Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-19
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There are in the United States seven
hundred and fifty paper mills in actual oper.
alton, having three thousand engines, and
producing in the year two hundred and fifty
millions of pounds of paper, which is worth,
say ten cents per pound, or some twenty
seven millions of dollars. To produce this
quantity OF paper over four hundred million
pounds of rags are required, one and a quar-
ter pounds of rags being necessary to make
one pound Of paper. The value of these rags,
estimating them at four cents per pound, is
over sixteen million dollars.
John Bass, who was lately hung in
Arkansas, for robbing and numbering tax
collector, confessed on the gallows, that after
leaving Alabama he murdered three men for
their money Bass murdered negro in Tus-
coloosa county some three years since, but
escaped punishment, by changing the venue
to Pickens, where he whipped another to
death, and, to escape punishment, he fled to
Arkansas, where he met the fate he so Justly
merited.
Alexander Birney, prominent citi-
zen of Hastings, N. y, was fatally injured on
Wednesday by singular accident. He was
holding drill with which hole was being
made in a rock for blasting, when the handle
of the hammer with which another man was
striking, broke, and the head few off, stiking
Mr.. Birney, with great force, in the abdomen,
He tainted, and was carried into the house,
and in spite of every effort to save him, died
on Friday.
James A. Van Worst, aged ninety-two
years, and Matthias Barhydt, aged eghty-two
years, live in Glenviile, Schenectady county,
N. Y. About week ago, Barhydt had
some hay to get in, and could get no one to
assist him. Van Worst, hearing of this, vol
unteered his services, saying, 4" / am boy
enough" and the two together took in seven
loads of hay in the afternoon.
The climate of Cuba must not be so
unfayorable TO longevity as is generally sup.
posed. The last previous arrival from Ha-
vana reported the death of Isabel Gomez at
the age Of one hundred and ten years and
now we have the Villa Clara Atboraau an
nouneing the decease "in the full possession
Of her faculties of Maria de Leon, widow
Of d. Jose Machardo, aged one hundred and
twelve years.
1t is now stated that William Saun-
ders, who murdered Peter Shorock, and near
ly killed Margaret Shealy, at Hamptonburg,
N. T., few days since, is not disappoint.
ed lover OF the girl Margaret, and therefore
his bloody deeds were not inspired by jea-
ousy. 1t is believed that his object was to
rob the house.
Messrs. Alsopp g. Son are about to
erect, at Burton-upon. Trent, England, the
largest brewery in the world. The lowest
tender, that Of Messrs. Barker & Son, Lon
don, amounting to $4l5,O00, for the erection
OF the structure, was accepted.
Mr.. James McKeown, who died in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, last week, left by
will $4,000 to the English Presbyterian
Chnrch Of that city, $1,000 to the English
Presbyterian Church at Lencock, and $1,000
to the English Presbyterian Church at Para.
disc 10 Lancaster county.
Recently, three or four vessels sailed
from the port Of st. Jago de Cuba for the
coast Of Africa, TO return with a cargo Of
slaves, under the "stars and stripes" as
| protection.