Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-24
GENERAL News Summary.

An earthquake was felt at Bordeaux
last month, when in many houses The doors
were thrown suddenly open, chairs and fur
niture displaced stands of glasses and bottles
overthrown, &C., and though there was not
the least wind, the tops of the trees were for
chilly agtared, The earth trembled and horses
upon the roads gave utterance to plaintiff
noises, and seemed filed with terror, and were
with difficulty kept upon their course.
At Ithica, after the spire of the new
Presbyterian church was raised, Mr.. II. Gift
ford mounted to the top, a dista ce of l25 feet,
putting large iron ring over the timbers to
Nhold them together; after which Mr.. Dennis
Van Buskirk climbed to the top, and stood
erect on the ends Of the timbers, space less
than a foot in measurement, and deliberately
lighted and smoked a cigar, apparently with
as little concern as though ne were on the
foundation Of the church itself.
Revolutionary movements have been
set on foot III Northern Mexico, especially in
Tamaulipas and Coahuila, and along the Rio
Grande. The movement began in Victoria,
but already embraces lula, San Carlo, and
San Fernando. An attack by the revolution
lists, 500 strong, is expected at Matamoras, and
Gen. Wall, The commander there, has issued
proclamation, calling on the people to keep
quiet and fear nothing. The insurgents pub
Gsh newspaper, called La Federation, which
treats Santa Annals dictatorship with very lit
tie ceremony.
The steamer Edinburg, on her up
ward passage on the Mississippi river, on the
9TH inst, met serious accident short dis
lance below Berlin, by which six Of the hands
lost their lives. The men were heaving at the
capstan. when it suddenly broke, and precipi-
tated seven men overboard-six OF whom
were drowned. 1t is supposed that the men
were badly stunned by the stroke of the
lever.
There is farm running through the
most thickly settled portion of England, no
less than one hundred and fifty miles long,
and all occupied by one man, Mr.. Brother
ton. 1t simply occupies the slope and edges
of the Great Western railway, and its width
varies from six feet to twenty yards. The ten
ant, who keeps every foot of it under cultiva-
ton III some way, was formerly poor work.
man OH The line of the railroad, but is now
wealthy.
Twenty-six deaths by yellow fever oc-
CURED at New Orleans during the week end
ing ON the 18th inst, all in the charity hos
pital the city at large being remarkably heal
thy.
A fight occurred Tuesday night be-
tween two fire companies i'll Callowhill, near
Schuylkill street, Philadelphia. Peter John
son was killed by shot through the head,
and Andrew Culbertson was seriously injured.
Several persons were arrested.
Two men were drowned in Boston
harbor on Tuesday. They were in boat fish
ing, with two others, and We're run down by
the Eastern Steamer, Penobscot.
Hobbs, the American lock smith when
in Liverpool last month, was shown the strong
room Of the Union Bank, and when asked #
he could pick the lock on the door, very
strong one, he astonished John Bull by &C.
complishing the feat in avery few minutes
The Leeds mill for the manufacture of
satiret, in Rockville, Ct, was on Tuesday
evening, 22d instant, found to be on fire in the
upper stories, and was damaged to the amount
OF some $4,000, before the fire could be ex-
tinguished. Fully insured.
Messrs Alfred Edwards g. Co. silk
jobbers, in New York, suspended payment on
the 22d instant liabilities not known. but
believed to exceed $500, 900.
A fire at Richmond, Va, on Monday
night, 2lst inst, destroyed two tobacco iacto.
ries belonging to Messrs. Gewtry & Hatcher,
and ]. w. Atkinson. Loss $50, 900. The
wall of the building fell on three firemen, kill
ing one and seriously injuring the two others.
A Boston correspondent of New
York daily. says new Wing paper is to be
started in Boston.