Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-10
General News Summary.

The Virginia Gazette relates an Incl
dent which beats the spirit rappings:-
"Whilst Rufin's band, from Richmond,
was playing at the eastern lunatic asy-
lum in Williamsburg, Va, for the gratifca-
ton and amusement of the inmates, one of
them, negro woman, who had been confined
in the hospital for many years, suddenly step
ped forward, and pointed out member of the
band, and exclaimed, ''There is my son, whom
1 have not seen since he was two years old"
The musician was greatly surprised at first,
but, upon inquiring, he was convinced that
his mother stood before him-a being whom
he had never before known, and whom he had
no recollection of ever having seen. He asked
permission of the board of directors to have his
parent restored to him, which was granted,
and he has taken her home to Richmond, af-
ter confinement i'll the hospital twenty-three
years.
The crop of tobacco raised in the
United States is considered by many as COM
prising the bulk of the consumption Of Europe,
and few are aware of the fact fact that Hun
gary, with all its political endorsements,
and its oppressive policy towards the agricul-
turist, produces nearly double the quantity
of that sent from the United States to Ger
many and Holland.
On the 4th of March, Mr.. John Thorn
as of Tangier Island, in Accomac, Va, receiv-
ed an accession Of 4 grandchildren born that
night, by three Of his daughters.
On the 18th of February last, Mr.,
Henry Jackson, aged ninety years, of Edge
field, S. c., was united in the holy bond Of
matrmony with Mrs. Elender kirkland, aged
| So years.
In Boston on Monday night, Lyman
Coombs fell asleep or tainted while feeding
one of Gleason's fast cylinder presses. He fell
| upon the press, and one of his arms was
drawn in by the cylinders till it was crushed
to pieces and stopped the press. The type in
the forms was greatly battered by the bones OF
| the poor fellows crushed limb.
Two intoxicated Irishmen laid them
selves out for nap, on the track of the Fitch
burg railroad, near the Fresh Pond, on Tues
day. A train that came along relieved one of
them of leg, and gave the other shaking
up that ought to operate as an admonition to
him to keep sober on or off the track in future.
The one that was injured the worst has since
died. His name was VIM. Halves.
The,proprietors Of the New York Tri.
bune have been prosecuted by Capt. Thatch-
er for an alleged libelous publication, which
appeared in the tribune as telegraphic COM
! Inuu1callOn uOn DoStOll, ana the case came
before the sheriff and jury day or two
since. The defendants suffered the case to 90
by default, and the jury assessed the damages
at $3.50. Several suits of a similar character
are pending against other N. Y. dalies.
The Baptist denomination in New
England are said to contemplate the establish
ment of Female Seminary of the highest or
der, to be located in the western part of this
State, and to that end several Baptist gentle
men have purchased the homestead of the late
DIR. Timothy Childs, at Pittsfeld, known as
"Jubilee Hill, and embracing nearly one hum
dred acres. The sum paid was twenty-five
thousand dollars.
Letters from various sources, at WASH
ington, indicate the probable rejection by the
Senate of the Gadsden Treaty. Whatever may
be its other merits, the excessive price propos-
ed for cession of useless Mexican territory;
is sufficient ground for its rejection.
Fifteen hundred persons were present
at the "consecration" of new synagogue by
the "Holy Congregation of the House of Is
rael," in New York, on Sunday, April I'd.