Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-03

| previous night. He was a native of that city
an industrious farmer and good citizen. hi:
age was seveuty-three. He leaves widow and
family of grown up children.
John Cunningham, an Englishman, abou
| thirty-fye years of age, employed ON the VOL
| hOro railroad, was found in an insenSible con
| ditiou, Tuesday morning, about mile from ~.
boarding house, nearly frozen to death. ~
face and hands were badly frozen, and bI leI'
as solid as rocks He will probably !s0 JUN
feet, ifnot his life. .,;..,
The Amoskeag Veterans have rrorgahlled
and changed their bylaws ard colSt on
The corps win consist of two in"Joi
commanding. They have a ~ opl'.lleu
ion ;ncl,,i; 3a,,,. Of the leading men of the
civ and yic;nitv 4 new uniform has been Or
| dere5 and Vii soon be ready for use The new
| ar1ol,- Lii no dedicated on Tuesday evening
| new nv a social gathering, a collation., and
| otbeI excr,is 5. A committee consisting of Matt
| 4aoj I5hn b. Clarke, 2. B Putnev, Lewis 81.
| mons and Geo. b. Chandler, was appointed to
| arrange for the commemoration of the 22d Of
| February BY that time the new uniforms will
! be ready, and will make grand appearance on
parade. A levee will be given in the evening, Of
which we shall have more to say soon
VERMONT.
MS. David Crouch of East Rupert was burned
TO death, Saturday, by her clothes catching fire.
She was over seventy years oil age
News has been receiveo in Middlebnry Of the
death of Mrs. Solomon Jewett, daughter OF
Philo Jewett of WevbridEe, who was recently
murdered IN California, with her youngest child,
by the Indians, it is supposed. Her husband
was absent from home Of the time, and returned
to find her throat cut from ear to ear and the
body of the child horribly mutlated.
A fine example Of practical sympathy was
that extended to Horace Lamb, whose house at
Randolph was destroyed by fire on the 7th ult
his invalid brother perishng in the flames The
| Randolph farmers club, ut its meeting the next
| evening, appointed committee to ascertain
| what could be done for the sufferers, and as
| result thirty-fve men, with twcnty-one two
| horse teams and three yoke Of oxen, met We'd
| desday, cut trees in the woods, and drew them
| 10 West Randolph, had them sawed and drew
| back the lumber, so that BY night enough lnm-
| Der was on the ground to erect new house,
which was commenced at once.
CONNECTICUT.
Stratford is starting an Odd Fellows lodge
| An express train has been p laced on the Nau-
| gatuck road.
A portion of the long wharf, New Haven, is
being enlarged.
Prot. Chandler is enlightening the people Of
New Havea on gas.
B. g. Griswold, of Talcotiville, was ordained
to the ministry on Sunday evening last.
A new organ is soon to be placed in the Cal
vary Baptist church, New Haven.
Still another paper is to be published in Meri-
den. 1t is to be somewhat diminutive in size
ana ueVoteu 10 temperance.
Horace Greeley will lecture on "Wit" in
Allyn hail, Hartford, on the evening of FeUrua-
ry 10Th.
The introduction of German into the Meri-
den public schools meets with much opposi-
ton.
1t is expected that $500 900 will be appropriate
ed by congress for Il new government building in
Hartford.
There are 175 convicts in the state prison, of
whom seven are women. Last year at the same
date there were 215
Mrs. Sherman is anxious for a speedy trial
and hopes it will prove her not as bad as they
have tried to make her ont to be.
A dwelling house owned by Shelton T. Hitch
cock and occupied by James Burns was bu- ned
last week with all its contents. No insurance.
Hartford people are disposed to enforce re-
spcct for the game laws of the state by prosecu-
ting dealers who expose il for sale cont of sea-
SON."
The Norwich Bulletin says: "a Dlnbury
poet named Button has written a poem. The
first line reads: 4 am sitting alone on an islet'
Pretty good for Button"
The band of the Fourth regiment, Wheeler &
Wilson's, is daily expecting from Germany a
full Prussian uniform, which will cost the band
800 each
There is fine seighing on the Connecticut
river, and large number of horses trotted there
Wednesday. The ice is thick and solid enough
for an elephant to cross
sand miles from Waterbury, was heard to re-
mark, few evenings since, that she had
"bonghten liberated paper of the She.car-go
Ere"
Stratlord has got an absorbing topic, which
is, "Shall we have graded schools ?5' and tbe
question is agitated in a manner which is hope
full Of desirable result. Plainvile is agitatcd
in the same way.
