Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-19
General News Summary.

The Charleston Is. C.) Mercury an
nounces the arrival at that port of the brig
Horace Greeley, from Philadelphia, and burst
ing with yirtuous Indignation in view of the
outrage, roars, g Is it not surprising that any
northern merchant should have the audacity
to send vessel bearing the name of this tiend
incarnate to a southern port :"
The Commercial learns from Wash
ington that negotiations are in progress be-
tween the State Department and Mr.. Buchan-
an, our Minister to England, and the govern
ment Of Central America, for the full settle
ment Of all the difficulties pending between
the respective governments, which negotia-
tions, it is believed, will eventually prove
successful.
In Chicago, on the lIth and 18th
! insts., five riots of greater or less magnitude
| occurred, involving the loss of one life and
| the wounding of number Of individuals.
An Irish lad named Jerry Collins, six
teen years of age, jumped into the Connect
! cut river at Springfield, on Thursday, while
! i'll an intoxicated condition, and was drowned.
Hon. John Wentworth, in letter to
his paper from Washington, says "there is 10
earthly doubt butthe Homestead bill was beat
en- because it woudinduce free laborers to go to
Kansas and compete with slave labor
A strong body of the New York po-
lice made descent on Tuesday evening, upon
house of very dsorderly character, and cap
tured the proprietor and fifteen of the inmates,
comprising a motley party Of merchants, bro
kers, clerks, book-keepers, milliners and
seamstresses, all of whom were taken to the
station house.
The New York Tribune says that the
returns received from Iowa, show the certain
election of a wing Governor, Wing Legisla-
ture, and one Wing Member for Congress.
The Woonsocket Patriot, records the
death of Mrs Abigail Patch, mother of the
renowned Sam Patch, who immortalized him
self by jumping into cataraets from dizzy
heights, and finally by jumping into eternity
from the Genessee Falls. She died in Pawtuck-
ct, few days since, aged SO.
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, remarked
at Newport the other day, that 8" the only
pleasure in keeping yacht is, to sit on the
shore and see it SAIL This will do to 90
with DIR. Johnson's definition of angling, viz
line with worm at one end and a fool at
the other.
IC oICdliCl hlStib, SOlIlllS INT, Will
leave New York for Boston on Monday next,
we understand, with a party of about forty
| gentlemen, on pleasure excursion, and to
| test new steam invention.
Charles Armor, jealous steamboat
| engineer, stabbed Washington Fleming, and
a woman named Mary Taylor, on the street
in New Orleans The woman was fatally
wounded.
The fire in the woods near Biddeford,
Maine, burned over 900 acres, mostly valua-
Bile wood land One hundred men have been
employed for several days trying to stop the
progress of the flames.
DR.. Jenner Pratt, formerly of Woon-
socket but latterly Of Ontonagon, Mich, was
drowned in Lake Superior Oh the LIST.
Hiram Fuller of the New York Mir
ror, has been nominated for Congress by the
Know lettings.
The N. Y. Times, says, the times
are duller now in New York, than at any
period since 1887.