money, and gold watch val
ued at Sl25. In the morning he could not find
| them, and Samuel Norden was arrested on sus-
picioD, but discharged for want of evidence.
1t is the design of the directors of the Con-
| necticut Western railroad TO commence laying
| track upon the western section of the road in a
very few days. One hundred thousand dollars
| worth of the bonds of the company were sold
IN New York last week, and the sales to date
amount to about $500 900.
The Courant congratulates Hartford on being
the richest city of its size in the country, and
calls for the expenditure of million or two of
dollars for public park, a conservatory of
music, technical schools OF drawing, etc., and
especially for an art museum.
About year ago an OK stepped upon the foot
! OF John Chapel, in North Lyme, and when he
took off his boot, the toe-nail came off with it,
The wound healed up, and he thought no more
about the matter until, taking cold, inAamma-
ton set in, and ampHtation was found neces-
sary. The disease had so permeaIed the whole
system that on the third day after the operation,
gangrene was found extending above the knee.
He lived only about twenty-four hours longer
The Housatonic railroad bought the Ames
iron works at Falls Village "dog cheap" There
are twenty eight dwelling houses with the
works, all in good condition, which cost alto
gether, in cheap times, $4,000, and the rail-
road now gets the whole f n $4,000. The COM
pany will soon erect a round house and other
buildings, and use the works for general build
ing and repair shops, eventually making Falls
Village, instead of Bridgeport their "head CEN
ter" Real estate has advanced twenty-five per
cent. in the village since the purchase.
The Norwich Bulletin has the following item
of interest: Last winter a report appeared in
this paper of the sinking of an unknown
schooner off Cornfield light. on the 9th Of De-
cember, in eighty leet of water, in violent
snow storm, and that all on board probably
persisted. On Monday, George W. Fuller of
this city descended to the wreck to ascertain if
she could be raised. He found her with her
side stove in, the mastS broken off, the sails in
| ribbons, and the boats gone. Finding no traces
of the bodies, it is supposed the crews had taken
to the boats, and in the binding storm had been
swamped. He ascertained to a certainty that
the schooner was the Elizabeth & Helen, fiom
New York for Providence, with cargo of pig
iron, which has not been heard of since that
time. Her cargo was insured for $500. The
iron belonged TO parties in Providence and will
| be saved. The vessel is of course total loss"
RHODE ISLAND.
j. ii. Battell, of the celebrated firm of Wilcox
: | Battell, steam engine manufacturers, died in
E Providence on the 4th ofpneumonia.
j, Some twenty-five or thirty Scotchmen, some
4 | with families, arrived in Westerly Tuesday
4 morning, and are to be employed on Batter