Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-26

moonlight evenings ago a bevy of Young ladies
were wandering by the banks of the romantic
Cocheco, when they thought they saw goose
or duck swimming in the limpid stream, and
they lbegan pelting il with pebbles, when they
were greatly astonished to hear the aforesaid
goose exclaim, why can't you let n fellow
alone? ] amt botherin' you folks any"
correspondent, writing from the Glen house,
says Perhaps you had better caution your
readers who are prone to going a fishing es-
pecially on the streams around the White noun
tains, about going without firearms on such
occasions, as Mr.. Charles Cannon of Lewiston,
while fishing on the west branch of the Peabody
river, in the Gulf of Mexico one day last week
Catching twenty-five nice trout in an hour
met an old bear and her cub. He said he had
found bear, but as he had not lost one, and
she seemed inclined to roam, he proposed TO let
her roam, while he struck a double quick for
home sweet home"
VERMONT.
stratum of tan bark nearly two feet in
thickness underlieS some four feet of earth,
where the water main crosses Main street near
Stevens brook, ST. Adams. 1t is a deposit of
some thirty years ago, as fresh and fragrant as
ever
At Richmond, on the 18th, $50 boxes of
cheese sold at TO Zoe for farm; diaries, sage
and factory, 10 to lie, decline of fully one
cent pound from lastweek 100 tubs of butter
sold at 10 to Is, for ordinary 20 to pc for fair;
choice % to %
Deacon John Carpenter of Gulttrd was taken
sick in the midst of having, and on Wednesday
OF last week his neighbors, to the number OF
sixteen, turned out and finished up the job for
him, the women taking charge of the indoor at
fairs while the men did the haying.
CONNECTICUT.
Stanley, the African explorer, is a native of
Connecticut
William Sprague Hartford bartender
jumped from the window Of a brOthel on Bull
lock avenue, Wednesday night, breaking his
neck
Cider apples sell for ten cents bushel in the
western part Of the state. Cider is going TO be
cheap. The barrels viii probably cost more than
the cider, the cider makers say.
The Hartford Post attempted to say, Wednes-
day night, that white pique costume are now
popular" and was informed the following morn
ing that white pine cofiius are not poplar"
Extensive damage was done by a hail storm
| at Vernon Depot on Thursday Several build
| ingS were blown down, corn fields Frustrated
fruit stripped from the trees, and tobacco crops
ruined.
Two boys in Wallingford, Thursday, went
| under tree during the thunder shower and
were killed. The lightning first struck the tree.
| The boys parents saw the accident from the
| house, and went ont to find both dead.
Five large cannon, taken from the wreck of
the Spanish frigate San Pedro, were landed on
Prentis's wharf, New London, Friday, from the
brig Nellie Gay. They are worth examining
twenty-SeVen years.
correspondent of the New York Times
speaks OF New London as slow town, and of
Its inhabitants as antediuvians, and says: "But
as there were enough good men in a celebrated
ancient city 10 save it, SO there is in this, in spite
of the class spoken of above"
Many fields OF tobacco between Hartford and
South Windsor were ruined by the late storm.
Tobacco that had not been topped" suffered
less than fields that were nearly ready for the
harvest. Whole fields of corn in South Windsor
and vicinity were also blown down.
The body of the wife of James Pickens was
discovered floating in the Connecticut, near
Thomps0nviIle, Wednesday, by two men who
were crossing in a skiff. Pickens has not lived
happily with his wife, who has frequently
threatened TO drown herself Ii is supposed
that she had been drinking and carried her
| threat into execution by jumping into the river
about noon Wednesday.
| 1t is reported that a Connecticut man in Gin
cinnati fell from the top of a four-story building
| the other day to the stone sidewalk beneath
| without being injured in the least He was an
| insurance agent, and struck on his cheek. AT
the time Of his fall he was leaning on the edge
| of the roof, showing his papers at painter
whom he had freed on swinging scaffod I'M
derneath.
Friday, Daniel ]. Crawley, New Haven ex-
press agent, was arrested in StratfOrd for steal
ing conductors checks and selling them to pas
case against him. Crawley has been employed
to travel on the passenger trains of the New
Haven railroad and solicits orders for the deliv-
cry of baggage in that city. AS he has been
allowed the run Of the cars he must have had
opportunities for such acts as he is accused of.
RHODE ISLAND.
Fort Adams, at Newport, was visited by Gen.
Mcdowell Thursday
An insane woman named Catharine WEIGH
escaped from the Rhode Island state farm Fri
| day.
Westerly is to have a new depot. A begin
ming has been made for a new turnout and the
work is being pushed forward rapidly.
| An unknown man was found lying by the side
| OF the road near Pawtucket, Wednesday morn
| ing, and brought in carriage to the station in
that village by the police. DIR. Whitney attend
| ed him and pronounced him in fit caused by
| the excessive heat Nothing could be done to
| help him, and he died in a few hours.
stranger was found PROSTATE with an
| epilepuc fit in q public street in Pawtueket,
Wednesday morning, and on being removed to
the police station in High street, DR. Whitney
was called TO attend him. No symptoms of re-
eoyery were manifested during the dav, and he
died without being able to inform the author
| ties Of his name or residence.
Henry johnson, Henry 1ilghmau and Henry
| Thomas, all colored men, were arrested by the
North Providence officers Friday night on sus-
| plcl0n that they were the parties who broke
| INTO Mr. Job f. Angels house last Monday
night, and nearly murdered his wife and daugh-
ter They were arraigned Saturday morning
and each pleaded guilty.
Newport correspondent Of the Boston
Transcript says: "Whie standing on the ex.
tremity of the side piazza which was flooded
with the moonlight IL heard slightly amusing
but no doubt important conversation between 4
young couple. She was hanging on his arm
half lovingly, and they were looking up at the
queen might. He said tenderly, bending down
his head, 'Do you love the moonP She an
swered in low voice, Yes He replied with
deep tenderness and feeling in his voice, Would
were the moon They passed on, while mo.
mentarily exclaimed, NO cards.
young man whose cratic manner caused his
arrest in Providence, Thursday, proves to be the
son of DR.. Allen Wolyerton of New York city.
Last May he became partially insane, and from
Bellevue hospital he was conveyed to the insane
institution on Wards island. Afterwards he
effected his escape, and since regaining his free.
dom he has led a wandering life, visiting vari-
Gus places in New England, and doing small
JOBS OF work 10 get money enough to live He
worked as hod-carrier at Ashton for a short
time, and from there he walked TO Providence
After lucid interval his mental disease would
suddenly seize him, and then he would start off
for some other city. His friends have been no.
tined OF his whereabouts, and it is supposed
that they will provide for him. as he saws he