Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-11-03
A Thrilling Spectacle was witnessed

lately at the Clifton geological Gardens, Sher-
borne, England, in the terrific attempt of
lady, Signora Pauline Violante, to ascend a
rope ninety feet high and three hundred feet
long. "At about nine OF clock in the evening,
Madame Violante," says the London Court
Journal, commenced the ascent but it was
soon very perceptible that the rope was not
tight enough to be safe. She, however, after
one or two attempts, reached almost the mid
die of the rope; but at that part it oscillated
so violently that, finding her balance gone, she
threw away her pole, fell across the rope, and
luckily succeeded in graspng it with her
hands, and chung in mid air, amid the screams
of the assembled thousands joined to her own
piercing cries for help. For ten or fifteen min
utes she thus chung helplessly by her hands
and feet, incapable of dragging herself for
ward or backward, so as to reach a supporter,
until at length a very long ladder having been
placed upright against the rope, she was res
cued from her perilous position, and led away
in fainting condition.
A military company in Jersey City,
composed of Irish Catholics, having ANNOUNCE
ed ball, at which Col. Doheny and Mr..
Meagher, and perhaps John Mitchell, would
be present. the whole affair was denounced on
Sunday from the altar of the Catholic church,
by the priest and his curate. John MitchelPs
Citizen was named as one of the worst enc
mics of the Pope. Col. Doheny's military
title was very lightly spoken of and the whole
party of Young Irelanders came in for severe
denunciation.
Mrs. Sarah E. Newell, lady of great
worth, as well as a general favorte, has been
removed from the office of postmaster in Chel-
sea, to make room for one of Caleb Cushings
menials who answers to the name of Young,
Gideon w. Young, and who has enjoyed an
Office in the Boston custom house eight out of
the last ten years.
Dexter Pike, of New Salem, was found
dead on Friday last in a pasture near his
house. He had been to the mill the evening
before, aud was carrying bag of meal home.
He was three or four rods from his meal when
found, face down. The cause of his death
was probably disease of the heart. He was
aboutsixty years of age.
1t is computed that there will be TWEEN
ty-one thousand miles of railroad in the Unit
ed States on the first day of January next.
The longest railroad upon the surface of the
globe is the Illinois Central, which is 73I
miles in length, and is rapidly approaching
completion.
Some of the revenue officers in New
York found upon the person of Mr.. Tomp-
kins, second officer of the steamship Pacific,
upon her arrival on Tuesday, eighteen pack
ages of valuable watch movements, each
package containing six, the estimated value
of the whole being between $4,000 and $4,000.
The Albany Argus, one of the oldest,
truest and blueist of the democratic journals
of the country, says of the present National
Administration, that it is i" the most corrupt
and oh a.
try"
The loss by the recent great fire at
Cleveland, Ohio, will not exceed $3.50, 900
insurance on buildings $4,000; ON goods
$4,000. The Eassern Insurance Compa.
MES lose from $4l, 900 to 100000.
The New York Tribune publishes an
extratt written by Daniel Ullman in the AL
bum of one of his classmates at Yale College,
August l, 1888. 1t is signed "Danel I'LL
man, Calcutta, Bengal, Asia"
Steamship Africa, of the Cunard line,
sailed from New York Friday for Liverpool,
with 81 passengers and about $913,OOO in
specie. Among her passengers were Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Grigg, of Boston, and Mr.. Geo. NJ.
Prentss, of this city.
Henry Portman, the man in Coving-
ton, KY, who threw down the boy Easton,
and killed him by stamping upon his head,
has been let off with ten years in State Prison
for manslaughter.
The proprietor Of the gold placer in
Plymouth, VT, says that 5000 per day can be
realized there, with one washing machine.
A farmer named Nc Donald, in the
township of Goderich, Canada, succeeded in
ka,, I1o al,
shot them all.
Mr.. Terry McMann, of Hartford, CT,
while trying to shoot black snake few days
since, shot himself and died on Saturday, the
2Sth.