Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-31

without Darmi's'on thcv thereby viollfnd thclr
contract aud forfeited their wages; the agent
was not bound to take them back in the morn
ing even if they had gone at the usual time
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mrs. Bliss Smith of Londonderry has followed
the trade of shoemaker for forty years.
New Hampshire has twenty-one couples who
have been married over fifty years
.a VERMONT,
Woodstock has an unpleasant plentitude of
the potato Dug.
Burlington is astonshed by an early rose po-
tato weighing two pounds and fourteen ounces
grown there this season.
DIR. A. S. Carter, of Wheelock, recently eloped
with the wife of c. W. Jones of that town. Car
ter leaves a wife and several children.
Gov Hoffman arrived at Burlington on Fri
| day evening en- route to Saratoga. He was sere-
naded and made speech, but made no allusion
to national politics. The governor went south
| on the night boat.
A Burlington policeman was reduced to the
ranks of the common people, the other day, and
fined five dollars and costs beside, for so far for
getting the dignity of his office as to throw the
carcass of dead cat into the house of one Of
his neighbors
CONNECTICUT.
Connecticut aborgines call fashionable belle
"the devils rag-bag,"
President Porter, of Yale college, is prepar-
ing an abridged edition of his work on the hui
| man intellect.
| Inc DanDufY News says. 0OWluS 10 DeHleft,
| the Bridgeport lookup is in good condition to
make a good iyce-um."
The ffty-ffth anniversary of the establish
| ment of the first Sabbath school in New Lon
| don was held on the 2Sth.
Col. David Torrance, of Derby, was APP
| pointed brigadier general under the new mill
| tary law, by Gov. Jewell, but declined.
| J. D. Redfeld, of Essex, and Robert M. jew
| EFT, Of Lyme, have been appointed turnpike
commissioners, and Edward w. Redfeld, of
Essex, ferry commissioner
The fire at John Bishops lumber yard, in
New London, on Thursday, proved more disas-
| ferrous than at first reported, the loss being
fully SIS, 900, of which Sc 900 was insured.
A Bristol man undertook, the other day, to
punish his daughter, girl of IS, for accepting
the attentions of young man whom he didn't |
like. The girl very naturally objected to this |
sort of interference in her love affairs, whereat
the fond parent knocked two of her teeth down |
her throat local magistrate let him off with |
a fine of S.
Taking into account the delay at the |
opening of the session, the general assembly |
has been at work about week less than its /
predecessor. The Norwich Bulletin says
GA great amount of business has been /
done, although perhaps nothing of great
general importance except the appropriation for /
the new state house. On the whole, although |
much business was crowded over which was |
worthyIof more consideration the legislature has
done pretty we'll"
A young man. who entered house at Bolton
and appropriated valise, a watch and two gold
chains, took the steamboat train at Wiimantic |
the other night and, though followed by citi-
zen, locked himself into toilet room and was
carried away. The Wilimantic Journal says
that he probably escaped" and adds the pious, |
though somewhat doubtful prediction, that
1.-THE way of the transgressor is hard, and if he
escapes now the future has grief in store for
him.
The old 18th regiment has bit of romance in
its history, in the shape of an adopted child,
son of Capt. Theodore Burdick, highly es-
teemed officer in the regiment, who was killed at
fort Wagner, two days after his return from
furlough, during which he was married. On
the birth of the boy, at the suggestion of field |
officer, mother and child were sent for, fund
OF several hundred dollars raised and placed in
the bank for their benefit, and the child for |
mally adopted and chrlstened Theodore Wag- |
ner Burdick. The boy is expected TO be pres |
ent at the this reunion at Merden, on the 10th /
of next month.
A few days ago, Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. |
Brewer, each mother of one child, left their /
respective male appendages at Pawtucket NOM |
inally for visit to Mystic. Both went to New |
London, where Mrs. Tucker and man named /
Frank Hard decided to elope. Mrs Brewer and |
Sam Hazard concluded to follow their example, |
and all four went in the direction of the setting |
sun. One of the injured husbands followed |
them, however, and, procuring an officer at New |
London, succeeded in finding the four about |
midnight at Connecticut river. He entered the /
chamber where his wife and his successor SUM |
bered sweetly, with the intention of Furnishing |
the tickle female, but she prevailed upon him |
with tears, and he finally concluded to receive |
her. So he carried her back to Pawtucket |
bathed in the dew of repentance. The accom-
panylng couple have not been followed.
RHODE ISLAND.
Horse thieves made three attempts to steal |
teams in North Providence on Thursday night |
The ARRANGEMENTS fOr the colonization M . ha
colored people, at Providence, August LIST, are |
being rapidly perfected, and large crowds of /
people will probably join in the festivities, under
the auspices of the Neptune yacht club
In a week or two we may look for some of |
those aquatic carnivals which were witnessed in |
Newport last summer, when the speediest |
yachts in the world assembled there, and COM
peted with each other and challenged the ma
tons to produce their like in elegance and speed
Mayor Doyle and the Providence board of al
derman, with the water commissioners, visited
the water works at Cranston, last week, for the
purpose of inspecting the same, and learning
the progress of the undertaking. So far as has
been ascertained all were favoraby impressed
with the amount of advancement made.
The staunch and elegant boats of the Ameri-
can steamboat company, Providence, are doing
an immense business this summer in carving
thousands of pleasure seekers to Rocky Point
Newport and other pleasure resorts on Nara
gansett bay ExcursiOnists are sure to find
oe'iSbJg sPNCu anu tOlnlOILJ anu courteous
conduct of the officers of the company tends to
increase the popularity of the line.
Rhode Island can boast of as well mana ged
railroads as any state, and if her interests con-
tinue extending, as there is good reason to ex-
pect, she will soon be second to none of her SIS
tiers in the miles of track in proportion to the
area, and in the facilities for both local and
through travel. A new road is projected from
Valley Falls to the iron mines of Cumberland,
and the surveying for the work is now going |
on. The proposed route will run by way Of Di- |
mond Hill, whence projected line will connect |
it with Attleboro.
There is probably no section of New England
that SO much needs railroad as the MOI Invest
ern part of Rhode Island. The matter has been
discussed, at times, for the last twenty years.
but now seems likely to assume definite form.
Some people, who never lose an opportunity to |
make joke of the diminutve proportions of |
the state, suggest that nothing but narrow |
gauge road can find room in the section alluded |
TO without trespassing on Connecticut. Leading |
men state that the bonds Of the proposed road |
VIII readily sell at par, as soon as put on the |
market In whatever shape the matter comes |
before the legislature, let Rhode Island beware
OF railroad lobby; the Hartford and Erie ring |
appears to be idle just now. and would probably
like nothing better than to dabbe a little in |
Rhode Island matters