Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-28


in Sunderland they average "a tons per an
mum.
The screw steam frigate Niagara,
building at Brooklyn Navy Yard, is to be the
largest ship in the world. Her tonnage will
be 5000; extreme length $40 feet; breadth 55
load line 1913; depth Of hold, 81. There are
three decks besides the orlop. The armament
will consist of II eleven inch pivot guns to
carry 10 ID. 81 ot and a charge of 10 lbs. of
powder. She is to be full ship rugged, her
mainmast being Ill feet long, and feet
inches in diameter; the main yard will be 55
feet, and the mizzen spanker boom 81 feet
The Niagara is constructed wholly Of live oak,
Congress appropriated one million of dollars
for her construction, but her cost, 1t is thought,
will not be over 100000.
The Know Nothing lodge at Bath,
Me-. sunk their funds by an operation not
known to fnanciers. AS the story goes, one
of the moml ers, acting as treasurer, had, some
time since, the sum Of one hundred and fifty
dollars in his hands, the property of the lodge,
the which he deposited, subject to his own
order only. Since the deposit, the member
has been discharged from the order in a very
summary manner, and was not allowed time
to adjust his accounts. He is now at large,
with the $3.50. The lodge, having no legal
claim upon him, and having lost the opportu.
nifty to discipline him, are in quandary how
| to recover their funds.
The Lowell Advertiser of Friday last,
says that William George, young man, IS
| years Of age, and a student at Norwich, Vt,
whilst engaged on Thursday, in shooting mt a
mark with rifle, at his residence in North
| Chelmsford and when getting over a fence,
accidentally discharged his rifle. The ball Ell.
tered his forehead, causing almost instant
| death.
Barnum announces that no black ba-
bies will be admitted into the cattle show Of
| infants, or compete fol the prizes offered The
/ Boston 44tiaS asks the Wooley Horse man to
make an exception in favor of yellow babies,
and thus permit the great State of Virginia to
exhibit her staple production!
The editor Of the New Orleans Pic.
ayune dined on green corn, full! grown and
| full grained and of delicious sweet flavor, the
l6th.-Ihe goth, the ice in Black Rock har-
Dor. lake Eue, became so closely packed that
several persons crossed and re-crossed upon
! it. thing not known to have before happen
ed at this season Of The year.
A reduction Of house rents is said to
| law tftNN'' lJ4t'CG III new LNih cltY. Inc
! first OF May was moving day. and in anticipa-
tion Of it tenants made demands for reduct-
ion. Some Of the property owners consented,
and the remainder, it is said, viii have to fol-
low their example.
A young, handsome and well educat-
! ed lady in Maine, who some ten years since
married Chippewa Indian, causing deal Of
| talk at the time, now resides with her hus.
/ hn,I IN, I u L II
| live in good style and have the comforts of
civilization about them. Her husband grad
uated from Hamilton Callege, New York
1t is said that the French dramatists
have received orders to make as far as posi-
! bic, all their villains Russians. Hall a cen.
fury ago, the stupsndous crimes which are
nightly done in theaterB used to be imposed
on the unfortunate English. But SO wags the
world.
OF all the articles of food potatoes
have the widest range in price. The oscilla-
ton in -four and corn is thought to be great
when their price is doubled but potatoes, in
a season when they are scarce, are not unfTe.
quently six times the price they are in plen-
tiful year.
MIR. Cough, the temperance lecturer,
is about to return to America, in consequences
of i'll health He intends to return to Great
Britain nj xt year, and remain there five years,
prosecuting the work to which he has devoted
his life and energies.
The bee" says it is reported that
"fcw of the surviving members of the late
Wing party have promised the office Of Gov.
ernor Of Massachusetts t. David Wilder, Jr.,
of Brookline, if he WIN Drvan opus -1-@aer-
can party"
Eye-witnesses of the late fearful whirl-
wind, now in Chicago, report still more loss of
life and destruction Of property, and state that
the families who suffered byit, were in tear-
full state of restitution and misery.
| fort scout, IN hanzas IerrCory, Win
all tho fixtures, was sold lately for &c. 900. 1t
cost the United States Government not long
since, the handsome amount Of $4,000.
Josiah Shaw, Esq, of Ilaydenville,
Mass, died lately at the age of 68 He was
strong temperance man, and u member of the
Free Soil County Committee.
In the three European steamers which
sailed from New y York. last week, there were
over 1--WE hundred cabin passengers, mostly
tourists in Europe for the summer.
The Legislature Of New Hampshire,
will assemble on Wednesday, June g. The
session will be one of much importance, as
two United States Senators are to be chosen.
The lump of silver ore, brought to
Detroit, Of which 70 per cent was pure silver,
weighed 90 poaqas, instead Of tons, as stated
in some Of the papers.
Some Cambridge students arrested in
Boston, for drur kennoss and assaulting an Of
hcer, have been expelled from the college
A freight train, ola l44 cars, 81 Of
which were loaded with cattle, LETT Buffalo for
the east, saturday, dawn by Z locomotives.
During period of 1873 years, the first
born Of tho Austrian Royal family, has al.
ways been girl.
Hay sold in New York, Tuesday, for
$1,000 per ton.
Finn, the welI-known comedhn, when
playing "paul pry," offered himsef to Ph@-
be- personated by Mrs. Herring. /" Why"
said he, nothing is moro naturalthan that
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