Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-28

| some $50 from his parents, Monday, and took
the train for New York. He was caught in Wal
lingfOrd
Mr.. L. w Coo, president of the Coo brass
| company at WolcOttYille, has gone to Spain
and Germany, where he has large contracts
with the governments for metal used in the
manufacture of cartridges.
Mr. Geo. ID. Lawson, a well known newspa-
per reporter of Hartford, has gone from that
city. He was very recently married TO re-
spectacle young lady there, aud it now turns
! out say the police, that he has another wife and
\ a family of children in Buffalo.
The moders in the employ OF the G. F. War
ner compauy'S malleable iron works in New Ha-
ven, struck Saturday morning, because the en-
! plovers wanted them 10 make ten more molds
than they were in the habit of making, for the
same pay they have been receiving.
John Dolphin died in Milford, Saturday night,
from injuries received by jumping off the ex-
press train out Of New Haven on Monday eve
ming last. He is supposed to have no kindred
in this country, being from Creaduff, County
Tyrone, Ireland.
Some fellows have composed and printed a
ballad on the woe of the Portland quarrymen,
which they are offering for sale for the benefit
of the sufferers. A letter from the secretary of
the association depounces these men as swind-
lers, rs they are not authorized, and pocket the
money.
black woman about thirty-five years of age
got on the Hartford train at Tarriffville, Tues
day, and IN less than ten minutes gave birth to
girl. The passengers were all men: but with
the help of doctor among them, they gave her
such care as they could, and took her 10 the
hospital on arrival at Hartford. The child must
be supported by the town; but it cannot be
clearly determined whether ii was born in Sims
bury or Bloomfield.
A man from Rocky Hill went to Hartford the
other day and traded horses. He got the kick
ing end of the bargain, and so much of il that
he gave up all hopes of ever reaching home; so
he turned the cTitter loose. This wouldn't do
TO have such an animal loose in the city; and
ne was by some means confined in a stable,
where he kicked so that no one dared 90 in but
fed him from the outside until Tuesday, when
policeman got on the horses back by some
means, and was last seen going towards the
pound kicking like all possessed.
1t is not generally known that Connecticut is
indebted to the town of Chatham for the title
which Is almost universally bestowed upon it in
the west, l. c. the wooden nutmeg state"
Nearly half century ago, nutmegS of this de-
scription were actually manufactured and
shipped from that town, for sale. 1t is due to
the memory Of the cnterprsing manufacturer
OF these articles, which found a ready market in
the west, to state that the turning out of these
wooden limitations formed but a minor part of
his business.
Friday evening, at about II O'Clock. John
Norton, in New Britain who was returning
home, was surprised by number of men who
knocked him down before he could say a word
or make the least resistance lie revived Sutfi-
GENTLY TO know that they were carrying him
somewhere, and from their conversation it ap-
peared to him that they thought they had killed
him. He was left behind the basket factory
from whence he crept to the house of an ac-
quaintance and remained ill morning. 1t was
found that he had received a number of fright
tul blows and cuts on the head, and though in
considerable danger from them he will probably
recover. He can think Ofno possible reason for
the murdpTOuS assault and does know NvLo