Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-10


Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt
has broken up her establishment at Dresden,
and viii locate permanently at villa near
London.
The editor of the Indianola (Texas)
Courier says he has in his office French SUI
gar beet weighing sixty younds, measuring
yard in length ..
In several of tine towns in the west
ern part of Franklin county. there has been
no rain for three weeks, and the grass and
other crops are in suffering condition.
The Bangor Wing says the Penobscot
Indians are now doing smashing business
in manufacturing hoops for ladies' dresses,
out of basket stuff The red ladies have also
adopted the fashion in its greatest amplitude.
DIR. Ephraim W. Fellows, CHARGED
with robblng the Post Office at Buffalo. N.
| Y, was convicted last Thursday, at Canaan
daigua. The least term of Imprisonment for
the offense is ten years
An annual report states that two hum
dred and thirtysix persons were killed, and
seven hundred and thirty-eight injured on
railways in the United Kingdom in 1857 of
| whom torty-elght killed and six hundred and
torty-six were passengers.
Andrew Potter was instantly killed at
New London, Ohio, by the premature dis
charge of a cannon which he, with several
others, was firing in honor of the fourth.
The New Bedford Standard learns
that son of Jeduthun Spooher, about six
| years OF age, was SO badly injured by e crack
er, at Acushnet Village, on the 9th, that he
will lose the sigh of both eyes.
The Northampton Courier says that
the frogs in that region are in danger of be-
coming extirpated. A number of epcures
have been hunting for them, to be used as
family food-one of whom recently bagged
eight pounds of rear legs at one trip.
The Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Democrat
says that Elihu ID. Green of Bradley county.
who was tried for the killing of Whitesides
and acquitted, was few days since shot dead
within few steps of the spot where. he
| killed Whitesides. 1t is not known who
| killed.
Hume the American medium, was to
be married in few days at st. Petersburg.
His bride is Miss Knoll, sister-in law of the
Count houcheet Besborodo, one of the rich
est of Russian noblemen, from whom she
gets large fortune.
/
the Revolutionary war, died recently in Ell
bert county, Georgia, at the advanced age of
one hundred and seven years. He was pres.
ent at the battles of Eutaw Springs, Guilford
Court House, and Brandywine.
Archbishop Hughes wishes to erect a
cathedral in New York, and has addressed a
circular to one hundred of the wealthiest Ro-
manists in that city, asking for contribution
OF $1,000 from each, wherewith to commence
the work. The building is to be three hun.
dred and twenty-five feet long, ninety-seven
feet wide and one hundred feet high upon the
inside,
Two men at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
were lately buried thirty five feet deep IL a
well, by its cayngin. Active measures were
taken TO relieve them, and after working
over twenty hours, they were heard to saw,
I'VE are both alive work away" Food
and water were sent down to them, and after
twenty-six hours, they were brought out safe
and sound.
Early on Monday morning, Capt. Ber-
ny of the Salem Police, with assistance, ar
rested two young men named Alpheus b.
Hay and George w. Knowlton, while en-
gagged in plundering the store Of William
Purbeck, In chat city. Upon their persons
"N.S ANNf'N thiuo PiptOAeB biiSo iOHB hhlNob,
and large assortment Of burglars tools.
The robbers were lodged in Jail.
DR.. William Henderson, of Bucksport,
Maine, extracted on July 4th, by surgical
operation, from the cavity Of the abdomen of
Miss Nancy Jane Shut, OF Stockton, Maine,
eleven aud q halt gallons of water, resembling
soap suds, weighing ninety pounds. The
liquid had been accommodating fol four or five
years. She bore the operation well, and
when finished said she felt so ligat she could
almost fly.
A young man, named Healy, residing
in Falsington, Bucks county, Pennsylvania
was almost Immediately killed, day or two
since, by a moving machine, which he was
operating. II appears that something had cot
wrong with the knives, in attempting to 6x
which, Mr.. Healy sat down in front Of them.
The machine was in gear at the time, and
something occurring which started the horses
the unfortunate man was literally cut to ME.
ces in an instant. Both Of his legs were cut
off above tho knees.