Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-09-03

10 nave run aground and got caught in New
Haven harbor on Monday.
A two story passenger car has been
invented at Philadelphia. The upper story
is reached by small winding staircase from
below 1t is not accessible to passengers in
crlnoline, but is intended for the use Of smo-
kers
James Quigley, a straggler, with a
jug of rum, took lodgings with Phineas
Owen Of Westield, and while putting piece
OF potato into his mouth, at breakfast, fell in
fit, and died.
The Troy Wing says there is residing
in that city a young mechanic, who claims 70
have constructed telegraph apparatus which
will transmit words with twice the velocity
that the Hughes instrument is capable Of
BY the premature dischare of can
ron in Brandon, Vt, on Wednesday, Edward
Gully lost an arm and George Rutlidge an
eye-victlms of cable enthusiasm.
J. D. Lathrop, beginner in trade at
Greenport, went to New ork to purchase,
and while hearing Woods Minstrels had his
pocket book stolen, containing $l,629.
Henry L. Ellsworth, formerly COM
missioner of patents, and since great farmer
in Indiana, has purchased residence in
Fair Haven, Ct, and returns to his native
state to spend the remainder of his life
A duel was fought in Mississippi last
month by S. Knott and A. w. Shot. The
result was Knott was shot. and Shot was
not. In those circumstance we should rather
have been Shot than Knott.
Letters received from Birmingham
represent MIR. Sheridan Knowles, the emf.
nent dramatist, in dying state, but faint
hopes being entertained of his ultimate re-
coyery.
On Sunday afternoon, a woman nam
ed Mccarthy, who was shut in a room in the
the fourth story Of the Hartford almshouse
for being disorderly during religious services,
jumped out the window and was killed
her neck was broken.
The fourteen locomotives which blew
their whistles at Syracuse, in honor of the
cable, So astonshed a horse, three or four
miles off, that he fell on his knees. and re-
manned there until the whistles stopped, not
withstanding every effort to get him up.
A correspondent of the st. Louis Re.
publican says the Utah mail encountered mil
lions of butfsloes, feeding upon the luxuriant
grasses of the plains, blocking up the high
ways so as to delay it, while deer and ante
lopes were more numerous than ever seen be-
fore.
AT Monticello, Kentucky, Travis Tur-
ner was engaged in a tight with another man.
who started to run away. Travis threw
stone at him, which missing its intended vic
tim struck Thomas Bates on the head, killing
him instantly.
By recent DEGREES of the King of Port
ugal, slavery is abolished at Macao, and in the
African province Of Angola, and is prospect
lively abolished in all the remainder Of the
Portuguese Colonies, the children of female
slaves hereafter horn being declared to be en-
Titled to their freedom on reaching the age of
twenty years,
A Vigilance Committee has been es-
tablished in Shelby county, KY They order
white men and free negroes who have been
concerned in evil deeds, to leave the county
within three days. Any property belonging
to white man, is to be appraised by three
disinterested persons, and the price paid over,
after such person has been directed to leave
the county. Slaves who are vicious must be
removed, also, from Shelby county, by their
masters.
The judges appointed to decide as to
the merits OF the steam ploughs tried at the
Royal Agricultural show at Chester, Eng.
land, have unanimously awarded the prize
of $500 to Mr. Fowler. 1t is beyond aues
ton, they say, that Mr.. Fowler's machine is
able to turn over the soil in an efficient man.
ner at a saving, as compared with horse labor.
of, on light land 2 IL to % per cent on
heavy land, 25 to 80 per cent. and in trench
ing, so to So per cent; while the soil in all
cases is LETT in more desirable condition, and
better adapted for all the purposes of hus.
bandry.
A few weeks since Mrs. Bosustow.
from England, met at Cleveland man nam.
ed PAUL, whom her brother had been accused
of numbering in England. That brother had
been for eleven years insane on account Of the
suspicious excited against him. and the sister
persuaded PAUL. TO return with her TO Eng
land to see what could be done for the restor-
alton of the unfortunate man. Accounts
since received say that they found the brother.
Clyma, in an insane asylum, that his reason
returned and he recognized them, and then
soon died. The sister had at least the salts
faction of vindicating the reputation of the
poor victim of mistaken public opinion.
John G. Bishop, said to be an able
lawyer, committed land frauds in Chicago to
the amount of 100000. and successfully
eluded capture since April last. A large re-
ward was offered Tor his arrest, and he was
taken on the 10th ult., while crossing an Iowa
prairie on foot, leading horse upon which
was strapped a large bundle containing his
papers. His beard and hair were very long.
and he had probably been endeavoring to es-
cape detection by wandering upon tho from
tier. And he is likely to wander again for
near Usage, while his captors stopped at a
tavern TO light their cigars, of course, he
sprang from the wagon and escaped.
The Bonham (Texas) Independent
tells Of horse which escaped from his own
er in May last, aud was found seven weeks
afterwards, mile and half from the house.
He had about twenty feet of rope tied to his
neck when he got away, and this had become
fastened to bush, and kept tho horse all that
time. The horse had only twelve feet Of the
lariat TO play upon. lie had bitten off two
elm snplings four inches in diameter, and eat.
en- the stumps to the very ground, and also
the trunks and limbs as far as his tether
would ronch No rain had fallen during the
period to wet the ground, and in the last four
weeks 1t had not even sprinkled. The horse
was an " American one. of good size and
fat when he escuped-when found he was a
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