Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-25
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HO Dul4Al1StOA kAOWdJ OdACICC gives
an account of the kidnapping of blacksmith
of that place, short time ago, by couple of
Missourians, with the assistance of a city Of
fcer. John Pendleton, the man who was
kidnapped, has been in Burlington two years
and half, working at his trade, and had al
ways been regarded and treated as a white
man. Two Mlisourians came there a short
time ago, and under the claim that he was an
escaped slave, induced certain persons to aid
them in decoylng him into the country, where
they handcuffed him and started to Missouri.
A Connecticut lady says :-'' Some
chickens, during the recent warm weather.
had become slightly tainted. These were
stuffed with freshly heated charcoal, and in
twelve hours were as sweet and as fresh as
could be desired, not leaving the least disa-
greeable odor or flavor. Shortly after, on
examining some fresh pieces of pork, and
fearing that they could not be preserved until
It was convenient to cook them, she packed
them in pan Of powdered charcoal, and thus
kept them with complete success.
Mercer county, N. j., the counties of
Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester, Pa, and
Chautauque county in New York, are said to
be overrun with grasshoppers. They are very
destructive to crops, but are supposed to be
beneficial to chickens, who eat them as fast
as they consume the grain. Thus the fowls
are not only favored with meat diet. but en-
JOY the benefit OF the grain without the trou-
Bile Of digesting it.
A novel feature in the recent Atlantic
Telegraph cable celebration at Syracuse, N.
Y E, was the array Of fifteen huge locomotives
of the Central Railroad, with their bells ring.
ing, and blazing lamps, ranged on the track,
IN the heart of the city, all gaily decorated
and at intervals making the very welkin ring
with the shriA screams OF their brazen whis-
ties
About sixty of the prisoners in the
Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, have been
attacked with the typhoid fever. Two have
already died, and about as many more can
not survive. In all there are some twenty
cases that may be considered serious in the
others the disease has assumed mild type.
The Mobile Advertiser states that at
| Greenville, Miss, family of seven fell VIC
Tins to the "milk sickness" Milk was a
daily article of food in the family, and they
| lgnorantly continued the use of 1t after the
COWS had been attacked by the prevailing dis
ease, and died
Enoch Il, Shaw of Belchertown killed
a striped snake the other day, from which he
took itty-two young ones, each being about
seven inches long. Mr.. Shaw saw the snakes
running down the old ones throat before he
killed her.
G. w Miller of Coleraine has Just
| finished harvesting four acres OF wheat and
has obtained one hundred and ten bushels
This is as good yield as the wheat fields of
the wide prairies.
Somebody threw a can of camphene
into bonfire at New Haven a day or two
since, when it exploded, and the flames in
jured young man named Frederick Hopper
so that he has since died.
The trip-hammer shop, two small tenn
| pering shops, and coal shed connected with
j. Russell & Co.'s cutlery works in Green
field, were burned on the 10th inst. Loss es-
timated at $1,000.
AT Pottsville, Pa, on Saturday night,
a fire broke out i'll the sash and door factory
known as the Builders Mil, and before it
| could be subdued, fifteen Buildings were de-
stroyed. Loss estimated at upwards of $40,.
| coo.
-Four slave men, two belonging to
Joseph G. Pancake, and two to Mr. Michael
Miller, escaped from the South Branch, in
Hampshire county, Va, on Saturday night
! last.
Robert w. Mintz, drayman, at PEN
sacola, was instantly killed by stroke of
| lightning, while driving his dray on the 10th
inst The fluid tore off the crown of his hat.
and split the heel of his shoe, but no trace of
it was discoverable on any part of his body.
William Means, a slave, recently
bought himself at auction, in Memphis, Ten
| nessee.