Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-23

pointed to the commission of the deed by his
son, who was recently killed by railroad acci-
dent in California. The police force of New
Haven were at the time censured Tor their appa-
rent inefiicency in not obtaining clue to the
perpetrator of the murder
DIR. 7. Sterry Hunt, a son of Norwich. who
for the past twenty-five years has been connect
ed with the geological survey of the Canadian
government, has accepted the geological pro-
iesSorShip rendered him in the Massachusetts
institute of Technology, and is to remove in the
present year from Montreal to Boston.
Judge Gid1ings, formerly 4 resident of Ply
mouth, where he was for fourteen years Judge
of probate, who was subsequently appointed
United States Judge in Montana, and atterwaId
resided at Cleveland, Ohio, has returned and
taken up his residence in Bridgeport, where he
will follow the practice of his profession
A cOored missionary stopped one night re-
Gently with Abraham Jackson, a colOred man
living on Basset street, New Haven. After his
departure, the following morning, his host dis
covered that he had carried away a valuable
gold watch Subsequently it was found at a
pawn shop.
J. W. McGrathe Of Hartford has not as much
faith in non-explOsve oil as he had before lamp
exploded on the table at which he was writing
Thursday evening. His wife, with great pres
ence Of mind, Smothered the flames with blank
cts, but had one arm considerably burned by so
doing.
There have been some extensive sales of to-
bacco in WOpping, and several unusually fine
crops raised there Edward Stoughtou has sold
at sixty cents, for wrappers Judson Grant GOT
my Tor wrappers and seconds and twenty FIVE
for filters Waldo Grant raised, from 172 rods of
ground, 2910 pounds, which he has sold for
s1260.6O, being at the rate OF 2707 pounds to the
acre, the value per acre amounting to S1172.64
This is a remarkably fine field Samuel r. Sex
ton got at the rate OF 1856 pounds 10 the acre.
and obtained thirty-five cents through.
Samuel N. HundleV a Hartford hOusp bnildpT
who left that city some months ago and went TO
Colorado on hunting tip with some friends
strayed away tlOm the party during a buffalo
hunt one day, and has not since been seen,
though his oyercoat was found by those search
ing for him, leading to the belief that he had
been carried away by the indians. He had no
relatives in Hartford, his friends all living in
Virginia.
Within the past few weeks quite number of
foreign vessels have arrived at New Haven with
GARAGES consigned TO merchants of that CITY.
Among the vessels have been the Norwegian
baique Lorenzo, from Dublin, Ireland, with iron;
the Norwegian brig Sea, from AndroSsan, Scot
land, with pig iron; the British barque BODY
cito, from Liverpool, with an assorted cargo, to
Atwater, Wheeler & Co. Two vessels lately
arrived from Alexandria, Egypt, with RAYS, and
one is now in port When the distractions at
the lmonth Of the harbor shall have been re-
moved, so as to allow vessels of a heavy burden
to enter, New Haven will doubtless be among
the chief commercial ports in the east, a fact in
which the whole state would have reason to take
pride.
RHODE ISLAND.
Last week young girl employed in one of
the Pawtucket mills slipped while leaving the
building, and broke her left leg
Rhode Island is one of the four states in the
Union in which no new railroads were con-
structed in 1871. Delaware, Mississippi and
Tennessee are the other three.