Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-24


window of her own house, narrowly escaped
being shot by a blundering sportsman
that is the word, we believe who was trying
to kill poor robin. Some of the shot passed
through the window and came very near her.
We suppose it was an accident, but we do not
see why man who can take pleasure III
shooting robin should feel great compunc-
ton in firing at woman. Such fellows
should be looked after.-Prov. Jour.
A bee-hiving extraordinary came off
in Houston, Texas, a few days since. The
swarm was passing over a train of cotton wag-
ons, when they became confused by the noise
and descended, choosing rs a settling place
the hat of the WAGNER. on which they piled
up after the style of an old grenaders bear
skin. The hat was then removed to a wagon
and conveyed six or eight miles, and the bees
securely hived.
The abolition of the Newspaper Stamp has
already begun to yield fruit Cheap papers of
all descriptions are projected. Charles Knight
will publish weekly paper to be called
Charles Knights Town and Country paper
and flaming announcement is made of a new
illustrated paper, to be called the Illustrated
Times, employing frst-rate editorial and ar
tistic TALENT and containing sixteen pages as
large as the Illustrated News, and all for two
pence.
The editor ofthe Charlestown Adver-
tlser, IN some remarks on the Boston press,
says that, ''snce the Commonwealth was
started, and up to the present date of the
Telegraph, the paper has probably sunk $780,
600; since the Chronicle was started it has
sunk about 100000, but as we have been
informed, is now paying, and there is every
prospect ofprosperity.
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The last chapter in the Hiss case was
finished Wednesday forenoon-and we hope
the matter is now ended-Judge Shaw after
hearing arguments pro and con on the motion
TO discharge Mr.. Hiss on the habeas corpus,
decided that Mr. Hiss was not a member of
the House at the time of his arrest, and that
therefore he could not claim the privilege of
exemption from arrest.
The Common Council of New Bed
ford, on Monday evening, passed resolutions
pledging the aid and cooperation of that
body to the Mayor, in the enforcement of the
liquor law, and authorizing him to draw his
warrant on the treasury for such sums as may
be necessary to execute the law.
Mr.. Thomas r.. Whitney, member of
Congress from New York, and a leading man
amongst the Know Nothugs, addresses let
ter to Henry A. Wise Of Virginia, rebuki
him for his assertion that the Know Nothing
party at the North are Free Sellers and Abo.
htlonlsts, and asserting that it is perfectly
neutral on the question of slavery.
grand experiment in cheap railway trav.
cling is now being carried. oil between Edin.
burgh and Glasgow. There are two lines
one about forty -four miles, the other sixty
the passengers are carried the whole way for
slxpence az cents.) Both lines are paving
Ibnra1lv--unpph batfor h, Al.
system of high prices.
The eight dishonest Western railroad
employees were arraigned in the Springfield
Pohee Court, on Thursday, the 18th instant,
for stealing goods from freight trains. The
thelts have been carried on about three months
and the larcenies range from $40 to Sl55.-
One of the accused had in his possession 1913
worth of stolen jewelry.
The Legislature does not seem to get
fairly to work yet. ''Large bodies move slow"
"Sam fell down and broke his crown in
Massachusetts,, and, perhaps, he has conclud-
ed 1t best to feel his ,cay carefully through
Connecticut-Neeo Hauea Reqtster.
Two or three thousand cords of hard
wood, piled near the track of the Portsmouth
Railroad, in Hookset, were DESTROYED by fire
on the 2lst inst. About fifteen hundred cords
were the property OF the Concord Railroad.
Broom corn is native of India, and
was introduced into this country by DR.. Ben
JamiE Franklin, who found seed in an i'm
ported whisk, and planted it; and from this
small beginning arose this valuable product
of industry.
A counterfeit double eagle is in cir
culation, valued at $500 1t may be de.
tected by an error in the small raised letters
on the bottom of the head, where gold is
made "ood."
DR. Browne, of Ipswich, sufferer by
the Norwalk tragedy on the New Haven II.
Road, obtained a verdict in the Supreme Court
for Essex, on Saturday, for $4,000 damages.
Henry c. Bufum, printer, ran
around Boston Common, one mile and an
eighth, in six minutes and forty seconds. A
fast printer; he must have spaced wide.
There are from 1000 to 1900 Chinese
in New York.