Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-04-24
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late duke of Cambridge, who had habit of
responding with peculiar heartiness to any
congenial sentiment uttered in public meet
ings, and even in church service During
very dry season, as prayer for rain was be-
ing soemnly read by the minister, his royal
highness called out, in the emphatic and reit-
erative style of his illustrious house" By all
means, by all means, by all means p then adj
ded in lower but still distinct tone, s',We
shall not have rain, however, till the wind
changes
The Windsor &c. W. Voice of the
Fugitive reports three new arrivals via I'm
foreground Railway. Henry Street from Ma
ryland, and Henry Gibson and David Pic
quette from Missouri. These gentlemen de-
sire their SO called masters to know that they
have arrived safely, but regret the rash ex-
penditure that was gone into by advertising
them.
Gerrit Smith announces that DR. Beau
mont of Ohio, has manumitted a family of
slaves which he owned, and which lived in
Washington. Mr.. S. had the pleasure of
presenting them with the deed Of manumis-
sion.
The man who was charged with cleo
tricity has been acquitted.
Two thousand dollars in money, agold
watch and walking cane were stolen from the
house of DR.. Henry Gray, at White Creek,
Washington county, N. Y, on Sunday night.
The powder mills of Fairbanks e.
Connolly, five miles from Rochester, N. Y,
exploded last Wednesday night, with terrific
report, which shook the whole city. No lives
were lost. Damage $4,000.
The Committee of Conference Of the
two Houses, relative to the liquor law, have
agreed upon submitting the question to vote
by the people.
The assurances on property destroyed
by the recent fire in Charlestown, s.. c.,
amount to 1927 900.
The Botanical College in Macon, Ga,
was burned down, on Tuesday, together with
the stores occupied by Messrs. Punch, Walk
er and Messett Loss $4,000.
Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxville
Wing, recently advertised himself thus -
"The editor of this paper proposes to deliver
a discourse tomorrow at Temperance Hall, at
III o'clock, upon the subject Of human de-
pravity, proving his position by the Bible first,
and next by Knoxville !"
At Jackson, Ind, Mr.. Hise who had
just sold farm for 81 900 in ready cash, got
up in his sleep in the night time, and robbed
himself hiding a carpet sack, in which he had
previously deposited the money, in one place,
and the money in another. Great was his
CONSERVATION on awakening in the morning
and finding both sack and money gone. The
sack was found the next day, but no trace of
the money could be discovered. The next
night he arose again in his sleep, and had Just
taken the money from its hiding place, where
he had put it the night before, when he was
awakened by his wife, who had kept her eyes
open and followed him. His JOY and sur
prise on being awakened are supposed to have
been nicely balanced.
John T. Clark, the new engineer and
surveyor, reports that the enlargement of the
Erie canal will cost not less than $l2, 993, 70l,
46.
Mcdonald, therogue who obtained the
watches andjewelry in Albany, on the strength
Of his alleged intimate relations with Gov.
Seymour, has been sentenced to the State
Prison for five years.
The house, shed and corn-barn belong
ing to Mr.. Jacob Lawton, of Dumerston, VT,
together with four hundred bushels of grain,
were consumed by fire on Monday, 18th INST.
The snow was fifteen inches deep on
a level, in Cortland county, New York, on the
18th instant
Charles H. Brewer, late paying teller
of the Suffolk Bank, who has been in State
Prison some two years, ON a sentence of three
years Imprisonment has received pardon from
the Executive.
Luke Cumusky was found in a dying
condition near the Post Office in Lee, on Sum
day, 18th, having been shockingly beaten
mn 4hab had i've
yet unknown. He died the same day He
was last seen on the previous evening in an
Irish rum-hole in the village.
The dead body of an infant was found
in the pond near the Lenox furnace, on Sum
day, 9th, having been thrown there by its
mother, an Irish girl, who has confessed the
deed and is now in jailto await her trial
The loss by the destruction of the iron
works at Lanesboro', through the supposed
agency Of an ineendiary, is nearly $4,000
insured $500 at Hartford. The establish
ment is to be Immediately rebuilt.
Rubin, who died recently in Paris,
left fortune of a million of dollars, the larg-
est, it is said, ever made by singer from his
profession.
New Music Horace Watson, the great
music dealer, has recently published the fol-
lowing music.
Homage to the noble commanders of the
Kilby, Antarctic, and Three Bells, Captains
Lowe, Stouffer, and Creighton. The wreck
Of the San Francisco. Dramatic and Descrip-
tive Scenery, for the Piano Forte; by Oscar
Comettant
Little Eva, Polka Mazurka. By Mrs. J. A.
Buxton.
love the fondly true. Duet, from the
Opera Hermion, H. C. Kortuem.
A World of Love at Home. Song, compos-
cd and arranged for the Piano Forte, by
Charlie G. Converse.
Angel Whispers, Song for Soprano or Tenor,
as sung by Mrs. Bostwick, by Auguste Cock y
Ell.
Gems from the Opera of Massaniello, Fam
tasus arranged by Oscar Comettant.
The Baltimore Clipper Valse, Julien.
The Poor Irish Boy, by Eliza Cook, music
by John Frazer, Esq.
The Rockaway Pavilion Polka, for the Piano
Forte by Philip Wagner.
Fairy Polka, for the Piano Forte, by G. w.
E. Frederick.
Barton's Favorite Polka, as played at Bur
toms Theatre, N. Y, by Charlie C. Converse