Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-07

After leaving Hanover he went to Vermont
where he practiced a short time, and then re.
turned to his native town, where he was an ac
his death.
The operations at the new brck-yard in NORTH
Kingston are progressing finely. Forty Can
adams are at work in the yard, and fifteen mer
and boys, also Canadians, are constantly en-
ployed cutting wood. The brick are all
struck" by hand, and from 50, 900 to 40, 900 are
daily prepared for drying. The first kiln OF
Z0O,OOO VIII shortly be in readiness for burning.
ms Kiln and another of nearly the same size
VIII be required for the new Exeter Phillips
academy building. The foundation will be in
readiness for the bricklayers in about two weeks
1t has been decided TO dispense with the cere-
mony of laying the cornerstone.
The legislature meets to-day. IL is evident
that tie most trying and responsible position
at the opening of the legislature is that OF clerk,
| now filled by Josiah H. Benton, Dr., OF LancaS-
| ter whose marked ability and previous expert
| eDce admirably qualify him for the place. The
| house shall hold oyer until his successor is
chosen and sworn in Hence il would appear
m In, the duty of Mr.. Benton to make out the
roll of members who shall be entitled to vote at
the opening Of the session. The closeness of
the parties, and other circumstances, would
seem TO render the service of the experienced
clerk of last year of an invaluable character for
the coming session. There is a report that the
democrats propose to ignore Mr.. Benton's clear
right TO make out the roll of members, and TO
move 70 proceed at once 10 choice of tempo
rary speaker, thus leaving the house to resolve
itself into a committee of the whole, and in
that capacity to decide the cases of those mem.
bers whose seats are contested. In this view of
the matter the difficulty would seem to be to
determine who shall have the right to vote for
temporary speaker. Prominent mel from both
parties say that neither side will attempt any
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only a short time will be required for organizing
the house, and proving who the masters of the
situation are to be.
VERMONT.
Two sons Of John Reynolds of Georgia, aged
seventeen and nineteen, were found drowned in
Lamoille river, near their fathers house, on Sum
day evening, where they had gone bathing.
1t is supposed one was taken with the cramp,
and that the other, in trying to rescue him, was
drawn under. They were promising boys, with
bright prospects. Their death casts deep gloom
over the neighborhood.
Mrs. Leavitt Hunt of New York, who arrived
at her summer residence at Weathersfed Bow,
the other day, with five children, three servants
and twenty-five trunks, experienced sad mis-
hap with the baggage. The trunks were taken
from the railroad station in a hay cart with two
horses, being fastened on with a chain passing
over the whole; but when driving on to the
ferry boat the chain broke, letting some of the
one of the frightened horses, which in turning
jumped into the river, taking trunks and all.
Horses, driver and cart sank and rose three
times, but were finally rescued after a hard
struggle. The river, with its floating trunks,
resembed Boston harbor in oden times with its
chests of tea, and several of the trunks went
down the stream as far as Hubbards islands
The contents Of the Saratogas were completely
ruined, and the loss, although not definitely est-
mated, must have been quite heavy.
CONNECTICUT.
There are three sisters born in Litchfield cOun-
ty eighty-four years ago, at one birth, who are
now in good health, living two in Wayne and
one in the adjoining county in Pennsylvania.
They are working people, still do their own
washing, walk one mile every Sunday TO church,
and in most respects look and act as though
they were but fifty. Their name is Hurlburt.
As il was late at night, when John knox, the
sick printer, committed suicide in the Hartford
hospital Thursday the body was not removed
from the bed for fear of disturbing the rest of
the ward, and the man in the next bed who had
suffered long and severely from rheumatism,
was so frightened on waking up and seeing the
bloody corpse in the morning. that he sprang
up, gave the alarm, and has felt no symptom of
| his rheumatism since. The fright cured him. q
The local of the Hartford Post has cause to
be pleased, reason TO be overjoyed; in fact, he
don't know how to express the fullness Of his
feelings. And the reason is found in the follow
of our boyhood has reappeared. 1t contains all
the well-known images, even to the anxious
looking gentleman with tin plate, which upon
the deposit of a penny, is deXterously turned
inward and the coin secured" If the sight of
one hand organ causes so much satisfaction,
and thus renews the memory of "our boyhOod"
in Hartford, we will be glad to send on all the
organs in this vicinity.
