Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-19
General Ncwnsmnmury.e

A book was published in Lofdon few
years ago with the singular title @It."
The Senate in executive session, on
Monday, refused to ratify the Gadsden treaty.
There are ten or twelve frightful cases
of lip, tongue, and fare cancer in the London
cancer hospital, all resulting from excessive
smoking.
About two hundred acres of woods
were burned in Wobuln, on Friday. A small
unfinished dwelling house, owned by man
named Martin, was also destroyed.
Charles f. Swift, editor of the Var
mouth Register, is reelected treasurer of
Barnstable county by 1923 votes, all save one
that were cast.
A Brute; in the shape of nam, was
sent to the workhouse, in Louisville for whip
ping an infant child few weeks old. His
wife testified, on the trial, that he caused the
death of former child, having actually whip
ped it only three days before its death.
GA cargo of negroes that was lately
captured has been disposed of by the Cuban
government, but the negroes have not been
hired out as "emancipados," but as free APP
preptices, so that the apprentice system may
be considered as having commenced in Cuba.
A lady who had refused to give, after
hearing q charity sermon, had her pocket pick
ed as she was leaving church. On making
the discovery she said, God could not find
his way into my pocket, but it seems the devil
did Q,
The trial of Messrs. Davis, Lawson,
Hazen, and Morris, at Pittsburg, for conspira-
cy to extort $4,000 from the Pennsylvania
Railroad Cog was concluded, on Saturday,
April IA, and all the parties were found gull
ty. Hazen and Davis were committed for
sentence, but Morris and Lawson. have alb
seconded and forfeited their bail.
The following territories now remain
to be organized into states:-
Square Miles.
New MEXICO ....................1l9,I74
Indian or Kansas. 1ST,171
minnesota. 49,. ...................... .
Oregon and Washington. ...............3l1,4 6S
Nebraska and Northwestern. .. 25,26l
Iotai'..... ................-....1 336,6j0
The New York Courier and Enquirer,
one of the leading Wing papers of the coun-
try, in an article referring to the manifold sins
and plumbers OF its party, says" The Wing
party, as national party, has nothing IN its
late history upon which it can dwell with sat
1ol1CtlOil, tilu uOtllIlS us sIuIuIC 10 winch
it can look forward with hope"
The Boston Post assumes the respon-
siblity of the following s-Traveling through
small town near the capital of Michigan,
we saw in dry goods store large sign on
which the word " wholesale was painted,
without the 40. If the Hoosac tunnel should
ever be sold CATER it is made) the Michigan
orthsgraphy wouldbeappropriate to the trans
action.
In Syracuse few days since, Mr..
Dennis Sullivan was married to Miss Mary
Gallagher. Neither of the two had ever seen
the other until about half an hour before the
ceremony took place. The matter was ALTAR
ranged by the brothers of the bride, who knew
Mr.. Sullivan in Ohio. The bride Immediate
ly left with her husband for their Western
home.
ct. Richard G. Derby, who died about ten
days since at Philadelphia, left the following
requests to public charities in Boston: To the
Boston Farm School, $1,000; to the Boston
Female Orphan Asylum, $500. to Rev.
John I. Sargent Of Boston, for distribution
among the poor, $4,000. Mr.. Derby was a
native OF Salem. and for the last few years Of
shis life resided at Newport, r. 1.
In Upshur county, Texas, Jas. Gentry
was knocked down with an axe by his negro
man, and his murder was completed by a Ge-
gro woman. The murderers then burnt the
body, and the man, to avoid suspicion, went
through the neighborhood inquiring for his
master; but, nevertheless, the citizens raked
over the ashes of the los-heap, and found
few bones. "a pocket knife and several brass
buttons. The negroes, thereupon confessed
their crime.