Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-12-08

Daniel Pratt has turned up in New
York, and has challenged George Law to a
public discussion.
B. E. Hale, formerly of Connecticut,
where he was noted for an Incorporate advo
cacy of temperance, is now editing the Be.
lott, Wis, Journal.
Within two or three weeks, 10000
barrels of -four have been purchased bv firm
IN Detroit for the British governm ent at an
average Of 1915 per barrel
Ricf ard Ward, an infant of four wears,
in New York, on Thursday, while PLAYING
with matches, set fire to his clothes, and was
burned to death.
One paper says that Senator Douglas
is better, and another that the condition OF his
health excites gloomy apprehensions at Wash
lngton. Fears, We suppose, are entertained
of his recovery.
Rachel, who got terribly sick at Phila-
delphia, as soon as it was ionnd out that she
didn't draw well there, recovered immeiiate-
ly Oh getting out of the neighborhood, and is
ON her way to Havana in tip top health.
The House of Mrs. Spelman on Palm
er Hill, Essex County, New York, was burn.
ed on Sunday morning, and three children,
from oneto nine years Of age, persisted in the
flames.
A Washington letter says that the RI
val delegates from Kanzas, Beeder and White
field, were prominent among the members,
but moved outside the bar. They are more
than common men. and will fight their re-
spectlve battles skilfully inch by inch.
A large number of mechanics. who
focked to the city of Norfolk on the subsid-
ence of the fever, i'll the expectation of ready
employment, are i'll great distress, being una
bic to procure employment or money enough
to get away with.
hree men were arraigned before the
Supreme Court CT Boston, OH Wednesday.
severally for the murder of their wives. In
the last case before the Cout for similar Of
fence the man was sent to prison for eighteen
months 1t is possible the crime may yet to
be quite common, if it is not SO already
During the brief existence of the
Navy Yard at Memphis, Tenn. from 1914 to
'46, it cost the government 1902. GIG, and
at its sale brought only SIS, 055, leay ing a
dead loss Of $l,047s $50. Besides this, $27,-
200 was paid in salaries to officers there.
A Virginia House of Delegates has
| oPEOAhtNN a SOlhlLielSG ~ pfONlQe the
adoption of more efectual measures to prevent
the escape of slaves, and to inquire into the
expediency of adopting retaliatory measures
against the Northern States.
According to the Newark Mercury,
George Law is making strenuous efforts to
buy up the entire Know Nothing order in N,
jersey. His agents are perambulating the
State well supplied with his checks and
copies Of his Life" Stockton is his great
competitor.
In the United States there are 12O-
000,OO of letters mailed annually, and $780,
600 900, RENTED in them. There are about
100000 that mis- carry every year. This is
moro than eight times as many in proportion
to the whole number, as mis- carry in England.
In 1890, under Franklin, the whole number
OF Post Offices was 70, now it is %, 900.
During the last season 80, 1899, 100 lbs.
Of tea were exported from Canton to Eng
land 5,705, 400 lbs. to Australia, and 81 ,O07,
ll5 lbs. to the Uuted States. Only 2,48l,-
600 lbs. were exported to Continental Europe.
| 5l,069 bales of silks were exported to Eng
land, and ,494 bales to the United States.
TH2 LIoN.-Leadworth Witt to test the ouaecat,o,s