Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-08

I instance he had ever known man from Great
Falls to refuse drink in his house. The land
lord apoloeized, however, when he learned they
both lived on the Berwick side"
President Smith Of Dartmouth used TO set
| tvpe in the printing office of Simeon lde, at
Windsor, and saws of it: "rhat, it has always
seemed TO me, was profitable service, lilearned
| 10 work, and honor labor [ learned TO spell,
an attalnment which even men of great notorie
ty do not always make | learned many thing
| about the newspapers and books, ana the m ~,
| tiers they treat of, which served as a @oodP 'NP
| aration for the further studies at lep1JI' ,itb
| dertook. ! am far from being sa if,st ;nner-
NV labOrs in my present position; q, ~" y il it;
feet rs they seem TO me, cannot ny ~ 'i hi
that am little better prcs'de"' io' "''''@
been printer" o,o If tho wealth.
iio, - citizens Of Portsmouth,
III ",lu t IS - aged seyenty-one years.
~, y" ;doI Lpafn in political and financial
a;rclos IL orp1Tfly had quite an influence in the
4,,,',o,; ,sary, and has held various posi-
| -, - b,.a6r and responsibility under its pat
49, - lie represented Portsmouth in the leg
iI,J in 1850, and in 1851 was elected senator
gror, that district, the same year being chosen
| a. The presiding officer of the senate. He was
f1osen mayor of that city in 1856, but held the
office only one year. He was for many years
president of the Merchants and Traders bank
in that city. Having been fortunate in business,
he succeeded in amassing a large fortune est-
mated at S500,000 or S600,0
VERMONT.
AT a meeting of the county agricultural So
cety, held at St. JohnSbury, on the 9th, to hear
the report of the committee of conference with
the state agricultural society, the matter of the
next state fair was fully discussed, and it was
voted nearly unanimously to invite the state so
ciety to hold the next state fair at that place,
and that the farmers of Caledonia county will
cordially cooperate with the state society in an
endeavor to make it the best fair ever held in
the state. The fair will be held on the second
week in September.
CONNECTICUT.
BE Yaccinatcd or pay So is the rule in Ltch-
field for all whose left arms have not been
scratched for fourteen years.
L ShepaId's house, at West Cornwall, was
burned, on Saturday. Loss, $4,000 no inSur-
ance.
The ODD regiment holds a reunion at Hart
ford next Monday. history of the regiment
and dinner at the United States are among
the attractions.
A Connecticut paper says that since the Hart
lorders have got to coeitating on the style of
the new capitol building, a stranger can walk
almost three blocks in that city without being
asked if he is insured.
Samuel G. Wilcox, of Cromwell, about seven
ty years OLD, has just lost his old homestead by
the foreclosure of mortgage Of $1,000, which
he gave some years ago in order to lend the
money to one Charles G. Patterson OF New
York, who represented himself large property
holder. Patterson is in jail in New York
Mr. Henry Mygatt, OF Pennington, has some
curious old documents which have descended
from Mrs. M.'s grandfather, Lieut.. Judah
| Woodruff, who served in the old French war,
| long before the revolution. One of these is
| Lieut.. WoodruiPs commission. 1t is made by
order OF "Thomas Fitch, ESQ.,, Captain general
and governor in chief in and over his majesty S
| English colony OF Connecticut, in New England,
| in America. The commission appoints him a
first lieutenant in the fourth company of ga reg
iment OF foot, raised in this colony, for invad-
| in@ Canada, and carrying war into the heart of
the enemy's possessions" 1t is dated the 22nd
| of March, Tin the Sind year of the reign of His
! Majesty George the Second King of Great Brit
ain, Annoque Domini, 1853, and is signed by
| Gov. Fitch and George WHY'S" the old sccre-
tary of state, and proprietor of Charter Oak
bill. There is also return of the killed and
wounded. and missing of His Maesty's Forces
att Carreong, or Ticonderoga, July Sth, 1853"
1t is very neatly drawn, in tabular form, giving
Lord Blakney's and Lord Murraye's Gen. Alb
ercromby'S and Lord HOwe's returns, and
others; tofal SIS killed, ,269 wounded, 80 miss
ing-making footing OF 1923 men. Ii was
drawn out by me, Judah Woodruff, August
Is, 1853, att Lake GeOrgc-Kepe this"
RHODE ISLAND
The Miles alarm ill manufacturing company
of Providence, have orders for $50 of their tills
to go to Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, and also
for twenty dozen to 20 to England.
The Providence Press says:-"It is reported
that there were twenty.one failures in this state
last year, the liabilities reaching 1908 900. This
statement does not include the failure to make
the Point street bridge work, nor does it include
the great failure of Mullett in the alteration of
our post office"
The gasometcr of the Cranston print works
exploded Sunday morning, throwing off the
roof of the building which contained ii and set
ting the gas and wood work on fire. Everything
was burned but the brick walls of the building.
The cause of the accident and the extent of the
| loss not known.