Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-23

frozen 10 death 7th inst. He had been to the
north part of the town and had fallen from his
sleigh. His team was found standing beside
him. Heart disease.
VIM. Wallace of Eden hanged himself with
log chain in ms barn last week No cause is as
signed. He was man Of some MEANS and gen
orally respected.
Mrs. Andrew Somers Of Irasburg recently ac-
cidentally swallowed az orange seed, which
stuck in her throat, and up TO last accounts had
deied all attempts at dislOdgment.
The steam saw mill Of Field Brothers, at Boil
ton, was burned last Monday night. Loss about
$500, No insurance. They win build again
Immediately. The engine and boiler were not
materially injured.
Senter Houghton of West Fairlee ATTEMPTED
suicide BY cutting his throat March g. The
loss of his wife and three children by death, and
pecumaTy embarrassment are supposed to have
caused partial arrangement of his mind,
CONNECTICUT.
A forty pound wild cat was caught in a tran
at Winsted on Monday.
The Waterbury clock company shipped 2S5
cases, containing 1410 clocks, one day last week
Let US talk of big hogs: Samuel Hubbard of
North Gullford killed hog the other day weigh
ing seven hundred and siXty-three pounds.
la6orer on the Air Line road, Dooley's sec
non, East Hampton, was killed Tuesday by The
falling OF an embanknent under which he was
at work
DR.. David E. Boswick, PAST grand master of
Masons in Connecticut, died at his residence in
Ltchfeld last Saturday night. He had been an
invalid for several years.
The new ''hOrSe disease" which has spread
rapidly in New York, has reached Hartford
There have been n number of cases and one
death there
Robert G. Pike, Esq, state fish commissioner,
mas one thousand young salmon Matched out at
his residence in Middetown, which he proposes
to set afOat in the river this spring.
The New Haven Journal and Courier SAYS
that the Shepaug Valley railroad have stopped
running trains, nominally to make necessary
repairs, but really for the lack of patronage.
John Post, Of Bozrah, had a goose which laid
an egg the other day, measuring twelve by nine
inches, and weighing pound. The goose now
sleeps in the silent tomb.
Jonn q. Hayden, Esq, one of the oldest mer-
chants of Middletown, who died last week, al
though he had bought large quantities of goods
from New York, had never visited that city but
once, and had never Travelled on railroad
tits a remarkable coincidence that Mr.. Joseph
W. Hubbard, secretary of the Russell manufac-
turing company of Middle town, and Mr.. Samuel
Hubert, an eX-secretarv of the same concern
should both die on the same day and of the
same complaint
The following distressing intelligence was re-
ceived from Brookfeld Tuesday night, the 18th:
"one day last a sun got mad at his father and
up aninuck him down and mand do that will do
Wors god help that man for doing so. o. H. o.
Hay was never so scarce in Danbury. The
price is about S32 per ton, which is SIS cheaper
than il can be bought in Hartford. Neither of
the two hay markets in Danbury have any stock,
and the farmers will not sell enough of theirs 10
stuff gOldfinch.
L. 5. Davis, of Danbury, was bitten on the
hand by horse few days AGO The wound
was apparently slight one, but Inflammation
set IN, ana the whole length Of the limb soon he
came seriously swollen. 1t had to be lanced
after which it began to improve, and is now APP
pareutly we'll.
Misfortunes never come singly Edward Rod
ney, of NlunrOe lost his barn by fire last fall
Two months later his horse was injured so it
had TO be killed. Soon after he lost several
hundred pounds of tobacco by Il storm unrOofng
the shed in which it was stored, and now his
Wiles mother has come to stay with him.
MIR. Henry A. Preston, Of Sterling, was found
dead in the woods on Wednesday, the 18TH
where he had been at work chOpping. He
health.
man on Dublin hill, New Britain, became
enraged at his wife on Tuesday, and threw a
fork at her, which hit her lust over the eve and
penetrated the skull so that considerable force
was required TO withdraw it. The man was
hned $40 and costs and sent to Jail for twenty
days.
The soldiers monument association of Mid
dletown has adopted the design of Mr. NJ H.
