Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-31
General New. sumunnry.

The strike among the journeymen
shipbuilders at New Y ork is general for $3 o
day.
George w. Kellogg, convicted at
of altering and passing counterfeit bank bills,
has been sentenced to the State Prison for
twenty years.
Steamer Ohio arrived at New York on
on Wednesday, having left Aspinwall on the
18th, bringing $50 passengers and $7S0,O0O
in specie.
DR.. Ezra B. Gale, of Kingston, N.
H., on Sunday afternoon of last week, enter
ed church in his usual health, and in about
half an hour he fell i'll a fit and died instantly.
9. ]. Daniel of Bath, England, has
secured patent for drying hay and grinding
it into meal for feeding to cattle.
At the examination Of the State Nor
NAL School in birmingham, on Tuesday, sew
en- ladies were found to have qualified them
selves to teach in the high schools, having sue
oesstully pursued mathematics and most of
the branches taught in colleges. They receiv-
ed their diplomas after a valedictory address
by Ann q. Payson, of Peterboro', N. II.
We learn from the Augusta Me
Age, that a bill to incorporate the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company, has finally passed
both Houses of the Legislature of that State.
Messrs. Hiram D. Alden and James Eddy of
Maine are the originators of the undertaking.
Dispatches have been received from
Commodore Perry, dated Hong Kong, Janua-
ry "a. He was about to start in short time
on his second expedition to Japan. The squad
ron has not been recalled, as has been erron-
eously stated.
The house of Mrs. Dwelle, near
Searlestown, n. Y, was burnt to the ground
on Sunday morning. Mrs. D., who was in
sane, persisted i'll the fames-The little daugh-
ter OF Quebert Wilson, of Rome, n. Y, five
years OF age, was burnt to death on Saturday
morning, i'll consequence Of her clothes taking
fire.
Mr.. |. D. Holbrook, late City Treas
urer of Williamsburgh, has been arrested on a
charge of embezzling the city funds to the
amount of about $lS5,OOO.
Capt. Young, Of the whaling schoon-
er Waldron Holmes of Provincetown, has re-
ceived from the British government beauti-
full gold medal, in acknowledgment of his
services in saving the master and crew of the
British barque Cairo, wrecked at sea.
In Lowell, ON the Odd inst, little
girl 10 months old, daughter of Moses Smith,
was so severely scalded that she died.
Mr.. Fox stated recently in the British
house of commons that of the three hundred
thousand persons married last year in Great
Britain, one hundred and seventeen thousand
could not write.
A new planet has been discovered be-
tween Mars and Jupiter, making the 2Sth of
the group of asteroids, which are supposed to
be the fragments of larger planet that once
existed between Mars and Jupiter. The new
member of this group was discovered almost
simultaneously at Bishops observatory in Lon
don, and at Radcliff's in Oxford
On Sunday night miserable vaga-
bond in Albany, named William Sullivan,
turned his wife, with dying child in her
arms, out of doors and into the intense cold.
With the child in her arms she went in search
of police officer, and when she returned to
the house with one, the child was just gasp
ing its last. During her absence her brutal
husband had stolen few cents she had hid
away in the cofee-pot, and bundled up lot
of things, and was about making his exit.