Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-19
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necticut, died at Newton on Wednesday eve
ming. His remains were taken to Salisbury,
where his funeral was attended on Friday,
Judge Church would have been 20 years of
age had he lived till next February. At the
last session of the legislature his successor was
appointed i'll anticipation of the limit fixed by
the constitution of his term of office.
Accounts from Delaware and Chenan-
go Counties, N. Y, are encouraging in regard
to the drouth, potato and corn crops for which
much anxiety was entertained by farmers pri-
or to the recent rains. Dairymen of Madison
County say that the drought has had but little
effect upon their business. The quantity of
butter and cheese thus far made this year is
nearly equal to the product at this time last
season.
The yellow fever at Savannah has
created unparalleled distress and panic. Near
ly one quarter of the resident population has
fallen before its ravages places of business are
closed, and terror misery, and death rule the
hour. The stencil from new graves pervades
the city, and, in many cases, it is difficult to
procure the performance of the duties OF in
terment.
On the 18th inst. bald eagle meas
urng over six feet across its wings, alighted
b. Nelson, apparently exhausted by its flight,
and was captured by one of the pilots.-The
nearest land from which the bird must have
been blown off, was over one hundred miles
distant.
While three boys were playing in
yawl boat at Detroit, on the 18th inst,
sturgeon about six feel in length, leaped out
of his element, and fell foundering into the
boat, and the boys beat out his brains. He
weighed over one hundred pounds.
The editor of the New London Chron-
icle has conversed with a gentleman of 100
years, named James Douglass. He was re-
Gently from New Haven, where he challenged
another old boy of lO2 years to wrestle with
him, but the fellow backed out.
nAn immense amount of fraud and cor
ruption, covered over by perjury, has been
discovered in the management of the New
York prisons. Commissioners are examin-
ing into the charges, and some of the Off
GERS examined have been arrested for perjury
in giving their testimony.
Accounts from Brazos Santiago repre-
sent the condition of affairs on the Mexican
frontier as being extremely unsettled. Gov.
VOL had stopped all communication with
Matamoras from the American side. The in
surgents were in great force at Victoria.
The purchase of the old " Stone MilI'
lot in Newport, r. l. has been secured for
public park-the citizens having subscribed
$4,000, which, with the legacy of $4,000
from the late Judah Touro, for that object,
makes up the requisite sum.
Cassius NJ. Clay and other Kentucki-
an parties have opened banking house in
Cincinnati, and taken the spacious rooms for
merly occupied by the City Bank. Clay di-
vides his time equally between agriculture,
politics. banking, and pork packing.
The New York Sun has imported pa
per from France, paying a duty of 30 per cent
and per cent. more for freightage, and then
getting a better article as cheap as that at
home.
DR. Wildman who recently introduced
muriated tincture of iron in the treatment of
yellow fever at Savannah, died ofthe prevail
ing epidemic at that city on Sunday last.
Last night, at the New York Hippo
drome, "Don Giovanni" the trotting bull,
contended in trial ofspeed with six horses
Over the National Course, on Saturday next,
horse race for $4,000 will take place.
At Charleston on Friday there were
10 deaths from fever. Mr.. Carroll, of the
Courier, was sick with the fever on Saturday,
and fears were entertained respecting his re-
covery.
Depredatons to the amount of $l3,-
600 have been committed in the Post Office at
Augusta, Ca, by negro, who confessed the
crime and returned most of the money.
AT Savannah on Wednesday there were
35 deaths, and on Thursday 81 from yellow
fever. 1t was Bishop Barron, and not Gait
land who died.
Washington dispatches intimate a
speedy and mutually satisfactory adjustment
fthe Central American difficulty between the
United States and Great Britain.
The Washington Star says special
messenger arrived at Washington with the
first communication from the British govern
| ment relative to the Greytown affair.
The trotting match on the National
Course, New York, on Saturday, for $4,000,
between Sam Letcher and Madonna was won
by the former after three severe heats.
Upwards of 1850 emigrants arrived at
New York. from Europe on Saturday.
A fire in Mobile on Monday last, de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property.