Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-14
At the Bellair market III Baltimore

mantilla and went off pretending she could
not be suited. She had not gone far however,
before the loss was discovered, ard the huck-
ster woman started IN pursuit of her, and in
the presence of a crowd of spectators, the lady
was made to bring forth the chicken from
under her mantilla. The infatuated huckster
woman seized the chicken by the leg, and
using it as club, applied it vigorously to the
head OF the lady, smashing her bonnet, tear.
ing her veil, greasing her mantilla, and bruis-
ing her person generally, until some kind
hearted person interfered, and the lady was
suffered to make her escape. The lady be-
longed to very respectable family, but UNI
fortunately was born with a stealing mania.
In the Boston police court, on Mon.
day, Walter Whitney, a lad of l6, was sent
to the House of Industry. as a common va
grant, on his own complaint. The court sem
fenced him for months, but he begged that
he might have longer term as he did not
like tn come out in cold weather, whereapon
the court gave him months, greatly to his
satisfaction.
According to the journal de Peters
bourg, there passed, on September ID, through
Mini. Novogorod, celebrated for its annual
fairsl transport of gold from the mines of
Altai, on its way to the capital. The transport
contained about 1900 pounds of pure gold
worth $5,000,000, if we estimate pound of
gold at $500.
The Danville IVA } Republican states,
that on thursday last the citizens of that town
were thrown into the greatest excitement, on
learning that one Mathew Weightman had
committed brutal assault, with stick, upon
two ladies. They accordingly rode him round
town on rail- ducked him in the canal, and
then committee him to Jail.
On Saturday last, Thos. Brown, who,
10 years ago, graduated with the highest hon
ors from one of the first colleges III the coun-
try, was found dead in school house, in
Newark, N. j., having fallen victim 10 the
demon lntemperance. He has left wife,
lady of the highest attainments, and l or 2
children.
William A. Jackson was tried at St.
Louis last week for the murder Of J. b. Lud-
low, and the jury returned verdict of not
guilty. The result was received with much
establishment, which was not lessened when
Immediately after the rendering of the verdict
jackson invited the jury around to his cell to
take something to drink, and they ,oent.
By the reports which were read at the
late meeting of the Vermont Bible Society, it
appeared that i'll Essex county, the number
of families destitute OF the Bible was found
to be 10 per cent of the whole in Caledonia
about per cent, and in Franklin about Is
per cent, the latter having a large French
population, chiefly Roman Catholic.
A wild cat about three feet in length
was killed in Andover few days, by Frank
lin Clark, boy l years old, aided by his dog.
The dog freed the animal, and then the boy
ran for his ,un, and let his wildness have it
right in his face and eyes. He came down
with broken leg, and was finished by the
boy and his assistant.
The storm of last week was the most
terrific and destructive of property, ever
known upon the lakes. More property was
ahoat on the lakes than ever before known at
so late period. A large number of vessels
are known to be lost, and many more remain
to be heard from.
A shock of an earthquake was dis
tinctly felt at Newburyport, Greenland, N.
H., and Portsmouth, on Sunday night last,
at half past II o'clock. The houses were
perceptibly shaken, and it is said that in some,
crockery ware was thrown from the shelves.
The sales of the agent appointed in
Bridgeport, Ct, to dispose of spirituous Ii
quors, amounted in three months to $47l8, of
which $46l was for medicinal purposes-and
this in place Of 1860 inhabitants! Bridge
port must be very sickly locality
A gang of robbers and murderers, who
have committed many crimes in Canada, re-
Gently broke into a house at Gait, Canada
West, and robbed it of money and valuables.
A traveller ON the road was fired ON by the
robbers.
The Albany Evening Journal says -
"The Know Nothings will find candidates
among their Silver Grey allies for everything
going, from the Presidency to the seediest kind
of old Clothes"
Yates, who was indicted for perjury,
as juryman in the Ward case, has been ac-
quilted. The cases against the other jury
men, indicted for the same offence, have been
dismissed.
The Rev. John Htmphry, A. M,
professor elect of moral philosophy in Hamil-
ton college, and the college chaplain, died on
Saturday, the I'd inst, at the residence of his
father, in Pittsheld.
In the Court of Common Pleas at N.
Bedford, Peleg Slocum has recovered 1892
of Benz. Lincoln. the amount of note given
by defendant in 1922, payable when said de-
PENDANT should be able to iquidate the same.
One hundred and sixty of the compat-
riots of Count Boulbon have been released
by Santa Auna as mark of esteem for Louis
Napoleon.
Five civil judges, in Mexico, have
been suspended from their offices, in conse-
qaence of making disrespectful communica-
tons to the President.
They pull murdered man out of the
Mississippi, at New Orleans, about every day.
The number washed into the Gulf of Mexico
is hot counted.
Upwards of three thousand mechanics are
now without employment in the city of New
ark, and the greatest destitution prevails among
them.
In New York, on Sunday night, Mi
chael Cafferty was stabbed in the neck, and
James Phillips was knocked down with
slung shot,
Hon Edward Everett has accepted an
invitation to deliver the next Fourth of July
Grafton in Dorchester-his native town.
Five propellers, laden with 5000 tons
of merchandise, bound to Detroit, are frozen
i'll at Cleveland.
The Reciprocity bill was passed, on
Monday, by the House of Assembly of Nova
Scotia, 81 to 10.
The Police Department of New York
numbers $3.50 men, and costs almost S ,O00,-
600 per year.
LONGEVITY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ELSE
wHERE.-The British census, just published,
uives saveral ron, orb ahle iuctanc Goa Of IoDrov;