Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-26

Over 5000 children attended the va
rious Sabbath and Mission Schools IN Hart
ford on Sunday week. There has been a
great increase of scholars within the last year,
in the Hartford Sunday Schools, and it is be-
lieved that such increase has been a healthy
growth.
There are at present in the Methodist
Episcopal Conference in session at Nashville,
Tennessee, SOM. pretty lengthy specimens of
reverend humanity: Rev. Mr.. Young of
Missouri, six feet eight inches Rev. Mr.. Kel
ly of South Carolina, six feet six inches /;
Rev. Mr.. Alexander ofsTexas, six feet six
inches; and the Rev DR.. Mitchell of Alaba-
ma six feet four and half inches.
The will of. the late Charles McMick-
en-, which gives a splendid university to the
city of Cincinnati is to be contested in the
Louisiana courts, demand having been
made by certain of his heirs for a distribution
of the real estate belonging to the deceased
within the limits of that State. 1t is claimed
that the constitution and laws of Louisiana
are violated by the terms of the will, and
hence that tits void.
Recently, in Concord, N. H., "a
body was found in the river. which proved
to be the remains of an Irishman who was
one Of the several drowned during the opera
ton Of building the Northern Railroad along
the river, eight gears ago. The sand had pre-.
vented decomposition, and the freshet of this
season had brought the body to light.
The cause of emancipation is con-
stantly gaining ground in Missouri. The
Missouri Democrat and the st. Louis Intel a.
gencer, which have hitherto been its newspa.
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bany Courier, the Alexandria Delta and the
German paper in st. Louis making five Mis-.
souri, papers in all openly in favor of it.
In New Orleans, on the 10th ult., a
house was entered and robbed The burglars
escaped, but policeman who was passing,
accompanied by two bloodhounds, put the
dogs on the trail of the robbers, and arrested
them. Both culprits were pretty severely
bitten and question is arising as to whether
the hounds can be legiImately employed in
doing police duty.
A liquor dealer at Roxbury, named
Mrs. Gordon, sent for police officer on Sat
urday. and requested him to seize her stock
of liquors, as she had become so addicted to
drinking that she could not withstand the
temptation. The officer accordingly tlok pos
session of barrel of old Medford rum and
other parcels of liquor and the poorJady was
relieved of her bad spirits.
Judge Leavitt, in his charge to the
jury in the case OF Connolly, tried at Cncin-
natl for harboring fugitive slaves, said thai
"Christian charity was not within the mean
ing or intent of the fugitive slave law, and j
would not therefore answer as defence fol
violating the law" This is an admission
which shows the infamous nature of that Law
in clearer light than any of its enemies hayi
ever depicted it.
We have supposed Minnesota to be
cold, backward region. At Minnesota City
May Sd, aeto potatoes were eaten, some Q
them larger than hens eggs, and turnip wa
exhibited, also grown this spring, weighia
two and a half pounds.
The very best time to destroy cater
| pillars is about the middle of the day. The
begin to feed pretty early in the morning
and at noon are all snug in their nests, an
can be taken off in a bunch together.
Silver coin is SO plenty in New Yorl
that it Is advertised tor sale in lots of $40
and upwards, at one-half per cent discount