Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-22

limbs, fell from the tree, distance of fifteen
feet, and remained on the ground insensibe for
an hour and a half. He was discovered by his
daughter, nearly dead from cold. He is slowly
recovering.
Mr. Geo. W. Brasbridge, of Great Falls, went
into the woods with some hired men Wednesday
forenoon, and was taken suddenly IN. He was
brought home Immediately, and expired OF heart
disease. He was much resDeCted in the commu-
nifty, aud has filled many offices of trust. lie was
siXty-tye years Of age, and leaves family.
During the past year citizens of Wilton raised
5000 and purchased an excellent library of
standard books. At the March meeting the IL
brary was offered to the town, on condition that
an annual appropriation should be made for its
maintenance. The town accepted the offer and
voted 10 appropriate $500 annually for its sup
port and improvement.
A well dressed lady from Salem, Mass, mod
est and pretty, but irail, was before the Nashua
police court Tuesday afternoon, charged with
adultery with one Chas F. Towne of Danvers.
Mass. The couple went to Nashua on Saturday
and registered at the hotel as Mr. and Mrs
Towne, but were followed by a sister in-law of
the young mans, who took such an interest in
him as to order the couple arrested. The young
man slipped away and the Judge let off the girl
IN consideration of her youth. She was nine
teen.
VERMONT.
The Indebtedness of the town Of Wilmington
is SIl110. Poor expenses S547.S4.
TWENTY-FIVE persons died in Londonderry last
year, of whom five were over seventy wears of
age; the average was fifty.
A French child died Of small poX in Mendon
on Sunday night The town authorities are TAX
ing precautionary measures against the spread
Of the disease.
The Vermont Central railroad has in its en-
pioY a sturdy youth of almost nineteen who
measures six feet six and One-haf inches in his
stockingsl His weight at present is 1856 pounds
The Rutland Herald says: -Four men were Sc
riously injured in the mines in Port Henry, last
week by the explosion CT a keg of powder, but
understand they win come out all right" Out
of the mines
A small boy in Hartford placed metallic car
fridge on the stove where his mother was cooking.
1t exploded and the ball entered her face near
the nose, lodging Immediately under the eye.
A. NJ. Shaw of Lebanon, n. H., has been ap-
pointed chief engineer Of the Vermont Central
line OF railroads, and will relieve General Super
intendent Merrill of portion of his labor.
Charles McRoy, who was recently shot by
Henry Turner in drunken braw at Craftsbnry
has since died from his wounds, and Turner
has been committed TO Jail to await trial for
murder.
CONNECTICUT.
The Hartford Post makes vigorous demand
upon President Bissell of the water commission
ers to do something or resign"
William L. Wright, Esq one of the oldest
business men in Hartford, died Wednesday of
pdl ny SIS III iuc aye OF Sixty years.
new village of Deep River Mich, has been
settled by former inhabitants of Deep River in
Connecticut. 1t is to have a large hotel, and D.
Kellogg of the Central hotel Deep River, will
be its proprietor.
A snuff bnX Of solid gold, the property of the
Robinson sisters, children Of the late Lucius F.
Robinson, was presented by Lord Ellensborouob
to George Washington, and gift to Jonathan
Irumbul, from Washington himself
Samuel G. Clemens MARK Twain) now occu-
pies the residence Of Mrs. Isabella Beecher
Hooker in Hartford.
fire in Uncasville, Wednesday morning,
burned the roof and considerably damaged a
portion Of the machinery of the Uncasvine
manufacturing company.
A greyhound of New London went up to Nor
witch on the afternoon train the other dav alone
After brief survey Of the place, he returned to
the depot with an afro disgust, stepping aboard
the next train for home.
Between Lyme and Chester, the crossing of
Connecticut river on the ice by foot passengers
has been continuous from Thanksgiving night,
last November, for four months past.
The jury in the court Of common pleas at
Hartford, found verdict of S25 damages
against A. 7. Hayes, Of Barkhamsted, in a suit
brought against him by Ralph Case, of Sims
bury, for defective" horse trade.
A machine at New Haven performs the whole
process of making needles without the manual
labor OF any person, and turns out 600 to 40.
900 of them daily. Another machine picks
them mp aud arTangeS them heads and points
together, and the third piece of mechanism puts
them into paper.
A fire in Bridgeport Wednesday, DESTROYED a
carpenter and joiner's shop, and a tenement
house occupied by eight families Owing TO the
high wind prevailing the families were Unable
to save any of their effects. The tenement was
owned by A. and II. n. Beardsly, and valued at
about $1,000, which was well insured. The loss
IS principally upon the occupants of the build
ing, who were uninsured.
RHODE ISLAND.
George d. Arnold has been acquitted on the
charge of numbering Louis S. johnson in War
rem. johnson was trying to break into Arnold's
house for the avowed purpose of sleeping there,
and Arnold shot him. johnson was wanted by
the police of this city on a criminal charge.
Capt. Lloyds Sutton, of steamer What Cheer.
whose case Of running down boat in the bay,
causing the death OF an occupant, has been so
long coming to a settlement has been sentenced
to one year in the Rhode Island state prison for
manslaughter.