Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-09
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uuEheu O1 the explosion OF uulu lamp
which she dropped, that she died on Sunday.
President Stearns of Amherst College
has been appointed member of the State
Board OF Education, to succeed President
Hopkins Ut Williams College, who has been
upon the Board for eight years.
Ayouth OF eighteen years, from Nan
tucket, who is six feet seven inches in height
attracted much attention in New Bedford, on
the Fourth, by his uacommon altitude. Ma
ture has insured him an elevated position in
the world.
At the recent term of the court in
Carroll County, Ohio. Rev. Joseph Barclay,
was found guilty OF the seduction and breach
OF promise of marriage to Elizabeth Sharp,
and mulcted in damages to the value of
$4,000.
During heavy thunder storm on the
second instant, in the vicinity of Maysville,
KY, female slave belonging to Mr.. Taylor,
was struck by lightning and killed, together
with a child of Mrs. rs, which she was hold
ing in her arms.
The Gazette, of Cincinnati, in lead
er on the - Railroad Movement states that
in Ohio they have 2S0o miles of finished rail.
road, the cort Of which has been about $780,
100000. They employ constantly about SO,-
600 men, 600 locomotives, 5000 cars, and
consume $50, Oo0 cords Of wood yearly.
Mr. Goddard made balloon ascen-
sion from Philadelph on Saturday, the 9Th,
and did not land until sunday mornsng at
half-past four o'clock, having been in the air
all night. He landed st Churehyille, in Ma
ryland.
It Is penitentiary offence in Ohio to
use siryehnine in the manufacture of whisky.
a large manufacturing house in that State
sent iwo hundred barrels 10 Cincinnati, and
sufficient poison was found in a barrel to kill
taigty men. The liquor was returned aud the
uaspuiaefUEsr suffered 10 run at large.
A young woman, in male attire, has
been taken into custody, at Philadelphia.
EtzT name Is GeoTgiana Gender, and she be-
longs in Springfield, Mass, which place she
left about year since. She has been en-
ployed pars of the time in rafting, and her
last exploit was walking from New York to
Philadelphia.
AT Waterbury, CT, on the 4th, Mons
Reynard made a balloon ascension, says the
Bridgeport Standard. He took up with him
two chickens and a cat, which he let out at
intorvals-the chickens first and the cat, in a
parachute, last The fowls came safely down
on the wing and the cat reached the earth in
a straight line about three miles North of the
town.
A queer COW case was recently de-
cided in Mt Vernon, Ohio, which occupied
the court five days, employed four lawyers,
and something like hundred witnesses. The
plaintiff fortified his claim to the COW by some
eighteen witnesses who swore positively to
her identity. But the defendant had twenty
witnesses, who swoIe point blank to the con.
trary, and he got his case.
The loss on vessels, &C., engaged in
the whaling business, during the psst year.
has been very great. While many splendid
cargoes have been taken from the Arctic
Ocean and Ochotsk Sea, the amount of prop
erty destroyed has been immense During
the year ending May 3Ist. 1857 the losses
paid by the Mutual Marine Company Of New
Bedford was $l20,538 Commercial Marine
do, $l5S,734, and the Union Mutual do,
$l44 900; making total of $423,273.
Iron churches, seventy feet long, forty
feet wide. and twenty feet high, capable
of accommodating seven hundred persons,
and costing about five thousand dollars each,
have been erected recently. in the neighbour
hood of London. They are lined with wood,
which is covered with canvass, and papered.
They can be taken down, and moved to other
locations, if desired.
The Galena Gll,) Courier learns that
clergyman who lives few miles from that
place had some slight dispute with his wife
last week, and proee eded to beat her with
stick from locust tree so severely that her
back was covered with blood and bruises.
Having used up one stick on her, lie was get
ting another, when some of the neighbors in
terfered. Such brute ought to be driven
from the sacred desk, and from the commu-
nifty.
According to the Boston Directory,
eight hu'adred and Sevea ty"nine of the business
men of that city reside in Charlestown 84S
in Cambridge, 726 in Roxbury, ga in Chel-
sea, 366 i'll Dorchester, BAL in Newton, 1886
in Somerville, l63 in Medford, 1873 in Maiden,
lao in Melroso, 1913 in Salem, % in Waltham,
80 in West Cambridge. IS i'll Lexington, and
% in Concord. Whole number residing out
Of the city, 1902.
A young gentleman in Cambridge,
Mich, lately received three anonymous let.
tiers demanding seventy five dollars, in order
to keep the writer from making serious dis.
closures, and, finally, at the solicitation of
friends, hung a ribbon in his button-hoe as a
signal Of acquieseence; having then placed
bag OF coppers in nook. designated by the
unknown, watch was set, and an old and
heretofore respected citizen was caught. The
old man had now the alternative of paving
his victim one hundred and fifty dollars, and
the town one hundred dollars, and, then,
leaving the place, or, OF standing trial.