Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-16

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On Thursday night, Secretary Cass suffered
from another attack of chronic affection. He
was not at the State Department Friday, but
transacted some light public business at his
residence
Kit North says that it is no wonder
that women love cats, for both are grateful
and domesue-not to mention that they both
scratch.
Great complaint has been made of the
ravages of grasshoppers in Bucks county,
Pa, where they are destroying the corn, clo-
yer. and everything green.
A dog owned by Hon. Horace Cola
more of Pembroke, Mass, run mad few
days since and bit its owner, and boy named
Washburn.
A Maine editor says that pumpkin
in that State grew so large that eight men
could stand around it, This is like the fell
low that saw flock of pigeons so low that
he could shake stick at them.
"Thats a laundering big lie," said
Tom. e No, it's Only Illuminating enlarge
ment of elongated veracity," replied Dick.
Harry took off his hat, elevated his eyes, and
held his tongue.
The more man accomplishes, the
more he may. An active tool never grows
rusty. You always find those men the most
forward to do good, or to improve the times
and manners, always busy.
Mr.. John Butler Studley died in Han
over, Mass, last week, of consumption, after
lingering illness of tsoenty gears, during
sixteen of which he has conversed only in a
whisper,
Female clerks are becoming an insti-
tuition. There are some six hundred in Bos-
ton, including book keepers. So far the ex-
pertinent is success. We hope to see stores
almost exclusively made up of female clerks.
Brock, who committed the deadly as
sault upon ]. w. Jones of Boston, at New
Bedford, was arrested Friday morning, about
sunrise, in the woods in Kent county, r. l.,
where he had secreted himself.
The Texas Christian Advocate. refer
ring to the suicides and other untimely
deaths of several of the most prominent men
of that State, says; " The bowl-Ihe festive
bowl-the flower wreathed bowl-the beau
ty-sanctioned bowl-the customary bowl, is
the cause Of all this
A post-oflice clerk in Chicago came
near drowning the other evening, and was
asked by companion what he thought about
during the critical period. Thought about"
said he; 81 was thinking what the morning
papers would say about it." In explanation
of his singular remark, it is said that he was
once a reporter.
1t is stated that one or two deaths
have occurred in two families in Pierce coun-
ty, Ga, from eating the meat and milk of
cattle afflicted with the murrain or black
tongue-and that several other members Of
the same families are sick and likely to die
trrinn tha- same earssa--
There is legal controversy in Cleve-
land, Ohio, in reference to little black girl,
named Amelia, whom a North Carolinian,
Joseph H. Brogman, claims to owu. He is
charged with an attempt to kidnap, and the
case is before the court on habeas corpus.
An advocate of total abstinence was
once urging confirmed topper to forego his
favorite Monongahela, and to substitute wa
ter in its stead, declaring the claims water
possessed over all fluid as beverage. 81
know said Tipsy, water is a fine thing,
but then it is so blamed thin"
William Parson, of Chapinvile, Ct,
has been detected in ''shoving" large guam
tity of the new counterfeit SOS on the Ma
tional Bank of Providence in various towns
in Litchheld county, CT. He has fed to the
woods, and was being hunted down at last
accounts by his victims.
The celebrated racing stallion cam
bassador" was killed by the lightning on
Thursday last, on the plantation Of his own
er, Mr.. Charles N. Merriwether, about ten
miles from GAINESVILLE, Tenn. Ambassador
was the winner of the great Alabama stake
of $4,000 in 1854, and his time is among
the best on record.
Lord Kames, in a conversation with
his gardener one day, said, George. the
time will soon come when mau shall be
able to carry the manure for an acre of land,
in one of his waistcoat pockets" to which
the gardener replied, " l believe it, sir +; .but
he will be able to carry all the crop in& he
other pocket
The injuries inflicted on Senator
Chandler of Michigan, by the recent gas ex-
plosion at his residence, Will dis6gure him
permanently. and in marked manner. His
face will suffer the most from the ravages of
the hre-the lips, forehead, and nose, bearing
evident traces of it, which will remain III the
form of scars. The hands are also badly
burned
The st. John, IN. b. News, Of the
| 18th inst, says at this time last year the po-
tato blight had fully set in, and the crop gen.
| orally wa, considered ruined. We are graft
| fed to state that, so far as our knowledge ex-
tends, there is not the least symptom of the
| blight up to this writing, and we are almost
inclined to predict that we shall escape the
mischief altogether this year.
At Devils Elbow, Upton county,
Tenn, recently, Miles Carter insinuated that
Esquire McCurry had stolen his wood-boat.
McCurry attempted to shoot Garter, who drew
a large pocket knife and rushed upon him.
McCurry fred several shots with Colts re-
volver, inficting several severe if not mortal
wounds upon Carter. During the fight he
was himself severely and dangerously wound
ed with the knife. MeCurry was recently a
Justice of the Peace, and is much esteemed
Carter is the same who killed Mr.. Green Bate
man, in that vicinity, several years ago, and
was acquitted. He is not expected to live.
There is said to be now in Rochester
N. Y, man aged one hundred and six
years, whose ancestry, together with his own
progeny, viii exhibit one Of the stranges
mixtures of races ever heard of. Hi
name is John Shenandoah O'Brien, and
he was born in Boston, in 1852. His father
was an lrishman, and his mother an Indian
of the Oneida tribe. When twelve years old
he was sent to France, and there educated al
physician. He returned to America, and
served in the revolutionary army; afofward
he returned to France, and was there educated
as physician. He returned to America, and
served in the revolutionary army afterwarc
he went back to France, and there married
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