Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-04

at a town in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, and
returned west with him on Friday.
lady in Bridgeport gave fellow her best
pair of shoes, as he said her husband wanted
some patent soles put on. The man didn't re-
turn.
The Stamford Advocate had this modest par
agraph last week: Even though we held the po
sition of the handsomest village in the state, we
have been very busy in improving our good
looks, and we have now made our appearance
almost Incompatible.
The cattle disease is reported in Thompson,
some farmers having brought some stock from
the Brighton market which was affected with
the disease.
The Hartford post office has issued during the
past year 12,425 money orders. The New Ha-
ven office has issued for the past year II 400
money orders.
Rev L. B. Bingham, of Brooklyn, has declined
the call of the First Congregational church OF
Rockville, but has consented to supply the pulpit
for one year from January list.
S. G. Baldwin of AnsOnia has killed twenty
eight coons the present season, two of them
weighing twenty-five pounds each, the average
weight OF the twenty-eight being eighteen
pounds.
ve-oak walking stick made from the tim
her of the old ronsdes, the frigate Constitution,
has been presented to the Connecticut historical
society by the son of eX-Gov. Foot of Connectl-
cut, to whom it was given by Commodore Hull.
An attempt by burglars was made upon the
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Haven, on Sunday evening. Their object was
probably to get possession of large sum col
lected for pew rents the day previous, but they
were discovered and frightened of.
Tuesday aud Wednesday last were assigned
for hearing the claims of the sixteen liquor deal
ers in Rockville, whose stock in trade was seized
| recently. Not one of them appeared. One Fo-
ley, at Vernon depot, declared he would sell
liquor wherever he pleased, and his premises
were searched and the spirits conhscated. Tenn
perance prospects are regarded as quite fatter-
ing.
The fire which burned several houses in New
London on Sunday was incendiary. The prop
erty was partially insured. Another attempt
TO fire the barn belonging to DR.. Perkins es-
tate, on Brewer street. was made abOnt the same
time.
Mr. NJ. A. Griffin, who went from Danbury to
Cory, Pa, last spring, to engage in the manu-
facture of the Climax moving machines, was ar
rested a few weeks ago charged with embezzle
ment and was placed under $4,000 bonds.
This amount was reduced to $4,000, and two
prominent citizens of Cory becoming his sure
tics, he was released, and now brings a cross
suit against the company for damage of char
acter.
The Willimantic journal suggests the follow
ing county changes: "Let all the towns in Toll
land, except perhaps Somers, Ellington, and
possibly Vernon, which prefer to join Hartford,
unite with Ashford, Chaplin Windham, Leba-
non, and Marlborough, to constitute one cOun-
ty, and you have territory with Willimantlc
quite central, easy of access from all parts and
without rival for a county seat. The inhab-
itants of thirteen remaining towns in Windham,
with a court house at Putnam or Danielsonvtlle
would share largely in the advantages resulting
in such a change, and therefore become inter
ested in it,"
RHODE ISLAND.
The marble statue of Gen. Greene ordered by
the state for the national capitol has been put
in its place, but that of Roger Williams, in the
hands of Mr.. Franklin Simmons, has not yet
been completed.
The materials for the soldiers and sailors
monument have not vet come to hand, in conse-
quence of the war in Europe, but they are soon
expected, and the dedication will probably take
place in the spring.
The governor says that the appointment OF
the board of female visitors to the penal and
correctional institutions of the state, where fe-
males are imprisoned, authorized by an act of
the last May session, has met with great favor
throughout the state.
An appropriation of $1,000 was made last year
for placing grave stones to mark the graves of
the soldiers and sailors who fell during the late
rebellion. One hundred and one graves were
found not marked with stones, and eighty-twO
have been supplied thus far, at a cost of less
than $500.
The balance in the state treasury on the 30th
of April, 1870, was $40 psi "a; the estimated
receipts from ordinary sources of revenue, for
the fiscal year ending April 80, 1871, are $685.
COO; the estimated payments to be made up to
tue same period amount to S727 900, leaving
balance of sos, "a, From the amount above
stated two special appropriations should be de-
Quoted, viz: For the house of correction at the
state tarm $4,000; for the soldiers and sail
ors monument, $4,000; leaving an available
balance of s3S, 231.34.
The cause of education in the state is in
prosperous condition. The town appropriations
| last year areS16,000 more than in 1869. More
and better school buildings have been erected
than in any previous year. A state board of
education bas been organized the past year. The
governor recommends the establishment of a
normal and training school for teachers, and an
industrial school for the benefit of the more than
| eight thousand children between the ages of five
and fifteen, who are growing up in ignorance,
| and without any school instruction.