Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-05

been: in the employ of Perkins Exeter and Bos
ton express, has been arrested by Sheriff Chas
| ID. Low, charged with embeZzlng money to the
| amount Of several hundred dollars. prelim
nary examination has been held, and Swain or
dered to find bail in $500 for appearance in the
term of the supreme judicial court in April.
| VERMONT.
| There are twenty marble mills in Rutland
| county, in which are 200 gangs of saws, each
| gang having about twenty-five saws. About
fifty gangs in different mills are at present idle
| from various causes, the most apparent one be-
ing from want of capital. Some of these gangs
| are idle for want of paying marble 10 saw the
| deposit upon which they are located being
worthless as a practical enterprise.
CONNECTICUT.
| Stonington is happy in the possession of a
| hair from AleXis'S moustache 1t was found in
an eddy by beach.
| An exchange says, "The New London, Conn,
| police force is down with the vaTiolOid. He will
| be out again soon."
An old Connecticut quarryman of thirty
| years standing says there has been the greatest
number of cold days this winter for thirty years,
and that the frost has penetrated the rocks to
such depth that blasting is rendered difficult.
There are one hundred and sixty graduates of
Yale college in New Haven, exclusive of those
connected with the college as professors and Off
GERS
A fellow wrote Matchmaking letters to the city
clerk of New Haven, James l Hayes, and has
been detected Other parties in the city have
also received similar lettees, but whether from
the same person or not is not known.
The Weekly Fountain, temperance paper
published in New Haven, has heeu purchased
by the proprietors of the State Temperance
journal. and it will be merged with that paper.
Margaret Conners, living with Mrs. DR.. Met
tier, at p Park street, Hartford, was shockingly
burned on Saturday, by her clothes taking fire
from range. Discovering herself TO be all in
flames lp ran nm sfair sbVip
ing-the flames shooting up as she ran, aud al
most covering her head. The girl had to 30 up
two pairs of stairs before she found any one to
relieve her. BY that time, her clothing was
mostly converted to cinders, and her shoulders,
back, and other parts of her body ieaTiully
burned. Members of the family seized her and
threw her into bath tub where there happened
to be water, and thus the flames were eXtn-
guished; but the sufferer was found to have sus-
tanned shocking injuries
RHODE ISLAND.
Extensive preparations are making at Provi-
dence for reunion of the artillery officers of
the army Of the Potomac in that city on the 9th
inst.
The small poX is not so serious at Block
Island as has been reported. Two cases only
have appeared, both of so mild form as to in
Spire doubts whether it was the disease at all.
Capt. Nathaniel Davis, aged seventy-eight
years, and who was for upwards of a quarter
century packet master between Providence
and Newport, died last week.
It'll stated by an exchange that John Bullock
OF Bristol, 103 years old in June next, and
whose hair has been white for nearly half a GEN.
tury, now actually finds his hair turning dark,
some of the new growth being quite black.
EWiliam Penn hall, 10 Pawtucket, was so
weakened by taking out row of pillars in an
eating house in the basement that the floor set
tied and frightened a lecture audience from their
seats TO the open air, few nights ago.
A collision occurred in Newport harbor Sun
day morning between the British schooner Ida
j. and the American shooner Hyne. The for
mer had her mainmaSt broken off about twenty
feet below the crosstrees; she also broke her
main boom and forc-gaff. The other schooner
had very slight injuries.
The friends of Mr.. Isaac Peckham, of West
Scituate, assembled at his house last Friday
evening to give him a surprise party. He re-
turned from Providence after they had assem-
bled, gave them hearty welcome, and then
proceeded to his barn TO put up his horse, but
while absent was attacked by heart disease and
expired
On Saturday morning Samuel H. Anthony,
son OF Nelson Anthony of Providence was
brought before the court of magistrates, charged
with forging and uttering a check upon the
Rhode Island national bank for the sum of $50,
purporting to be signed by Amos D. Smith, I'd,
and payble to the order of said Samuel H. An
thony. He waived examination, and was COM
mltted to Jail for want of surety in the sum of
$1,000 for appearance at the court Of common
pleas for trial