Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-22

near which IL was found was growing across
tbeneck and another across the arm. From the
shane Of the head it was judged TO be an Indian,
HAVING a rerreatiDg forehead and high cheek
homes In lay in a reclining position on its side,
| tbe fin Of the pillow lust scaling off one arm.
| Considerable excitement was caused by the
discovery, and it is said that Boston parties are
| already negotiating for it to be put on exhibit
tion. The petri6cation appears to be feld-
spdfhic granite, and will weigh about 500 pounds,
VERMONT.
rich Vermont farmer is trying 10 have his
taxes reduced because one of his cows proved
farrow
Chauncy Denton and Ellen Fuller of Brandon
have been committed to Jail at Rutland, charged
with bigamy. Denton, it is charged, has wife
and three children living in Elizabethtown,
NY.
CONNECTICUT.
The oldest posimaSterin Connecticut is Arson
Bray, appointed by President Jackson in 1885,
He has held the office ever since.
Samuel Nj. Johnson, a Hartford stone mason
committed suicide by hanging himself Monday.
Depression of spirits was the cause.
George +. Tracy, the postmaster of Bridge
port, has been sent TO the insane retreat in Hart
ford for treatment for a mental arrangement.
Fowler Fem of Orange fell dead of heart dis
ease while breaking in colt Thursday. He wa,
SIXTY years old, and had suffered from the dis
ease some time.
the New Britain Journal, is a democratic sbeet
Odell. ~
Miss Plumer Ray, aged Is, belonging in Oma
ma, Nebraska, committed suicide with morphine
monday evening, at musical seminary in Sa
lem, near Norwich.
Carl Andrus Dahf, a young Norwegian, fell
overheard from the schooner John Wright, ly
ing at the dock at Hgeanum, on Saturday al
ternoon, and was drowned He had but latel,
returned from voyage to China.
Thomas McDermott was on Sunday mornin.
Staooed several times in the abdomen, at his
residence IN New Haven. His nephew is charge,
with the commission of the crime and has beer
arrested. McDermott refuses to state that Far
rell stabbed him, but the circumstances are al
against the prisoner. On SUNDAY night McDer
mott was failing rapidly, and it is thought h
cannot possibly recover.
gentleman from New York was in Hartfor
last week, and met number of friends. Lat
IN the evening he became suddenly and unac
countahly, but powerfully impressed with tn
IDEA that he must return home, but was unabl
| 10 do SO for want of funds, and his friends ha,
/ already retired. He even tried to pawn hi
watch TO get the required amount, but ever,
| place was closed Early the next morning h
received a dispatch from New York announcin!
| the sudden death of his daughter the night be
| fore.
RHODE ISLAND.
The schooner b. L. Sharp of and for Prov
dence, from Port Johnson, with 265 tons of coal
went ashore near Watch Hill in q thick fog OF
Sunday afternoon, and became total loss. Tn
| crew were saved.
Mr.. Chas. G. Pettey of Westport, attached t
hsting schooner Josiah Sturgis, fell overboar
from the "carry-away" boat on Tuesday morn
ing, 14th, while off Coggeshall point, between
Newport and the mouth of Seconnet river
and was drowned. He was about twenty-five
years old.