Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-26

Senator Bell, of New Hampshire, is
confined to his house at Guilford, with chro-
mic diarrh@a, and is not expected to be able
to resume the duties of his Office.
Prot. J. G. Hoyt, of Exeter Academy.
has accepted Professorship in Williams Col
lcge, Willlamstown, MASS }, whittier he will
remove at the close Of the present academical
term.
Miss Cummings was tending single
machine near Dundas, (Canada), when She
was caught by the ribbons of her bonnet and
jerked towards the knife, and in the twink
ling of an eye completely scalped her, cut off
both ears, hurled her round in manner not to
be accounted for, and cut off portion of her
foot she was then thrown to the ground
senseless, but, wonderful to say, alive, but
not likely to recover.
A lady, telling her age, remarked that
she was born on the 22d Of April. Her hus-
band who was present. observed, 81 always
thought you were born on the first of April -
"People might well judge so, responded the
matron, Gin the choice made of husband. .
The sugar crop of Vermont this year
is estimated by the Montpelier Waterman. at
over $500 tons, which is nearly half of the
maple crop of the nation, as returned in 1850,
and one eighteenth of the sugar crop of the
United States. At ten cents a pound, this
years crop amounts to 81 $50, 1874. Tie sales
have been from ten to twenty five cents a
pound, though comparatively little has been
disposed of. 1t is said that with proper care
and utensils the crop might also have been
doubled.
Robert Purvis Of Philadelphia, a light
mulatto, is the largest school-tax payer but
one in the county where he resides. and vet
the law excludes his children from the
schools he pays so much to support. This is
rank injustice and meanness. If the negro is
not human being and can never assume the
duties and enjoy the rights of citizen, what
propriety is there in taxing him? You might
as well tax the wild animals of the wood
Let us have the democratic theory of negroes
consistently carried out; if it will not bear
that then it is false and must be abandoned
A negro entered store in St Louis.
and with a request for change, threw down q
twenty dollar gold piece, which went over
the counter and fell upon the floor. The
man behind the counter refused to return it,
and Yves heard to console himself with the re-
Election that he he could not be convicted on
the testimony of black man. He believed.
with Judge fancy, that the black man has
no right which the white man is bound to re :
spect.
The mayor of Charleston, S. c., adj
vertises for information respecting white
boy, twelve or thirteen years old, with blue
eyes and straight auburn hair stolen from
that city and sold as slave in Florida. If it
should turn out that the lad has somewhere
in his veins drop of African blood, will any
body in Charleston be shocked that he should
be made slave for life And yet perhaps it
would be as hard case for him as if his blood
were tie most immaculate Anglo-Saxon.
The wheat crops of the West con-
tinue to be matters of comment and specula-
ton in the journals OF that country, but they
severally agree that in Illinois, Indiana, and
Missouri, aud the states adjoining them, the
crops will be of full average, and that the
alarms which have been received about them
are intended for speculative purposes. The
Cincinnati Price Current OF the 21st publishes
letters from twenty correspondents, in differ
ent parts of the western country, who had
been requested to furnish an accurate account
of the prospects Of the crops, and they were
nearly all quite favorable. Some speak of the
fall sown wheat being winter killed, and the
tobacco plants are very backward, but as a
whole the correspondence is very satisfactory.