Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-28


DIR. Gill was pastor of the Baptist
Church in Charter Lane, London, for fifty.
four years, and was succeeded by Dr. Rippon,
VINO hlled the office sixty three years. That
church, therefore, had but two pastors in III
years!
On the occasion of the magazine ex-
| plosion in Halifax, an old gentleman who
weighed four hundred pounds, was thrown
out of gable window into the gutter below,
without having received particle of injury
an advantage that men Of jelly have.
The hackmen and "cabbies" at To
ronto have lately vented their spleen against
a newly established omnibus line, which was
interfering with their inalienable rights, BY
setting fire to the omnibus stables, and tear
ing the offending carriages to pieces.
A whole span of the large Peabody
bridge at Gorham, N. H., fell in last Friday,
two horse team and driver were on it at the
time, and went down with it twenty feet ON
the rock. The driver was uninjured, the
horses escaped with few scratches, and only
an axletree of the wagon was broken.
Emerson Etheredge was beaten for
Congress in Tennessee by only 1877 votes in an
aggregate poll of 10000. OF the Southern
members who voted against the Nebraska act,
not one serves In the next Congress. Col
Benton, Louisiana Hunt, Tennessee Cullom,
&c were run out of the last Congress, and
the rest, with Gen. Sam. Houston, have now
followed them.
Hon. David Wilmot is now speaking
through Western Pennsylvania, and has an.
polntments out for nearly or quite every sec
ular day henceforward to the election. He
has tried to get his opponent, Gen. Packer,
to speak with him, but falling in that, will
speak nlone. 1t does not need Packers pres
ence to secure the attendance of the people,
Mr.. William Gregory, residing Just
below Ridoe's Bluff, on the Apalachicola
River, killed twenty-one bears last wear. and
says, from the destruction of his pigs, there
appears to be no decrease in their number in
his neighborhood. When he can spare time
from his crops, he expects to tpitch into
them again, and try to improve on last years
operations
We learn from St. Helena that the
Emperor Louis Napoleon has purchased the
site of the tomb of his uncle. the great Napol
con, for $4,000, and Longwood, the farm on
which the conquered conqueror's last years
were passed, for $4,000. A commission is
expected soon to arrive for the purpose of put
ting Longwood in complete order and decora-
ting the grounds. A fine monument is also
to be erected over the tomb.
An honest backwoodsman, unac-
quainted with the slang phrases of the day,
recently went into store at Columbia S. G.
Stepping up to the keeper of the store, he be-
gan with: ''Have you got any sugar }" awe
hain't got any thing else" was the reply,
"Well. put me up one hundred and ffty
pounds. and make out your bill. I'll call
and settle and get the sugar in an hour or
So" In an hour or two after this the gentle.
man called paid his bill and got the sugar.
AS usual, the shop-keeper said "Want any
thing elseF" did want three or four bags
Of coffee, some rice, spices, oils, ETC., but l
got them at another store. You told me YOU
didn't have anything else.'
The American horses have not met
with the success in England that was SO con-
idently, almost arrogantly, predicted for them.
That part of the honor of the American name
that depends upon how fast horse can be
driven around race course is decidedly in
eclipse. How much that takes from the rep
utaton OF the country, is a question upon
which people will differ but we suppose it
will be admitted, even by those who take the
most melancholy view of the subject, that two
defeats fully establish the inferiority of Amer
lean jockeyship. Among certain class of
our people, there would have been more ex-
ultation if one of the American horses had
won the cup at Greenwood, than at the sue
cessful completion of the Atlantic telegraph.
Speaking of the Rio Grande, writer
says-"Imagine one of the crookedist things
in the world, then imagine four more twice
as crooked, and fancy to yourself large
river three times as crooked as all these put
together, and you have faint idea Of the
crooked disposition of this crooked river
There is no drift wood in it, from the fact that
1t is SO crooked that timber cam find its way
far down enough to lodge two sticks together;
but few snakes, because it is not straight
enough to swim in, and the fish are all in the
whirlpools in the bends, because they cannot
find their way out. Birds frequently attempt
to fly across the river and light on the same
side they start from, being deceived by the
crooks. Indeed, you may be deceived when
you think you see across it; and some Of the
bhoys say it is so twisting there is but one
side to it."
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