Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-17

Mrs. Stevens, wife Of Mr.. D F. Stevens of
GOffstown Centre, committed suicide on Sunday
morning by hanging herself with some strips of
carriage reins. She was greatly depressed in
spirits on account of the illness Of her husband.
She ate her breakfast as usual after which she
went to chamber and committed the fatal act
The direeto.s of the Great Falls national bank
voted to give reward of $500 for the arrest of
the burglars who attempted TO rob the bank last
Friday night. Although they obtained nothing
for their nights work, and a careful eXamna-
ton of the vault and its surroundings makes il
certain that there is no danger Of its e, er being
broken, the officers of the bank are determined
! TO make it too hot for such gentry 70 ply their
| vocation in that community. From evidence
which has accumulated since Saturday, there is
! no doubt but the men who appeared in Ports
mouth in the role of United States detectives
last Friday, and who were upset in Elliot, Me-,
| carly Saturday morning, are the men who are
wanted.
The examination of George Howe, the incen-
diary, who confessed TO the crime OF setting fire
10 the barn of Edmund P. Roach on Saturday
took place on Tuesday. The prisoner waived eX
animation and was bound over in the sum Of
$4,000 for trial at the supreme judicial court in
Exeter, in April. Howe failed to obtain sureties
and was committed TO Jail. He SAYS his con-
feSSiOn relative TO the committal of the deed al
luded to was made while in an excited state Of
mind, and is inclined 10 take it all back.
Howe's reputation Is bad however he having
some time ago been suspected of setting fire TO
the house in which he at that time resided.
VERMONT.
The steam tannerv OF Z. Ii Bradford & Co..
at Wallingford, was destroyed by fire on Mon
dav. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Harper Brothers, of New York, own is coo
acres Of timber lana in Glastonbury, and are in-
tereStcd in the railroad
Mark Nutter, of Barton, who was a selectman
during the rebellion, has Just been officially or
Gered TO pay over 1888 that he embezzled while
procuring recruits to fill the quota of the
town.
J. II. Barnes. proprietor of the stage line be-
tween Montpelier and st. JohuSbury, has driven
seventeen thousand miles without missing a
trip.
The statement in the papers that the late
James Fisk, Jr, owned block in Brattlcboro,
worth $3.50 contained a typographical error 1t
should have been $4,000.
Chas. A. Tinker, manager of the Western
Union telegraph Office at Washington, D. c.,
for several years, will, this week. accept the pc
slton of train dispatcher OF the Vermont Cen
tral railroad at st Adams.
A one-armed soldier, named Franklin Proud,
committed suicide at North PJwnal the other
day by hanging. Domestic troubles and the
idea that people were down on him" had de-
ranged him.
The annual meeting of the grand lodge of
Good Templars was held at Burlington las
week, when the following officers were elected
and installed: John b. Mead, of Randolph, G.
w G. T.; Mrs. S. A. Case, OF Bennington, q.
W. V. l Rev. II P. Cushing, of East Burke,
secretary; C. G. Sargent, OF COnnth, treasurer.
CONNECTICUT.
Thomas Wilbur of Norwich took 1925 pounds
OF perch at one haul in the Thames on Saturday,
the largest single catch ever made in the river.
man supposed to be William Seller of Port
| land, Me-, and who served in the LIST Maine bat
| terry during the war, died suddenly at New Ha-
| ven Sunday, of enlargement Of the heart
ltIs reported that thirteen women have ap-
piled to Yale college for permission to take the
special course, known as the school of Journal
ism.
An old bookcase that belonged to Jonathan
Edwards, and the desk on which he wrote his
famous work con the Will" have been pre-.
scented to Yale theological seminary, at New
Haven
joan G. Roherer fell down stairs while leaving
a saloon at Hartford Friday, and sustained in
luncs which resulted IN his death at the station,
whittier he was removed, abOnt midnight. He
WAS about sixty years old, and had wife aud
| two grown sons in Germany.
| A Colchester lrshman named Cowell walked
| off forty foot precipice into the Brainerd
| quarry, Middetown, last week and his dead body
was found the next morning. he was probably
intoxicated, but it Is not safe for 4 sober person
| TO 20 near any of the pits after dark, which are
from forty to seventy-tive feet deep, with no rail
or wall TO protect the families who live in the
| vicinity.
