Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-16

The Boston, Lowell aud Nashua railroad have 1
leased the Wilton extension 10 Greenfield, N H.,
for twenty years, the stockholders being guar
anteed six per cent interest, tree oil taxes. The
extension will be put under the contIol of the |
lesseeS on or before April, 1873, and Gen. Stark
will supeTintend its construction.
On the Sd, in West Stewartstown, Mr.. Lewis |
Andrews went into the wheel pit of billiards |
mill, got caught by the shaft and was carried
round, twice a second, until his clothes gave
way. Both boots were snapped from bis feet;
one leg was broken his head sashed and other
serious injuries inflicted, rendering his recovery
doubtful. He was not found for three hours.
VERMONT.
The preparations for getting out lumber at
Hartwel:yille this season are immense. Its mills
are stocked with 100000 feet of logs.
The house and barn Of Joseph g. Fish of East
Putney were totally destroyed by fire last week,
together with three or four hundred dollars
worth of personal property.
Work is progressing rapidly on the structure
designed TO take the place of the railroad bridge
burned at South Paris, on Monday, AMI il is OK
pecled that trains will be able TO cross again in
two or three DAYS. Passengers are now carried
around the break.
The new hotel at Brattleboro, the Brooks
house, is nearly completed. teost $4,000. 1t
| is 175 feet long on Main street and 100 on High
street; is of brick, four stories high, and has
over eighty rooms, exclusive of Office, parlors,
| &c.
|. On Sunday morning, Charles Crandall OF Rut-
| land, either by accident or design poisoned him
| self by drinking from bottle containing alco-
| hol and corrosive Sublimate. He was a brake
| man on the Rutland railroad, and on Saturday
| evening, while under the influence of liquor, as
is alleged, attempted to pick the pocket of
| passenger
CONNECTIcUT.
| An East Hartford man goes without shoes dur
ing the whole year because he believes il wrong
to kill animals and does not wish 10 wear their
skins.
New Haven boy, after spending years at the
| west, returned home, and on reaching Chapel
| street, saw Tor the first time a "full dressed"
| fashionable lady. He gazed in aStoniShment,
| and siding up TO her, asked very inuoceniy,
4 what show do You belong tor
| Norwich gentleman of much experience oh
serves that it is much better for a man TO expect
TO be happy without being good, than to hope
| TO profit by key OF chewing tobacco left where
| his friends reach it when all the clerks are
| in the back store.
While several children were PLAYING near n
| bonfire i'll Preston, Monday evening, the clothing
| oil little daughter of Hugh King took fire. A
Young man threw his coat around her, and At
length succeeded in Smothering the FIRE, though
not until she was seriously burned.
Thomas Delaney recently entered a house
| near the New Canaan road, and while in a state
of intoXication knocked over kerosene lamp,
fell on the floor and lay helpless in the flames
being 50 burned that he died at the almshouse
| Saturday night week, after a week of suffering
| The schooner Golden West arrived at New
| london On Tuesday morning from the South
| Atlantic She has $50 barrels of elephant oil
| and 2900 tar seal skins. She brings reports
frOm Others Of the feet in the South Atlantic as
| follows: Schooner Francis Allyn, Williams 4
haven, with $50 barrels OF elephant oil and 24O0
| fur skins; harque PeFs and tender Franklin,
| same owners, $50 barrels elephant oil and 220O
| far skins The reports are very encouraging 10
| the whaling merchants aud will undoubtedly
| serve TO stimulate the whaling business. The
fur skins are worth at present about IS or about
SIS each.
RHODE ISLAND.
The UniTcrSaliSts OF Rhode Island viii hold
SKATE conference at the Church OF the Mediator
NHI. STaiIh, . brakeman on the St0nington
road, was feaBd dead on the top of a freight car
early Wednesday morning, aud il Is supposed
he was struck by 2 bridge al Charlestown. He
was twenty-Six years old and belonged in Ston-
ington. E
The Louisville Courier-Joumal relieves itself
anent Rhode Island with this singing gibe:
IAN attempt to restore capital punishment in
Rbole Island has failed. The intelligent juries
of that state content themselves with occasion
ally sending an innocent man 10 the peniben-
tiary."
julius Yoght left Providence by the night ex-
press Tor New York, April 14th, ostensibly TO
marry a fdReee in Stanton street, New York.
His relatives aud her relatives want information
Of his whereabouts, as none of them have seen
or heard from him since. He went away With
$780, silver watch, and carpet-bag tiled with
clothing.