Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-26

ne circuit Court OF Kentucky have
just declared free a white woman who has
been held slave there for twenty years. 1t
appeared that the father of the woman was
Mr.. Goddard, whose widow claims her as
slave that her mother was a respectable
white woman, who has since been married
and removed to a Western State with her
husband; that when this woman was born,
he LGoddard) placed her in the possession of
one OF his slaves, Ca light mulatto woman)
with the injunction that she should rear it as
though it were her own child that this mu-
latto was threatened if she divulged the secret
OF the childs true parentage, or acknowledge
ed that she was not its mother, even to the
unfortunate child, that her life should be the
immediate penalty. The trial excited great
interest, and the verdict was received with
shouts of applause.
As the Mississippi river recedes, the
overiOwed lands show heavy accretions of
soil of irregular thickness, according to posi-
tlon' the thickest beng made in eddies, or
where the water has been stagnant 10 many
planters this will be rich compensation for
the loss of crops by overflow In several cases
there are large additions to the cutivatable
soil by the filling up of swamp lands. In one
case the retiring of the waters has assured to
one planter a rise Of three to five feet from this
alluvial sediment, upon his back lands, ad-
ding fifteen hundred acaes of the best soil to
his plantation. Two, three and five hundred
acres are mentioned as common aecretions
from this source.
During the attack of the English and
French fleets on the Chinese forts at the
mouth Of the Pi-Hc river, as an English pur.
ser was coming on deck from below. a round
shot took off his hat in a most unceremoni-
GUS manner. "Hillo !" he exclaimed "that
was close shave - and the next moment
he fell dead. The conclusion of the atmos-
phere had destroyed his hold on life. it seems,
and yet left him time to make tile exclama-
ton. Similar instances of the effects of what
is termed the wind Of ball have been re-
corded.
The American financier arrested at
Liverpool was James Fitton the man who
ran away from Skaneateles, n. Y, with his
partners wife, and $40 900 belonging to the
firm He was pursued the following week to
England by policeman Leonard, who arrested
HIM as he was endeavering to escape on the
9TH inst, and succeeded in recovering some
$50 900 worth of the abstracted securities.
There is a remarkable negro bov in
Polk county, Mo. He has two faces. fixed
on opposite parts of the head, with mouth,
nose and chin so full and perfect that it is
impossible to tell which is the front face, when
the body is hid from view. He is about six
years Of age, healthy, of a very sound mind,
and runs and plays among other children
with as much sprightliness as could ba ex-
pected from one of his age.
BY recent DEGREES of the King of
Portugal, slavery is abolished at Macao and
in the African province of Angola, and Is res
pectlyely abolished in all the remainder Of
the Portuguese colonies, the children of fe-
male slaves hereafter born being declared to
be entitled to their freedom on reaching the
age of twenty years
Harrison Church of South Hadey has
a grade Durham heifer, two wears old last
March, that weighs one thousand, two hun
dred and eighty-fve pounds; this animal has
not had any extra feed, but has always Jared
as the other cattle. Can any one beat this?
The barn belonging to Mr.. Edison
Hannum, of Southampton, together with ten
tuns OF hay, about forty shocks OF rye, horse
and sled, tanning mill, tools, Sc, was des.
troyed by fire on Saturday night, August 81.
Loss from $500 to 5000. Insured $4O0
The Oxford (Miss.) Mercury tells of
an old bachelor in its neighborhood, worth
$l5O,OOO, who recently found new born
female babe hanging at his gate. He adopt
ed 1t, and gave it the name of Eureka Gate.
A lady wished a seat. A handsome,
portly gentleman brought one and seated her.
son, you're Jewell said she. "Oh, no."
replied he, "Im ieweer-I have Just set
the jewel" Could there have been anything
more gallant than that?