Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-16


| no way obsruct navigation, or iujuriousy
affect the natural ebb and flow of the tide
The Maine delegates at large to the national
| republican convention were chosen on the l4tk
in the legislative caucus. 4 resolution was
| unanimously passed 70 the effect that Grant and
| CotaX were the first choice of the party in that
state; but it is understood that the delegates are
not instructed by this action, but that II merely
expresses the sense OF the legislature, leaving |
the delegates unhampered and free TO vote for
the men VINO shall seem TO be the strongest for
the party.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
| The picker house Of the Ashueot wooden mills
| at Winchester, was burned, on Tuesday. Loss
Ii is stated that it requires eighty-seven tons
of coal and iorfy-ive cords Of wood a day to
| feed the fires Kept under the boilers of the Man
| chester print works mills.
| A few days ago gentleman of Chester was
! drinking from spring, the water coming M
through small aperture in the ice, when he
| saw, a few feet from him, the head OF a water
adder projecting, with vibrating tonnue.
through similar opening in the ice. He didn't
drink any more.
The fishing schooner 0sier, Capt. Lane. with
crew of ten men, sailed from Portsmouth on
the 18th and returned on the 18th, with Il fare of
between eleven and twelve thousand pounds of
hsh. The whole lot was sent TO Boston for sale,
on which the sum of $40 will be realized. Fish
were never more plenty than now, it being no
uncommon thing for the fishermen to earn from
So to 81 per DAY.
The Portsmouth Times saws there is a pun in
that city six months old, setter from Rio
Janeiro, that is fond Of sprituous and malt
| liquors, and viii take drink whenever invited
as well as any old topper. He gets drunk as a
| lord, and never refuses chew Of tobacco, but
| has not yet learned 10 smoke. The dog takes a
whiskey straight, but prefers it with ''fxins"
and will swallow pint Of ale at any time
| These are actual facts, as many of the Ports
| mouth sportsmen'S club can testify.
| VERMONT
| Miss Phebe Bailey of Newbury was fatally
| burned, On Sunday night, by her clothes catch
| ing fire.
| OF the one hundred and thirty-four Congrega-
| tOnal ministers in the stale who have received |
| COLLEGIATE and theological education, twenty |
| nine are graduates of the university of YER
| mont twenty-five of Middlebury college, TWEEN
| ty-two of Dartmouth, fifteen OF Amherst, yelve
! of Yale SIX Of Williams five of Union and
| from one TO four in half dozen or more other
| colleges Of the number, sixty were educated
at Andoyer, twenty at Bangor, seventeen at Union,
nine at Auburn, and the remainder at other
theological seminaries. The average of their
salaries is S905; tifty-four receiving $1,000 or
over.
suit, brought by the town of Brattleboro
against Col. S. NJ Waite, claiming 81, 900 dam
ages on the ground that Col Waite as cashier
of the First National bank of Brattlcb0ro in
the wears 1S66-67, omitted to return a;ist of the
stockholders OF that bank TO the town clerk, 50
| has just been decided in the Vermont supreme
court in favor OF Col Waite. Another suit bv
| the town against Col. Waite, to recover the pen
| atty of $500 in each of the years 1866 and 1867
| under the statute of 1865, on the ground that
| Col. Waite, as cashier, had omitted to make
such return of stock to the town clerk in those
years, is now before the county court for trial. Il
plea that the claims were outiawed having been
overruled by the supreme court.
CONNECTICUT.
The New Haven Methodists have established |
a mission at Oyster point.
The school children in Hartford number gt2O |
an increase of $40 over last year.
1t is now expected that Mrs. Sherman, the
Derby poisoner will not be tried before April.
Elijah A. Watrous and wife, of Bolton, ccle-
brated the tiltieth anniversary of their marriage
on Tuesday, the 18Th inst
Miss Florence Cook of Rocky Hill would like
$4,000 from Duane Barnes of Middletowu, for
breach OF promise and attempted seduction
| In Wethersield, a wild crow has become so
tame that for two months it has come regularly |
every day and taken its rations with a farmers |
| chickens.
A couple of women in Fair Haven, on the 18th,
had an argument about the ownership of a |
knife, and one OF them had its temper tried on |
| her face.
