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

mentioned as an example of American en-
terprise.
NJ. de Lesseps, engineer of the Suez ship
canal, arrived at Alexandra, Egypt, on the
I'd OF July, and had a magnificent reception.
he promises that work on the canal shall
commence the present year. The operations
on the railway between Cairo and Suez have
been resumed, and four thousand laborers are
now employed on the excavations and level
ings Of the still uni, ished portion of the line.
The completion of the entire railway is not
looked for before the spring of 1859.
society has lately been formed at Bor-
deaux, France, to put down the superstition
of evil omens. AS everybody knows, it is bad
luck to begin anything on Friday or to sit
down at a table with thirteen, or TO balance
your chair on one leg, or to spill salt between
yourself and friend. The new society pro-
pose to have regular dinners on Fridays, to
have just thirteen guests, and to turn on one
leg, and spill salt all around before commenc.
ing In the one whole year during which i'll
luck has been thus defed, no single fatality
has occurred to any member.
HE Courier deS EtGts UniS, of July Goth,
states in Il correspondence received from Eper-
nay, in France, that a railroad train caught
fire, and an American lady and her child, q
Mrs. Vilier, were consumed by the flames.
Mr.. Villier, who travelled in the same car,
saved his life by jumping out of window,
but, by means of his fall on the road, broke
his shoulder. After his recovery, he claimed
damages to the amount of so 900 francs which
the court allowed him.
The plague, after an intermisson Of twenty
years, has reappeared IN a district of the
Pashalik of TripoH, named Bengal, and at
last accounts was continuing to make ravages
amid
tine regulations had been resorted to.
Persons in England who leave railroad cars
while the trains are in motion, are subject to
legal penrltes. A lady was fined IS and 5s
costs few days ago, for having stepped out
of train on the Crystal Palace line before
the cars had stopped.
a letter from Athens, states that peasant
of the Peloponessus, while lately digging in
field, found two antique statues in
good state of preservation, and of remarkably
fine execution. One represents Apollo bear
ing Tyre, and the other handsome young
female. They both appear to have belonged
to the time of Praxiteles, and their renown
has already become so great in Greece that
great number of persons have gone to see
them. The English minister at Athens went
to the place on first hearing OF the discovery,
and it is thought, the letter states, that they
eventually Will enrich the British museum.
At recent ''ratting match" in Glasgow,
Scotland, rat got under the chair upon which
one of the fancy was sitting. The man, wish
ing to expose the rat to the dog, put down his
hand, when the rat very properly bit his
thumb. A few days after, dangerous symp.
toms appeared in the manq hand, and by
and-by modification ensued. He died per.
fectly insane.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg state that
the Gar Alexander has not only withdrawn
the decree prohibiting Bible Societies, but has
actually given them subscription of twenty
six thousand roubles. Another decree per
mits the Polish language to be used in the
schools of Lithuania, which had been forbid
den by the Emperor Nicholas.
According to the Bristol Times Lord Palmers-
ton has purchased the Morning Post from Messrs
Crompton, paper makers, whose property it has
been Tor some time