Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-03

At Edgefeld, South Carolina, recent
ly, Gilbert, the property of Mr. Parmenter,
murdered Henry, slave belonging to Lewis
Jones. Elbert was tried tor the crime. and
the jury returned a verdict that he should
receive five hundred lashes-one hundred
every three weeks -and be banished forever
from the State. If Ebert had been free
black, very likely he would have been 81 ban.
ished' from the world; but being slave, he
was too valuable to dispose of in that way.
The latest scandal in Philadelphia is
the discovery, by the wife of middle aged
gentleman well off in worldly matters, that he
had another wife and children in another
quarter of the city. Wife No and chill
dren have been arrested for driving wife No.
l from their door, where she went to find the
gentleman whom she had sworn to honor
and obey"
A large and valuable deposit of plum
bago, black lead, has been discovered in
Buzzel mountain in the town of Newly, Ok
ford county, Maine. Several tuns have al.
ready been mined, and found to be of an ex-
cellent quality This article is used in large
quantities for pencils, for furnishing cast
iron, and for diminishing friction in the ma
chinery of railroads, steam boats, &c.
Bowdoin College Commencement oc-
ours this week. Rev. Theodore Parker is the
orator of the literary societies, and Albert
Leighton of Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
the poet. The alumni will have an address
by Prof A. S. Packard and a poem by viii.
liam Gutter. Arson Burlngame will address
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity,
The subscription paper to raise $780,
900 in New England for Antioch College,
Ohio, is headed by subscriptions of $1,000
each from Josiah Quincy, Albert Fearing and
Jonathan Phelps of Boston, and Thomas
Mandell of New Bedford.
A Western witness was called to the
stand to give testimony. Having taken his
place, he turned to the5counsel at the bar,
and before giving his testimony very ear
nestly made the inquiry. " Say, stranger,
which side am l on ;"
During a fire in New Bedford. on
Saturday night, man was asked to remove
two barrels of apples. In his eagerness to
save them he poured the contents of one of
them upon the floor, and threw the barrel
into the street.
One night recently, while two young
couples were pIomenading in New Orleans.
the party encountered huge ALLIGATOR nIso
bah AbA JiOAAShahos u6 monster was XIII.
ed with crowbars, though not before he had
sent one of the young men ga. kiting," bv
blow from his tail.
1t is understood that Lieut.. ellis will
avail himself of William WheeIwright's gen.
erous offer to defray the expenses of an as
tronomer to Peru, to observe the great solar
eclipse in September.
The best shot ever heard of. was
made the other day, in Calais, Maine, where
gentleman fired, in midnight darkness, at
the bark OF dog, and the next morning
found the animal dead, the bullet having hi
him in the throat.
The Mount Vernon cotton factory in
Alexandra, Virginia, has been sold to moth.
ern capitalists for $4,000.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that the
grape crop in the vicinity of that CITY in nm
entire failure.
The board of New York brokers have nm.
pointed an investigating committee into tba
matter Of the alleged deception on the mart Of
the directors Of the La Crosse and Milwaukie
railroad in advertising to pay the interest ON
the land grant bonds, and now declining TO do
so.
The rise of aboutthree eghths Of cent per
pound in sugar, at New York, this weak 4
predicted on the reduced stock in all parts Of
the country and the ascortained deficiency in
the Cuban crop.
The Moravan church aud some fifteen mr.
twenty other buildings at Lebanon, Pa, were
burnt on Thursday morning.
Indictments have been found in the United
States Circuit Conrt,at Windsor, Vt. against ,be
persons accused ui bounty land frauds, and thar
tfiala will como off at once. Wv"