Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-29

The Republican, Franklin, Ind, Dec.
l9, notices the arrival at that place of Mrs.
Sacia, from Jackson, Miss. Her husband, for
avowing his preference for Fremont during the
presidential canvass, was set upon by a gang
pro-slavery ruffians, who, upon his attempts
ing resistance to their violence, deliberately
shot him dead. Without exhibiting he
slightest conjunction for their brutal cruelty,
they informed his bereaved wife, while stand
ing over his dead body, that unless she left
within wenty-four hours she would meet the
same fate with her husband. She made her
escape. and was on her way to the residence
OF her parents in Montgomery county. n. Y.
Miss Platner, the young woman who
threw pair of scissors and killed little boy
in her sisters arms has been admitted 10 bail
in the sum of 5000, and has returned home
| witt her brother and brother in.law rhe
| Albany Journal says; during her stay in
| the jail Miss Z. was very much detected, and
ate but little of the food offered her. She did
not talk much, and seemed indifferent What
became of her, so sadly did the Indebtedness
| Of her condition affect her mind.
Some miscreant cut the cords of the
tent OF an English circus company, at Bruges,
Belgium. on Sunday, Dec. s, letting the tar
paulin, which was heavily covered with snow,
down upon 2500 spectators, who would all
have been smothered, had not the soldiers
present slashed away at the canvas with their
swords, and others with their knives, so that
the poor people were released, with some in
juries, but none fatal.
Bellona Arsenal, with twenty-seyen
and half acres of land, in Chesterfield coun-
ty, on james river, fourteen miles above Rich.
Inond, Virginia, was sold on the 18th inst. for
S2650. The arsenal was established in 1916,
but Of late years it has been abandoned on ac-
count of the unhealthiness of the locatlon.-
The various buildings cost the government
$4,000.
The Lawrence City Government re-
Gently voted thems two hundred dol
lar supper and had invited Their friends, but
before the eventful evening arrived, some of
their penurious constituents procured an in
junction from the Supreme Court upon the
City Treasurer, and the funds cannot be had.
The Court holds that municipal officers have
no right to use the city funds for their person.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The engineer, to whose misconduct is
attributed the late railroad collision at AL
lance, Ohio, by which nine lives were lost,
and several were seriously endangered, has
returned and given himself up. After hear
ing before magistrate, he was held TO bail to
take MS trial Tor manslaughter.
A young lady at Newburyport, OF
some considerable personal attractions, accept
ed a wager on Saturday last to wheel a half
bushel of beans from the store of the ndivid.
al who made the wager to his dwelling house
The young lady delivered the beans in good
shape and won the bet.
Persons having boilers attached tc
their ranges, should be careful to examine
Their condition before putting much heat un,
der them. A boiler exploded in a kitchen il
Philadelphia last week, owing to the freezing
of the supply and escape pipes, doing mucf
damage, and burning and wounding the cook
A verdict of twenty thousand dollar.
damages has been rendered against the city o
New York for infringement Of Ransom s. Wen
mans patented fire engines. This is an i'm.
portant matter, as all engine makers embed,
the invention in their machines and are
therefore, liable to actions for damages.
Anthony Burns, made famous by the
use of the army and navy for his return tc
slavery from Boston, is lectuIing successfully
at Cleveland, Ohio. He is now student o
Oberlin college,and yndcates by his progress
.he capacity Of his race for culture.
A beautiful little girl named Angus.
at New York hotel on Friday, by falling owe
the bannisters. She was born in England o.
Italian parents, and could speak three Ian.
guages
A Charleston paper says the law sub
shutting the confinement to their ships Of ire,
colored seamen, instead of imprisonment, la.
passed both houses of the South Carolina leg.
islatuie.
The shoe and leather dealers have
named the towns they are about to found il
Kanzas, and for which they have raised
100000, Clahin and Batcheller.
In the recent accident by collision on
the Virginia Central Railroad, both locomo
tives and six cars We're destroyed and fiy,
negroes and ten whites injured Only one
had died at last accounts.
George Green was murdered neal
Gainesville, Va, on Christmas evening, anc
his body bnrnt by his negroes.
The ship New York, on shore al
Squam Beach, has broken in two, and tho
barque Tasso, ashore at same place, has gon,
to pieces