Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-30

peared on Lake Champlan on Sunday night,
June 25, and left for Whitehall the next morn
ing on her usual trips, with twenty,seven pas
sengers. Nothing equal to her in size, speed,
finish and decoration has ever been seen on Lake
Champlain. She is the second Vermont; the
first Vermont was run in 1909, and was the first
steamboat on this lake. Since that date about
thirty different steamboats, have been built and
run on this body of water, but this last floating
palace excels them all.
CONNECTICUT.
There is a certain town in the state in which
four of the deacons of the three churches are
blind in one eye.
Wells & Clark, bell manufacturers, of Middle
town, have failed. Their liabilities are $1,000;
assets about $1,000.
The masonic fraternity OF Guilford, will cele-
brate the centennial anniversary of the settle
ment of the town on the 4th of July.
The New Haven Germans have formed a
German Protective Union" to fight the anti
lager movement now in progress in that city.
Rev. Mr.. Gage,of Hartford has caused some
CONSERVATION among his hearers by refuting
the long-accepted story of Jonah and the whale,
and setting up new theory.
Five thousand gallons of rum in the store of
A. b. Isham Hartford, were seized Tuesday, in
consequence of the neglect of MIR. Isham to take
out a rectifying license.
The dwelling of W. II. Wilcox on Flax hill
Norwalk, was burglarOusly entered, on Friday
night, and robbed of two gold watches gold
bracelet and some spoons. The thieves were
seen and the alarm given, but they managed TO
escape.
A iaborer employed in laying concrete pave
ment in Bridgeport, opened a barrel standing
in front of a gentleman's residence, which he
supposed contained sand, and proceeded to drop
it upon the pavement 1t turned out 10 be I'M
leavened dough.
A few days ago, boy, apparently about
twelve years of age was killed near Parker's
or Manchester nv a proVi1aOpa
was supposed that the boy belonged to Rack
vile, and was Il pupil of the deaf and dumb
asylum in Hartford.
Mrs. Horatio Ames claim against the estate
of her late husband has been satisfied and the
Injunction against the Housatonic railroad, at
sumed, and the building of the car shops will
be pushed to a speedy completion.
The ancient "Mansfeld house." situated on
Elm street, corner of Church, in New Haven, is
being demolished. 1t was built 140 years ago.
bullet fired into one of the timbeTs by British
soldiers in the revolutionary war has been
found, and is an object of wonder for the
curious.
A Meriden girl of twelve, sent by her father
to the house of a gentleman to settle some bust
ness matter, contrived to secrete watch and
chain during his momentary absence from the
room. The theft was discovered, the property
recovered, and the parents of the girl have i'm
pressed upon her mind land body the fact that
the way of the transgreSsoris hard.
The female suffragists were before legisla
tive committee on Tuesday, and were heard at
great length in support of their claims to the
ballot Nothing new was presented except the
somewhat remarkable statement by one Mrs
MiddlebroOk, Of Bridgeport, to the effect that
she ibid not intend TO slumber or sleep, or al
low gentlemen to enjoy peace or tranquility m
i'll woman was enlranchised and permitted to
vote, and perhaps this declaration more init
mately concerns Mrs Middlebrook's husband, if
indeed she be not widow or divorced, than it
does the general public.
The Hartford life insurance companies had a
hearing before the finance committee of the
house on the bill introduced by Mr.. Blackstone
of that city, to tax their premium notes. All
the Hartford papers take strong ground in favor
of the passage of the bill. The notes bear in
terest, and are counted among the assets of the
company, and if they are to be free of taxation,
there is no justice in laying taxes upon the de-
posts in savings banks or other institutions,
whose surplus funds are seldom so safely and
so probably invested.
The Hartford Courant says that the chap who,
under the name of Joseph Preston, "played it
fine" on many of our Connecticut farmers, by
getting their names to note for a small amount,
payable when large lot of some patent ma
chine was sold by them, and then tearing off the
end and negotiating the note as of a larger
value, has tried his game once too often. He
attempted to swindle some Hampstead, l.. L.,
farmers, and now finds himself in prison in
New York to answer.
After considerable discussion in the house, on
the 18th, on Mr. Eaton's resolution appropri-
ating 100000 for new capitol building in
Hartford, it was finally referred to the Judiciary
committee, which the New Haven people deem
equivalent TO a defeat. The house also concur
red with the senate in incorporating the new
town of Beacon Falls, in the Naugatuck valley.
Ii is made up from parts of Bethany, Seymour
and Oxford. This makes 165 towns in the state.
The senate passed a resolution TO adjourn sine
die on the 18th of July.
party of gentlemen who left Bridgeport re-
Gently TO attend the wedding of friend in
Nichols farm, were signally unfortunate They
had nearly reached their destination when the
horse baked, and could not be made TO advance
an inch. The time for the ceremony was at
hand, and as they could not reach the church in
season TO witness it they concluded to turn
about and bid the couple good bye at the Bridge
port depot. But much to their disgust the
horse baked again when near Bridgeport, and
the would-be congratulations were denied the
privilege of seeing the happy couple.
A correspondent writing from the Walling-
ford community says: Every family has a
father" who superintends the affairs. Every
evening there are social meetings which all at
tend, and in which religious, social and bust
ness matters are fully discussed, and which
there is system of mutual criticism. This is
regarded as one of the greatest means of i'm
provement and fellowship, as it takes the place
OF backbiting in an ordinary society. Some
times persons are criticized by the entire
family, and Others by committees of six or
more. In these criticisms the most perfect sin
cerity is expected, and practical experience has
proved It; but for the subject to have the criti-
cism without reply, and there is little danger
that the general verdict will be unjust and it is
always acceptable to those who wish to see
themselves as Others see them.
A genuine miSer has been unearthed in Hart
ford. He is an old man named Henry Sey-
mour, who has for many years occupied
house on New Britain avenue, living in a state
of the most disgusting filth. The stencil arising
from his house being unbearable, the health
committee paid him visit. They found that
water had leaked in through the roof and min
gled with ashes and other garbage in the room
where the man "liyed," making the apartment
not only damp, but in every way unwholesome
from the foul smells prevailing; but the worst
of all was the presence in room adjoining of
the headquarters of hog, which had lain there
for weeks, and possibly months, till it was al
most completely decomposed, and the animal
life in and upon it was crawling in every diTec-
ton. The stencil arising was frightful, and
fairly staggered the visitors. Right in the midst
of the filth of one room, and adjoining this de-
composed animal matter, stood an old, dirty
lounge, upon which the man has slept-a
nights sleep there being enough, it would al
most seem, TO send a man into cholera and the
grave DelOre morning. seymour was complain
ed of about one year ago for starving two
horses, and the poor animals were killed to save
them from further suffering. He formerly had
some property, and it is probable has not parted
with it. He was taken to the station house, and
his den subjected TO publication.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence Herald says: ave under
stand that Mr.. Otis R. Pickett, formerly an at
tache of this paper, has identified himself with
a new Journalistic enterprise soon to be started
in New Haven" He was formerly employed on
a paper in this city.
The question, whether a man can sell cotton
"shot" and be Christian, is still agitated at
Providence. The Journal says: awe are over
whelmed with communications on the great
question which Mr.. Weeden incautiously let
loose in the Congregational convention. Every
body is talking about it; the barber shops and
corner groceries are full of it; the lawyers and
the judges discuss it in the recess of the courts;
the ministers preach about it, and the cotton
brokers consult the articles in the Journal as
regularly as they do the. quotations from Liver
pool. They cover the streets as the waters did
in the great September gale. We have not the
time TO read the communications that have n