Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-05

Look out for counterfeit tens on the New
England Bank, of Boston.
A German paper estimates the vintage in
Missouri this year, at 25, 900 gallons.
The death of John NJ. Patton, a leading
lawyer of Virginia, is announced in the Rich
mond papers.
The Lawrence Herald Of Freedom says that
an immense amount of molasses will be man
ufactured in Kanzas this fall, from the Chi
nese sugar cane.
An emigrant to Oregon, writing home to
one of his friends, says: ave are getting en-
finely here, and have already laid the founda-
ton of larger jail"
The New York Day Book, speaking of the
Gouldy family, thinks sit is a matter of sur
prise that family SO terribly hacked to
pieces, should survive so long and show SO
soon such strong symptoms of recovery"
On Sunday last bear entered the pasture
of Chauncey Cochran, Esq, in Coruth. Me-,
and commenced depredations upon flock of
sheep. The people turned out and soon dis
patched him. He weighed, when dressed,
200 pounds.
The Palmer Journal says that Deacon Dan
iel Mixter of Three Rivers, who ia SUFFERING
from cancer in the bowels, has been f1rty
sac days without taking any nourlshment. A
little cold water taken into his stomach is
Immediately thrown off.
F. X. Hinckley of Lee, while hunting pig
cons, last week, discovered .'bee tree.
which he cut down, and, as the result, he has
got one hundred and twenty. five pounds of
most excellent honey.
Since the introduction Of Croton water into
the city of New York, the wells have been
plNy mn nd
cur to the Croton dam what condition the
city would be III
John Miller of Holden, Maine, and Charles
Foster of Brewer, have been arrested for
stealing the mail bags from the stage coach
on the Ellsworth road on the 30th of August.
One missing bag has been found with its CON
tents opened and rihed.
The Paris Pays has private advices from
Shanghai to the 18th of August, according to
which the mandarin Keying was not SEN
fenced TO death, with the privilege of COM
uniting suicide, as reported by the correspon-
dents of English journals. He was. like
Yeh, degraded and condemned to ten years
confinement in the fortress of Tho-ho.
In the Supreme Court of Rhode Island,
now sitting at Providence, Albert &. Sanford
is on trial for slsndering VIM. H. Hudson,
City Marshal of Providence, by stating that
he was leagued with the rumselers, and that
the keeper OF one hotel had paid him four or
five hundred dollars hush money, Sc. Mr..
Hudson lays his damages at $4,000.
Charles Cook, William Letter, and William
Swift, sons of wealthy merchants in Cincin.
natl, have been arrested for the murder of A
woman at disreputable house in that eitv.
under circumstances of great brutality. Cook
inflicted a fatal stab upon the errine woman
who died praying for herself, husband, and
child.
The Crayon magazine, an American month.
ly, IS taken by large number of artists in
Rome! The September number OF that peri
odical reached all its subscribers there, in a
mutilated state, one leaf having been torn
out, the same one in every copy. The excs-
ion was the work of the Papal post office au-
thories. The expunged portion contained
some severe animadversions upon the assump-
tions of the Roman PUntiffs.
John Bray of Indiana arrived OF st. Louis
few evenings since with his family, and pnt
up for the night in ferry wharf boat. Dur
ing the night one of the children became rest
less, and Mr.. Bray walked out upon the deck
with 1t to quiet it, when he unwittiDgly
walked of into the river, and father and child
were both drowned. His wife and three
children were by this casualty LETT without a
protector, and without money.
On recent trip of the stage with the Cal
iiornia overland mail, from Memphis to Fort
Smith, short distance from Des Arc, 1t was
approached in the road by three armed men,
who ordered the driver to "stop and deliver
the mail" The driver was accompanied by
guard, who presented a pistol and ordered
the highwaymen to "stand aside" They did
80, and the stage passed on.
A desperate encounter with burglar Is
noticed in the Rochester papers. The resi-.
denco Of VIM. @. Ely, at Clyde, New York,
was entered on Sunday night by burglar,
who was detected by Mr.. Ely. A scuille en-
sued in the course Of which Mr.. Ely received
eleven wounds, some Of which are dangerous.
The robber escaped.