Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-30

Among the Americans at Rome, at
last accounts, were DIR. George Hayward of
Boston, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author,
and Miss Mitchell, the astronomer of Nam
tucket.
So say the papers of last week. If true, the
'last accounts" from Rome must have been
long time back, for Miss Mitchell has been at
home something like two months
Gen. Cass is stated by Forneys Press
to be worth $4,000, 900.
Louisa Pyne, the English cantatrice,
has made fortune, it is said, of nearly $780,
600 in three years.
In the city of Milwaukee, Wis, the
people are taxed at the rate of 50 81 for eve
ry man, woman and child, for city purposes
alone. The debt of the city is $3.50, $50
A fatal case of yellow fever has &C.
Cured at Hoboken, N. Y. The victim, Pat
rick Mccullough, was carpenter on board the
steamship Philadelphia, from New Orleans.
A London letter says that the name of
the new colony on the Pacific has been
changed from New Caledonia to British Co.
lumbia.
In the cheapest lodging houses in
New York, there are no beds in the apart
ments, but the occupants lay upon the floor
in limits marked out by chalk,
At Bertrand, Wisconsin, few DAYS
ago, boy of about fourteen years stabbed
and killed his sepfather because he attempt
ed to chastise him.
The shipment Of blackberries alone
from Madison, Ind, the present season,
amounted to nearly seven thousand bushels,
for which $l0,557 was paid out.
Alexander Penault was recently SEN
fenced to two years imprisonment in the
Penitentiary, at Montreal, Canada, for steal
ing too pence from the poor box of the Ca
thedral, in that city.
John H. w. Hawkins, one of the
original Washingtonian temperance men, and
for many years a temperance lecturer, died
suddenly at the residence Of his son, at Par.
kersburg, Pa. on Thursday, OF cholera NOR
bus. He was about sixty years of age.
Brigham Young is said to be worth
$30,OO0,0O0, besides having control of all the
church pr operty in Utah, The latter exceeds
in value all the rest of the property in the ter
ritory and is exempted from taxation by the
territorial law.
Lieutenant Bergman, in 1853, made
a sounding in the Atlantic Ocean 80 600 .eet
in depth, equal to little over IA miles.
And Captain Denham, of the British Navy,
has obtained soundings at the vast depth of
As, 2S6 feet, or about s ga English miles.
AS two children were playing together,
little Jane got angry and pouted. johnny
said to her "Look out, Jane, or I'll take a
seat up there on your lips" "Ihen," re-
piled Jane, cured of her points, "Ill laugh
and you'll fall off,
A genuine whale, forty-four feet iu
length, has this week astonished the people
of Virginia by making its appearance in the
Chesapeake. After shooting it repeatedly
from boat, and lancing it with a sword, they
succeeded in killing it, and dragging it
ashore, where it was examined by thousands.
General Cass's daughter, just married
at Bloomington to the Dutch Minister, is no
chicken. A report of the wedding puts her
age at forty, and says she was dressed in
neat silk travelling suit, of the color of ashes
of roses, and light French hat of mazarine
blue.
John Buryan was kept in Jail in order
that he might not preach but by this per-
secViop he was enabled to write a book in
his prison cell, which has preached to England
FOR many generations, and which will edify
and'enlighten the world to the remotest pos
/ terity.
- The Tribune says the receipts at the
Assay Office of silver for re. coinage have of
late been quite large, beyond the capacity of
the Mint to make quick returns. Some four
hundred thousand Mexican dollars arc now
waitingThe progress Of coinage, and more will
be deposited next week. These dollars have
been drawn from Mexico mostly via Texas
and Neg Orleans.
Joseph Wild was badly scalded on
the Pacific Print Works at Lawrence, on
Monday last. lie accidental fell or slipped
into cauldron of boiling OIL, into which he
sank to his hips. Some hopes are entertained
! OF his recovery, though his injuries are very
severe About fortnight ago young man
named Patrick Daily was badly burned upon
his legs and arms, in the same room. Daily
is recovering.
The harvest moon, as one moon be-
tween August 20 and October l6, is called
every year. from its rising several successive
nights soon after sunset, and serving to
leDgthen the day for the benefit Of the reaper
is now giving US some of the finest evenings
that will be had this year. For six days the
rising Of this moon varies less than twenty
minutes daily, and us will be observed, serves
very much to retard the darkness and prolong
the day.
A few days ago we noticed house
which stands in three counties and two State,
ohio and Indiana. The Troy Budget says
the old red house standing near the line Of
the Troy and Boston Railroad, is located in
/ ftyo Stataa thraa oauntiaa aud lonr tnupua
the States Of New York and Vermont; the
counties Of Rensselaer,, Washington and Ben.
nngton, the towns of Hoosiek, White Creek,
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