Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-31

with whom the parents reside; the oldest son.
John c Wheeler has the north section of the
building; the other son, T.. n. Wheeler, resides
across the street; while the daughter and sister,
Mrs A. L. Baker, live just below the homestead.
Thus these aged people, past three-score aud
ten, can stand in their doorway and invite their
children with their families, thirteen in number
to the cheerful fireside of the old home.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A fire at Hill, Tuesday evening, DESTROYED the
barn and house belonging TO Mr. Amos Bart
lett. The fire originated in the breaking of
kerosene lamp. Loss $1,000; insured for $500.
The Nashua manufacturing company recently
received telegram telling them to look out for
a raid on their works by New York thieves.
Tue schooner Boston, Rich master, of and
from Calais for Fall River, lumber-laden, drove
ashore at Rye Beach yesterday morning during
a violent storm, sprung aleak and cannot be got
of. The crew were saved.
George B. REYNOLDS, aged 81, and Abijah
Dngwell, aged 81, met at Milford camp meeting
last week, were engaged on Thursday, took out
license Friday, and were married on Saturday.
Oh, these camp meatingsl
VERMONT.
Judge Day Of Stafford was recently found
deadi stream near his house, and is supposed
to have drowned himself in an attack of mel
ancholy, induced by the death of his son and
the dangerous illness of his wife.
The farmers in the state are complaining that
their wheat is seriously injured by the recent
anus Al49 ripNh ~ Ihail II Will navy " bC
used for fodder.
On the night of the Goth inst, in what is called
west Rochester, there occurred the greatest
treshet ever known in The town. The north aud
south branches did the damage from the noun
talnS to White river, carving away five mills,
including a large circular saw mill belonging to
y. X. Bodgett, with large amount of logs and
| lumber. People were driven from their dwell
ings TO safer positions on the hills, while Others
| were completely hemmed in, but fortunately
mn Tf glYr.Il s,,gr
| owned beautiful farms when they retired for the
| night, arose in the morning finding them pic
ture Of desolation, their crops having been car
| ried away with barns and Outbuildings, their
meadows and fields left full of deep gorges, with
| large streams of water running through them
| A barn containing six horses and two cows be-
| longing to L. & j. Robinson, was also carried
/ away. Fourteen public aud five individual
| bridges were carried off and the roads badly torn
to pieces, and in some places the river has made
| use of them for its bed No lives were lost.
CONNECTICUT.
The New Haven selectmen are going it blind
| on the license law They recently granted thirty
! licenses in one day.
The Norwich Bulletin says: 'Judging by
sample exhibited at Burnham's, the grasshopper
is burden in Wlndam. Two of them are about
a fair allowance to a county,"
A German who has been confined in the Had
dam jail, charged with robbing Mddletown
| dry goods store, on Tuesday knocked down
| ana lOcheu up MS JallOr, ana stnlnSly went MS
| way.
The Bridgeport Standard has the following
| big joke on Barnum and Greeley: "P T. Bar
/ mum, Esq, drove down TO the depot this morn
| ing with Mr.. Greeley, and while the two were
| sitting in the ph@ton there awaiting the arrival
| of the train, Mr.. Geo. W. Beckwith, the plain
| spoken surveyor, walked up and saluted Mr..
Barnum as follows: "Hello, Barnum, what have
you got there? AnOther humbug?"
The boiler of P. Robinson Co.'s shoddy mill
in Beaver Brook district, Danbury, exploded on
| Wednesday evening, seriously iniuring three
longing to William Hamilton, the engineer,
were injured principally about the head, by
splnters Of wood and steam. 1t is not thought
the youngest child can live. The third child be-
longed TO 6. Macarthur, and was severely burned
in the face. Miss Angelina Morris received a
not dangerous scalp wound from splinter The
mill was almost completely wrecked. willow
tree near by, thirty inches in diameter at the
| base, was cut in two by piece of boiler
RHODE ISLAND.
In the museum of Brown university, at Prov
idence, is a curiosity in the shape of a birds
nest. Aside from its ingenious construction as
| a swinging nest, partly suspended by strings
and cords carefully woven into the nest and
around the slender branch which holds il, anOth-
er evidence of the builders sagacity is given.
| As the young birds grew and the nest daily be-
| came heavier, the mother bird saw that the sen-
| der twig, about the thickness of pipe stem, to
| which it was attached, could not support it
| much longer so she made it secure by fastening
| stout cord about it, and passing the end around
| stout limb above which Steadied it and made
| it safe.