Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-01

A boy named Vischer, who was at
tempting the dangerous amusement of riding
on the outside of freight cars, near the depot
at Newburg, N. Y, slipped, and was run
over, and had one leg cut off and the other
terribly crushed. He lived but few mo-
ments after being taken home.
A large party of swindlers, whose OPP
erations have been carried on at the West for
several months with unblushing audacity,
have been caught at last, and are now on trial
at st. Louis. One of their designs, when
hard pressed by the police, was toItelegraph to
distant papers that they had been arrested in
some places where they had not been, in or
der to throw their pursuers off the track. The
police were finally too many for them. They
have realized upwards of $500 900 in forging
drafts in st. Louis, Memphis, Chicago, and
other cities.
William Truax of Albany, an old
widower, aged sixty seven years, with eleven
children, became intoxicated in Albany, last
week, and married the widow Martin a lady
Of twenty-six, with two children, agreeing to
pay her certain amount in cash for the priv
ilege After the marriage, Mr. Truax walked
out to take the air, got lost, and was totally
unable to tell where his wife lives. The DO.
lice have been trying to find the house for lin.
He is wealthy.
Ii is said that Mr.. Rowland of New
Bedford, came so near receiving the appoint
ment CT Collector OF the port of Boston, that
his friends considered the matter settled, but
the production of non. commttal letter on
the Nebraska bill, written two years ago, de-
stroyed their . best laid schemes.
A rich Spaniard named Fresnada at
Havana, Cuba, has lately been sentenced
to three years hard labor in the Chain gang
and to settle an annuity OF $1,000 per year
upon young man whose eyes he had hired
negro to put out by vitriol. This diabolical
outrage was committed because the Young
man had bought female slave with whom
he was in love, and whose possession the
Spanard himself coveted.
A supposed case Of wife poisoning is
under investigation at Hobart N. Y. The
wife of Edmund Barlow died after brief and
unexplained Illness, and not much was
thought of it until Barlow appeared in un-
seemingly haste to marry his wife's sister, but
could find no minister willing to do the sacred
part of the work, when people PECAN to be sus-
picious that his late wife might have been put
out of the way by foul means. Hence the
excitement and the investigation, which is
not yet completed.
A good looking young Yankee mas
appeared in Cienfuegos, Cuba, with banjo.
and has set himself up as the original Young
Snodgrass.' Crowds go to see and hear him.
| He sings the history of the murder of DR..
| Burdell set to the air Of Jorden, and brings
in all parties, even coroner Connery. He is
rapidly making fortune.
A London magistrate recently fined
a respectable woman 9l0, and in default of
payment sent her to jail for three months
because she gave good character to dis
honest servant
John l.. Craig, lad of Is, out gun
ming at Rockland Me-, on Tuesday last ,ac-
cidentally discharged his gun while loading,
and the ramrod entered his eye and went
completely through his head sticking SO fast
in the skull that it had to be driven back with
hammer. Notwithstanding this he is alive,
conscious, and may recover.
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress is to be
produced at the Bowery theater, New York.
in few days. If the spirit of the old pilgrim
don't hit the authors of this sacrilege hurd
rap, than there'sno use in having spirits
Jessie Fremont, "our JESSIE" who
ought to grace the White House, and will in
loOU, WAS efSH u lSW uugb since III u BlOD IN
New York. taking lessons in the use of the
sewing machine.
bevy Of the principal fashionable
ladies in Cincinnati appeared on promenade
few days since without hoops, and with
robes descending REALISTICALLY straight"
The large number of 70 ships were
detained inside and outside the bar at tn,
southwest pass Of the Mississippi below New
Orleans, Monday, for want of sufficient
depth Of water.
The steamship Empire City brought
90 deserters from Walker to New Orleans Oh
Monday.
The navy department is making ex
ettons to get off the steamer Niagara by til,
10th Of April- Owing 10 the great weight O
The submarine telegraph cable she will no
! take her armament with her.