Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-11

beFSfat months hlhcts party OF men ana
wemen in Rockport entered several shops
where liquor was sold, and empted the fluids
into the streets. Among those who suffered
was William p. Burns, who was damaged to
the amount of $500. He sued some Of the
parties, but the case was decided against him,
and therefore Mr.. Burns lost all the property
he was pcs essed of in his stock of wines and
liquors. For few months past, on account
OF this trouble, he has been bordering on in
sanity, and last week his friends were obliged
to remove him to the Asylum at Somerville.
Mr.. Rareys method of tanning horses mas
been successfully tried by one of his pupils,
on bull belonging to the Duke of Portland.
The animal, a valuable but vicious Alderney,
was terror to his keeper, but he has sue
cumbed to the magic of Mr. thompson, who
practlsed on him short time since in a shed,
afterwards in the open park, the bull in the
end becoming as tractable and docile as a
child.
The Charleston Is. CO. Mercury says s'a
gentleman in the last stages of consumption,
and on his way to the balmy climate of Flori-
da arrived at one Of our hotels in company
with his lady. In two or three days he died,
and the heart broken wife at once prepared to
return to her Northern home with the corpse
of her husband. The hotel bill was demand
posthumous charge for the accommodation of
the dead man, ten dollars were required for
the privilege of dying"
The whiskey market at Salt Lake City is
tiourishing. The article is retailed at twenty.
five cents per drink. A barkeeper purchased
$40 worth of whiskey in the States, and sold
1t at Salt Lake for $3.50. The only draw
back to the trade is the fact that the custom
ers at the bars fill their glasses full when they
drink. In order to keep up the equ ilibrium,
the tirewater has to be tempered with water
not so fiery.
The interesting colony of Pitcairn's Island,
the descendants of the mutineers of the
Bounty, whom the British government re-
Gently put in possession of Norfolk Island,
have become dissatisfied with their place. and
have returned to their old residence on Pit
cairns Island.
remarkable exhibition recently took place
at Hopkinsville LTenn.) Fair. Ten brothers,
named Brown, all mounted on fine gray
hoses, rode into the amphitheatre and dis
played their Workmanship, all being good
riders. The eldest was aged forty, the young
est twenty. They had not all been together
for fifteen years. Their mother was present,
and they refined up in front of the glorious
matron and saluted her, while she shed tears
of JOY and pride
In recent address at the North Carolina
State Fair, Hon. I. L. Cingman stated re-
markabIe fact concerning a locality in the
western part of that State. In district of
few miles in extent on the Tryon mountain,
neither dew nor frost is ever known. The
district is remarkable for the variety and ex.
celIence OF its native grapes, and they are
often found in fine condition in the open air
as late as December.
About thirty acres of land on Winthrop's
Neck. iii New London, Connecticut, has been
fenced in by s9uatters the past Summer. At
the time Arnold burned the city, the records
were destroyed and no owners have claimed
the land, which has since then been unoccu-
pied. That land should lie SO long without
being taken up before this, is matter Of
surprise.
Cochltuate water. pipes are favorite resort
Of cells AS soon as the weather grows cold,
they leave the lake for warmer quarters in the
city. AT the gas works in Commercial street,
Boston, last week, there were taken from the
Cochltuate pipe ten large cells, the largest
measuring twenty six inches in length.
The Burlington (Iowa) Hasokeye tells of a
lady in that vicinity, who, by marriage, has
got herself into the following distressing stu
alton in regard to her own family. She is
sister-ln-law to her father, aunt to her BROTH
ers, sister to her uncle, daughter to her grand
father, and great aunt to her own children.
A village in the vicinity of Chicago was
recently thrown into great state OF alarm bv
the explosion of metallic burial case, in
which dead body was being transported into
the country for burial. The body had been
placed in 1t while warm, and the gases gener-
ated by decay burst the heavy plate glass with
great noise.
Miss Icebenda L. Thomas, of Huron Co.,
OHIO, has recovered a verdict of $40 600 from
Curtis Simmons for breach of PROMISE her
father also obtained a judgment of So 900
against Simmons for the seduction of his
daughter Rather a bad business for Sim
mons.
Mr.. McDermot, of Mifiin township, Rich.
land County, Ohio, has very good claims to
be considered the oldest man in the State
lie was born in Pennsy lvania in l749, and is
now, at the age of IO9, in the enjoyment of
fair health.
Martha Morgan, young and unusually
handsome girl, is to be tried for murder at
Raleigh, n. C.. She killed, in brutal man
ner, another young woman, v no was her sue
cesssul rival for the affections of a young
man.
New Orleans, Mobile, and various other
parts of the South, have at last been visited
with frost, which is especially welcome to all
Localities infected with yellow fever. The
New Orleans papers have removed their in
terdct to strangers visiting their city.