Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-18

Prot. AgassiZ says that the shark cap
tured off Nahant, Wednesday forenoon, be-
longed to the genus known among sailors as
the man eater, and is particularly interesting
to the naturalist as a living representation Of
those huge sharks, the teeth of which are
found in a fossil state in the tertiary beds of
the Middle States and at Martha's Vineyard.
Strange as it may seem, this genus has not
yet been mentioned among the sharks living
upon our coast,
Triplett, whose connection with the
lobby secured to him the censure of the last
House OF Representatives, proposes to publish
a book. He promises $50 tear the veil from
every act of corruption in the thirty fourth
Congress, with fearless hand:' and as he had
very fearless hand in nearly all the lobby
enterprises of the year, he is supposed to know
all about it.
The superstition of the Parisians is
curiousy illustrated by an item of statistics
IN the French papers 1t is observed that on
Fridays the omnibus travel Of Paris diminishes
In the proportion of twenty five per cent 1t
also mentions that when Friday happens to
fall on the 18th of the month"; which has oc-
CURED twice this year, the omnibus receipts
decrease at the rate Of fifty per cent.
Lately, gentleman of Chicago was
accompanying two ladies to the panorama of
the Arctic Expedition, when in crossing Mar.
Ret street, he stepped a hogshead hoop,
which flew up Gas hoops viii do) and struck
him across his not very handsome nose
s. Good heavens, ladies +" he exclaimed,
(which of you dropped that:''
The eminent astronomers, Bonnie and
Hind, have gone over all the calculations in
reference to the expected comet, and thew
conclude thai in 1858, or somewhere between
1900 and 1860, the comet will appear; but
the attempt to designate the day, or even the
year. OF ITS appearance, they regard as prepos-
ferrous. There are no data for so exact an
estimate.
Two sons of John Sundv, aged II
and Is, undertook to murder him after decov,
ing him into the woods, near Brant, C. W
lie had married second wife, and thew de.
sired to be rid of both, so as to possess them.
selves of three hundred dollars
We see it stated that very small addi-
tons have been made the past year to the Or
thodox Congl egational churches Above the
number lost by death, communicated, and
dismissed, they have gained only 2S5, which
Is less than one convert to each church.
The State Journal of California states
that several of the vigilance committee of
San francisco have failed, and that their az
gfegate Liabilities amount to eight thousand
dollars; and that nineteen members of thar
body have committed suicide since July of
last year.
In Lowell, Tuesday morning, a girl
named Catharine Lynch, had her arm caught
by the machinery in one of the weave-rooms
OF the Massachusetts Mills, and so badly
crushed that amputation was made necessary,
little below the elbow.
Patrick Mooney Edward Dye, Patrick
Mcbride, and Barney Gallagher, convicted of
having been engaged in the New York riots
on the Fourth, have each been sentenced to
SIX months in the penitentiary.
The Auburn IN, " American saws
that 'mlles and scores of miles within the
fenced track of the Central Railroad are plant
ed with potatoes by the employees of that
great road" These RAILROAD farms are at
tended to mostly by the wives of the en-
ployees.
-Four hundred bushels of new Tennes.
see wheat was sold at Louisville, on Tuesday,
at $3.50 per bushel. AT Chicago, on Mon
day, two hundred bushels of new red wheat
was sold at $l.75 per bushel
Mr.. Jones, you said you were con-
nected with the fine arts; do you mean that
you are sculptor ;" No, sir, don't sculp
myself, but furnish the stone to the ma n
what does"