Five gentlemen, familiar with real estate mat
tiers in Hartford, have estimated the value of the
trinity college property at from 100000 to
Judge Morris has brought suit against the
| town OF East Haven to recover 81 800 for the
| drowning of Mr. Lumm, and 81 800 for the
| drowning Of his daughter last fall in the Quin-
| nipiac river, by driving off Lewis bridge
| Peter Whittlesey, Of Walingford, has a DOW.
| der horn which still contains the powder used
| during the revolutionary war. Its surface is
| deliberately engraved showing views of Man
haitian island, Brooklyn, Halifax, and shipping
| in the harbors.
The Danbury News says: A Danburv Ger
man is named Observation-Disclosures. How
| would You like to stand on a back stoop. with
the thermometer eleven degrees below zero, and
| call that in to breakfast?
! Norwich gentleman who has been from the
commencement Of the small pox excitement,
confined 10 his house by the dangerous illness Of
his wife with that disease has received the news
| OF his brothers death in Philadelphia, from the
| same malady
| Since the opening of the Valley railroad
nearly 1000 tickets have been sold at Cromwell
station for Mddletown, an astonishing fact.
| when II is remembered that only one wear ago
| an omnibus line was withdrawn from the route
| because there was not sufficient patronage to
| sustain it.
| The latest plan for increasing Yale's endow.
ment is proposed by a correspondent of the
College Courant. He proposes that on gradu-
alton each member of the class shall Get his
ne insured Tor $1,000, the amount to be paid to
the college on his decease
MIR. johnson, OF Danbury, entertained him |
sell IN his leisure moments, last week. with |
removing Miss Knights chickens from their
nocturnal roOsting place TO a neighboring pro-
VISION store. This week his entertainment is
counting the bars from the wrong side of a well
known Danbury window.
Mrs Experience Plank, of Kllingy died in
that town on Monday, the 18th INST at the n l.
Vanced age of l06 years, three months and TWEEN |
| ty-twO day S, having been born Oct Goth 1765 |
| She could without doubt justly claim the title of
the oldest lnbabitant" of New England The |
Transcript says that "she had been in abont her
usual health, until about two weeks since. when
| she took cold, and though she seemed nor 10
| suffer much, her mental and physical mowers
gradually failed for several days previous TO her
| death"
The jury Of inquest exonerated the engineer
| and every person connected with the Hartford
| and New Haven railroad company from all
| blame IN the accident which resulted in the
| death of Henry kolenburr and the lad James
| Sullivan. The engine on the New Haven road
| was following closely passenger train on the
| Hartford, Providence and Fishkill road, which
| runs parallel wi til that of the former and the
| steam from the latter so obscured the view of
the engineer that he did not discover the parties
until too near to prevent the accident Kolen-
burg had a brother killed on the New Haven
road about seven years ago, by similar acci-
dent.
1t is well known fact that the 1870 crop OF
tobacco in the Connecticut valley is rejected by
most manufacturers in consequence of not be- |
in9 well cured (sweated), and at the present !
Time there Is uearth OF tobacco suitable for |
Inc cigars. The new crop of 1871 will not be |
cured in this climate and ready for use until |
several months of warm weather, say in Sep |
| tember next. Messrs Barnes & Jerome deal.
eis in tobacco in Hartford, conceived the idea of
shipping cargo to a warm climate where il
| VIII get the same degree of heat in DECEMBER |
| January aud February that it would here in |
June. July and August, and accordingly thew |
made early purchases Of some of the finest |
crops OF 1871 tobacco green, in the valley, and |
| shipped it to port near Havana The extra |
| ordinary fneness OF the 1871 crop it being
early stripped and ready for sale by the farm
ers, and the Unprecedented demand for fine
tobacco, combine to make it a favorable time
for this enterprise. The value Of the tobacco
thus shipped is about 100000 and those in
charge report it as curing finely, with a pros
poet Of being ready to re-ship some time in
March The firm named already have applica-
tons from dealers and manufacturers to pur-
chase from the cargo on its return, AMI they
will undoubtedly find ready sale at satislacto-
ry prices Of the whole cargo.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence Press says that very bitter
discourse against the opera in general, and Don
Giovanni in particular, was preached in one of
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