Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-06

A club of jolly fellows recently formed
what purported to be Lodge of the Sons of
Malta. One of the initiated, however,
spoiled the fun by exposing the /" SELL He
states that after being initiated, he signed
what was represented as the Constitution of
the Order, but which turned out to be moth
ing more nor less than an order for a keg of
lager bier, upon one of the town brew ers.
The club had been indulging in lager, at the
expense of the new members, for several
weeks-but since the g blow" they have fal.
len through.
A letter dated Fernando Pc, (Coast
of Africa May Sd, says-"We are eli in an
uproar here A Spanish man-of- war, with
new governor on board, several priests, &C.,
arrived here few days ago. and the first
thing the new governor did was to publish
proclamation prohibiting any person going to
church or chapel, excepting the Roman Cath
olics, and no school to be allowed. This has
made the people here almost mad, for they are
nearly all Baptists."
The injuries which U. S. Senator
Chandler OF Michigan received on Monday
evening, by the explosion of gas at his resi-
dence in Detroit, were severe burns in his
face and hands. A gas pipe had been LETT
open by the workmen, and while Mr.. Chand-
Ter YVES engaged with light in endeayoring to
close it, the gas exploded.
1t is said that the Sergeant-at-Arms at
Washington has had allowances made him
during the last session amounting to 1926 900.
He is allowed ten cents mile for travelling
expenses while Supporting witnesses. AS in.
terpreted at Washington, he may sit in his
Office in that city and charge the travelling
expenses to every copy of subpoena he
serves out.
Young Mr.. Pope, of Cass county, Mis-
soari, went with another person IN pursuit of
horses that had been stolen from his father,
and upon arriving in Bates county, they were
both taken prisoners by the horse thieves,
who assassinated young Pope, and fred upon
the other man, but he escaped by running
and concealing himself, it being dark at the
time. The murderers alleged, in excuse,
that the parties had been concerned with
Montgomery's band in Kanzas.
Last Sunday Mr.. Edward Gibson,
while walking over the Granite Railway
quarry, in Quincy, killed a yattlesnake that
measured four feet in length, and nine inches
in circumference. Seventy.two juvenile
snakes, each eight inches in length, which
squirmed out of the parsntss bosom, where
also despatched.
The magnificent equestrian statue Of
Washington by Clark Mills is nearly com
pleted. 1t is proposed that the inauguration
of the statue shall take place in Washington
cityi on the next anniversary of Washing.
toms birth day, February 22d. Much diver.
sity of opinion exists as to the proper loca.
ton for the statue.
John Smith, who was convicted at
York, England, Of throwing vitriol at Hull,
upon Jaue Elizabeth Turner Robinson, has
been sentenced to fifteen years penal serUit,lde.
In this country vitriol throwers are cent ia
the house of correction for few months and
then pardoned.
The Star of Egypt, the Buchanan Or
gan of Southern Illinois, says that the whole
body OF national Democratic papers of Ili-
nois, with an unprecedented unanimity, have
taken up Judge Breese for the United States
Senate, and that "he may now be considered
the party candidate for that high office"
A correspondent of the Montreal Pilot
states that the fact that gold existed at Frazer
river was known years ago to the Hudson
Bay Company officials, but the knowledge
was carefully concealed lest it might interfere
with their monopoly of the fur trade.
Ladies don't know whether they like
smoking or not. With special favorites, they
like it; with general i,,yortes, they dislike
it; and with no fayorites, they detest it.