The Cromwellites are in n state of agitation
and fear over wild hog, which makes head or
headquarters in Pine swamp in that town. Sew
eral parties have been out in search of his hog
ship, without success.
The Rev. Mr.. Graeber, agent of the Bible So
ciey in Meriden, in the prosecution of his labor.
was, ON Wednesday afternoon, violently assault
cd, and kicked down stains, by Catholic Irish
woman, on whom he called.
The funeral of George w. Watson, the victim
of the late shooting tragedy in BROOKLYN. was
largely attended at his residence in Hartford
on the Both He was buried with Masonic hon
oTs.
The sale of tickets for the Parepa-Rosa con-
cert in New Haven tonight began at ten o'clock
Wednesday, The FIRST person in the line took
his station at half-past one in the morning, and
the second followed soon after.
company are putting up a large factory in
Fairfield, and will shortly engage in the build
ing of carriages made entirely of india rubber.
except in the aXles anu tires. decided SUI
pcriOrity is claimed for the material over wood
The real estate Of the Putnam fire insurance
company, in Hartford, was sold by auction ON
Wednesday, their lot on the corner of Main and
Grove streets going at $50 $50, and another ON
the corner of Main and Gold streets at SAG 2O0
Mill Plain man has made practice in
arousng his boy mornings to recte the story of
the early bird which caught the worm. buf the
other morning the prosecuted youth protested
That he didn't want worms, and since then the
iOnd father has omitted the argument
The capitol commissioners have rejected all
nlans gnhpittpd for fl.sa y,
buildings, and issued new conditions, differing
III some points from those previously issued, and
have invited new plans from several different
architects. These must he delivered on or be
fore the LIST OF March, and the expense of the
buildings must not exceed 100000 The conn
miSsiOners say If they cannot build without cx-
ccedng that sum, they will not attempt TO build
at ALL
The committee for the state TO form a part of
the national committee for the consideration of
the subject of prison reform has been appointed
and consists of the following named gentlemen.
MARSHALL Jewell, Hon. James f. English, Hon
Francis Wayland, Prof ID. c. Gilman, Timothy
NJ. Allyn, L. w. Hatcn, Rev. Thomas NJ Fessen-
den.
The Danbury News speaks of the state papers
in this Nearly every paper has its
specially. That of the Palladium is state news.
of the Standard, vicinity news; of the Courant,
statistics; OF the Post, political reform; of the
Register, editorial paragraphs; Of the Courier
personal gossip; of the Times, general core
spondence; Of the Recorder, tales and local per-
sonals; of the Bulletin, Geographic condensa-
ton; of the Farmer, political theorizing; of the
Republican, temperance; Of the Star, two com
postOrs wanted
RHODE ISLAND.
Rev. Daniel Williams, who gathered a church
at roster NIFTY years ago, is still its PASTOR in
actNe service, though eighty-One years of ace
1t is his first and only pastorate.
A fire at Providence on the evening of tbe 1st
DESTROYED the livery stable OF Waterman &
Whitford, Fenner street. Buildings insured for
S2400.
Instead Of lying idle for months, the stone
cutters in the granite quarries at Westerly who
struck some time since because of the employ
ment of apprentices, promptly formed a CO.
operative stone cutting association, leased a
quarry, and are now carrying on work with
great success.
A terrible affair has happened in Woonsocket.
The Patriot thus describes it: "a gentleman
who attended one of our churches lasf Sunday,
discovered while leaving the church, a nacro-
ddctytus subspHBOsus crawling around the rim
of his hat" The vague feeling of horror in
the mind of the reader is partially relieved by
the explanation that this beast, may be
described in the lines OF Southy, with attrac-
MONS But, last OF ALL an insect came, ter
rlDe hug, with a terrible name; a lnme that
9ou Az must know very well, which nobody can
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