Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-21

man. 1t is quite true that he has quilted the
palatial residence at Albert Gate, Knights
bridge, at which, in his reign of railwayism
aristocracry he used to entertain the arstoera-
cy of England-eager to worship the man of
gold-bat he prudently parted with that,
sometime ago, to Count Walewski, the
French ambassador, Clearing good round
sum by the bargain and now lives, his iron
diadem laid aside, in Half Moon street, like
an ordinary mortal. But he has enormous
wealth yet. He has sat in Parliament for the
borough of Sunderland, since September 1915,
and, though opposed at each election, (three,)
since then has always been returned at the
head OF the roll by long chalk. He contin-
ues magistrate of York city, Cof which he has
thrice been lord mayor,) Of the east and north
rdlngs of Yorkshire, and of Durham-of
which last county he is deputy lieutenant
He retains the immense landed property cali
ed Newly Park, in the north of Yorkshire,
and has large sums invested in shares in the
Great Western, London, and North Western,
and other paying railways. He has made
very extensive purchases of land in Ireland,
under the encountered estates act, and spent
$4,000 in vain effort to get his son returned
TO parliament for an Irish borough. suppose
he is worth some f250,00
The trial Of William Arrison, for the
murder of Isaac Allison and his wife, is still
pending before the criminal court at Cincin-
natl. The testimony bears hard upon the &C.
cuSed. The man who made the fatal torpedo
box identifies Arrison as the one who employ.
ed him, and the box presented as the one
made. Another witness Identifies Arrison as
the man who, after the box was made, called
to have it altered the witness picked out the
very piece of the box in court, which Arrison
himself tried to fix, but not succeeding, said,
"Damn the thing, l wish you would fix !"
and i'll answer to the question at the time by
the witness as to what the box was for, Arri-
son replied, ASK me no questions and I'll
tell you no lies An expert pronounced
documents known to have been written bv
Arrison, and the letter recei we'd at the Cincin-
natl post office from Iowa which led to Ami
sons detection, as the writing OF the same
man. A young man also swears that Arrison
is the one who got witness to write the name
of /" Mr.. Allison, (the murdered mani Marine
Hospital, corner of Western Row and Long
worth, on card. which card was produced
in court, and was attached to the fatal box.
A locomotive engine, named the Clare
mont, exploded on Tuesday, near West Leba.
non, n. H., slightly iniuring the engineer, J.
q. Moore, and scalding and otherwise injur-
ing fireman named David Warren, who will,
however, probably recover. The engine was
blown to atoms, and scattered in alldirectons.
The windows of house in the immediate Vi
cinlty were completely demolished. The ex-
plosion shook the buildings at the distance of
half mile.
Tuesday forenoon, Mr.. VIM. Winter,
editor Of the Ladies E1amiter, published in
Boston and Worcester, while standing in
Broadway, N. Y, watching military com
pany which was passing, had the breast pock
ct of his coat, i'll which was a purse contain
ing over six hundred dollars in gold coin and
bank bills, cut entirely out by some light fin
gered operator. who escaped with his booty
without detection.
A mesmeric physician in New York
sued husband for services rendered the wife |
IN his absence, and the Supreme Court say |
9hat in the 8th act of Cushing's Reports is
their opinion in the case, viz /: that the law
does not recognize the dreams, visions or reve- |
lations of a woman in mesneric sleep as me- |
cessaries for wife, for which the husband, |
without his consent, can be made to paw.
On Monday, can Irish woman applied !
at the Webster Bank in Boston, for gold for
a few small bills on that institution, which
she had drawn from the Savings Bank. When
she was retiring, gentleman who had seen
her exchange the pait er for gold, inquired why
she did So .Oh,' her reply, Il read in the
newspapers that Mr.. Webster died very poor,
and of course l cannot trust his bank"
AT the close of a fair held by the Free
Will Baptist Society in Manchester, N. H., a
few evenings since, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Da-
Wis. was asked whether dancing would be al
lowed His answer was, "No, for dancing
did no good, it was barbarous custom, and
the first Baptist of whom we have any ac-
count, lost his head by it." The audience
was satisfied with the reason,
A valuable improvement in the pro-
cess OF working butter, has been effected by
MIR. Ezekiel Gore of Vermont consisting in
the employment of an endless revolving sack
or bag, for containing and combining the but
ter, and conveying it to and between two flu
ted rollers, and through the water in the tub
or box as fast as the rollers operate upon it.
The vital knat oF the nervous system
is noe bigger in size than pins head. Upon
this tiny speck depends the life of the nerves,
which is the life of the animal. Whatever
portion of the nervous system remains attach
ed to it, lives; while that which is separated
Immediately dies.
Arrangements have been made by the
Colonization-Society to send the brig General
Pierce from Savannah on the Both December.
1t is expected that about one hundred emf
grants will embark, mostly from Georgia and
Tennessee.
The Wellsburg Herald expresses the
opinion that the Ohio River, above Wheeling;
is an Improbable one for steamboat men,
One half the year it is dried up, and the 9TH
er half frozen up.
In view of the great distress at pres
ent prevailing in New York. the Board of
Councilmen, Monday evening, adopted reso-
buttons appropriating $4,000 to the Associa
ton for the ameloration of the condition of
the poor.
Isaac Funk, of Bloomington, Mclean
county, Illinois, recently sold to Messrs
Hough, of Chicago, fourteen hundred head of
cattle, that would average seven hundred lbs,
for the sum Of sixty four thousand dollars.
1t is said that Mr. Sapp of Ohio, in
tends to introduce bill into Congress for the
reduction of the pay of members from So to
So day, as an offset to Mr.. Badgers propo-
sition on the other tack.
In the Municipal Court, at Boston ON
Tuesday, Cyrus Starkey, for having two liv-
ing wives, was sentenced to the State Prison
for five years.
Walter SCOTS son-in-law, Lockhart,
recently deceased, leaves no children, and the
family Of the great novelist, III direct descent,
is therefore extinct.
Francis Dorian, who was the gallant
third mate of the Arctic, went out as second
mate of the steamship Union to Hayre.