Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-03-27

modesty which sometimes affects aspiring
| young men, have past series of resolutions
denouncing the overseers of the University for
having "ar5itrarily refused TO confirm the APP
pointment of E. 6. Loring; therefore, be it
resolved BY us, members of the Dane law
school, &C." They then go on to speak in
high terms of Mr.. Loring, and close by resolv-
ing that his rejection is sanctioned neither
by justice nor by wise policy" The board of
overseers will please consider themselves ex-
tinguished.
There are living in the southwest part
Rhode Island, all in good health. ten persons,
the children OF the same parents, and the
only children they ever had whose united
ages amount to III years, in the following
order-S1, so, II, IS, 70, 70, 6S, So, aud S..
Their name is Tucker, and they belong to
one of the most numerous families in that
State. The family have, for a great many
| years, occupied tract of land in the west
ern part of South Kingstown, known as
| Tuckertown.
The celebrated trotting mare Lady
! Suffolk, owned by David Hill of Brigport \.
| y, has passed from the turf to resting place
! beneath it. She was the first horse that ever
trotted a mile in minutes and 26 Sec, which
feat has never been excelled but once and
/ luSlt OilN w OllS nail d seCOllut anu SQe ulSu
| on the eth at the advanced age of 2S Bar
mum, it is said, has paid $1,000 for her skim
Mr.. Hill, late owner of the above, has recent
~ sold to a gentleman from California, a
| Morgan colt for $4,000.
1t is stated, and we believe correctly,
that Labrador, with population of 10000
inhabitants, has neither governor, mag
istrate, constable nor lawyer; yet violence
and IiSor6ar
fact highly creditable to their morals. Their
chief occupation is hunting and fishing, the
produce Of which is sold chiefly to the traders
from the United. States, from whom they re-
eeive the most of their supplies.
The heirs of John Lawrence, of w at
ertown, TO the number of about 800, met in
Boston on Thursday, to see about a nice little
fortune of one hundred and twenty five mil
lions of dollars, said to be decreed to them by
the English Court of Chancery. A committee
of ways and means was appointed, and an
agent is to go out in the next steamer to look
after the matter.
A memorial is in circulation in North
Carolina, for a change in the laws regulating
the slave system. The following reforms are
proposed: The introduction of marriage among
slaves, with legal guaranty for its perpetuity
VIC VI i1lG tie Vi ana CllIu
and the instruction of slaves in reading and
writing.
Steamers are arriving at St. Louis from
the Upper Mississippi Missouri, and Illinois
rivers, laden with produce, which has accu-
INFLATED in vast quantities. Boats from the
Ohio river are crowded with emigrants for
kanzas and Nebraska. At least 1000 persons
arrived on the 10Th inst
On Saturday afternoon, as James Oil
yer, Esq, an esteemed citizen of Lynn, was
crossing Exchange street near the depot in
that city, he was knocked down and run over
by horse and wagon. The wheels passe
over his head, bruising him very severely, but
fortunately breaking no bones.
A suit, involving the town of Column
bia, Tenn, and adjoining property, has lately
been decided by the Supreme Court of Ten
nessee in favor Of the plaintiffs, and against
the citizens of Columbia. The property is es-
timated to be worth from four to five millions
Of dollars.
The N. Y. Independent states that one
ofits subscribers, who was in the employment
OF the Government, reluctantly discontinued
his subscription to that paper, from the order
of superiors, 1t being a forbidden article to the
employees Of the Government.
An editor "out West" (of course)
said that he had hoped to be able to present a
marriage and death as original matter for his
columns, but, unfortunately, thaw broke up
the wedding, and the doctor got sick, and the
patient recovered.
John Hunt, of Vernon, VT, recently
sold to Peleg Adams OF Greenfield, Mass,
seventeen fat cattle, ten of which averaged
= Il. II. :.
Of $3.50.
A gold mine, said to have been discov-
cred in Worcester county, Md, has. according
to the S,aoao Hill Herald, produced another
lump of ore, weighing six ounces, and SEEM
ingly richer than the first one.
The Wisconsin Assembly has passed
the bill ''To prevent the use of jails or pris-
ons of that State for combining persons under
the Fugitive Slave Law of 1885," by the fol-
lowing vote Yeas A, nays %.