Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-31
General Ncwn SUMMARY.

The Wings of Pennsylvania have been
claiming that Mrs. Swisshelm, the talented
editress of the Pittsburg ViSitor, had caved in
and was going to support the Wing candi-
dates, headed by Judge Pollock; whereat she
denies the charge, and says she would see
Judge Pollock, or any other Baltimore plat
form man, hanged, before we would raise
finger for his election" We should call that
very ineligible language!
The present depression of railroad
stocks has occasioned the withdrawal of orders
for 81 locomotives, which had been ordered of
the South Boston works. 1t was a full year S
work for the establishment.
The barn of Adna Whiting, in Plain
vile, Ct, was struck by lightning OIL Satur-
day afternoon and burnt to the ground In
sured at the Hartford Mutual for $3.50. A
man was struck by lightning and killed. at
Burlington, CT, on the same Cay.
On the Concord Railroad, men with
hand car follow after each train to see if
anything has caught fire from sparks emitted,
the President thinking it much cheaper than
to have cars, fence, and lumber burned the
whole length of the road.
The Cambridge Chronicle states that
no decided movement has yet been made
which looks like the erection of buildings on
the desolate spot laid waste by the recent de-
structive confagration in that city. Notwith-
standing all the dscouraging circumstances
attending the fire, the value Of the land is
rated much higher than it was before the fire.
The Central Railroad have made the
purchase of one of the five wires of the Morse
Telegraph between Albany and Buffalo, for
their own use. Offices are to be erected at
stations along the line of the road where there
are none at present.
The New York Herald says that Hon.
Whiting Griswold has joined the Know
Nothing society, and was admitted to lodge
in Boston.
A terrible accident occurred on the
Central Railroad, at Canastota, seven miles
east of Syracuse, on Tuesday, by which two
latlies, whose names were not known, were
killed instantly.
The Nebraska Palladium, an admin
tration paper, which has been recently estab-
lished in Nebraska Territory, avows its hostil-
ity to slavery. 1t was supposed that this pa
per would be an advocate of the peculiar in
stitution.
The Detroit Inquirer says that Presi-
dent Pierce has received an invitation to at
tend the National Hen Convention, but has
sent an indignant refusal-he having no opin-
ion of hens since that egg business.
The Philadelphia Grand Jury have
indicted Stephen I. Beale, the dentist, for
violation the person of Miss Narcissa E.
Madge, while under the influence Of ether.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad
passenger train of Saturday night, at Mans
field, was thrown off the track by an iron rail
placed across it. The engineer. fireman, and
one brakeman were seriously injured.
A Boston correspondent of the Port
land state of Maine says that Abraham French,
the owner Of one of the grauite buildings that
fell in Boston last week, has signifed to the
Messrs. Lewis, who were his tenants, his
willingness to make good their losses by the
casualty.
A few days since William B. Francis
swan the Mississippi, from the Iowa shore to
Phelps whaaf, in Quincy, in eighteen minutes,
a distance of one mile and half.
Alderman Mitchell, of Philadelphia,
married happy pair Monday evening, for
which he received the liberal fee Of two red
cents.