Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-12

A meeting of the American wine
growers was held at Latonia Springs near
Cincinnati, on the 5th, when DR.. Mosher
stated that Cincinnati was really the head
! quarters for pure wines of American growth.
for which he hoped soon to see her as famous
as for pork and whiskey. The membe who
| were present then proceeded to taste and
| pronounce upon several samples, the figures
| 100 denoting the highest excellence, and
several came close upon those numbers, while
| one Of the vintage of 1857 was considered the
most glorious they ever drank, being ranked
| as nigh as 1903; another was ranked lO2. Be.
| lore separating, the company drank bottle of
Catawba, upon hearing of the success of the
Atlantic cable.
A man calling himself John ]. Acton,
and protesting to be from California and vast
ly wealthy, has been elating the business men
OF Philadelphia with promises of great pur.
chasesi but only to depress them with dis
closure OF his poverty. He told them he had
house at Pittsburg which cost him $780,
600, and to farnish it he engaged $4,000
worth OF furniture, 1000 worth of plate
$1,000 worth OF carpets, and other articles in
proportion. He also dabbled in all kinds of
property and stocks. What is singular. he
did not attempt to gain possession Of any of
his magnificent purchases. The Press attri
A wealthy lady of Cincinnati, Ohio,
who has great dread of burglars, some time
ago put away valuable gold watch and
chain in bag of old rags, the accumulated
odds and ends of the sewing room. A few
days since, tin pedder called at the lady's
house, offering to exchange his ware for rags.
when the identical rag bag was produced,
bar9aIned for, weighed, and delivered to the
DedQleF. who then dnDa,tad ftar
her new tin ware, the lady suddenly reco-
lected the watch and chain, and sent to seek
the peddler In all directions, but to no effect.
1he police, however, succeeded in arresting
the TIN merchant and recovering the watch.
AT Peoria, Illinois, few DAYS since,
gentleman and lady who were riding in a
buggy to the fair grounds, were attacked by
party OF drunken females living in noto-
rlous house which they had TO pass, and the
lady vas very rudely treated, despite the eff.
forts OF her protector. The inmates OF the
house were arrested, but that did not satisfy
the indignant citizens, who gathered in the
evening, and, after removing the furniture
from the obnoxious house, which was of
brick, set it on fire, and burned and razed it
to the ground
A country editor, speaking of mem
Der of the New York assembly, saws sThe
hrst year he went to Albany he was SO con-
scientious as to utterly refuse to receive his
allotment OF stealings in the shape of books
and stationery. The next year he did not
hesitate, and finally came home, unable to
tell the truth under the most favorable cir
cumstances."
1t is estimated, says a writer in the
Evangelist, that there are more than two
thousand persons of both sexes now Temporal
rlly resident in Indiana, Iowa, and other
western states, for the express purpose of OBJ
tanning divorces upon grounds which would
not avail them in the states of their actual
residences.
Mr. Woodford Taylor, recently of the
neighborhood of fredericksburg, was brutal.
ly murdered in his own house at Gordons-
vile, Va, on the night of the lst inst
Three persons have been committed to Jail,
charged with the murder-a slave named
Frank, belonging TO Mr.. A. A. Boston, a free
man named Bushrod Jackson, and the wife
of the unfortunate victim.
The tax levy for this year in the city
of New York, has finally been fixed, and
amounts to $8,470,4Sl OF this sum there
goes directly to the State S 400 ,29O 7S.-
The Supervisors, as county officers will ex-
pend $l,576 988 96, and the Common .Coun-
Gil, through the various departments of the
city government. will dispose of SIS ,482, ,044 "A.
The company which was formed last
year for the purpose OF establishing telegraph
&c communication between the island Of Gu
ba and the American continent, have COM
Pleted their preliminary arrangements, and
are resolved to commence the work immedi.
ately.
A young man Of twenty-five recently
| died at Savannah, Ga, from excess of fat.
| he was growing at the rate of one and half
pounds per day, at the time of his death,
which was attributed to pressure of fat upon
the heart. Three days before death he
weighed six hundred and forty-six pounds.
Dudley Snodgrass and Christopher
Mesley were suffocated by foul air while clean
ing well on the farm of Mr Jordan, near Rock
| Spring, Kentucky, on the 4th inst. The
bodies were quickly drawn up, and medical
aid procured, but life was gone.
A young girl, named Catharine Coils
ton, living IN the family of Mrs. Dorland, in
Brooklyn, New York, was so severely burned
on Friday evening, by her clothes taking fire,
thVt she survived only till the next morning.
She was fifteen years of age.
The clerk Of a New York apothe-
cary has been convicted of manslaughter in
causing the death of an infant by making a
mistake in preparing prescription.
Three men who grabbed $4,000
from the counter OF the Planters Bank, Bal
timore, in March, have been arrested at
Brooklyn, N. Y. Their names are Robert
Davis, William ThedGord and William Ba-
ker.
The cotton crop of Georgia promises
to be very large. Ihe prospect in the other
Southern States is equally good, aside from
the oyerhows.
A dysentery of very violent type, is
said to prevail in several counties of Virginia.
Many childran have fallen victims.
The disease known as the black
tongue has broken out among the cattle in
the vicinity Of Mobile, and is spreading with
much rapidity.