Worcester daily spy., 1858-07-19

was broken, to which, also, the conductor tes-
titles. The cars fell about forty feet.
NEw YoRK, July l7.-Later advices state
that Mr.. aud Mrs Brown, of Iioga, are so
badly injured it is feared they will die Rev,
Edmund B. Palmer. of Boston, it is also
thought, will die. John E White, of this
city, is lying i'll a critical state.
Rev Mr. Elliott, of the Congrega-
tiona church in Stamford, Con, has been
dismissed, for endeavoring to ''get work done
on the Sabbath ungGveruaole temper-visti-
ing improper places of amusemeut- and
preaching old sermons" Mr. Elliot thus ex-
plains these charges-he called upon milli-
ner on Sunday evening, to say his wife must
have her bonnet in season for tho early Mon
day train to New York he parted a couple
OF lighting boys in the street-and when one
used profane language to him, gently boxed
his ears that he once visited Nibfo's to see
the Ravel family, and never preached all old
sermon which he had not been requested to.
The family of Mrs PHI. Pope, of
Louisville, consisting of herself, her daughter
Ella, and Miss Grier of Danvlle, who was a
guest, and house servant, were poisoned on
Monday moping, July II, by negro slave
girl, aged about II years, administering Ar.
senic by putting it into the coffee which they
drank for breakfast. Happily, the discovery
was madeln time, and all, after severe suffer-
ing, were saved from dreadful death. The
culprit confessed the crime, and implicated
two negroes as advisers and abettors.
"A gang of Texas robbers, who oper-
ated at Navarro, Limestone, Freestone. Mi
Ian, Washington Falls, Robertson, Ellis,
Hill,and Dallas counties has been discovered.
The residence OF Mr.. Graves, on tho road
from Waco to Cotsioana, was robbed by four
of the gang recen{ly-they were pursued,
overtaken end hu0g-they ''peaehed." and
told that the gang numbered some fifty or
sixty 1t is reported that two others were
hung IN Limestone county.
The selectmen of Hartford were Wis
tied on Tuesday by woman and six small
children. The mother wanted a second hind
aoa9on She had three horses with her, aud
had broken the wagon in which she emigtat
ed from Vermont, and could not travel on
without wagon. The town is out of second-
hand wagons.
The total shipment of grain to Chica-
60 this. season amo Ints to ten millions. one
hundred and ninety seven thousand, eight
hundred and eighteen bushels, which is an
excess OF five millions, seven hundred thou
sand. more than the entire shipment up to
the same time last year.
Twenty dollar bills, altered from the
Hamilton Bank, Scituate, to Traders Bank,
Newport, have been put into circulation. An
attempt was made in New York on Thursday
to put into ejaculation spurious five dollar
bills upon the Bank of Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut.
Five yonng women of company of
fourteen, who sackedsa groggery in Bristol,
Ohio, last June, were tried by three justices
for riot and acquitted, the Court deciding
that the groggery was nuisance, and the
girls had right to abate it.
John Cooke, an Ontonagon LAWYER
has been convicted of forgery, and was on
Tuesday committed to the Michigan state
prison for eight years. He studied the legal
science in Illlnpis, and was well known there.
where the end of his career does not cause
surprise.
In North Turner, Me-, an old gentle
man by the name of Caleb House. who is
now in his eighty.ninth year, the other day.
being in pursuit Of little juvenile recreation.
shouldered his axe, went to the woods. and
telled and cut and corded one cord of hard
wood. I
The mould on deeayed fruit. stale
bread, moist wood, &e., is shown by the mi
croseope to be plants, bearing leaves, flowers.
and seeds; and increasing with incredible ra.
pidity, for in few hours the seeds spring IN,
arrive at maturity, and bring forth seeds
themselves, SO that many generations are per-
iected in day.
DR.. Walker has decided to retain
the presidency of Harvard college for the
present, and the numerous candidates NAV
therefore safely repose from the labors of the
canvass, during the hot weather. DIR. Walk.
er has never officially signifed any intention
to resign.
Mr.. Samuel Woodruff and Mr. VIM.
Wright OF Hartford, were ohloroformed at the
PieTrefont House, Brooklyn, a night or two
since, and the thieves carried off $40 and a
gold watcha and chain worth 5000 from Wood
ruff and $S from Mr.. Wright. 1t is supposed
+ that large haul was expected by the thieves.
"Will saltpetre explode 2" received
another practical settlement in the late burn.
: ing oil a section OF a warehouse on London
Dock Quantities of saltpetre caused Ave
explosions, three OF which ore reported as
"tremendous' and with appalling effect"
We learn from the Niagara Falls Ga
zette that Canadian engineers have been maxi
ing surveys, within few days, for a tubular
bridge across the Niagara at that place. The
surveys are made for the proposed Southern
Railroad through Canada.
The Texas cotton crop promises a
splendid yield. The Houston Telegyaph of
the fifth announces the receipt of an omen
cotton boil from the plantation of Col. Grooe
Of Austin. county.
Equal parts of pulverised alum and
salt sprInkled upon moist cotton. and placed
in the hollow of an aching tooth. viii atom
the pain AZ once-so il is said.
The Niagara Falls Gazette saws that
the wheat crop Of Niagara county. heretofore
noted for quantity and quality, viii this year
be al entire failure. 'S'
The Queens Bench in England have
decided that III health is a sufficient excuse
for breach of promise Of marriage.
The Woburn Budget thinks there has
been considerable "wire-pulline" lately be.
tween England and the United States.
DR.. 'Syntax is Of opinion that in Cuba
the heat Of the weather must be greatly mod
iaed alter the Introduction of 30 many ooolias