Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-24

The steamer Superior was lost IN
storm on Lake Superior on the 39th ult., near
Grand Island. Her rudder was carried away,
and becoming unmanageable, she fell in the
trough of the sea, hen the water commenced
breaking over her, and extinguished the fires.
She soon after struck on the rocks and went
to pieces. Thirty. five persons were lost and
only sixteen saved.
They do not trife with defaulters in
England. Robson, the Secretary of the
Crystal Palace Company, has been tried, found
guilty, and sentenced to twenty years imprls-
onment. Within half an hour of sentence
having been pronounced he was stripped of
his ordinary habiliment, and clothed in a
convict's dress, and became the associate of
half dozen other transports.
Amherst College, according to the In
dependent, is in llourishng condition.
About $4,000 have been secured for the
Alumni fund-$l5, 900 being needed. In
case this is raised, friend has pledged $780,
900 to repair the college buildings, and anoth-
er $4,000 to erect hall for the Alumni and
literary societies.
A clergyman IN New Hampshire
few Sundays since, preached what some per-
sons call political sermon. Two or three of
the audience took offence and left the church
whereupon the unterrihed minister thanked
God in feryent manner, "that among other
things granted him, he possessed the power of
casting out DEVILS
As Rev. H. w. Beecher was about to
lecture in Cincinnati, on the evening Of the
10th inst, the floor of the entrance to the
room gave way while large crowd was pres.
sing in. 1t was supposed for time that
number of gentlemen and ladies were iniur-
ed, but fortunately no one was hurt.
George w, Johnson, one Of the large
sugar planters on the Mississippi, below New
Orleans, who died recently, has left an estate
valued at not less than 81 0O0, 900. He has
by his will manumitted all his slaves, two
hundred in number. They are all to be sent
to Liberia in four years from his death, and
each one is to be furnished with $50.
The suspension bridge about to be
erected over the Mississippi at st. Louis, it is
said, will be the most costly in the world. 1t
will cost about two million dollars, will be
eighty tour feet above high water. and over
mile in length. The bottom Of the towers
will be sixty feet below low water.
A locomotive weighing sixty tons with
ten feet driving wheels, and said to be capa-
Bile of attaining speed Of one hundred and
sixty miles per hour, has been exhibited in
France. Its centre of gravity is placed so low
as to render it safer than ordinary engines at
the usual speed, so far as getting off the track
is concerned.
The Fall River News says that at a
tea party held in Fall River, last Thursday
evening, the sum of $500 was raised for Kan
sas. 1t has been expended princinally for
clothing, which has been forwarded to the
needy sufferers tn the territory.
The "nose" of Mansfield Mountain
VT, computed to weigh 1000 tuns, fell on
Thursday, the Dist ult. Only a few moments
before this occurrence. Mr.. White of Bur-
lington, with his wife and daughter, had been
standing upon it.
A man in Franklin county has lust
been convicted of theft for taking his own
horse from the possession of sheriff, who
held the animal under an attachment-the
court decided that such an operation was
stealing.
st. Lawrence county, New York, the
home of Silas Wright, gave Fremont $3.50
votes, Buchanan 1905, Fillmore 1854 being
1878 over Buchanan, 1916 over Fillmore, and
647l over both
Col j. w. White of Kansas, who has
been raising men and money at the South
for the southern cause in Kansas. has decamp
ed with the funds, and left his men destitute
and penniless, somewhere in Georgia.
1t has been decided by the Supreme
Court of the United States that it has right
to,enquire into and interfere with the cotal tax
legislation of State.