Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-13
GcncrnI wow. Summary.

| hams, now of Washington County, Md, was
n slave in Stafford County, Va, but subse-
quently purchased his freedom from his own
earnings. He then bound himself to years of
servitude until he could purchase his wife and
children, which he accomplished when no
was so years of age, Now, at 70 years Of
age, he owns farm worth & 5000, and per-
sonal property amounting to several thousand
more, all earned by his own labor.
An extraordinary state of excitement
exists at Port-au- Prince, Hayti, on account
OF numerous reports that the United States
government had made arrangements to ac-
knowledge the independence of the Domini-
can part of the island, and take it under their
protection. In consequence, Emperor Sou
louque was removing the ammunition aud
military stores to secure places in the interior.
The forts and their equipments were under
going thorough overhauling, and the num-
Der of troops was greatly increased.
The La Grange, Georgia, Reporter
says, but recently our townsman, Mr. A. r.
Thornton, in connection with Messrs Christian
Pierce and others, purchased piece of ground
in Iallaposa county Alabama, which gives
satisfactory evidence of an almost ineXhaust
IDLE gold mine. Mr.. Thornton has been
a successful miner in California, and he pro-
nounces the mine spoken of above as being
richer in every respect than any he had seen
i'll California during an active mining life of
two years.
The glorious rain of Saturday and
Sunday was very extensive. We hear of it
all along the southern shore of Lake On
tario and down through the middle States
below Washington, fairly joining with the
terrible Carolina storm of Thursday. East
ward the rain fell bountifully, accompanied
by heavy wind, as far as Maine. The sudden
change of temperature is everywhere remark
able. AT Buffalo there has been pretty Sc
we're frost.
A gentleman writes in the Maine
Farmer left last fall some potatoes in the
ground-in July they were more than as big
again as my others. He strongly recommends
to farmers to plant some in the fall and try
the experiment. L have seen some that 9TH
ers have raised, he says, by planting in the fall,
and they were eXcellent-better potatoes than
he ever saw before-large, sound and hand
some.
Mrs. Ann Fitzgerald, a book folder
in New York, poisoned her son and herself
with laudanum because she was discharged
from her situation in an establishment in New
York. She was highly respectable woman
i'll her character and much beloved by her
nelghbors. Her husband had deserted her
some seven months previous to her death.
The storm of Sunday ragged severely
in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and
Washington. 1t was generally tearer, and
moistened almost everything churches were
deserted awnings carried away, handcarts
blown from their moorings, cobble~stones
bleached, trees torn down, ferry boats abused.
During the storms of last Saturday
night and Sunday, eight inches of rain fell at
New Haven, and six inches at Pennington,
Conn. AT Nantucket on Saturday and Sun
day, nearly six inches of rain fell. At New
Bedford, during the same time, 10 inches
fell.
American Flour is cheaper in Europe
than it is here. At Hayre, the highest quo
tauons for American -four were So, 80 bar
rel. AT London, American -four of fine quail
ity was in demand at from ST. to $S,25 a
barrel.
The receipts for the Washington
monument last month were $2602, and the
expenses $22lS. Of the amount received
$968 was one days pay of the members of
the CALIFORNIA legislature.
j. Watson Webb, Who is now in
England, writes to the New York Courier
that in three months, OF before Christmas,
wheat will have fallen from Go to less than 40
shillings per quarter.
The Wilmington Herald states that
the rice crop this season is fully equal if not
superior to the best average crop Of former
| years. The yield is abundant, and but little
damage has been done by treshets and birds
Cabarrus county, N. c., a man named
Holbrook has been arrested for hanging his
son, lad.