Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-04-22


Shenandoah, the aged Indian at AL
bany, was one hundred and six years old on
the 10th inst.
A lady reading an account of an old
lawyer, who was said to be the father of the
New York bar, exclaimed: Poor man he
had dreadful set of children -
The Sonday'Atlas, in fit of revolu-
tionary enthusiasm, says s.Hurrah for the
girls of '76!" Thunder p cries a New
Jersey paper, ''thats too darued old. No.
no hurrah Tor the girls of III"
The Unitarian church at New Bed
ford has granted its pastor, Rev. Mr.. Weiss,
a vacation of six months, and continue his
salary during that period 1t is the inten
ton OF Mr.. Weiss to make trip to Europe,
for the benefit his health.
Mr. John Smith has discontinued
eating crabs, as he had eaten them so long
that everything he undertook went back ward.
lie had brother who dug well till he found
he was getting down in the world, when he
gave up the business and turned lamp-hghter.
be then looked up little.
George Wells, revolutionary veteran.
OF sixty four years, living in Tennessee, was
'NN'ASN viz oNiASA dd9 III d singular manner.
His son went up the hill to chop logs one of
which started to slide down with force di.
recty toward the log house in which the old
man lived. The log struck Mr.. Wells on the
temple. and fractured his skull. He was the
father of twenty. one children, some of them
quite young.
On Friday night last freight train on
the Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad ran over a horse lust as it
reached bridge over branch of the Monop-
gahela river, ond the locomotive and eight of
the cars were preeipitated into the river. carry
ing with them G. hildebrandt, engineer, and
W. Clinton and Henry Harvey, hremen, who
lost their lives by the accident. The loss TO
the road will be about $4,000
AT the Sandusky (Ohio) Common
Pleas recently, Rosetta Kline obtained a de
cree OF divorce, and three thousand dollars
alimony from Barnhart Kline to whom she
had been married twenty years, but who
since becoming spiiituaist, has been cross
and morose to his family, and finally exuelled
his wife from the house, while she was sick
and on cold, stormy day, compelling her to
seek shelter with her neghbors.
A monster nugget of gold, weighing
LAG pounds. and valued at 1874 $3.50, has been
discovered at Hangover, Australia, by four
old California miners, named Robert and James
Ambrose and Samuel and Charles Napier
1t is two feet four inches in length. by ten
inches in width at the widest point. and
eight inches thick at one end and four inches
thick at the other The lucky owners are two
pairs OF brothers, one pair being English and
the other Boston boys.
-Four burglars obtained admittance to
the wholesale grocery store of Daters T. Co.,
l6l Font street, New York, early tuesday
morning, and after stuffing the windows with
clothing to prevent noise, blew open the safe
with powder, and distracted some three hun.
bred dollars. They we're observed by police
officer as they were leaving the store, and one
OF them, Johnny Miller,s notorious character
was captured after severe struggle, one oil
the rogues attempting TO use pistol. One
hundredand thirty dellars in money was found
upon Miller.
The will Of Gov. Blatchett of Ply.
mouth, proved IN 1888, coutains the follow.
ing clause
g l desire my body to be kept so long as il
may not be offensive, and that one Of my
toes or fingers may he cut off, 10 secure 4
certainty OF being dead. further request
my dear wife, that as she has been troubled
with one old fool, she will not think of mar.
rying second"