Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-18

It is fact not generally known that
the manufacture of boots and shoes is the
largest domestic trade in the States. Each
New England village, town or city in which
this industry is carried on, is generally devo-
ted to one kind or style of boot or shoe and
many are built up exclusively by this special
industry. There is no country that can COM
pete with us either as it regards prices or
quality We export largely to South and
Central America the West India Islands.
and Australia The sales also to California
are very heavy.
On Saturday forenoon, Mr.. Joseph
Beadle Osborn, young man about twenty
two years of age, while adjusting O loose belt
IN the steam machinery at Mr. Edward Row
ellis Keg Factory, Salem, had his thumb
caught in the betting, So that he was drawn
up and whlrled around the shaft m ore than
hundred times before his position was discov-
cred. When released it was found that his
arm was broken in several places, but he re-
tanned his consciousness, and is likely TO re-
cover.
Late accounts from Sonora state that
a terrible state Of anarchy prevails, and the
Indians are committing unheard of atrocities.
The Gaudara party had been defeated IN bat
tie and Don Jesus Gaudara killed. The va
gui Indians had taken Vera Cruz de Mayo,
put all the men to death, shut up the wo-
men and children in the church and burned
them there They then burned the rest of
the town.
Two slaves in Gloucester county, Vir-
ginia, quarreled over cards two or three
weeks ago, and one was killed. Augustine,
the survivor, valued at 5000, and the proper
ty OF Mrs. Nancy Johnson has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree and
sentenced to rGnsporta.ion-whither it is not
stated.
The South Baptist church in Hartford
IS troublesome affair It's stone splre is con-
tinually giving way, ard for several DAYS
workmen have been engaged in preventing
It's downfall. The difficulty Just now is that
the mortar has given way and the stones are
bullying out about fifty feet from the ground.
Sir John Trollope of London recent
ly had sick horse killed. and in the centre
OF the horses heart was found embedded
shoe nail, fully two and half inches long.
1t is supposed the animal swallowed 1t wears
before, and that it had worked its way from
the stomach into the heart, where it had been
enclosed by the wound growing over it.
The Coahoma (Mississippi) Citizen of
the LIST of May informs us that a white man,
known as Joe Dono, halng from Chicago,
was tied to saplng in that vicinity, and
1ashed with hlckories for tampering with
slaves. The casugation was administered by
slave woman whom he had tried to induce
to run away.
A yellow wolf was killed in Belleyiew
Valley, Iron county, Mo-, last week, which
measured five feet four inches from the nose
to the tail, was three feet in hight and its
foot, with the claws, was five inches in length.
The "varmint' had killed one hundred sheep
in the county.
A young man named William Rock
er, a printer belonging in Houston, Texas.
accidentally shot himself with pistol in
richmond. he was taking his pistol out of
his trunk, when the hammer caught ON the
SIDE OF his trunk, and discharged it, the bull
let entering his left breast and causing almost
immediate death.
Jacob Willick, who has gone mad
with religious excitement at Alilersburg.
Ohio, conceIves that the salvation of the
world depends upon burning up meeting
houses, and has been caught attempting to
set fire to several.
The Columbia Statesman saws that
" old as Mr.. Buchanan is, he has great deal
of electricity in him." We should saw he
has about the same amount of lightning In
him that there is in the tail of fire.Ay. =.
Louisville Journal.
Bennett Tyler, d. d., formerly Presi-
dent OF Dartmouth College, died suddenly at
East Windsor Hill, Connecticut on Friday
evening, aged seventy-six years.
The damage to the sugar crop of Lou
isiana, by the Bell crevasse alone, is estmat-
ed at not less than SO 900, 900. Probably the
| Lebranch crevasse will cause more.
The first wine fair of Missouri opened
at st. Louis on Wednesday. About seventy
! specimens were exhibited, contributed by the
following States: Illinois, New York, India.
ma, Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Missouri.
"A number of anti-rent cases were de-
cided last week by the Supreme Court, in ia
vor oil Van Rensselaer,. the landlord. The
cases were brought to recover possession un-
der the eJeetment, and rents under covenants.
A three story stone house in Phila-
delphia, fell in with a crash on Thursday,
burylng two children Of Hugh Sweeney, who
occupied II, in the ruins. One of them died
Anew minutes after being taken out.
Lizzie Marshall, alias Anna Garland,
the woman who was shot by Goodwin in
Philadelphia, is in a fair way Of recovery her
wounds not being 80 serious as was at first
supposed.
A destructive tornado visited the
counties OF Howard, Baltimore, aud Hartford,
Maryland, on Tuesday last, doing immense
damage to buildings, woodlands, fences,
crops, sc. No lives were lost.
The Planet, from Africa, arrived at
Salem on Thursday last brought home an
African tiger aud the Heniico, from Para.
on Saturday, had on bouFd several boa con-
suic,ors.
The earnings Of the Erie Rail Road
for the month Of April 1853, were $54s,-
05S 81 April, 1907, S526,O2O 4O-increase
$1,000 IA.