Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-06-22


the Wabash bottoms in boats and steamers,
rep1 esents the whole valley to be lake, in
width reaching ten and fifteen miles from
shore to shore, and almost requiring COM
! pass to navigate it. He was ferried ifrom
! Nincennes to Lawrenceville, in Illinois, dis
lance of ten miles. over water, passing over
settled and cultivated section of the country,
| now submerged, from six to ten feet deep.
| These wide rich bottoms, which yield such
stores of food, and contribute so largely to
| our exports, will be barren and wasted this
Summer. Those who ordinarily supplied so
many mouths by their labor, will themselves
seek food this year from others. The amount
| of the loss is incalculable.'
Robert McAuley of Lucasville, Ohio,
has returned from California after six years
absence, but his wife says he is not Robert,
and utterly refuses to recognize him, and says
he is an imposter, and so do her brothers.
he is now in Portsmouth sick and out of
money. What adds to the mystery of the
whole affair is the seeming fairness of his
whole story. He knows all about his old
neighbors and everything about their history,
yet his family don know him. Some of the
nelghbors say it is lie, but others deny it p!
North Carolina is rather a bad place
for bigamists. AT a recent session of the Su-
preme Court of Cumberland Co., A. C. Bart
lett, convicted of bigamy, rrather quadriga-
my-the wretch had married four wives-was
sentenced to be branded on the left cheek
with the letter B, to receive thirty. nine LASH
es on his bare back, to be imprisoned thirty
days, and then to receive thirty-nine lashes
more, and to be let loose.
The students in Williams COLLEGE
have decided by vote of So to rs. that if
shall not hereafter be considered dishonorable
to give testimony against delinq uents charged
by the faculty with the destruction of proper
ty and violation Of College laws. The dam
ages inflicted during a college term Of four
years have usually amounted to $1,000, of
which the guilty party and the innocent have
had to pay the same proportion.
A railroad shanty on the banks of the
creek near Mansfield, Ohio, occupied by an
lrishman and his family, i've or six in all,
was carried away by the sream, about three
o'clock on Saturday morning, and nothing of
1t or its inmates has been heard since, The
| probability is that the shanty sunk soon after
| 1t Heated, and that the unfortunate man and
his family met with speedy DEATH
Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Lester
! Venhorn of Chcopee. in company with
Mercy ID. Aiken of New Bedford, started on
| Monday of last week for Minnesota. to meet
and marry, at Prairie du CHEN, their lovers.
M. J. Severance formerly of Chicopee, and
Mr.. Wells, law partners at Henderson, Min.
| nesota.
DIR. Erasmus D. North, who died at
| Westtield, June II, was Instructor Of Elocu-
| tlOn Nalp (ollauo fror
that time he has devoted himself to scientific
and literary studies, and has resided chiefly in
Westheld. For some time past he has been
engaged in preparing for the press an edition
OF the poems of his friend. the late DR. Perci
val to be accompanied by biographical
sketch.
A grand regatta came off last Satur-
day afternoon on Charles river, when the
Harvard, six oars, manned by students oi
Harvard college, won the first prize, making
three miles in nineteen minutes and twenty.
two seconds. The wherry race of three
miles was won by the Robert F. Clark. in
fourteen minutes and ffty-four seconds.
Senator Shields passed through Chi
cago, last Wednesday, the Tribune saws, on
his way to Minnesota, execrating the admin
istration in a fearful manner. On Illinois
politics, the General ventured the opinion
that Mr.. Douglas ought to be reelected. but
that he would not be.
A "hoss" doctor in Olean made =
bet of twenty dollars that he could remove
from any horse anything nature had not
placed on the Discriminating ringbone. spav.
In, &C. wag took the bet, showed him a
mortgage for one hundred and fiftv dollars on
a favorite horse, and pocketed the twenty dol
lars.
Hancock county, in the extreme
northern part OF the narrow strip of Virginia
territory mat runs up between Ohio and
LehhsyWania, elected republican officers at
the late election by $50 majority. Virginia
must cede that county to one of The froo
s'a'es' II she wants to preserve her purity"
Competition for the CARRYING trade Of
the drovers runs high between the Hudson
River Railroad and the North River Proneller
hhe; Inc latter has recently carried live
STOCK to New York from ALBANY free of
charge to prevent its going by the railroad.
Samuel Thorne of Thornedale, WASH
ington Hollow, Duchess county. N, Y has
nero OF only some seventy cattle, but their
cash valuation is over $4,000. For one bull
SoOOO was paid in England, for another
$oOOO, and another is almost equally valued.
1t is not work that kills men, il Is
worry Work is healthy you can hardly
put more upon man than be can bear. Wor.
/, ry IS rust upon the blade. 1t is not the revo-
luton that destroys the machinery, but the
| friction. 'A'
The extensive Touring mills of Bills.
Thayer, Usher, in Troy, New York. wa
destroyed by an incendiary fire at an early
hour sunday morning, with large ouantitv
of flour and grain loss from $3.50, 900 10 40 ,
900, insured for 1921 900.
A lively Hibernian exclaimed nj n
party where Theodore Hook shone os ,bs
evening star. "Och, Master Theodore hn,
you're the hook that nobody can bate"
A convention of delegates from the
western railroads have lately been in sessior
at Chicago, discussing the best means ~ roI
turning lost baggage. ~
The appointments for the Yale com.
mencement have just been made, Addisor
Van Name OF Binghamton, New York yaIo.