Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-01

poraton Of its vested rights. Gen. Anderson,
president of the Portland and Ogdenghurg road,
answered the judges argument, and maintained
that the corporation he represented had right
10 their present location, which was granted
them by the city government Of Portland. The
committee did not reach decision.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
All the machinery in the Momaske mills in
Manchester, which has recently been used in
the manufacture of wooden goods, IS now de-
voted TO the manufacturing OF cotton GOODS, IN
consequence Of the great dSproporilon M tue
price of wool and the manufactured artcleS.
Wool of last years crop which was bought ~
| forty-two cents per pound now sells Tor severe
| five cents per pound. fasco-
The adjourned annual meeting of the , Mas'o
ma Valley agricultural society met 81 $780,
on the 30th The following officers
| President Peter Kimba of Graffdn' ie11sulel,
| charles Kent Of VINE. Secrefsrr, Z. .. Barney
of Canaan; Executive CoInmiIl' iIi,
j D. Weeks of Canaan, Jon!i ~, iio't VI ~ ny ny
Ii was voted to hold The IN 1s. i's.i al "a
| 1872. -
| A nov, ,,,bo was amusing himself on skating
nond IN Bridgeport, last week, by throwing up
| bat and firing pistol at it, slipped down
While ne was dischargng j., and the ball entered
| bisleft lee at the thigh, and, passing down,
| lodged in the limb below the knee He is COM
Portable, but won't skate again very soon.
The now Hon. Lyman Trumbull, in his
youthful DAYS, spent a couple of years "keeping
school" in Portland. He "courted" young
lady of that town, and popped" but the old
gentleman did not approve Of her marrving a
poor schoomaster, and the affair fizzlcd But
Trumbull does not forget his old friends, treats
them literally with pub. docs.,' and OCCASION
ally visits the town.
In the superior court at Hartford, Friday the
jury in the case OF W. S. White against DR.. j.
q. Jackson, claiming $4,000 damages for al
legged malpractice in setting broken leg,
brought in verdict of IS and costs, in all $40.
There were, by agreement, but eleven jurors
trying the case, ten of whom were in favor OF a
| verdict for the defendant but compromised with
| the one holding ont 10 save the defendant the
| expense of a new trial.
At New Haven most sigular event has hap
| Jencd recently, one which is known by medical
men TO have occurred only two or three times in
this country or in Europe. The wife OF a most
/ respected gentleman gave birth, three weeks
| ago, to a fine and healthy child and.ias tuesday
| she gave birth to another child as healthy as the
/ first. Medical works mention few such cases,
| but they are so rare as to cause much discussion
| among medical men.
A Connecticut paper pays that correspond
| ents complain that upon arriving mt Hartford in
| the cars, they are asked if they "lavor a dome
or tower, and upon replying that they have no
knowledge or interest one way or the other, they
| are ruthlessy dragged into a building and
searched! Another authority says thai since
the Hartlorders have got TO cogitating on the
style of the new capitol building, Il stranger
can walk almost three blocks in that city with
out being asked if he is insured!
Schooner Richard Borden, of and from
| Fall River for New York, with cargo of 2000
| kegs of nails struck on Sea Flower reef, Fish
ers Island sound, Monday, and became total
| loss. The upper works were carried away. The
bottom and cargo remain where it struck. The
| crew were saved.
| The report of the United States Inspector up
N hp h41r rnf Nyf,fN mos
| that the fire may have been caused by spark
| from pipe, criticises the manner in which the
| freight was slowed away, recommends that
smoking be prohibited on the deck of any
steamer carrying freight, and praises the con-
duct of the officers. 1t is generally considered
unsatisfactory.
RHODE ISLAND.
Lucius Reynolds, brakeman on one of the
freight trains Of the Providence and Worcester
railroad, while attempting to jump from the
ears at Waterford, about one O'Clock on the
morning of the 31st ult., fell to the track and
was run over, losing one of mis- legs. He was
| taken back TO Providence on the locomotive
conveyed to the Rhode Island hospital, and died
| there few hours aitcrward. His age was
| about thirty years, and lie was unmarried. 10
is less than week since he met with an acct
dent on the same train by striking the awning
| OF the depot at Woonsocket, and lac was making
the second nip after his recovery.
AT Rhode Island hall, Brown university, on
| the 24th, thescnrporatiUn of the venerable uni
| Yersity held an adjourned meeting, whose mos
mCmentous business was the election of presi
| dent to succeed the present honored incumbent
| whose regretted resignation is loss of valuable
service TO the college, to the community and tn
denomination whose interest centres mos
strongly IN the university President Caswel'
resignation goes into effect at the end of thi
academic year, when his successor will be Rev
| Ezekiel Gilman Robinson, ID. d., president o
the theological institution in Rochester, n. Y.
who received a large majority of the votes cast
Resolutions were also passed by which the cor
| poration pledged to DIR. Robinson, unanim ously
| their hearty cooperation, and expressed the
earnest wishes that he would accepf the Office ia
| which he had been elected. DIR. Robinson wa
born at Atilehoro, Mass, in the year 1915 ant
| graduated at Brown university in 1888.