Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-30

Mrs. William Sivker, the mother of
the first white child born i'll Milwaukee, has
just started on q visit to her friends in Eng
land. What an illustration is this of the
rapid growth of our Western cities the
mother OF the first white child born in a city
which now boasts of sixty thousand lnhab.
tants, not only alive, but able to travel in for
eign lands.
The barn of Messrs. Pixley and Hor-
ace Bush, of Orwell, Vermont, was struck
by lightning on Thursday last, about noon,
and their horse barn, sheep house and sheds,
together with thirty tons of hay, two sleiehs.
plows, ox-yokes, and most of their farming
tools not in use, were burned.
There is considerable excitement in
Lynn in consequence of notification by the
mayor to the bakers, that they must deliver
no more baked beans and brown bread upon
the Sabbath, under penalty of prosecution
under the law against transactng business
upon the Lords day.
Miss Jane Lloyd, the wealthiest of
English heiresses, is to be married to Col.
Lindsay, the " hero of the Alma" who was
lucky enough to get nine Russian balls fred
into the colors which he carried, without Ie-
ceiving one into his own body.
A Undertook shoemaker once prom
ised to have a pair of boots finished on spe
CITED day for Elk President Van Buren,, but
failed to have them done when called for
In the meantime the ex- President started for
Europe and was gone three years. Upon
his return he called for his boots, and was
told they were finished, aoith the exception of
being freed out
Since 1850, the time occupied by
steamers crossing the Atlantic, between Liv-
efpool and New York. is shortened by two
days. The amount of fuel consumed bv the
steamships which perform the voyages so
shortened, is twice that which was required
by the steamers which ran between New
York and Liverpool previous to 1850.
In the revival OF temperance in Mas
sachusetts, that has grown out of the relig-
lous interest Of the past winter, the Sons of
Temperance are enjoying a season of unex-
ampled prosperity. In the last six months.
they have increased their numbers more ran
idly than OH any corresponding period since
the great excitement almost twenty wears
ago.
A Key West letter in the New York
Journal Of Commerce, dated July I4th, saws
that by order Of the collector of that mort.
the barque Lyre, formerly of New York, has
oeen selzed as SLAYER. Though her master,
named Kinney, is said to have been Ignorant
OF her destination, yet there is no doubt ex-
pressed that the vessel will be condemned
Some English farmers have discarded
the ordinary scythes in their moving this
year, for an implement in all respects the
same, except that it is fifteen inches shorter.
1t is stated that the result is a saving of one.
third in the labor.
The directors of the La Crosse and
Milwaukee Railroad are inviting the members
OF the Wisconsin state government and 9TH
ers, who received corruption bonds" to re-
turn them to the company. They give sort
OF intimation that the holders may be COM
PEELED to disgorge if they do not respond will
hngly.
A fire destroyed small frame build
ing at Rondout, New York, on Friday, caus-
ing the loss of three lives; babe eighteen
months old persisted in the building; a fire.
man named Rosepaugh was killed by hose
carriage passing over him. and boatman
was fatally injured by the falling building.
The fire was set by children playing with
matches.
George w. Wood, young man from
Palermo, Maine, was carried over the falls of
st. Anthony, Minnesota, on the 10Th inst.
and drowned. He fell off the platform of a
mill while turning log with " cant hook
Three deaths from "huid lamp acct
dents occurred on one day in New York last
week.