Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-07

| town, Monday, to Miss Nellie NJ Casey, daugh-
| ter of the late DIR. W. b. Casey The marriage
ceremony was performed by Bishop Williams
| of Connecticut, assisted by the bridegroom's
father, the bishop of Tennessee.
A Meriden citizen, Mr.. James Munson, met
| with a singular accident few DAYS ago. As he
| stepped from his back door he received a yio-
lent blow on the forehead, which fairly stag
gered him. He anXiously peered for his as
sailant, and in so doing cast his eyes to the
ground, when he noticed an old rake, the teeth
of winch be had trodden upon as he slipped
from the steps to the ground; the handle of the
Implement struck with considerable force into
his face.
The depot and other buildings necessary for
the business of the Shepaug Valley railroad at
Litchield arc nearly completed. Five miles of
the track are laid; the bridge over the Housa-
tonic river is completed, and five miles of the
track on the New Haven side of the bridge are
| ready for the rails. The engineer says the cars
| will be running about the 1St of November. The
| road passes through some of the best scenery in
| the state.
James Moran was before the police court in
New Haven, a few days ago, to answer to the
| charges of abusing his wife and resisting the
| officers of the law. When it was attempted to
arrest him he resisted, and threatened to shoot
| the officers, and after he was arrested an old
| style doube-barrelcd pistol with caps on both
nipples and one barrel loaded to the muzzc,
was taken from him. He was fined Sl5 and
| sent TO Jail for thirty days
| Jerry Townsend, sentenced in 1865 to seven
| years in the state prison for robbing the Town
| send savings bank of 100000, most of which
was recovered, was released this week, having
gained year by good conduct, through the Gus
tom which allows prisoner five days a month,
if their department merits it, He was in the
prison hospital the past two years, and having
mastered the druggists business, intends to set
tie down in it,
The Hartford Courant IF +bo e+I g
spite Of the il-natured erumblers, the track
layers on the Connecticut Western railroad are
rapidly approaching this city. Yesterday they
had reached point -four and onc-half miles from
the city limits, and are laying the rails at the
rate Of thrce-quarters Of a mile daily A gang
OF men are also laying rails from the junction
with the Canal road west towards New Hartford,
about eight miles distant This zap and the one
near this city are the only ones to he filled to
give us complete road to MiertOn. Regular
trains are running on the west end Of the road,
aud the track is in an excellent condition. Trains
can run at the rate of thirty miles an hour with
entire safety, owing to the solid road beds and
the heavy rails, which weigh sixty pounds TO
the yard. A satisfactory arrangement has at
last been made with the Canal road for a cross
lng at SmSbury, and work there will begin Sat
urday night and be completed Monday morning,
Work has also begun on Edwards street bridge
in this city. The long delay has been caused bv
the impossibility of getting bolts, but now that
tiSg HaN6 oecu procured, IL VIII not be long be-
fore the bridge will be completed"
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence press says: Our citizens are
TO be taxed more heavily this winter for amuse-
mentS than ever before"
The Providence Herald says: 1t is seldom if
ever, that we have seen the wafer in the Black
stone 50 low as at the present time. The water
in the wells about here is also getting very low,
and if rain does not come soon we shall be sut-
ferng from water famine.
Maggie Mitchell gave birth TO a "little bare
foot" boy, Wednesday evening