Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-05

| w men you 90 TO GROWN yourself, al
ways put off your clothes; they may fit your
wife's second husband.
An Irish girl named Bridget Sullivan,
aged sixteen, was burnt to death last week in
the parish of Hanover, Conn, by the care
less trimming of fluid lamp.
DIR. Graham, who was sent to the
New York State Prison, for the murder OF
Maj. Loring in the St. Nicholas Hotel. and
was pardoned by Gov. Clark, has just been
elected City Physician by the K. N. Council
of New Orleans
The Rev. DIR. Vinton has resigned the
Rectorship of st. Paul's Church, Boston,
and accepted that of the q Church OF the
Holy Trinity" in Philadelphia. DR.. Yinton
has been Rector of st. Paul's since June,
1912.
A slave boy named Godfrey, only thir-
teeu years of age, was hung in Alabama on
Friday, for the crime OF killing child but
four years old, by blow with a Ratchet be-
cause it attempted to get hold of the string
his kite.
The postmaster Of Boston has estab-
lished boxes for he reception of letters in
forty different points of that city; four times
day, post office messenger goes around to
collect the letters from the boxes and take
them to the post-ofice; for this there is no
extra charge.
When Mr.. Stevenson was asked by
railway committee whether he could make
railway under the Alps, he replied, " Under
the Halps, mon Why, yes, l could make a
tunnel under the world, it We liked-it's
merely a question o pounds, shillings, and
pence.
Another case of hydrophobia occurred
lately at Mount Hawley, near Peoria, ILL.,
A daughter of Mr.. Tight, seven years at age,
was seized with symptoms of hydrophobia,
on the 2Sth of July, and on the Both the con-
WILSON'S were so violent that her physician
had given up all hopes OF her recovery.
The Louisville Journal states that
bloody fight occurred at a barbecue In Madi-
son county, KY, on the 26th ult., in which
three men were killed two of them named
Jones, and two named Mullen were mortally
wounded by one Halsey and his two sons.
One of the latter was arrested.
The illness Of Chief Justice Duer.
of the New York Superior Court, who has
been confined to his house for some time
with a broken leg, has taken very serious
turn. On Sunday last he was smitten with
very severe stroke of apoplexy, which left
him speechless, and there is now little hope
of his recovery.
Mr.. Ezra Holton, of Mortified, re-
Gently fell upon his scythe and cut off three
arteries upon the inside of one of his hands,
from which he bled so profusely as to endan-
ger his life. Mr.. Holton, within year or
two, was robbed by highwayman, and lost
two children and his father by death and
few weeks since nearly all the glass was bro
Ken out OF his house, and his crops were de-
stroyed by hail storm.
The New Orleans Bulletin states
that there has been within few months
quite stampede in the German Methodist
churches OF New Orleans and vicinity to-
wards Swedenborgiansm. One of the most
popular of the German preachers, Rev. ]. NJ.
Hotter, has gone over to the mystic faith OF
the great Swedish philosopher and taken
with him not few of his brethren and friends.
Samuel Phillips, a New York mer-
chant, has been arrested for endeavoring to
induce one James Smith to burn down row
OF frame dwelling houses owned by him. lin
order to secure the insurance on the same.
Smith was to be given $50 and a present, if
he succeeded. He pretended to agree to the
arrangement, and then informed the Fire
Marshal of Phillipss base designs.
1t is said that there were but two
"citizens of the United States in Mexico. to
whom the decree for the forced loan applied.
One OF these was a Russian, the other was a
Spauiard. 1t is supposed that the admins
trauon, with Its customary vigilance over the
rights OF our citizens, when invaded by fee
DIE governments with territory convenient for
annexation. will demand ample indemnity for
the immediate sufferers, and province or
two for the honor of our flag Providence
Journal.