Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-28
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| the flames, and the fiery mass rushed towards
him so rapidly, that he was obliged to quit the
| wagon and fly for his life, saving only one of
his three horses, which was badly burned
| The other horses with the wagon and goods
| were destroyed. Mr.. Hunt barely escaped,
his shirt being burnt from his back, and his
face and hands blistered.
The Felix, sealing vessel, was lost
| in the ice on the frozen coast Of Greenland,
and three Of the crew, escaped from fearful
suiferings which killed twelve of their ship
mates, have returned to England. After
| leaving the ship they were six days on the
| ice, where they endured great hardships.-
| When they were rescued by sealing vessels
they were so badly frost bitten that one was
obliged to have both legs amputated near the
| thighs, another lost foot, and the third sew
eral toes. The surgical instruments were q
carpenters saw and a sealer's knife Not
withstanding their mutated condition, they
were quite hearty when they reached Eng
land.
DR.. Bigelow, of San Francisco, saw
fallen tree in that region, which he thinks
must have been five hundred feet in height.
From the base of the trunk to the point where
it was broken off, it measured three hundred
and ten feet-the remainder having been burnt
| by the Indians. 1t was one hundred and ten
feet in circumference at the base, and forty
feet in circumference at the broken end. No
one can deny that this is very big tree.
They are enforcing the Liquor Law in
| Connecticut with glorious JUNCTION. The war
has been carried into Brandford Point, which
has long been known as perfect nest of the
most venomous rum-jugs. Malachi Linsley,
! the keeper OF "public" down that way wa
" scotched," it not killed, to the amount 0
| 500, odd, and his stock of fre-water conhs-
Gated to the State.
Five of the States of the Union were
originally settled by Papists, viz Maryland.
Florida, Louisiana, Texas and California tho
whole northern frontier, from the mouth
the st. Lawrence to Fond du Lac, has eyei
| been exposed to the influence OF Popery from
| Canada, and most of the towns on that frontier
were settled by Papists; and yet in Maryland
there are about 500 Protestant churches to GA
Papal; Of l52 churches III Florida only are
Papal Louisiana has l23 Protestant and SO
Papal churches. Texas has but Is Papal
churches and III Protestant, while Protestant
influence is greatly predominant in California.
With the aid of moving machine,
Capt. Samuel Parsons, of Northampton, cut,
made and put into his barns, siXty-two loads
of hay, during the first week of July, COM
mencing on the Sd. besides moving for others
to the amount of $40, in the same time. The
whole was accomplished with what would be
equivalent to the labor of one man for thirty
eight days. He moved i'll one day, and in
less than nine hours, eleven acres, producing
from two to two and half tons per acres.-
Springfield RerUblican.
A countryman was passing along one
of the streets of Baltimore with his wagon
few days since, when one of his wheels came
off, and he discovered that a Inch pin was
gone. After searching for it some time, he
offered the boys congregated a shilling to find
it. They then joined in the search, and i'll
few minutes one Of them brought him what he
supposed to be the pin. Having adjusted the
wheel, he paid the shilling and started off,
but had not gone more tLan half block be-
fore wheel on the other side came off, when
he discovered that the young rascal had stolen
the pin from one of the other wheels to obtain
the reward.S
The destructive fire in Raynham
Woods still RACES, notwithstanding the efforts
made by the farmers to avert its progress. A
thousand acres of woodland have now been
burnt over, and the loss OF property is very
| large. Some valuable woodlands have been
burnt along the track of the Taunton Branch
Railroad near Norton. Large fires are raging
| at many points among the vast forests OF
| Northern New York, and much property in
woods, fences, and hay is being destroyed.
During the past year ! 10 houses, with
! 1000 rooms, have been built III Turin; and
this is attributed to the fact that the new con-
stitution tolerates religious liberty. While
every other Italian city is decaying, Turin is
| growing under the new impulses of Protest
ism. The Waldenses are about opening in
that city Protestant Temple, the first in Ita-
| ly, upon the very spot where the Dominicans
burnt the bodies OF the martyrs.
The cholera is still raging fearfully at
Barbados. 1t is estimated that 5000 victims
have fallen in the country parishes and 5000
| i'll st. Michaels. The population is only
! about l25, Oo0 In the island of Grenada there
were up to July 25th, 1000 deaths out of a
population of 10000!
Col. Clark, an Inspector at the Boston
Custom House, made seizure on Thursday
of 400 gallons of French brandy, worth $1,000
which had been brought in from Canada, over
the Fitchburg Road.
A son of Ex-Goy. Noble, of Indiana,
was swindled out of $685. and gold watch
and chain valued at $3.50 more, by the patent
safe game, and then robbed OF a breastpin
with twelve diamonds in it. and worth Sl25,
in New York on Wednesday.
The New Workers have a plan for
making the Crystal Palace into a city post
Office, first moving it down town, as it may be
at no great comparative expense. 1t is grand
and good idea, and that's the reason Uncle
Sam won't adopt it.
A party of burglars has been discov-
cred by the Philadelphia Police, consisting of
boys, some OF them not more than thirteen or
fourteen years Of age. One of them confessed
that tor some time past, he had belonged to
band for the purpose OF robbing houses
The New Bedford Standard saws that
the Harpers will ere long announce work
on the Mountain Scenery of Cape Cod, BY
Ills Honor, Lieut.. Gov. Plunkett.''
Julius Cesar Hannibal, giving an &C
count OF his sea voyage, says, CAN de passen-
gers was now heayin, and as if dat WASH t
enough, de captin gave orders for de ship to
heave too, AMI she hove too
The new gold dollar, which has Just
been prepared at the mint, is about the size of
i've cent piece, with all Indian head on one
side surrounded by the words united States.
On the other side is wreath of wheat, rice,
tobacco, &c.. surrounding the words i" One
Dollar-l854."
CATTLE SHows.-The following are the DAYS
appointed for the annual exhibitions of the
different Agricultural Societies in this State
1t will be seen that nearly all the exhibitions
continue for two days;
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