Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-23
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toned in the Italian journals as having been
constructed by a carpenter--sad engine being
set in motion without the aid Of steam, hu-
man labor, or fuel. Its daily cost Is limited
10 the value of the grease required to dImln-
ish friction, and its use is free from any dan
ger whatever. This engine is estimated to cost
20, 900 francs, if of one hundred horse power,
and 10000 francs for every additional one
bundled horse power.
The Warsaw Inquirer gives the par
ticulsrs of the work OF a mad dog in a single
night 1t appears that over $4,000 worth of
horses cattle, aad hogs we're bitten Fortu-
nately no human being fell victim to his fury,
although he attack ed three persons in his ca
reer, the last af whom succeeded in despatch
ing him with al hoe. Nearly all the stock Bit
ten have gone mad and been killed.
The Providence Transcript says that
large quantities of tautog have been driven
ashore at Block Island within a few days, and
The islanders are mauuring their land with
them. 1t is supposed that the cold weather
was so severe that the fish were chilled, and
then driven from their winter quarters by the
movement OF the ocean.
Mr.. Whiting, clerk of the propeller
Gen. Taylor, who left Ontonugon on the 9Th
ult., says that a mass of pure, solid silver
weighing sixty-fve pounds, has just been ia
ken from the Minnesota mine. At its current
market value, 81 per ounce, this mass would
be worth 5000.
The Scientific American says: Every
pound of cochineal contains seventy thousand
insects, and from six hundred thousand to
seven hundred thousand pounds are annually
exported to Europe for scarlet and crimson
= s 10 70,
furnish coloring material!
Accurate observations during the re-
cent floods in Illinois, are said to have estab-
lished the fact that the new grade (six feet
or so above low water mark on Lake street,
Chicago, is the highest ground in the State.
1t was the Mount Ararat OF Illinois during
the late deIuge.
-Four convicts slipped away from Sing
Sing prison yard on Wednesday night and
under cover of the dense fog, escaped over the
Ice, or under it; for it is not certain whether
they are dead or alive. Two of the keepers
who gave chase to them, fell in and missed
drowning very narrowly.
The "garrote'' has appeared at Hart
ford. On Thursday evening young man
threw mis- arm around the neck of young lady
who was passing along the street, and throw
ing her down, attempted to rob her of the
watch and cham she wore. A gentleman
came along just then and the william fled.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has Just
decided that James Simmons, who murdered
two members of his fathers family by pos-
on, shall be hanged. Simmons was tried
and convicted for the offence ten years ago,
but owing to some informality. was never
sentenced.
The high price of cotton has advanced
the value of negroes i'll all parts of Texas.
The True Issue reports sale recently made in
LaGrange, where one field hand was sold for
$l720, and another negro man for $lS60.
A span of wolves, regularly trained TO
the harness, were driven, amid a crowd of
velping, apparently indignant dogs and won.
dering people, down Fourth and Pine streets,
st. Louis, on Saturday.
Professor Bracklesby has been COM
putipg the age of the Charter Oak from the
rings. The result that he arrives at is. that
the tree is nine hundred and forty-hve years
of age.
Four negroes, concerned in Ken
lucky tragedy, were sentenced to receive tw o
hundred le>hes each, but Governor Morehead
pardoned them one hundred and fifty, and
the remaining fifty were well laid on.
1t is stated on authority, that among
men one in every twenty five stammers, While
among women only one in every twenty thou
sand is afflicted in that way.
The Bangor Courier says that Mr.. and
Mrs. Work of that city. have taken the vario.
loid from a letter sent them by relative re.
siding in Portland.
Upwards of four hundred dollars have
been contributed in Chester, VT, in aid of tn,
sufferers in Kanzas. Tie ladies raised two
hundred dollars by a fair.
The citizens of Middlebury, Vt, helC
meeting a few days since, and offered t.
raise 100000, in case the capitol shoulC
be removed to that place.
A lad in Trenton, NJ, threw ston,
at another lad, hitting him on the head, anC
he died in lew hours in consequence.
Two cows have lately died in Green
witch, R. l., in consequence of licking tn
paint from newly painted buildings.