Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-21
general News suu,mnry.

There was an intense excitement a
few days since in Quebec, in consequence of
the circumstances connected with the shoot
ing of two seaman, in that city, by the cap
tain of the barque RheG SylUia. They were
OF party of five runaway sailors, who visit
ed that vessel for the purpose, as they said, of
seeing an acquaintance. They were warned
off by the Mate, but persistng on boarding
the vessel, were fired upon by the Captain,
and two were killed. The captain at once
gave himself up to the Police, and was horri-
fed at the deed he had committed.
A letter published in the Providence
Journal, dated Rio Janeiro, Sept. 9th, reports
that the steamer Bay City, Capt. Wardle,
bound for San Francisco, has been fred into
and boarded by the English brig Bonita, which
is cruising in search Of Russian irigate sup
posed to be somewhere on the coast.
A bear weighing 500 pounds was kill
ed. recently, says the Bangor Wing, at the
lumber camp of Mr.. Il. Longfellow, on the
Machias river. He had been in the habit of
pillaging the storehouse of the lumbermen,
during their temporary absences, = helping
himself to flour, molasses, butter pork, &C.,
with the utmost freedom.
Theodore A Rossi, the clerk in the
New York post office, accused Of stealing mo-
ney sent home by poor German girls, has been
discharged by the U. S. District Court, and
$1,000, found in his private drawer. were re-
stored to him. He has had two trials, the ju-
ries falling to agree.
In Adrian county, Missouri, several
weeks since, as Mr.. Nelson Carter and Mr..
William Keene were riding along a road, they
encountered two large bucks engaged in a
regular set to, with their horns so locked that
they could not disengage themselves, and
therefore fell prey to Mr.. Keene, who killed
them both with his pocket-knile.
On Wednesday, Mr.. Abel Carter, of
Wilmington, was found upon the floor Of his
barn, with blood issuing from his mouth and
ears, he having fallen from ladder while as
cending to a scaifold. He died in few hours.
He was an estimable man, and was g. years
OF age.
A WING meeting in Delaware, prompt
ed by John NJ. Clayton, resolved that it is in-
expedient to run wing ticket at the next
election. The whig party in Delaware is to
be given over to the Know Nothngs, whose
candidate for president, Clayton intends to be.
We learn from the New Bedford Mer-
curry that son of Mr.. Cornelius Jordan, of
that city, three years of age, fell from Sec
ond story window on Wednesday,, and was so
seriously injured that doubts are entertained
respecting his recovery.
A car loaded with butter, eggs, pota-
toes, and books took fire from a spark, on the
Rutland Road near Chester, one day last
week, and was mostly consumed, causing a
general fusion Of edible and literary matter.
1t is stated in the Illinois papers that
man actually swan the Mississippi River
from Illinois to Missouri, with his hat and
clothes on, to save the expense of five cents
ferriage, which he considered an imposition
The number of students in the sever
al departments of Dartmouth College at the
present time, is as follows Medical So Sc
niors 81; Sophomores 70; Freshmen 66;
Chandler Scientific School So; total 35S.
A new steam dredge is at work in the
harbor at Oswego, and in one afternoon five
hundred aud sixty tons of deposites Were re-
moved.
A young man by the name of William
Randall SON of Jesse Randall, of South Kill
lingly, CT, came TO an untimely death, on
Monday last, by shooting himself accidentally.
The agents of the Cunard line of
steamers in New York, have given orders to
Mr.. Francis to furnish two additional life
boats for each steamer.
A shark ten feet long went ashore at
Newburyport on the 18th inst, and attracted
much admiration from the natives.