Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-27

| it was shown that his lungs were not filled with
water and death must have occurred from some
| other cause He was last seen Thursday evening
| at about 10 O'Clock, in company with another
/ Young man, both somewhat under the influence
| Of liquor. Mr. Clark was about 80 years of age
/ and unmarried. The case will be further inves-
| tigated.
| VERMONT.
Citizens of St. Adams have subscribed $500 900
toward the capital stock of an extensive rolling
mill 10 be established there.
The next session of the Vermont legislature
will be one of the most important in the history
of the state 1t will be the second session of the
biennial system, and large amount of business
of all sorts will be found TO have accumulated
in the two years. A United States senator is to
be elected and important questions relativeto the
| finances and taxes, to the educational interests
and TO their penal and reformatory Institutions
and criminal laws will arise, for the proper dis
position of which the best ability and wisdom of
| the state will be needed.
CONNECTICUT.
An insane man named Hawley, in Bridgeport
| tries to throw himself under the ears at the
| depot. So far the police have successfully de-
feated his efforts.
At New London, Wednesday night the fog
| was so dense that it was necessary TO ring a
bell to enable the trains to find their way into
| the depot
There was man in Litchfeld, Wednesday,
| with a load of apples to sell. Finding no sale
/ ne OUGIeu 10 ElNe NlSUl AWAY. IlG GOulu HUu
| only one man who would take any, and he
would take only half bushel.
Middetown boys are enterprising. As eX-
| cursiOn trains from Hartford pass the station,
| they knock the handkerchiets from the hands of
the children with long poles; one boy secured
| 10 on Wednesday.
Some years ago a charcoal peddler not far
| from Hartford, had a Newfoundland dog which
| he learnd to jump into his basket and lie low
while he filled in the charcoal. When the ped
dler carried the baskets, very full, into the eel
| lar, the purchaser, looking out of the window
| and checking the basket, was quite satisfied.
| The dog, well trained walked out with his mas
| ter as if nothing had happened The daughter
of this old charcoal pedder spent several sum
| mers at Saratoga, during the war, with two
| large "soltaires" on her person.
| Hon. Ralph l. lngersoll died in New Haven,
| Monday morning, after short illness, in the
| S4tn year of his age. He was for many years
leading lawyer in the state, represented New Ha-
| ven in the state legislature seven consecutive
years from 1919, served in congress four con-
important committees, principally the committee
of ways and means. He then resumed the
practice of law in New Haven, was the states
attorney for his county, and declined the
| appointment of United States senator, not wish
| ing to re-enter political life. He was appointed
| minister-p enipOtentiaTy to Russia by President
Polk. remained abroad two years, and has since
lived quietly.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence Journal OF yesterday con-
| tanned applications for divorce from seventeen
| different persons.
| A bathef at Newport lost $3.50 and his gold
watch. How the thieves got into the bathing
| houses without being discovered is a mystery.
The Providence Journal, in its Newport items,
| says; Directly after our military visitors lett
the armory of their entertainers, Yesterday af-
ternoon, for street parade, quite melee took
place in the neighborhood among some eypriaDs
who followed the military from Providence. 1t
! was in fact an "undress parade" and with
"chin music" chignons, sashes, panniers, over
skirts, Sc, Sc, suffered extensively. Billings
gate of the vilest kind was INDUCED in, but we
saw no blood split. We shall be pleased to see
our military friends again, but from some of
their followers we saw, Good Lord, deliver u.s."
There was also something of scrimmage at the
beach, yesterday forenoon, among the bon
ton, but efforts are made ''to hush up the
affair