Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-09

]. W. & H. Higgins, daguerreo-
, typists, in Louisville, KY, have been arrested
for photographing bank notes.
The La Grange Gala Reporter says,
that on the line of the Georgia and Tennessee
Railroad last week, corn was selling at twenty
five cents. and wheat at fifty cents bushel.
A child of Nj. Russell of West Town
send was SO badly burned on Tuesday, by
her clothes taking fire from a stove, that she
died in few honrs.
Webster says that the term Broker"
If derived from "broke." This must be 80,
for Governor Gardner being broke has at
once become broker.
The people of one of the counties in
Wisconsin, were represented in the last Leg.
isature by Mr.. Gum. This year Mr.. Cannon
is the candidate for the same office in the
same county.
Lew Sumrall died in Clarke County,
Miss, on the 2Ist ult., leaving fifty nine
grand children, one hundred and twenty.
seven great grand children and two great
great grand children. Besides his own chill
dreu, all now living in the county of Clarke,
he has also had twenty two grand children
who died before him.
The Maine Farmer thinks that the
success of the Chinese sugar cane in the, late
unpropitious season, justifies the belief that
we have crop among us upon which we can
rely for syrup or molasses without being
wholly dependent, as heretofore, on the West
India sugar planter and also the Yankee spec
ulator.
"What do cats have,'' said our friend
Guy, who, by the way, has quite a taste for
natural history--"what do cats have that no
other animal possesses ;" Being inveterate
haters of the feline race, we eontemptuously
told him we did not know, when he winked
at us maliciously and softly whispered ''kit-
tens"
During the recent term of court at
Wiscasset, beautiful partridge having es-
capped from its native woods, few with great
violence against window of the court room,
breaking the glass, and making its uneere-
monious appearance before the tribunal to
the surprise of bench, bar, and jury.
On Friday last, William Cooper was
accidentally shot dead near Lewiston, Penn.
while out cunning with his father. The
father had fred at a pheasant, and single
grain OF shot, glanciDg, had entered the
young mans eye, penetrating his brain, and
causing instant death.
A monster Indian passed through
Chattanooga, Tenn, a few days ago. on his
way to Atlanta, Ca, for exhibition there.
He is said to be seven feet nine inches in
height, and to weigh four hundred and sixty
pounds, although only twelve years cid.
On Thursday last, while freight train
: on the Grand Trunk Railroad was passing
Wild River Bridge Mr.. George Stearns, the
conductor, attempted to look over the top of
the cars, when his head struck the bridge,
and his scalp was torn entirely off. At latest
accounts his injuries had not proved fatal, al
though little hopes were entertained of his re-.
covery.
A new slaughter house in Alton, ILL.,,
owned by John Smith, was completely de-
molished on Saturday morning last, by the
explosion of a lard tank, into which steam
had been iniudiciously admitted. Fifteen
heads Of cattle were killed. and the whole
loss was about $4,000. The engineer had
his leg broken.
The Canadian papers state. that lum-
Der, the great staple of Lower Canada, has
been falling in price since August, and the
| sale is very dull, although six hundred thou
sand tons of shipping have reached Quebec
| this year, against four hundred and seventy.
| thousand last year.
| The circulation of the fourteen chartered
banks in Canada, is estimated at SI3, O94 ,3lS,
Of which at least a million is usually to be
found on the United States side of the line.
The specie is not estimated at much above
| So 100000.
Five hundred men have left the garrison at
Chatham, Canada West, for India, whose
wives and children remain at Chatham.
In Canada very few debtors are RENTING to
Europe the sums due, or any part thereof
and not one bushel in ten of the wheat will
get to market before the frost closes up canals
and rivers.