Hosman of Chicopee, Mass. The monument
will cost $4,000, and will be placed at the east
end of Union park If Will be in the form of
bronze statue of an infantry soldier, eight feet
high, and the granite pedestal will contain the
names of all the soldiers and seamen from the
town who fell in the late war
Charles w. Knox, OF Manchester, but working
in Hartford as a bookbinder; Albert j. Russell,
farmer and schoolmaster, from Marlboro. and
walter ); Andrews, of Hartford, pressman at
Case, Lockwood & Brainard's, were the three
highest in standing at the examination for West
Point cadets, at Hartford, on Tuesday. Knox
was appointed cadet, though he has not vet
passed the physical examination.
Leaving babies in the street is cominefto be
deplorably prevalent sin. Within the past week
cases of such abandonment have been reported
i'll Boston, Providence and this city; and YES
ter the New Haven papers told of a case where
young woman was met on the street in the
evening carrying a child in her arms, which was
shortly afterwards found by a young man and
turned over TO ianAly to care for until it could
be sent TO the proper institution.
The challenge issued by Mrs. Hooker to dis
cuss the womens suffrage question with any one
OF the opposition having interest enough in the
subject to argue it in public, has been taken up
by Mr.. Newton, OF the Yale law school, A com
mlttee OF law students has been appointed TO
call upon Mrs. Hooker, and make the necessary
arrangements. The discussion will take mace
some time next week. The exact time and place
VIII be announced hereafter Mr. Newton is re-
puted to be shrewd debater and spicy contest
is expected.
The prisoners at the jail, at Hartford, now
number about one hundred. Among them are
several of note, as, David Scott and Mitchell
Cherest, the alleged Windsor Locks murderers:
VIM. Kinney, the burglar, under sentence Of
two and half years TO the state prison; Dennis
McCann, the New Britain burglar, who has
pleaded guilty but has not been sentenced; Jas
NJ. Walen, the Glastonbury bigamst under
sentence wears he ct rispY,
Epson, the Bloomfield colored girl, sentence to
the state prison for one year for theft; Eva
Simpson, charged with receiving stolen goods,
and Others.
4 A Danbury man distinguished himself the
other evening by going on what is automatically
designated a"tear," and while thus located nm
consciously inviting some thirty or forty persons
TO dine with him the next day. When he ar
rived home from the store at noon he was startled
to ind various strange people carelessly streWu
from the gate to the stoop, and spread cut on the
yard in groups OF twOs and threes. The first i'm
preston was that something sickening had hap
pened, but upon learning the true state of affairs
he was so OVerpOwered by gratitude that he
cheeriully engaged with his estimable wife in
pouring hot water on those of the assembly who
seemed imperyious to milder arguments.
A young lad, belonging to San Francisco who
came east recently to visit some friends, started
by the afternoon express, Monday, from Boston,
to 20 to Bridgeport. He fell aSeeO in the cars
and was carried through 10 New York. Tues
daY he started from New York for Bridgeport
fell soundly asleep on the train again and pass
ed through TO New Haven. In the evening he
started the third time for Bridgeport and this
time fortunately happened to sit near a Bridge
port gentleman, who accidently learned the his
tory Of the boys two days travel and kept him
awake until the train arrived there. The boy
then got off and was directed 10 the house OF his
friends
The Hartford Post Of Thursday has four arti-
cles Of considerable length on pure water, Trout
brook, cells, and kindred topics Just new under
discussion in that city, besides some verses of
which this is a sample:
Pure water is the daily cry
Of him who laves or drinks
OF Trout Brook fluid we are shy,
Because-O hush lit stlnks.
We damned the brOok-miscalled Of trout
Which proved TO be a sham,
And penitential folk now shout
"'Iwas never worth damnl"
RHODE ISLAND.
Over $500 have been collected in Newport for
the widow of pilot Hubby, of pilot boat John
w. Flanders, drowned at Block Island.
There he goes, again-that Providence Herald
man: "Ihe daring demoiselles who braVed Boz
reas and King Zero, yesterday, scantily adorn-
ing Westminster street with brisk promenading
could hardly be conscious Of the rosy radiance
of heightened beauty their faces put on, touched
by the cunning paint of an Arctic Apeles. Like
Moses coming down Sinai their faces shown
with exceeding brightness but unlike the law