Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-12

ond time DR.. C. H. Gerrish, dentist. In few
hours after, the citizens had subscribed $500 for
his benefit. Another paper is now in circula-
ton for the benefit OF Mrs. Billings, millner
who lost a large and new stock.
The late Paran Stevens bequeathed $40, 900 to
the Stevens high school in Caremont, his ma
tive town. He had previously been liberal 10
the institution, which was named in his honor
S65,0O0.
The ticket Office Of the Dover and Winnepis-
eogce railroad at Rochester, was broken open
Monday evening. But few tickets, if any, were
taken. The baggage room was also forci0ly
entered and several trunks rified of their con-
tents. There is no clue TO the rogues.
A man from Loudon centre started last Friday
with load of hay for Concord His wife adj
yised him not to smoke his pipe on the way,
but he laughed at her Pretty soon he came
back with most of his clothes gone, his hair and
eyebrows singed, and the iron work of his cart
IN bag, upon his shoulder. Then his wife
laughed.
At Hampstead, last week, John w. Judkins
made an attack upon Lorenzo Hines with Il
knife and whip, during which another person
threw a stone, which struck Judkins over the
right eye and inflicted a wound which will prob
ably prove fatal. Judkins and two companions
mad been drinking, and one of them appealed
to Hines for protection.
The wife Of David Woolford of Manchester
tried TO poison her husband few days ago, by
pAtlC aNit Ill SOlit ilCAilClnt
| for him. The servant Girl mistrusted what was
| going on, and the woman was arrested, along
| with another woman living with her. They
| confess that they wanted to get rid of Woollord
| because be interlered with some Illegal practices
| of theirs. He is sixty and she thirty.
/ A dam at the wooden factories of f. J NJ
| Hale in South Groyeland, was destroyed by
| freshet tuesday morning, and some buildings
connected with the establishment were removed
from their foundations, and their contents of
lumber, machinery, sizing, vitriol, Sc, washed
away. The highway near by was also badly
damaged, causing loss of $500 TO the town.
The injury TO Mr.. Hale is about $500.
The most destructive freshet ever known in
that region occurred at Whitefeld, Monday
night Atkhalfpast six O'Clock the dam of d.
Kenny Hazen and Fisk's mill on St. Johns
river two and half miles above Whitetield
village, gave way. This dam flows about four
hundred acres of land, and the volume of water
which poured down the valley was perfectly IT.
resIsu6le, taking along lot of logs f.om
this mill. The vast current next carried away
the dam and logs at G. w. & N. W. Libbey's
mill half mile below; at Whtefeld village it
made general sweep, carrying off houses,
| barns, mills, dams, lumber and bridges includ-
| ing }. A. Llbbey's grist mill, H. c. Lbbey's
| block, containing tin shop, meat market, shoe
| shop and tenements, L. o. Seavey's barn NJ D.
| Seayey's barn, James Haddock's barn, and Cor
don Quimby and Auard'S dam, and logs and
dam of the old Beaver mill. The dam at
| Browns new mill was also broken, and a large
| amount of logs and manufactured lumber carried
away. The Browns estimate their loss at $780,
900. The total loss from the freshet in the whole
| town is not less than 100000 Every dam and
bridge on the river, for distance of eight miles,
was carried off The track of the B. c. NJ. rail-
| road, between Whitefeld and Dalton, is com
| plety washed away Tor distance of mile and
quarter, being some of the way in the ditch aud
| some OF the way carried into the river. The
RAILROAD bridge stands, but is badly damaged.
VERMONT
subscription book is in circulation for the
| purpose of raising a fund to purchase home
| for Gen. StannaTd.
A celebration of the coming national anniyer,,
| sary IS proposed at Montpelier The principal
features of the same will be grand iremen's
tournament and balloon ascension.
| Vermont paper says; "Ihe Sherburne bear
| hunter has caught the bear that caught the
sheep. When Cotton gets after bear it has to
| come. If a sheep is killed by bear in Sher-
burne and Cotton hears OF it-good bye bearP
The Rutland Herald says: "Women being
courted by wdowers might do well TO walk in
the cemeteries and view the care with which the
graves of former wives are observed" Those
who most neglect the graves would of course be
the most desirable husbands; for what woman
wants man always thinking about former
wife'S grave?
CONNECTICUT
| Amy Whitley of Fairhaven died suddenly on
| a New York train, Saturday.
