Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-11

A notorious fellow named VIM. Web
ster was committed to Bangor Jail last Satur-
day week for an assault, in payment of fine
OF 1854. On Wednesday, his fellow prison.
ers, IN the exercise OF a commendable iudg-
ment on their part, considering him too mean
rascal for them to board with, paid his fine
with wooden at-skewers of their own man
ufacture, and turned him out again among
the worlds people.
Two smart looking Young men have
been playing sharp game on the New York
shop keepers. Their n,odus operaadi is to en-
ter store, apparently in a hurry, and ask
the storekeeper to give them bank bills for
$40; and as the storekeeper gives them the
money, they ingeniously abstract one of the
bills and state that they would prefer gold
coin. By this means they managed to obtain
quite large sum of money.
A little son of Mr.. Flack of Wheel
ing, who. recently witnessed an execution,
having strong desire to know what sort of
sensation hanging produces, got a rope the
other day and hung himself to fence. where
ne remained till life was almost extinct be-
fore he was discovered and rescued. Not sat-
isfed with this experiment, he afterwards at.
tempted to try 1t on younger brother. The
boy is only seven years of age.
The Grand Jury of Pulaski county.
Va, made some thirty odd presentments last
week, one of which is rather rare case
Two men, one of them Baptist preacher of
the old sort, and the other a member of the
same Church, snapped wives, which offence
being considered contrary to the good morals
of the Commonwealth, they were all present.
ed. So it is clear that mans wife is not an
article of personal property that can be traded
off.
jim Lane writes to the New York
Tribune denying that he was whipped lately
by a lawyer in Kanzas. He says he has not
received blow since he has been in Kapzas.
but that the lawyer, Rigley, did attempt an
assault upon him for which the Judges fined
him him $50, and fined Lane $40 for over
kicking Rigley.
A new and exceedingly dangerous
counterfeit $50 bill purporting to be on the
Bank of New York, is out. Description--
the vignette represents an Indian girl, seated
leaning her arm on a rock and looking at
rail cars, steamboat, and city in the distance.
On the right end is an oval picture of a loco
motive, and the figure 20. 1t is unlike the
genuine, which has two females for vignette
Ten thousand dollars Of the acceptan-
ces of Messrs. Lawrence, Stone & Co.. with
the Bay State endorsement was sold at auc-
ton in this city few since for 80 Ia per
cent. Subsequently $4,000 of the same
paper held by one of the Boston banks was
sold at private sale for 60 per cent.
On Sunday week, while Rev. DR..
Burrows, pastor OF the First Baptist Church
in Richmond, Va, was preparing to baptse
several persons at the Second Baptist Church,
he had his gold watch stolen from chair ON
which he had placed it.
Watson Lewis, the one of the two
brothers who succeeded in marrylng-his mas
ter's daughter after the elopement of last
week, has been arrested in Cleveland for big
amy, it being alleged that he has a wfe-with
better claims to the title than poor Miss Lloyd
residing in that city.
Alexander Buchanan died lately in
Smyth county, Virginia, at the advanced age
OF ninety eight years. He had voted for
every President of the Republic since it's
foundation. Capt. Brown of Russell, the ad-
joining county, is one hundred and one wears
old, and still in good health.
DR.. Charles Hooker of New Haven.
on Friday evening, gave his twentieth annu-
al grape festival. He raises large quantity
Of grapes, and makes a practice Of inviting
the medical class Of Yale College, the officers,
and many citizens, TO assist in taking care of
them.
Emma Clifford, young woman in
Cincinnati, was terribly burned few nohts
since by the explosion Of camphene lamp.
and lived but few hours thereafter, suffer.
ing greatly.