Two men were employed in putting up stove
| for Ddnbury lady the other day, and during a
| heavy lit one OF them told the other to spit on
his hands Both were somewhat nouplused by
the lady eXclaimlng, "Oh, don't do that; here's
| a splttoon."
The Connecticut papers must now depend al.
most entirely on the Hartford Post for funny news
1 EN 10. A.v
ly little daily in the state, has CEASED to be- The
editor says after three months trial he is salts.
| lied the place is not large enough to support a
| dally; but he promises TO start up again as soon
! as the business will warrant.
| John Mcdonnell, Il Steyedore, was picked Up
| on the sidewalk on Morgan street, Hartford, on
| Sunday evening, badly injured by fall from a
| third story window, and his recovery is doubt
| full. He refused to tell how it happened, but a
| man passing by said he saw him coming out
| feet foremost, as il pushed out, and the window
| Immediately closed. All the occupants of the
| house were arrested on suspicion, though they
| claim to be ignorant in regard to the affair
Jacob SheaTd, employed in hot house at
| West Hartford fell while ascending ladder.
| Saturday, one foot going into the draftway of a
| hot air furnace. He became insensible, proba-
| bly, from inhaling gas from the furnace, and
| when found the foot was burned TO a crisp the
| Dali being completely wasted, while the upper
| part was as charred as ii it were wood, and the
| whole foot was so warped that it doubled up on
| the insiep.
An ingenious scoundrel recently cheated a
| southport bank out of one hundred dollars bv
| asking for change for a 500 bill, receiving it,
and then asking in an Oll-hand sort of way,
well, amt YOU going to give me that bill ?"
The cashier uDwittingly gave him the bill and
was too busy TO find out his miStak until
after the Swindler had left. The Boston Jour
nal tells This, aud we are inclined to say Of it,
as the journal does of another story in the
same column, ave would rather borrow hum
dred dollars than believe that story"
RHODE ISLAND.
The number of deaths in Providence the past
| four years has been as follows: In 1868. 100:
IN 1869, ,256; in 1870, 1858; in 1871, ,254.
| White owls, of immense size, five in number,
| have recently been brought down by the gun.
nists OF Mddletown. Such birds are rare in
Rhode Island.
A boy, twelve years old, son of Mrs. King, OF
| Omega village, was drowned on Saturday while
running Blenders" with other boys on Ten Mile
| river, bv breaking through the ice
A lady in Providence wore no less than IF
| teen different dresses one day last week Like
| Flora McFlimsey, she would probably have
'nothing TO wear" if asked to 20 to ball.
MIR. Jay Gould, the new president of the Mar
ragansett steamship company, has given as.
surances that the eXceences of that route will
not be abated, and its popularity with the tray
| cling public will be as great as ever.
| The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the R.
!. institute of instruction take, place at Roger
| Williams hall, Providence, Thursday, Friday
| and Saturday, January 18th, 18th and 2O;h
Rhode island does nor figure to much advan-
tage in the report of Gen Eaton, commissioner
OF education, in so far as the presence within her
borders of 21,921 persons over ten years of ace,
who can neither read nor WRITE diSDlrages her
enlightenment Maine has 1862, Vermont II :
706, and New Hampshire 1926
William Reach of Bellingham, late of Woou-
socket, who was arrested some weeks ago for
passing counterfeit money, has had his trial he.
fore the U. 5. circuit court for the Rhode Island
district, and has been honoraby acquitted The
case against him broke down completely, and
tue jury acquitted him without leaving their
seats.
The Providence Herald has the following: We
are reminded of Icnnie G. Clafn's screed on
What IS virtue aud what il is not' by the title of
free religious lecture recently delivered in this
city, strange incongruity being the imposition
OF demanding fifty cents each for tickets. 1t was
on "Virlue and its substitutes" and we think
such sharp practicea Substitute"
The mortality of aged people in Providence
last year, was unusually large, the number of
decedents seventy years FACE and upwards, he
ing 1863. Ofthese, 10G were American, and sixty
three of foreign biIth. John McDtrmott, the
oldest man, (107 years,) and Susan McElrov.