Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-25

A female aStrologlst was arrested in
New York last week, for practising her arts,
and the investigation showed that her re-
ceipts were from $50 to $75 day. Her Gus.
toners were all ladies-who were in quest of
husbands, ladies who were about to leave
their husbands for other men, ladies who
wanted information as to where their hus-
bands spent their evenings, and whether they
were attached to any other women or not.
They kill each other by wholesale in
Texas. AT Birch Creek, on the 18th ult.,
John w. Kirsky killed B. A. Shaw with a
bowie nnife, afterwards killed his brother
Jonathan Shaw, as he was approaching to re.
lieve his brother, and finished by fatally stab
bing Thomas M. Hughes, a brother-in -law of
the murdered men, because he demonstrated
with him for the crime. On the next day,
Kirsky himself was found dead near the spot,
with eighteen buckshot in his body.
At Bristol, Rhode Island, on Thurs
day, Mr.. William Mcclure and several others
attempted to catch fierce bull which they
wished to slaughter, and which had broken
loose, when the animal struck Mr.. Mcclure
with both horns, breaking both the mans
collar bones, and rendering him nearly sense
less. Four bullets were lodged in the animal
before he fell. The escape of Mr.. Mcclure
was wonderful.
The $4,000 were stolen from the
Buffalo banking house recently by the use of
chlorotorm upon the sleeping clerks. The
thieves Supplied the young men, took the
keys Of the safe, and then helped themselves
to the money, but overlooked bag of $4,000
in gold The clerks were very giddy in the
morning, but soon found out the loss.
The New York Court of Appeals has
decided that Cancemi, the Italian, who was
convicted of murder, is entitled to new trial
on the ground that the jury which convicted
him comprised but eleven persons. Cancemi
and his counsel consented that he should be
tried by eleven men, but not liking the YER
dict, moved for a new trial.
The New London Chronicle on
Thursday records the death of the recent edi-
tor and proprietor of that paper, C. f. Dam
iels, Esq, who, after a long and painful i'll
ness, died at his re dence in New London,
on Wednesday morning, in the SEVENTEEN
year of his age.
Willis, the keeper of the Broadway
gambling house, where a murder is supposed
TO have been committed, has been released
upon bail in $1,000, until the blood stains in
his house and about the cistern can be ana
lyzed.
The old vine growers of France rec
ollect that the comet of 1911 was followed by
an excellent vintage; and the comet of 1858
has brought about, they say, similar result.
| 1t is now reported that a comet would be well
coined every year in the wine districts.
The ferocious panther that has so ter
rifed the people of Gofstown and New Bos-
ton, N. H., was shot on Thursday. The
"varmint' measured eight feet from the nose
to the tip of the tail, and weighed over one
hundred pounds.
The three "nationalities" of Cincin-
matt are well defined by ward lines. AT the
late election the four contiguous German
wards gave 1919 Republican majority, the
four American wards l ,OS7 Republican, and
the four Irish wards ! 1920 Democratic.
During the late storm near the Min
nesota river, q stage coach was taken up,
carried some distance, and finally broken to
pieces by the force OF the wind.
A man in Cincinnati, named Michael
Elk, recently killed his wife because she had
the phthisie, and disturbed his sleep by hard
breathing.
Mary Murphy, native of Ireland,
died in Fall River, few days since, aged one
hundred and three years and ten months.
There has been fresh importation of
eighty camels at New Orleans, for use in Tex.
as.