Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-15

schooner Hat, Just outside of Chicago, went
to the mast head, then to the mainmast truck.
where, hanging by one hand to the slender
topmast, he wrenched off the gilt bail and
hurled it to distance from the vessels side.
then sprang into the AIR, coming down feet
foremost into the water, and, after being un-
der some time, rose to the surface and was
rescued, and taken to the hospital, seriously
injured. The distance jumped was 40 feet.
There was a remarkable instance of
the uncertainty of circurastantial evidence in
Monroe county, Arkansas, lately. A man
named Lewis had sworn to kill one Passmore
had been seen to go after him with g gun
the gun was heard to 90 off, and the body of
the supposed murdered man was subseQ uent-
ly found. Lewis would inevitably have been
hung, had not conclusive proof been offered
that Passmore was alive and well They
were both raftsmen, and had quarreled about
an oar.
A fatal accident frnm carelessness
with sunpowder, occurred at Burg Hill, Ohio,
on Wednesday last. Two little BOYS PLAYING
IN the loft of store, undertook to amuse
themselves by exploding powder which they
took from a keg stored there. The oonse-
quence was an explosion which took off the
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burned and MANNED among the ruins. Both
died in a few hours.
b. S. Pate, who murdered Lutrell in
Scott county, Va, some time ago, was exc
cuted on the oath ult. There were between
five and six thousand persons present. He
made few remarks under the galiows, ac-
knowledging the justice of his sentence, and
warning all persons to avoid the use of
liquor.
A Chinanan stepped into iewelry
store IN San Francisco, and inquired if they
had any consistencies. On being asked to
explain himself, he didn't know what con-
sstency was, but he had been told it was
some sort of jewel, and he should like to
see one. He was told that it was doubtful il
any shopkeeper in the city possessed the arti-
Gle.
At Spring Valley, Rockland county,
N. Y, on Friday night last the building
known as the Dutch cotton factory, was de.
stroyed by fire. Loss 100000, only $4,000
insurance. About one hundred operatives are
thrown out of employment.
The Payson Church of Easthampton,
Mass, have voted not to take up any collec
ton for the Neso York Tract Society this year.
The amount usually raised, including what
is given to support colporteur, is from $500
to $500.
Prof Haven of Amherst College, has
accepted the appointment to the chair OF
doctrinal theology in the Congregational
Seminary at Chicago, ILL.,, recently rendered
to him. Ex-Prof. Fowler is also about to
leave Amherst.
Miss Drake, who warned an approach
ing train at a bend on tho Pennsylvania Rail
road, that tree had fallen across the track,
and thus probably saved the lives of all those
on board, has received,a free pass, to last for
life
Abner Smith, lately postmaster at
Northheld, Boone county, Ind, has been
convicted OF robbing the mails, and sentenced
to ten years confinement in the State prison.
DIR. Gould of the Dudley Observatory
is the son of B. A. Gould, Esq, of Boston,
and nephew of Miss Hannah Gould, the gift
ed poet of Newburyport
julius Cesar Hannibal, giving an ac-
count of his sea voyage, says: ''All de pas
sengers was now heavin', and as if dat WASH
enough, de Captain give orders for de ship to
heave too, and she hove too
An editor in Iowa has become so hoI-
low from depending upon the priStng bust
ness alone for bread, that he proposes to sell
himself for stovepipe at three cents foot.
A professor was lately displaced be-
cause he regulated the astronomical clock to
keep mean time.