Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-18

The statistics of last years New York
cattle market, shows that 10000 cattle were
consumed, valued at $40. 78O, 900 and 47O, 600
sheep and lambs, valued at 50, $50 ,0O0,-tota
value, Sl3, 365, 900. This shows that 1000
persons in that city yearly consume 2O5 cattle
and 533 sheep. Making basis Of these facts,
the town POPULATION of the United States yearly
consumes ST. 800, 600 worth Of animals, COM
pose $40, 900, 900 worth of beeves, 81, SOC, 900
of sheep and lambs, and 1000, 900 Of hogs !;
while if we add TO this aggregate the picked
beef salt, barrels, labor used i'll packing pork,
and the value of wool sold from sheep, we find
yearly commerce in animals amounting to
100000, 900.
A feet of Chinese piratical iunks at,
tackled the American steamer Queen, off Can
ton, Nov. 20, and after three hours firing
obliged her to retreat. The assistance of the
British ship Encounter was afterwards OBJ.
tanned, and twenty-nne of the junks sunk,
and their crews either destroyed or driven to
the hills. Previous to this action, the pirates
had become very bold, entering and robblng
vessels openly in sight of the U. S. steamer
Macedonian, stationed there for the protection
of American commerce. The pirates all wear
the badge of the revolutionary army.
The Massachusetts Legislature is not
the only place where verdant representatives
are found, as New Hampshire certailly has
one who coming into Concord from the north
upon the top of stage coach, mistook the
massive walls of the prison for those of the
state house, and with perfect noncha1ence said
to the driver, "seatin there for me- l, spose,"
an received and affirmative answer from Jehu
Arriving soon at the state house, the verdant
member, with considerable uneasiness, began
to guess that he had spoken for a seat in the
wrong place.
Several Lowell sportsmen have lately
returned from brief deer hunting soiourn in
the vicinity of Moosehead Lake, Maine The
amateurs enjoyed themselves encamping with
the log-cutters, tracking the deer in snow
three feet deep, and found great sport in kill.
ing sometimes dozen a day; but their fun is
over for, by a recent law of that State, heavy
penalty is imposed for killing deer after the
10th inst One gentleman brought home
with him about 400 pounds of venison.
A Boston correspondent of the Dover
IN. H. Enquirer, says that in the race for
speaker of the Massachusetts House of Rep
resentatiyes, some OF the country members
declared they would not vote for the wearer
OF moustaches anyhow, and that one of that
prescribed class hearing that remark, appeared
the next day with a clean upper lip, though
he had worn and diligently cultivated that
appendage Ior some time. But, alas, all in
vain
Benlah Allen of Grafton, N. Y, has
been arrested for the murder of Elijah Smith
who was killed during the anti rent excite
ment in December, 1914. The information
which led to his arrest was given by man
with whom hehad some dispute, and though
the murder TRANSFERRED ten years ago, there are
persons enough knowing the facts to giyesuf-
ticient evidence in the case.
II. L. Allen of North Branford, dis
covered couple of large grey eagles tearing
apart the carcass Of pig, one day last week,
and taking his gun he shot one of them meas
urng seven and half feet from tip to tip
By fixing rude trap he got the other in linn
DO the next morning. and OH approaching, the
bird released itself and attacked him, hut after a
serious struggle which MIR. A. says kept him
unusually busy he was secured alive.
An Oregon widow thus writes her ex-
periences during her sojourn on the Pacific
coast: al have indeed been most unfortunate;
both of my arms are slightly palsied, each Of
my legs have been broken, aud my health is
generally bad; have had four husbands in
my time, but they all up and died, poor things;
and had four yoke of oxen, and the cussed
Indians stole and eat them"
The Evansville, (Ind) Journal, says
that an old gentleman aged 65 years was mar
ried few days ago, in Knox county, in that
State, to his Sirh wife, and he has married
only fue women. His first wife is his last
wife, aud she is now in her 45th year. She
has been married lines, and her first hus-