Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-07

in political matters, both in his town and state.
He had amassed large property, but lived and
died bachelor.
The disappearance OF an old lady by the name
of WhiddeD, aged about eighty from her home
at Hills Corner, in Canterbury, where she lived
alone and was provided for by one of her neigh
bors, who is heir TO her property, is the
cause of great excitement in the Upwards
of one hundred people were engaged in searching
for her Sunday.
VERMONT.
peculiar disease is prevailing at Barton
called by the physicians there typhoid dysen-
terry. There have been fifty cases in rapid
succession, several proving fatal.t A few cases
have also appeared at Glover, FAM adjoining
town.
The directors of the Vermont state prison
made their annual visit to Windsor last week,
with reference to making their biennial report
They find the financial condition of the institu-
ton greatly improved, there being the sum of
$1,000 income over expenses, an event which
never before occurred in the history of the
prison, the only three instances of excess of in
come not reaching $500.
CONNECTICUT.
The Hartford Courant, after giving a lengthy
and detailed account of the Colvocoresses trag-
edy, comes to the conclusion that it was a case
of suicide.
There are 800 to 500 places in Hartford where
liquor is sold. 1t is believed that the effect of
the license law, if properly enforced, will be to
close up at least three quarters of these dram
shops.
clerk in the New London post office is
about to lose his head for saying that II he had
known the detectives were after young Burdick
the thieving clerk, he would have seen to ii
that he was not arrested.
Bridgeport lady remained too long on
tram TO kiss a female friend, and trying 10 get
off after it had started, was thrown violently on
her face "lf ever kiss anybody again y said
she, vengefuly, as she arose, "any woman, at
least!" she thoughuully added
James Avery, of Meriden, was arrested, Fri
day, on complaint of being drunk, and shut up
IN the Meriden Station-houSe. He was discoy-
cred, soon after, hanging from the cell door, but
was cut down quickly enough to save his life.
He complained that he was tired Of life and
wanted TO die.
Wallace Osborne was bound over on Mors ~
OF last week, under $4,000 bail, TO appear at he
next criminal term of the superior court holien
AT Bridgeport on the fourth Tuesday of this
month, for an alleged rape on little girl aged
six years, daughter of Oscar W. Raymond. The
details are not fit for publication.
Mrs. DeMott, lady about 10 years of age, be-
longing in New York, and guest at the Monto-
wese house, Branford, died suddenly of heart
| disease Friday evening. She was about to start
| for home, but the weather being unpleasant she
decided to await another day, her family, how
| ever, going in the morning. Early in the even
| ing she died.
The New Haven police made dash on a
house of doubtful representation, Saturday
| evening, and bagged six prisoners, some of
| whom were captured under rather embarrass-
ing circumstances. One elegantly dressed in
dividual, in his haste to escape, jumped into the
open sewer that runs beside the railroad track,
and waded through its fearful depths for some
distance before being taken out by the police
The name OF the man recently alluded to as
having died suddenly after leaving the cars, at
some place below Bridgeport, was Orrin Taylor
OF Westport He was taken sick on the train
below New Rochelle, and when conductor Lock-
wood noticed it and asked him what was the
matter, he replied it was only little attack of
| indigestion He had ticket to Westport, but
| got off at New Rochelle and while ascending
| the stairs at the depot dropped dead. 1t was
probably case of heart disease.
RHODE ISLAND.
A lady named Durham, Of Westerly, is re
ported as killed last evening on the railroad be-
tween Mystic and Stonington.
Many farmers in Rhode Island are meeting
| with great loss by the death of their fowls.
| They are taken off very soon after showing
| symptoms Of sickness, and for this reason the
disease is called hen cholera.
Tie town Of Franklin has voted TO raise $685.
| 900 toward the construction of a railroad
between that town and Bellingham, and private
| individuals have pledged subscriptions of S10,-
| 000 The road will be connecting link in the
| line of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts road
between Worcester and Providence.
A lady who recently got herself up most gor-
| geously for dinner at one of the Newport no.
tells had the misfortune to sneeze Just as she sat
| down, when suddenly the half of the waist of
her dress ripped out, and somebody had to put
| shawl around her Her dress was an excellent
fit upon a well proportional form, and having
been made upon a single-thread sewing machine
| the sneeze broke the thread