Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-12

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John B. Clark, of Fayette, (Mo. has
been nominated by the democrats in the third
congressional district, to fill the vacancy
caused by the election of James S. Green to
the U. S. Senate.
Mrs. Charlotte D. G. Owings, Of
Townsontown, CMd.,) recently deceased,
manumilted all her slaves, and gave to some
OF them 500 per annum during life, to
others $50, and to others $50
DIR. Jewett says friend of his family,
residing in Coventry, r. l., came into posses
sion of the leaf OF an account book, on which
poor drnnkard had been charged with a
! quart of gin per day for five successive days.
On the night Of the fifth he died in drunk
en- fit and, on the sixth day, the entry on
the rumseller's book, was-''1o five yards
cloth for winding sheet"
There are no two letters in the man
uscript alphabet of the English language,
which cause so much misconstruction as l
and J, as most people write them exactly
alike. The rule for writing them properly,
and which deserves to be universally adopted,
is to run the J below the line, and the l even
with the line.
T" How shall cut this mutton sad
dle-wise, or not p said gentleman at whose
house Mr.. Hook was dining think YOU
had better cut it 6rjalo-wjse," replied Hook,
because then there might be chance Of our
having bit bet,oeen the teeth"
Cohasset cast thirty-fve votes against
the reading and writing amendment, and only
nine in favor of it, In 1864, the know moth.
lngs IN Cohasset cast one hundred and sixty
seven, and now give only nine for the faYorite
amendment of their party.
During concert at Hartford on
Wednesday night lady was robbed of 1884,
member of the Legislature of his pocket
book containing 500, another gentleman
ditto 1868, and another of his watch worth
$IlO.
Under the head of 6 Spiritualism and
Seduction the Chicago papers publish an
account of a spiritual medium, of the female
sex, f0ully murdered by another medium, her
paramour, in attempting to destroy evidence
of the mutual guilt of the parties, The case
is one of the most horrible and revolving in its
shameful details.
A poor victim of intemperance at St..
Johnsbury, VT, has been in jail two weeks
or more, because he refused to tell who sold
him the liquor he got drunk on, but they have
now caught and Gagged notorious rumselleT,
and it is thought the man who bought the
rum will own up, when he sees the seller in
the cage.
When Judge Morton was translated
from the bench to the chair of State, it was
by majority in the popular voice Of one
| vote. eAiterwards, one morning he was in
| the train from Taunton, and some one sug-
| gested to the Governor that they were not
making very good time. His excellency con-
suited his watch with all due solemDity and
remarked that he hoped to get in by 'one.
| "Fery likely" said his friend "you gener-
ally do, believe. - Boston Transcript.
The late rains have been general and
heavy at the West, and are said to be worth
millions to the fields, springs, and streams.
Inc Ohio valley has been thoroughly soak ed
for the first time in many months, and the
Pittsburgh Gazette, of Wednesday, says the
rivers are at higher stage than any reached
since 1852. The pier marks indicated q 2
feet, and both rivers were still rising. The
lower parts of Allegheny city. adjacent to the
river, were under water.
The oyster trade at Baltimore md
gives employment to 200 vessels, and nearly
5000 persons. There are over 1000 men en-
gagged in catching bivalyes and bringing them
to market, an occupation confined exclusively
to Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. About
1000 men are employed in shucking, and 900
IN packing and preparing them for transpor.
tation TO the south and west 300 timers are
engaged in making the packages, and the
work Of fifty laborers is required to convert
the shells into time.