Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-21

The duIngS Ol the board OF education, which
mas rendered itself somewhat unpopular, prin-
cipally through the institution Of a uniform Sc
ries Of text books throughout the state, are 10
be investigated by a legislative committee.
CoSNECTICUT.
Another man has been discharged from the
Hartford police force for habitual drunken
Some malicious person has written letter to
the Howe sewing machine company at Bridge
port, stating that their factory Will be DESTROYED
by incendiaries, giving the date. There were a
number OF inCendiarv fires at the factory last
month, the main belt was cut twice and the
elevator chain nearly severed once, but fOrtu-
nately it was discovered in time TO prevent an
| accdenti
woman in Seymour has been long troubled
with constant nausea, and has recently been
/ treated Tor it. The physician concluded that
some living thing must be in the stomach, and
| the treatment emitted a small eel few inches
| long. The woman thinks she swallowed il
| some years ago, when drinking pond water.
| Last week a MeTiden woman started 10 leave
| her husbands bed and board, and commenced
at the same time a suit for divorce, also causing
| 4 writ lOf habeas corpus to be issued TO retain
| possession Of her child. The writ was returna-
| bic before Judge Phelps, in New Haven, Mon
| dav, and all parties came with their witnesses.
| The woman, however Telented when she saw
| her husband here; there was making up, and
the parties returned to Meriden apparently
happy.
RHODE ISLAND.
| The function house at SateTsytlle, Smith
field, was burned, Monday morning; loss s4O00
| fully insured.
The ''old elm tree at Pawucket, over twenty
feet in circumference and supposed to be $50
| years old is being cut down.
| Mr.. Hosea Lewis, the father of Ida Lewis, died
on Monday. He was long the faithful keeper of
| the Lime Rock light.
| 1t is now thought there was foul play in the
case OF Miss Annie Taylor, found drowned at
| Harrisville.
Block Island prays fol- a tri-weekly mail. So
many of the letters sent from the island 90 in
| transient boats that the United States mail at
| present probably loses twO-thirds of them.
AT noon Tuesday, Capt. W. Ii. Abom died in
| grocery store in Providence, of heart disease.
| In basket which he had carried TO the store
was the sum of $1,000. The deceased was well
| known at the west end.
Patrick Cleary, a teamster in the employ of
| the city OF Providence, fell under the wheel of
his loaded cart yesterday afternoon, and his
| head w3S crushed into shapelesSness. lie leaves
a wife and child.
Ihey still keep up the ancient custom of sere-
nading newly married people at Wakefield Two
couples, recently returning from the hub, were
| welcomed by the tin horn brigade, who only de-
| sisted when the customary treat had been
| iurnihsed by the YeXed bridegrOOms.
| Mrs. Ihaddeus Curtis died by her own hand
in Providence, Thursday. She was nearly n
wears Of age, and had for some time been suffer
ing from mental alteration, so much so that her
removal TO the Butler asylum was in cOntempIa-
ton. She managed just after midnight, Thurs
day morning, TO get possession of Il razor, with
which she cut her throat, and died from the
effects of the wound some hours alterward.
The mixed commission on British and Amer
lean claims, now in session at Washington, have
| awarded $40 IN the case OF James Stott against
the United States. This was claim based upon
the arrest of the claimant by the United States
authorities on a groundless charge Of deseruon
| from the first Rhode Island cavalry. There was
a good deal OF diplomatic correspondence on
the subject of Stott's arrest, but the only com
pensation received by him was s2I, this sum
| being the pay of a soldier for the period Of his
Imprisonment. There is no doubt that the
claimant was Il British subject, and the wrong
ful arrest is acknowledged by the United States
government, through the action OF the war de-
partment and the department OF state.
VERDICT OF THE CORoNER's JURY IN THE
ELLIS CAsE.-The fourth session OF the coro-
ner's inquest to investigate the cause of the
death of Abjah Ellis, late Of Boston, was held
at police station No. 1, at Cambridge, Tuesday
afternoon. The session was a secret one, though
she necessity for secresy ceased with the arrest
| of Leavtt Alley. Evidence was offered by de-
tective officers Shelton, Dearborn, Wood and
| Ham, which, in substance detailed the follow
ing up the clue furnished by the finding among
| the contents of one of the barrels the brown
| paper wrapper directed TO Schouler & Son, bill
lizard table manufacturers, and of the visit to
the stable in Zimmerman street, the details of
| which have already been published. Mrs Ellen
| Kelley, who resides near the stable, testified TO
| hearing the noise of a Scutfie and groans on the
| evening of Tuesday, the 9th inst. Mr. A. NJ.
| Gardner, whose place Of business is on Wash
ington street, testified to selling an axe to Alley
a short time previous to the affair. Mr. W. S.
Richards and Mr.. +. A. Ramsdel testified to
seeing upon the Mildam road early Wednesday
morning a vehicle containing barrels, and at a
later hour the same vehicle returning empty.
| Mrs. Tuck, an elderly woman, to whom it is
said the murdered man was to have been mar
ried, testified in relation to the business and
habits OF the deceased At late hour Tuesday
evening the Jury returned the following:
That upon the view of sundry parts of the
t body of dead man found floating in two bar
| res in Charles river in Cambridge, viz: a head
s parts Of two legs and trunk with the arms
: attached, the following verdict is submitted
/ That said parts have all been demonstrated to be
the parts Of one and the same person; that these
| | parts OF the human frame have been identified
and proved to be the remains and parts of the
dead body of Abijah Ellis, late of Boston, aged
about IS years; that he came to his death by
violence in said Boston on the 9th of November
inst, between the hours of seven O'Clock P. NJ.
: and midnight Of the same day; that IN our
c | opinion from the evidence submitted TO us the
| said Abah Ellis came TO his death in the sta
+, | bic OF LeayItt Alley, in Zimmerman street, in
| said Boston, at the time aforesaid and that his
death was caused by blows inflicted by some
r blunt instrument in the hands Of Leavitt Alley
OF Boston.