Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-21

A small Catholic church Will be erected in
! Westvie, this summer, at 4 cost Of $1,000.
| A boy fell through a bridge on the Derby rail
| road Friday night, and was severely hurt.
! 4 thirty-siX years Old horse, the prouurtv OF
Geo. Durham, OF Hartford, died last week.
Beecher's lectures at the Yale theological
school are intended only for students.
Lewis F. Beers u South Norwak, member
Of the Fairfield county bar, died suddenly Fri
| day Of typhoid fever.
DIR. Bacon is TO deliver conrse of sixteen lee
lures on Medical Jurisprudence, before the
| Timothy Beach. an old citizen of Branforl,
| and the largest landhoder in the place, died on
| Thursday last
company in Meriden, on the cooperative plan,
| wifli capital of s50,00O.
The scrcnneth birthday of Rev DR. Leonard
Bacon was celebrated by his friends in New
| Haven, Monday evening.
| Martin Couch 5 barn at New Fairfield was
burned, Monday, the 18th, with its contents. in
! ending horse aud COW; partia ly insured
Wcthersfeld people think they are getting
sufficiently civilized to be entitled to a police
force.
A little daughter of Peter Lynn, of Meriden
was badly burned Friday, by her clothes taking
Gre.
The last Bridgeport invention for stopping
runaway horse is to throw soldering iron at
his head.
The secretary OF a Waterbury base ball club
has decamped with all the funds of the club
some Si70.
Two boys, brothers, were caught in the act Of
attempting to rob the office of the American
ring company, in Waterbury, Thursday nigh
One man was severely and Two Others slight.
~ hurt by the fall of 4 staging to building on
which they were at work in Waterbury, Friday.
James Sherman, an industrious labOrer in
| Derby, has been missing for some DAYS, and on
| Saturday his body was found in the NauEatucI
| river.
| And now they have got to stealing milk cans
| from peoples doors in Fair Hav N. And that,
too, when the water works are in good running
| order.
A Yale senior, who hopes to get his degree
lately informed Professor Wheeler that Charlie
mango was not the same man in 1910 that he
was in 1850.
| The New York & New Haven railroad compa.
| ny have given $500 to Mrs James Utter, whose
husband was recently killed at the railroad eros.
| sing in ComDo
The Norwich Bulletin says: "Withn a short
| DISTANCE Of Meriden there are are now a large
+ flock OF robins, number Of blue birds and
| some meadow larkS, sheltered by high hills
| from winter blasts.
A Sunday or two ago dove entered the win.
dow of the Memorial chapel at Middletown, and
alighed on the persons of one and another of |
the singers IN the choir.
An enterprising capitalist and business man |
Is about TO work the famous spar quarry on |
Collins hill, Portland. The spar is reported |
to be the finest in the country, and inexhausti- |
Bile.
A union Sunday school convention is to be
held in Sufiied, to-day, under the direction of |
the Rev. Henry Clay Irumbull, to which all |
Sunday school workers of the State will be well
coined.
Dorsey, the prisoners friend, of Pawtucket.
Il. |, sent SO to pay the balance of fine |
which Timothy Desmond of Hartford was |
working cut in jail, for sneak thieving, by W bicb
he was released five weeks in advance of his APP
pointed time.
DuTiuG flp (iOnOncf ipuf lnDnocrotia eta
vention, the New York Sun reporter occupied a
seat on the platform, at The side of the Hon. l.
H. Bromley editor Of the Hartford Post "This
IS a full convention, Is it nOt? asked the re-
porter. Yes" responded Mr.. Bromley, at is
full convention, but it'll be Il great deal fuller
before noon Meeting Mr.. Bromley in the af.
ternoon, the reporter shook hands with him,
when MIR. Bromley apologized for his remark in
the morning, saying that il was evident, from
the So6ernesS OF The convention, that the Con-
necueut state democracy had changed their
hours for drink.
RHODE ISLAND
AT Providence, on the 1914, James Arden, Esq.
was elected at a special election in the ninth |
ward, as councilman, to ill the vacancy occa
stoned by the election of Gideon Bradford to the
new city department of the highway commits |
sion.
"Rhode Island allows her legislators but one
dollar a day and four cents mileage and vet |
| they don't seem TO steal any more than leqisla
| tors who are actually paid something" saws the
| Louisville Courier Journal. To which a Proyi-
| dence paper responds: Cur legislators were
| born Of poor, but honest parents"
The Rhode Island Baptist ministerial institute
| Is being held at the lecture room of the First
| Baptist church, Providence. Professor O. S
Stealns, ID. d. of Newton, Mass, lccfured on
Prophecy; its Interpretation and uses" and
Professor \. H0vey, ID. D., of the same place
delivered discourse on Regeneration These
exercises are open to the public.
Inc Providence Herald, Of the goth, saws:
Wild stories were aa0at yesterday about a wen
known and wealthy citizen throwing himself at
Missions feet behind the scenes at Harrnrton's
| opera house, Saturday night, and begging her
| TO be his. Another report went that he sur
| prlsed her IN her room, threw his arms about
| her neck and forced Il kiss from lips which us-
| thy lennyson's lines: "A man had Given all
| other bliss, and all his worldly worth for this
| to waste his whole soul in one kiss upon her
| perfect lips" The truth of the matter is that
| the gentleman in queStiou-Of high position in
| the city-had become insane his madness for
| the time taking the form of passion fol the
| Swede. He attempted to make his way TO her
| at the hotel, and on the evening in question
bought ticket, but, instead of taking a seat.
| passed Immediately in behind the curtain. and
| took up his position by the door of Wilson's
| dressing room. He declined to leave until the
| officer OF the house, Mr.. John Slocum came M.
| VINO was Obliged TO give the unfortunate man
mo custody. He has since been committed TO
Buffers hospital. All our readers will rcmcm-
Der not dlssimilar case in New York, where n
German went mad with love for the great song |
stress"