Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-20

20 cents pound ~ Nueese
&on the l2th Mrs Drew, of Rutland ottonn,o,
TO shoot her father Mr. Chrjsforbo, Do ~ le'
fortunately, was unsuccessful TionbIo ~, put
MI ana Mrs Rice, in which the dau~h,er s;d
WIN the motner is alleged as the cause &c ny
unhappy affair." '"e cause OF the
sc seven men engaged in clearing away tbo ,oos
lioil Tue cheshire railroad bridSe ove, H. G Ios
necucut, one day last week W. ~. tle Con
Iait eang their dinner, when the loos ~. i,e
/ 80 way ana the whole party found tbeyasai,,:y
! -, ioWh stream at Il raDid rate E,a,,
rn,m Iau 70 look out for himself, and as no !.
tr;eS n .oSSetnef, each one grasped looA
tlieu 10 make for the shore: knt The Miles
! was 100 strong, and they were carrio5F them
Umm stream TIL some brakem,5 the tram
husShhS ~ tue wafer, and 81 our ana res
oplained skitf, in which tb-.
cued the hali-dIowned mplT-
coSYp1n from Rockville to
Inc early mornip@s Monday.
Vernon killed thErumble ut the frogs in the
Hartford pes, who persist in Keeping up a |
pond az the,at long.
Jubilee apwenty men have been killed on the |
Meas road near the Lyman viaduct, bv blast.
Airf other accidents, during its construction |
daniel w. Rogers, of East Hampton was so |
Severely kicked in the temple and side by a |
horse Monday, that he died the following |
night.
Sensitive New London people are ANNOYED by |
urchns going in swimming about the whars
whose entire bathing suits is a rag around
stubbed toe.
The Hartford manufacturers of silver aud |
plated ware are said TO receive large orders
from England, France, Spain, and other foreign |
countries. English dealers admit that they can
not compete with the Yankee article.
Williamsburg was not struck by lightning |
during fine storm of last Friday, but was thun- |
derstruck after the thing was over at the APP
peaIance within limited areua, of millions of |
worm-ike beings, with tails, which filed the |
cutters and were deyOured by swallows and |
frogs.
Ga old woman in Union, upwards of seventy,
and a town pauper went for the cows one eve |
ming last week and was not found till the third |
day after, when company of searchers came |
upon her behind barn in Wellington, having |
wandered about for two days and nights without |
food or shelter Being awakened, she said "she |
had had nice nap, but was a eetle hungry" |
When asked why she had wandered off so far |
sheirepEed that "she had been looking for the |
cows. She had lost her bonnet and torn her |
clothes considerably, Notwithstanding her ad- |
vanced ace, she appears unimpaired by the pri- |
walton and exposure.
On the night Of April 18th burglars entered |
the house of William Jordan, of Trumbul, and |
stole i've bank books representing $1,000 sey. |
eral deeds, and quite a sum of money. Every |
effort was made to trace the thieves, and search |
was made in New Haven for them, but nothing |
could be learned of their whereabouts A day |
and asked him if be had lost any money, and on |
being told that he had, the stranger said he was |
a New York detective, and that he had discov- |
cred the property while searching houseiin |
New York for other stolen property The de- |
tectlye would receive no compensation for his
services except his expenses.
RHODE ISLAND.
Yesterday afternoon the board of aldermen of |
Providence acted upon the liquor question,
prohibiting its sale to be drank on the premises,
or its sale as an exclusive business, thus giving
the right to sell to certain class for mechanical
and medicinal purposes.
Rocky Point, Rhode Islands favorite watering
place. has been immensely improved during the |
season, and new steamer, capable of carrying |
three thousand people, will run thither from
Providence.
The Providence Press of yesterday says:
Those who went down the river yesterday were
far more comfortable than those who went to
Boston, even though they didn't get SO full of
music. Some people always could appreciate
comfort and CLAIMS better than crowds and
heat"
The following is the programme for com.
mencement week at Brown university: Friday
next, class day; Saturday, prize speaking; Sun
day, baeealaureate sermon by President Cas-
well; Monday, concert; Tuesday, meeting of
The Phi BETA Kappa society in the forenoon and
the meeting of the alumni in the afternoon of
mat day; Wednesday, commencement exercises;
Thursday, examination.