Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-26

A gentleman from Cincinnati states
that Nicholas Longworth, who was in his
native state shoemaker, practieed law on
his removal to that city during the years be-
tween 1904 and 1920. He once received
as legal fee for defending horse thief,
two second hand copper stills. The gen.
tleman who had them in his possession
refused to give them up, but proposed to Mr..
Longworth to give him lot of thirty three
acres or Western Row, so called, in the lieu
of them-a proposal which the latter, whose
sanguine opinions of the value of such prop
erty were head of his time, gladly accepted.
This transaction formed the basis of an i'm
mense fortune, the naked ground being now
worth over two millions of dollars,
A Mrs Cheevers, of Bergen Point,
n. j., went to New York last Friday, to en-
gage domestic. Just before reaching an
intelligence office, she met an Irish girl in
pursuit of situation, stating that she was
without money or friends, and would work
for very low wages. Mrs. G.. moved with
sympathy at the ptiful story, took the girl
home. On Saturday morning, when the fam
lily went down to breakfast, they were aston
ished to find that the servant was among the
missing; and on searching it was ascertained
that she had decamped with two black silk
dresses, nine or ten silver teaspoons, one sill
yer soup-ladle, and five silver forks.
Two regiments suffice for Utah, where
every outrage and enormity exist where the
laws and the government are defied, and the
whole territory is in oEen rebellion. The rest
of the forces intended for service in that re-
gion, are needed in Kanzas, where a greater
crime than all is threatened the crime Of pop
ular sovereignty resisting slavery. 1t was not
without good reason that the founders of our
institutions were jealous of standing army.
Two sorrel horses. worth $1,000,
which were lately stolen from the stable of
Almon Clark of Whitesboro, N. Y, were
found on board the steamer Hero, at Albany,
and the pretended owner was arrested. He
stoutly declared that he had bought the horses,
and while on his way to point out the man
he bought them of, took to flight, but was
overtaken and sent to Utica.
The New Orleans Crescent says that
the free colored population of that city are
possessed of property to the amount of four
millions of dollars. Prof. Munroe calculates
that there are thirty thousand colored people
in. Ohio, and that they have six millions of
dollars worth of property, on which they pay
annually sixty thousand dollars.
Two girls about eighteen years of age,
who have been employed in confectionery
store at Jersey City, lately purchased two suits
of male attire for lads about their size, and
have gone to sea as common sailors.
An Arkansas planter has told the edi-
tor of the Memphis Eagle, and the editor
swears to his honesty in the matter, that his
Qhe planter's1 cotton is up to the waist of a
man on horseback, that it was fully boiled
half the length of the stalk, and that he
should not be able to gather the entire yield.
The safe in the store of Sam'l Pierce.
Elizabeth, n. j., was blown open on Wednes-
day night, and robbed of $3.50; the store was
found despatched with blood, and it is sup.
posed that the explosion was premature, and
that the thief was severely injured.
The store of Wilcox g. Sisbey. at
Utica, was robbed of $500 worth of silks.
shawls, &C., on Friday night. Nearly all the
property has been recovered, and it is ascer,
tanned that the burglars were a couple of
Jews, who have escaped.
The Hartford Times says that Mr..
William Weed of Stamford, who was bitten
by mad dog some four weeks ago, and in
whom incipient symptoms of hydrophobia
had begun to exhibit themselves, has been
cured by clairvoyant.
The Chicago Journal says the demand
for Illinois farming land has never been great
er than 1t is this season, and estimates that
two hundred thousand inhabitants will be
added to the population of the State this year.