Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-25

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A strange case, originating in the wearing
OF crlnoline, was brought before the Liver.
pool Police Court recently. Two Young la
dies, the daughters of wealthy parents, in com
pany with their governess, were proceeding
along the Princes Park, New Road, when a
young man, said to be well connected, came
up to them, and after few impairment OBJ.
servations in reference to their crinoline.
seized the ladies' petticoate, cut through
their underclothes and a handsome netted
crinolne, tearing the latter habifiment
completely off. He then ran away, but was
afterwards taken into custody, and lodged in
Bridewell. 1t appears that the man labors
under monomania, or sort Of vindictlye
feeling against crinnline.
Dr. Gaillardet, who broke a champagne
bottle over the head of the proprietor of the
New York Hotel. and was in custody for the
offence, made his escape from police officer.
on Saturday evening. 1t seems that the doc
tor was permitted in company with the DO
hceman to dine with some friends at French
restaurant. He got up from the table, beg.
ging to be excused for one moment, went
out, leaving his hat, and, though the police
man waited some time for HIM, he did not
come back. The policeman neglected to give
notice of the escape for two DAYS, so that the
prisoner had had ample opportunity to place
himself in safe quarters.
In crossing the plains from Mendoza to San
LUIS South America, Lieut.. STRAIN met an
intelligent American, who had crossed the
Andes. and pushed his way thus far into the
unfrequented regions of the South. The pur.
suit OF science, Strain supposed, had led an
ehthuslatlc votary to undertake this distant
tour into the semi civilized region, Great
was his astonishment to find that the travel
er was an agent for an American patent med
icine
lhe Prussian forger. Deslng, blew out his
brains at Memphis, Tenn, one day last week,
HIS wife, jolly danseuse, was in expecta
ton OF his return to Paducah, KY, but as
soon as she heard of his death, she thought
OF ready consolation, and got married the
same day to young fellow, one among her
newest acquaintance.
Cesar, said aplanter to his negro, climb
up that tree and thin the branches The
negro showed no disposition to comply, and
being pressed for season, answered :-"Well.
look heah, massa, if go up dar an fall down
and broke my neck dat be a tousand dollars
out Of your pocket. Now, why don't you
hire an IIishman to go up, and den il he falls
and kills himself, dar won't be no loss to no.
body.
The Now York burglars are ferocious fell
lows. Two of them, discovered by watch.
man In Elbridge street, rushed upon him,
struck and shot at him with pistols, and after
severely injurng him, fed. He made good
fight with his club, and in the way of spoils
secured their caps, portions of their weapons
and the abandoned stolen property.
A Ceylon paper contains an account of
some brick-making works, which turn out
about 10000 bricks day, six miles from Co.
lombo The clay for brick making is prepar.
ed by elephants. The wild and tame work
together, and both attempt to sbrk the work
by endeavoring to put their feet in old foot.
prints, instead of in the soft, untrodden mud.
The house and barn of Capt. Nathaniel
Thorp, at Rock Valley, in Southampton, Ms,
were destroyed by fire on the night of the
10th inst, together with several hundred
bushels of grain, quantity of hay, six COWS,
pair of horses, one yoke of oxen and a bull.
Loss about $4,000; insurance $ll0O. The
fire is believed to have been set.
Hugh Haslitt, a white man, for enticing
and persuadlng slaves to run away from Dor
chester county, Md, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for forty-fve years.-At the
last Amherst court, negro girl was sold for
the very high price of Sl475. She belonged
to the estate of Miss Sampson, of Amherst
county.
At Greenfield, New York, Albert Close
sent his daughter twelve years old, into the
corn barn to scare out the squirrels, while he
stood outside and shot them. One cbaroe
went though the barn and wounded the child
so that she died in few hours.
AS the peaple of Indiana talk of AMENDING
their present free and easy divorce laws. il Il
suggested that those who want divorces
should apply soon, and that perhaps the rail.
roads might be induced to run special train,
at reduced fare for the unhappy moted.
Daring the cold snap last week, Mr.. John
Combes and his wife, Of Palmer, visited Bel.
eherown with their infant closely wrapped
in shawls to protect it from the cold. al III,
end OF the journey the heart stricken parents
| found their child dead. II had been smoth.
cred.
Peter Cram was fishing, and Huldaf
jerks was sitting on the log beside him.
"Huldah," said he, 81 wish | was fish and
you was a bait--how ia bite"
Rev. Alpheus Harding Of New Salon. n
| passing Though dark passage. a few dav,
eince. stepped on fork aud Que of the prong,
| passed through his foot.
Mrs. l.. IL. Sigourney of Hartford has fur.
nished fifty poor families with turkeys O,
fowls, and pumpkin pies, of the best quality
too, for Thanksgiving dinner.
Among the VOWS that man has to max,
In Japan when he is married, is one that h,
will find plenty Of tea and rice for his viii,
during her life.
A lawyer asked Dutehman in cour
what ear marks pig had that was IN dispute
"Vell, he had no ear marks oxcept a yer,
| short tail" he replied.