A case of some Importance has recently been
decided by Judge Loomis in the Litchfeld county
superior court. Last fall Heminway & Sons,
silk manufacturers, of WATERFOWL were put
under an injunction not TO discharge their re-
fuse dye-stuff into the river, the farmers below
claiming that it spoiled the water so that cattle
would not drink it. After a full hearing of the
case and due delberation, Judge LoomiS has dis
solved the temporary injunction and denies the
prayer for permanent injunction. During the
trial, Professor Johnston, of Yale, testified that
the dyes used by the defendants were not dele
FERROUS.
The Hartford Courant says: "Mr. Caring
ton, owner of the New Haven Journal and
Courier, supposed that be managed that paper,
and therefore when called from his dinner by
three young men, strangers TO him, on Sunday,
and informed that the internal arrangements of
his Office did not conform to their notions, was
naturally very much surprised. These young
men were a committee from the printers union,
and told him unless things were managed as
they chose, there would be no paper from that
| properly told them that he proposed 10 regulate
| his own business, let the consequences be what
| they might. The paper appeared as usual Mon
day morning, and the Register says it will con
tinue to if every publisher in the city has to TAX
off his coat and 90 TO the cases. The difficult
was not on the question of the rates of wages
but dictation as to the manner of performing
| certain kinds of work, and concerning the Civ
ing of some kinds of work to apprentices-wor
that they should know how 10 do, and which il
| is the duty of an employer to instruct them il
| by practice"
| RHODE ISLAND.
| Within an extent of two miles on one of the
| roads in East Greenwich, are twelve farm
| houses, the homes of thirteen widows.
The whole family of John Conroy, of Woon
| socket, were poisoned last week by cooking fol-
| greens a common plant known as the thorn ap.
| pie. They are now out of danger.
A family living in Elmwood, Providence, were
| poisoned last week by eating Texas dried beef
| The beef was carefully examined, and found tC
contain signs of the cattle disease. The poison
| ing produced violent, but happily not fata
| sickness.
A splendid dog made his way into the edito
rial room of the Providence Press, the othel
| day, bearing bundle, which when opened re
vealed 500 in greenbacks. An accompanying
note explained that the money was the gift o
| seventeen sympathizing young men of tina
| city to the worthy actor, j. d. Grace, now an
| invalid.
On Monday the new city government of Prov
idence was inaugurated, and Hon. Thomas
Doyle began his seventh year of service as
mayor. His message was comparatively brief
| but quite important. The floating debt at the
close of the last fiscal year was S841, 1865. 92
upon which has been paid this year the sum o
| $4,000, and it will probably be reduced Il
$165,000 by the Both of September, when tn,
next fiscal year closes. A re-valuation of the
| real estate of the city has been made during tht
| year by the board of assessors, and the tota
valuation of the taxable portion is S63, 6O7 ,072
being an increase over the previous valuation o.
| 81 ,095, 272.
Within the past year Providence has adopted
new code of the fire-alarm signals by Game,
well Co.'s automatic system, which gives
| very good satisfaction. The department has
been called out 1O1 times during the year, 6
much greater number than in any previous
year. The amount Of property destroyed was
unusually large, amounting to about $3.50 900
The greater portion Of this loss occurred at fires
during the great drouth and intense heat of last
summer, when the facilities for obtaining water
were very unfavorable. The police have had an
unusual amount of work, the arrests for The
year ending last Thursday numbering $500, OF
this large number drunkenness furnishes ms
usual the great proportion, the number beinl
for this offence 3349. The number of stores anf
| other buildings carelessly left unsecured anl