Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-24

A female adventurer calling herself
Mrs. M. l.. Huntington is about the country
taking subscriptions for a magazine, which
she represents is about to be issued, the pro-
fits of which are to be devoted to Gov, SHADES
enterprise of furnishing teachers to the West.
Gov. Slade knows nothing of her, and she is
an imposter. She is about forty yoars old,
has black hair and eyes, and is so progresses
ing, and so accomplished an adept, that she
succeeds in getting the dollars almost as GER
tainly as she makes applications. She takes
with her "a girl of fifteen and boy of twelve,
and makes 1t point to quarter herself on
some influential family.
The infamous falsehoods which origin
ated In the Washington Union, relative to
certain offers being made by Col. Fremont to
Mr.. Isaac Newton, one Of the Fillmore eli.
tors of Pennsylvania, have been revived, and
they find quasi endorses in the New Bedford
Mercury, and Boston Bee. 1t viii be remem-
bered that Mr.. Newton has long ago under
his own signature emphatically contradcted
the whole story.
The Washington Star, the lesser or
gan Of the President, thinks that the people
of Clarke county, Virginia, who have driven
Mr.. Underwood out of the Strife for advocat.
ing Fremont, have shown remarkable and
hardly Justliiahle forbeaIance in limiting their
vengeance to the expulsion of the offender and
the virtual coniscation of his property. The
Star thinks that, at least, they ought to have
mutilated his person, cut off his ears, or some
thing of that kind.
Barney Jordan, the man who made a
murderous attack upon Judge Potter of Port
land, in his bed, attempted ON Monday after
Noon IN espape from pOrtlanJ so1
Eden, the turnkey, opened his cell, he knock
ed him over with brick which he had taken
from the vault. He then rushed past Mr., Ell
den, and escaped to the yard, where he was
recapsured
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was one
of the first 10 venture across on the ice from
Brooklyn to New York it was noticed as if
he didn't care d dime whether he broke
through or not. The ice being loose around
the edges on the New York side, two men
made pile, by placing ladder from the pier
to the ice. and took two cents toll from each
person who used it.
Imagine the satisfaction with which Mr..
Brodhead, the retiring Pennsylvania senator,
and assisted to retire by Mr.. Buchanan and
his friends, penned and sent the following
dispatch to his political friend and personal
enemy: "Harrisburgh, james Buchanan ST.
mon Cameron is elected. Brodhead." 1t is
grateful to some folks sometimes to communi.
cate bad news.
The Richmond Enquirer desires Pres
ident Pierce shall visit Virginia that his
"grateful admirers . there may 'take him BY
the hand" AT Cincinnati, last June, these
grateful admirers took him by the throat
and the President has not probably got over
choking yet with the sensations thus pro.
duced.
During the snow storm, Sunday night.
says the Springfield Republican, the wires Of
the Boston and New York telegraph lines
were charged with atmospheric electricity, as
during a thunder storm in summer. we
know man who walked up and saw it light
en- several times that night, but his wife
laughed at him and made HIM believe it was
all in his eye
A female who had been seen atanding
near the Hotel du Nord at Paris, suddenly
thrust parcel into the hands of gentle.
man who came up and then ran away. On
opening the parcel the gentleman, to his sur
Prise, found twenty bank notes of IOOOf each.
with directions that it be employed by the
benehcent society of tine district.
England was visited by a snow storm
| Of unusual severity, Christmas week, com
meneing Christmas night. In Yorkshire, the
snow driited, and the farmers had to dig their
sheep from drifts three and four yards in
depth, and many of them were taken out
dead.
The Dutch Reformed Church. nj
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was destroyed BY are
on Sunday night loss S6OO0--well insured
| Three tiremen were taken home on ltters 40
badly frozen that their lives are despaired Of
and as many as two hundred persons were
! moro or less frozen.