Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-23

Sir Colin Campbell is now Lord
Clydesdale.
Jenny Lind, in recent letter to an
American friend, expresses ian earnest desire
to cross the ocean once MORE"
1t was William E. Everett of New
York who invented the admirable paying out
machinery, which secured the success of the
last attempt to lay the cable.
One hundred miners and surface
hands have left the Minnesota and Rookland
copper mines, Ontonagon, for the gold regions
of Fraser river.
1t has been ascertained that it costs
$4,000 per annum to convey the mail mat
ter which the Mormon ongressional delegate
is in the habit of ranking home.
New Haven papers notice herring caught
in that vicinity which weighs forty seven
pounds. Prof Dana says it is a genuine her
ring.
Three husbands advertise their rnna-
way wives in the Baltimore Sun of the 18th
inst, while a fourth "solemnly retracts' a
similar publication.
Robert Dale Owen, the American
minister at Naples, denies the report that he
has become Catholic. Without belonging
to any religious body, he holds to the Unita
rian doctrine.
Rev. Isaiah Huntey of Essex, Conn.
was arrested on Saturday last, on charge of
fraudulently procuring land warrants, under
the bounty land act, for Messrs. Ford of Col.
chester and Lane and Lyman of Jericho
lie was taken to Windsor for trial, where the
U nited States Circuit Court is low in session.
Francis, Duke of Luxembourg, was a
celebrated French general, and much de.
formed. His uniform success when contend
ing with William III. of England rendered
him an object of jealousy to that prince, who
once in the bitterness of his heart, called him
"humpback." ''What does he know of NV
back :" said the marshal; she never saw it,"
A starch factory in New York CITY
uses daily fifteen hundred bushels of the best
southern white corn, which produces eighteen
tons of the finest starch. This starch. at the
low price of six cents a pound, would be
worth So, 100, or an annual productiveness to
the factories of about 5000 600.
Henry 7. Tuckerman, the author,
had a narrow escape from drowning, while
bathing at Newport, few days since. He
had become exhausted by over exercise in the
water, and his cries for help brought to his
aid Mr.. Staigg, the artist, who rescued him.
Mr.. Tuckerman was quite i'll for several DAYS
afterwards, but has recovered.
The Louisville Journal thinks one of
the awkwardest blunders made by the Bu-
chanan administration, was made by it when,
with the avowed purpose of encouraging the
breed OF mules, it bought four mules at one
thousand dollars apiece instead of paying the
same for four fine iackasses. Yes, but the
administration already had on hand full
supply of jackasses.
Another fatal accident occurred at
New York, ON Tuesday night, through the
carelessness of attempting to leap from ferry
boat before it can be made fast in the slip,
The victim, German, was horribly mangled,
and died in few hours. But the evil ap-
pears to be incurable, as not few of the pas
sengers made the leap, while the sufferer was
still struggling between the boat and the
bridge.
The st. Anthony Express says that a
couple of Irishmen residing a mile north of
that place. on Friday last undertook to grind
some blasting powder in a coffee mill, for the
purpose of making it fine enough to fire in
shot-guA. Of course, the friction produced
| by grinding the powder, of which there was
hall pound, caused it to explode, blowing
the coffee mill into small fragments, and Sc
verely burning the two men.
The Sage mystery is finally settled
that is, so Tar as the identity of Young sage
can settle it. The Hartford Times learns. on
what It considers good authority, that youno
Sage is now living with his father IN t,rom7
well, and that the Goodriches, in Rocky Hill
who offered to bet one hundred dollars that
he could not be produced alive, are finally sat.
ished that he "still lives, having approached
him, shaken hands with him, and gazed upon
him with their own eyes.
1t is said in apology for the president
that he had carefully prepared message in
reply to what he supposed the Queen would
send over the cable, and that what he did
send was in reply to the first sentence of her
message, which was then supposed to be the
whole, and that no wrote it off hand. Il ia
OF no consequence but the bunglng message
returned will afford the London Punch mater.
ial for months fun.
A few days since some person Mt the
Red Sulphur Syringe, Va, amused himself bv
slipping notes under the doors OF yisiters
stating that the typhoid fever had "broken
OUT there. The trick caused stampede
among the more nervous, and general cir.
eulotion of the report that typhoid fever OK.
listed at that watering place. From two hun.
dred visitors the number was red uced to forty
letter from there says, however, that the
panic is over, and about eighty of the visitors