Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-06

Madame Otto Goldschmidt, denny
Lind) gave birth on the 3lst ult., at Dresden,
to daughter.
In twenty years Ohio has increased
its valuation from $50, 900 to $500 900 600.
The debt is 5000, 900.
The salary of the Rev. DIR. Chapln,
pastor of the Broadway Universalist Society
of New York, has been raised to six thousand
dollars, which is an increase of one thousand
dollars.
The Honolulu Advertiser states that
child was recently born at the village of
Walpo, on Hawaii, which had four eyes
two on the back of its head and the others in
their proper place.
A portion of the track of the Racine
and Mississippi railroad, at point some sew
enteen miles west of Racine, has sunk entere-
ly out of sight, interrupting the running of
the trains. The hole is a bad one, and it will
cost good deal Of money to fill it.
A crazy woman got on train of cars
at Columbus, Ohio, last Friday morning, and
ran through them, brandishing a club and
creating considerable alarm. The conductor
nabbed her when she turned upon him. She
beat him terribly with the club. Others came
TO the rescue, but she was more than a match
for dozen men, tor some minutes. She was
finally secured.
According to the Courier Franco
HatSen, M, Caravans, historical painter of Val
eta, in the Island of Malta, has discovered
that slate is superior to wood for engravings.
1t is, he alleges, easily worked, re. produces
the finest lines with remarkable exact
ness. and retain longer than wood the action
of the typographical press, so that several
thousand copies of a design can be struck off
without any sensible difference in the qnality
of the impression.
A Paris letter represents Louis Napo.
leon as a successful med iator between Spain
and Mexico, and between Turkey and Persia,
and as endeavoring, in conjunction with the
United States, to prevent the English contest
at Canton from obstructing the commerce of
other nations. Between Austria and Sardi-
MIA, too, French negotiation is at work in a
friendly spirit to both.
Death seems to attach itself in some
form, near or remote, to the White House.
General Jackson entered it a new widower.
Harrison and Tay lor themselves died Tyler
was recent widower. Polk lett the house
to die Fillmore, to bury his wife and daugh-
ter PIERCE had his only son torn from him.
And now Buchanan mourns a beloved niece.
So closely does affection cleave to greatness
so broadly does it throw its shadow over high
position
An intelligent German made this reply
to the bigoted attack of native American !.
'Ihe gentleman taunts me with not having
been IN the country as long as he has. Let
me tell the gentlemen that my only excuse is
thst l am an American from choice, while he
is one from necessity. If there is any differ
ence between US, it is that l came into this
country with my trowsers on, while the gem
tleman came into it naked'
At Beckett, in Berkshire county, in
the recent April snow storm, the snow fell to
an average depth of two feet, and drifted in
the roads to the depth of and 10 feet, SO
that for week they were nearly impossible,
and the mail, which should arrive daily, only
made the passage twice within the week.
On the Sabbath, church going people were
obliged to proceed to their place of worship
on two OK sleds, and walk con siderable dis
lance on the top OF a stone wall. On the 10th
of May, 1884, there was a severe snow storm
in Berkshire county, as severe as this one in
April. .
Minnesota, according to the St. Paul
Pioneer, Is to be the maple sugar State OF the
country. The present high price of sugar has
stimulated the settlers to be manufacturers
and although the present season has been
unpropitious, owing to the frequent changes
of the weather, yet the quantity made largely
exceeds that of any previous year. A gentle
man, who has every opportunity of acquiring
correct information, informs the Pioneer, that
the amount of sugar manufactured on the
shores of Lake Minnetenka, this spring will
exceed ten thousand pounds, and that large
IF ols hoo,
out. 1t is said there is no part of the CONT
nent where the sugar maple abounds to the
same extent as in the neighborhood of this
beautiful lake.