Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-09-21

T., to Henry Erberts, citizen of that place.
He went to the grist. mill of W. l. Weed,
with some grain, and while there, his clothes
became entanged with perpendicular shaft,
which whred him at the rate OF one hun
dred revolutions minute, and at each. reyo-
luton his body struck the wood work. The
machinery was stopped as soon as possible,
bat his bones and flesh were so broken and
bruised that he died shortly after. An in
quest was held upon the body; verdict, ''Ac-
cIdental DEATH
The Cheshire Republican reports that
in Stoddard, N. H., on the night Of the Sd
inst, the dwelling house occupied by two
unmarried daughters of the late Isaac Robin
son, was entered through a window by
rogue, who proceeded to room occupied by
the young ladies whom he had Supplied
with chloroform, and then entered on
search for the sum OF $1,000, which had
been paid to one of the young ladies on the
day previous, and which had been carefully
put away in closet. This he secured and
then disappeared without doing any further
mischief. 1t is believed there is clue to the
burglar, which will lead to his arrest
The Atlantic Telegraph Company are
selecting and classifying words most used in
communications on different subjects, and
constructing what may be called steno-
graphic alphabet of them. for the purpose of
expediting trensmissions. We hear that in
stead of taking an average of nearly two
minutes to a word, they already can transmit
two words in minute, and expect, when
they have constructed proper alphabets, and
got competent persons to use them, very much
to increase that rate.-Heyepath's Journal.
Judge Frink, New Jersey Buchanan
delegate to the Cincinnati Convention. has
written letter in which he justhes his refu.
sal TO go for a re election of a Lecompton
Member of Congress, on the ground "tAat the
course Of the administration, IN endeGvOyij1g
to force fraudulent Constitution upon the
people Of K91zas has been from the 5eqinRtaq,
~ndemocrGtic, tgrcnnicaI ind suicidal"
NJ. Jacowski, practitioner of Paris,
has revived the practice of compression as a
means Of preventing pain and in this way
several instances of entirely painless extrac
ton of teeth have been effected. The com
pressor he employs consists of two pads. con
neeted by steel spring, very much like a
hernial truss. The spring is passed behind
the head, and pads are applied either within
the meatus auditorius on each side, or behind
the rami Of the jaw, in front of the ears.
Michael Simon, of Boardman, Ohio,
counted the number of punches growing on
an Isabella vine that he set out couple of
years ago on his premises, and to his surprise
he found upon it t1O0 hundred and seventy four
punches, of large size. He had the curiosity,
Furthermore, to count the number OF grapes
on some of the punches, and found many of
them ranging from sixty to seventy each, and
one that went up as high as eighty-six grapes
to the cluster.
Hon. Thomas L. Harris of Illinois.
recently had a narrow escape from death,
having swallowed a teaspoonful Of arnica, by
mistake. AS soon as he was aware OF the
mistake, with great presence of mind he call
ed for, and drank about a quart of warm wa
ter, which Immediately disgorged the con-
tents of his stomach, and cleansed his sys.
TEN from the effects of the poison.
Bells Life in London is enthusiastic
for the American chess player. 1t says that
since the arrival of Mr.. Morphy the young
American Philidor, in England, he has play
ed constantly with all who have dared to pre-
sent themselves, and his career so far has
been one of unmixed triumph. Philidor was
about to run over TO Paris to play Harwitz,
aud from thence to Germany to encounter
Andersen.
Henry M. Bowyer, a prominent and
| highly respected citizen of Fincastle, Va.
who has been on trial for killing James Nc,
Dowell, President of the Fincastle Bank,
and the seducer of Miss Lizzie Bower.
daughter of the accused. was acquitted on
| the 10Th inst. 1t is stated that there was
loud applause in the courtroom on the an
nouncement of the decision of the magis-
trates.
The shade trees in New Haven are
| rapidly dying. Twenty-Five on Wooster
Place, some of them twenty. five years old,
| have died, and in other parts of the city trees
are either dying or have a sickly appearance.
1t is feared that the gas pipes have got out of
order and that the earth from which the roots
draw their nourishment has become poisoned.
Before Mr., Lander, the poet, left
England, he sent his collection of pictures to
Mr.. Capes, of Manchester, for sale. His col
lection had acquired falsely enough a kind
of Ieptation. The average price Of each pic
ture-pictures bearing the noblest names in
art-was under ten shillings.
In prize fight near Detroit, lately.
one mans ear was chewed off by the gentle
manly antagonist with whom he was fighting.
A spectator by way of consolation, humanely
picked the piece up wrapped it in bit OF
paper, and put it in the pocket of the owner.
The anti-Lecompton democrats Of
Berks county, Pennsy lvania. have nominated
John Schwartz as their candidate for Con-
gress, in opposition to the regular nominee
]. Clancy Jones. Lecomptonite.
A gentleman just from Western Tex
as says that the citizens in Goliad were hang
ing the horse thieves in that county by the
wholesale. He saw several hanging to trees
and the citizens and outlaws were fighting in
the town of Goliad while he was passing
through.
A Douglas paper in Illinois announc.
es that ''two young orators, the sons of die.
tinguished men, and each chip Of the old
block, have taken the stump for Mr.. Doug.
las" SO Douglass cause has been taken ur
on two chips Louisville Journal
One of our exchanges says that q
beautiful damse being asked TO waltz by !
gentleman at a ball in one Of the large town.
in New England, replied, ''No, l thank you
don't like to waltz, 1t makes me puke"
Why is Cyrus w. Field a greater re.
vivast than Spurgeoni Because he ha,
converted Great Bltein and the United
States to the rite Of close communion by i'm.
mersion.