Hartford has appropriated $500 for outdoor
| concerts during the summer.
| 1t is reported that Gen. Joseph r. Hawley is
| going abroad for several months
| Solomon p. Conner, secretary of the Hartford
| and New Haven railroad, died Tuesday morn
| ing.
| A young colored man named Porter, employed
| Dy the ii. I. q +. X. k +, was seriously injured
| while shackhng cars at Rockville, yesterday.
| llpV lack musical q in RriIupnnrt a
there, recently attacked an unfortunate organ
| grinder rode him on rail, and smashed and
burned his long suffering instrument.
| The fellow who pied the Naugatuck Valley
sentinel office, has been caught. He is print
| er named James O'Shea, aud he is held lin 500
to answer the charge Of burglary.
John Chlttell, seventeen years old, clerk in
| dry goods house i'll Broadway, New York, on
visit to his mother in Hartford was drowned
while bathing in the Connecticut on Tuesday
afternoon.
The barque Roman, Williams, master, arrived
al New London Sunday evening, from Desola-
tlon and Hurd'S islands, Indian ocean, seventy
days from Cape Town, with 1900 barrels of their
own catch OF sea elephant oil to Williams, lIa-
| ven & Co.
! Charles W. Ames, lad of seventeen. was
drowned at Montyille while bathing, Sunday
| morning. Two Of his companions responded TO
| ms cries for help and succeeded in getting him
within rod of the shore, but, exhausted by his
| anu tutiF own struggles, they were Obliged to
| leave him and he sunk Immediately.
Near Hartford they are manufacturing a new
metal, which is said to be harder than cast steel,
| Is moi. ahected by air or EARTH and can be cast
with ease into any form. 1t is appropriately
named the STERLING" metal Preparations are
| Oelng made to use il for works Of sculpture, and
| specimens are to be sent to the principal bronze
founders of Europe.
wedding that was not all a wedding oc-
| Cured at New Haven last week. Everything
had been fully arranged; toilets BETTING SO
| Joyful an occasion had been prepared; the we'd
| ding cake was awaiting to be lacerated and the
| bride with dutterlng heart was sitting with ex-
pectant car for the sound of the feet of him who
was to make her happy. But he didn't come
| York.
The thirty-siXth anniversary of the Hartford
theoioglcal seminary was neld yesterday, and
the following persons graduated G. S. Dodge
New Brainlree, Mass George Dodson, Hart
lordj l.. p. Gould, Paxton, Mass; ID. b. Hub
bard, Higganum, Conn. G. w. Kibourn,
opr!ngheld, Mass; Albert Lee, Hecla, N. Y; +.
I. Makepeace, Worcester, Mass; ii. NJ. Per-
kins, Hartford. The two new professors of the
institution, Rev. Mr.. Riddle and Rev. T. S.
| Chllds, will beinaugurated to-day
The police in New York have arrested one Of
lhe men who was discharged from the Bridge
port Jall on the day of the murder of Captain
| NOlVOcofesSeS, on suspicion of being implicated
| IN 1t. A man who gave his name as Samuel
Sanks was arrested in Jersey City Saturday eve
ming, on suspicion oil having been concerned in
the murder. The prisoner is about thirty-fve
years Old and gives his occupation as that of a
painter. Sanks boosted that he had done some
queer thing at Bridgeport, but he was drunk
| when making these boasts.
| "A S20,OOO robbery, that came near being a
success occurred at Hartford on Saturday. Two
men called at saloon when the father of the
proprietor, Woodruff Caldwell, was at work. and
mad ms coat, containing two notes, one of sos.
600 and another OF $500, upon a chair. He
shortly discovered that both the men and tbe
| garment were missing, and reported the case TO
| the police, who at once got clue to the rogues.
aud IN the course of the afternoon arrested them
and recovered the notes. One of the men is
| Owen WEIGH who has just been released from
the New Haven Jail, where he had been confined
Tor robbery, and the other is George Perry, a
| New Haven thief
! RHoDB ISLAND.
Patrick MeSoley, a Providence lunatc, is at
| large
The Episcopal church in Westerly was so bad
| ~ damaged by fire on Sunday night that il
IS not likely to be repaired. It was insured for
$4,000, which will nearly cover the loss
The remains of Daniel Chaplin, a revou.iona-
| ry hero, lie in the Worthwhile cemetery, at New
port. On decoration day, the venerable Deacon