Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-07
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Mackerel are being seized in great
numbers along the southern coast OF Nova
Scotia. Every little creek aud bay from Cape
Sable to Halifax is OVERLOOKING with them.-
They are taken i'll nets, from one hundred to
six hundred barrels being secured at single
draught Men, women, and children are en-
ployed day and night touring" them, yet the
whole atmosphere is ''oderous'' with the
stencil Of those impossible to be taken care Of
So says the Belfast Age.
1t is proposed to erect a gigantic
statue of Shakespeare in London. 1t is con-
templated 20 be of cast iron, and one hum
dree feet high. There are to be three floors,
the sides Of which, it is proposed, shall DO
adorned with bassi-relievi in cast iron, rep
resenung all the chief scenes III the plays Of
the great dramatist. Light is to be admitted
through the eyes and the top.of the head, and
also through openings in the drapery of the
statue. The Regents Park, or the top of
Primrose Hill, are suggested as fitting spots
for its elevation.
One of the greatest inventions for
cutting slaves out of solid blocks of timber
that cannot be split, is the use of cotton wood,
hitherto considered one of the most worthless
yet common trees in the West The wood is
sweeter and sufficiently strong for -four bar
rels and all dry casks. 1t is considerably
used in the neighborhood Of Alton, Ill.
On Monday evening, Mr.. Nicholas
Malone, a contractor ON the Pennsylvania
Railroad, was robbed at the American Hotel,
Philadelphia of a carpet bag containing $4-
900. Mr.. Malone left the carpet bag in the
public room, when genteelly dressed young
man, partially intoxicated, claimed it, and
carried it off,
The extensive peach orchards in the
vicinity of Delaware city, containing over
1000 acres, will this year scarcely supply the
families of the owners with fruit enough for
their own use. Peach orchards only ten
miles distant, however, never gave promise of
more abundant yield
Mr.. James Burnham, of Middletown,
Conn, last week, with his whole family-a
wife and two children-all sickened, died, and
were buried within a period Of forty eight
hours. Disease, the Cholera.
The name of Edward Crane has been
taken from the engine formerly known by
that eognomen ON the New York and Boston
Central Railroad.
Edward Crane, it is said, was the chief
marshal of the delegation of 500 enthusiastic
young men, who went ON to Baltimore, i'll
1852, from Boston, with band of music. sew
eral banners, and blue and white rosettes OIL
their coats, to get Mr.. Webster nominated for
President.
In the House of Representatives Mr..
Upham presented the petition of L. P. Rich
ardson, Mayor, the Aldermen, members of the
Common Council, and citizens $50 in num-
ber-of Lynn, praying for the repeal of the
fugitive slave law. Referred.
There is a man in Littleton, named
Henry D. Kimball, who is fair specimen of
a Yankee giant. He is six feet eleven inches
in height, and weighs 800 lbs.
During a recent visit made to the Liv-
erpool Union Bank, Mr.. Hobbs, the celebra-
ted American lock maker, picked the princi-
pal lock on the door of the strong room in
lew minutes.
The population of Ireland, according
to late returns is less than 1000, 900, of which
100000 are Protestants.
There are one hundred and eleven
Episcopal clergymen residents of New York
city, Brooklyn and Williamsburg.
Nineteen hundred dogs have been
slaughtered in New York within the past
four weeks.
Thomas D. Washington, granddaughter
of Gen. Washington, died in Albany on
Thursday evening. He was resident Of JEFF
ferson county, Va, and his remains went
South on Friday morning.