Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-02
Mr.. s1MMs has thrown up his Iectur

reason "the singular odum which attends
his progress as a South Carolinian." He is
mistaken; no possible odIum attaches in the
North to South Carolinsan The fact of his
many engagements to lecture has shown IT,
He might praise his own State forever and
there would be no complaint: but when he
goes out Of his way to assail Mr. Sumner, and
peryerts the facts Of history in the attempt to
undervalue the North, he CERTAINLY has no
right to be surprised that people do not care
to hear him. We can get abuse cheaper than
by listening to a dull Providence
JOureal
The great fire, the other day, at 81.
Louis caught from the ends of ioist that
pierced the walls Of tie hues and we're d.
rectly exposed to the flames. This gross
care essness of construction resulted in the
loss OF about half million dollars. The steam
hire engine Of the city was SO rusted up that
1t could not be Used, and the apparatus of the
only hook and ladder company in the city was
covered up with tobacco hogsheads and lum-
Der and could not be extricated until after an
hour S labor st. Louis must do better than
this.
must give you one more funlet con-
corning little "four-yea old" friend of
mine. 1t seems that clergyman had been
staying for some time at his fathers house,
and on going away, called little Eddy to him,
and asked what he should give him for pres
emit Eddy, who had been brought up in the
tear of God, and had a great respect Tor g the
cloth, thought it was his duty to suggest
something of religious nature ; so he an
swered. hesitatingly: " Ill tbjnk should
like Testament, but l KNOW l should like
squirt. gaae -Kaicker5ocker.
Rev. Dr. Peddie, of Edinburg, having
lately been presented by the ladies Of his con-
gregation with pulpit gown, found some
prejudice against his wearing it among his
| pensioners. To one old lady who objected,
he said: i" Well janet what objection have
you to the pulpit gown" ''Aweel, sir"
said Janet, "we never read of the Apostle
Paul wearing a gown" The DR.. replied
" GU are quite right, Janet: but we never
read of st. Paul wearing beaches" This sat-
lstied the old lady.
One of the most brutal deeds ever
heard OF was perpetrated by shoemaker in
Jesus Maria street, Havana, upon the person
OF young mulatto, his apprentice. The bow
was talking to another boy, and his brute of a
master seized hot boiled egg Just off the fire
and thrust 1t into the poor lads mouth, hold
ing his hand over his mouth until the poor
IVY was ullOCaJeu ana QleQ.
On Wednesday of last week, Mrs.
Busser, an elderly lady of West Chester, Penn,
attempted to fill camphene lamp while il
was burning, and of course was horribly burn
ed. She died on Sunday. Mrs Henderson,
her daughter, who rushed to her assistance,
had her hands badly burned, and Mr. Hen
derson was also seriously injured by the
flames.
Tom Thumbs mother was robbed of
her carpet bag containing three hundred dol.
lars in money, and check for four hundred
dollars, at the New Haven station in New
York, ON Tuesday. The rogue sent back the
check by post, saying it was of no use to him,
and adding, 81 never robbed any poor people
only Rich people that has got so much money
that they don't know what to do with it So
| you can See how good We are Honor among
thlefs, &c."
Potestantism is fast gaining ground in
France. The PrOtestants in HavTe number
now three thousand, with moving popula-
laton Of one thousand at least They have
four schools with four hundred pupils, Two
churches are insufficient and third is about
beng erected to accommodate two thousand,
In MARSHES there are five thousand Protestant
church attendants, and in other departments
hourishing churches are now to be found.
Complaints having been made that the
coal. deaers OF Cincinnati did not give honest
measure, the sealer of weights and measures
took tour round all the yards and found
that only two firms had honest measure.
Some OF the measures had worn down, but
! others We're Intentionally false. The fine for
the ottense is only 500 and costs.
John Slade, of Pittsfeld. Mass. whose
age is sixty-four, visited his father in New
hampshire on the 18th ult. On the 25Jh of
October, his father was 100 years old his old.
est brother died at 92 another at 90, and he
has another now living aged 90.
A young woman named Joanna Brien.
eighteen years old, of Irish nativity, was
Killed on the Boston Railroad at Albion, on
lhursdhy' She attempted to step on the train
Whlle IL was In motion, and lost her balance.
She tell between the cars, and one of them
passed over her.
While we have been ENJOYING fine Oc-
tober like weather it has been verv cold at
the north west and SOUTH AT St. Paul Min.
nesota, navigation re-opened on the Nth af-
Ter having been closed for week by ice.
The Cincinnati Enquirer states that
there Is now at that place an amount OF man
| AoNtuiSsi the Nalte OIL winch Is moderately es-
tlmated at $3,00O,OO0, waiting to be shipped
as soon as sufficient rise in the Ohio river
shall take place.
An Attorney, being called to account
lor having acted unproiessionally in taking less
than the usual fees from his chants, pleaded
that he had taken all the man had He
was thereupon bonorably acquitted.
Twelve of the superb capitals which
were to surmount the great columns in the
new custom house at New Orleans, La, cost
ing $4,000 each, were recently lost in the ship
Ohphant.
Spurious $40 notes on the Corn Ex-
change Bank, copied from a genuine bill bv
the photooraphing process, are in circulation.
Ihey are dangerous counterleits.
You are writing my bill on very
rough paper, said client to his attorney.
Never mind" said the lawyer. ait has TO be
filed before it comes into court"
Capt J. II. Meserve, Republican
was elected representative from Towksbuy ON
the Oath ult VI"
ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The British Ua;,o5