Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-02
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ance was noticed about year ago. was shot
and then thrown into the well OF one of the
persons arrested about that time, on suspi-
cion of being his murderer, and that his
horse was " backed down the well alive and
! the well filed up. A large number OF per-
sons cOngregated about the well on the Sd
inst, to dig down and ascertain the truth of
the boys story. When they had dug down
about twenty-five feet, stencil arose so nau-
seating that they had to fill up tie well. 1t
was their determination, however, to dig
from the side of the we'll. But the owner
swears he will shoot any one who makes any
further attempts.
A young lady went into grocery at
Albany, called for variety of articles, and, as
they were handed to her, dropped them into
an earthen vase which she held in her lap.
After completing her business she put the vase
on the counter. and said she would call and
take it and pay the bill. The vase was after
wards found to be bottomless and the goods
missing. A worse trick is that of several
New York clerks lately, who seize ten and
twenty dollar bills offered by ladies, declare
them counterfeit, refuse to give them up, and
brighten the ladies into submission to the
robbery by threatening to call in the police to
arrest them.
The University of Berlin, Prussia, has
sustained asgreat loss in the sudden death Of
Johannes Muller, one of the greatest physio-
logical scholars of the age. He was born in
1901, in Coblentz, and since 1888 has been
attached to the University at Berlin but his
fame as a writer and scholar has spread far
beyond the limits OF his own country
Though always subject to attacks of the BRAIN
brought on most likely from overwork, he had
gone to bed seemingly in his usual health. In
the morning he was found by his son, dead.
The New York Commissioners of
Emigration, who use sulphutie ether largely
in their hospital have voted to donate $3.50
to Dr. w. L. q. Morton, as testimonial of
the great service he rendered to humanity in
the discovery of the an9sthetic agent. The
Board of Ten Governors, who also employ
the ether in their hospital, laid on the table
resolution to present $1,000 to the Doctor.
AT recent meeting of the New York
Historical Society, Rev. Dr. Bacon wrote
paper on the Languages spoken in that city,
giving an interesting account of each, show
ing its origin and character. Eight Language
es, he stated, are used in business and social
intercourse among the inhabitants, being a
greater number than in any other city in the
world.
Harrison county, Ohio, is one of the
greatest wool-growing counties in the Union.
The Cadiz Sentinel estimates the crop in that
county at four hundred thousand pounds,
which will sell for one hundred and seventy
two thousand dollars ! This is pretty extern
siVe for county of but four hundred square
miles.
-Four Roman Catholic priests in New
York, make public announcement that, by
by the permission of Archbishop Hughes,
they have organized new enterprise under
the title Of g The Missionaries Priests of St.
Paul the Apostle They propose to COM
mence their course of missions in the latter
part Of September.
John Janvrin of Seabrook, while
drunk, laid down to sleep upon the railroad
track, between Salisbury and Seabrook, on
Wednesday afternoon, and when a train
from Boston was passing he was not seen in
season to check the train until after the loco
motive and baggage car had run over him,
completely severing his arm from bis body.
A writer on the lightning-rod urges
the necessity Of closing the windows OF a
house after the outside has been wet with a
shower. The outside is then good conduc-
tor, and the dry air of the interior a non-con-
dutoT, and the chances are small that the
electricity will enter the house.
Among the arrivals in the Empire
Ters.. p eunJiuay t from S nayana' was Mile
at tho Los 9sh s'ng!hg III opera
snrce.s Sbo nm - t1 "I'h ner usual
the limited s+a+os os e nv vo''Lei' 'ouI III
grows cooIer 40 'ii0 "e9'hei
Joiil u. Wnlte, postmaster at COlfaX,
indiana was shot by Samuel Duke, and died
the reonla Vu, n,o pthe Nep' GROCERY, and
Duke fre5 into tho cro5a ,uIsaioe' men
who was onIv snoo,ator D TuGnuipS W h i
trial and tbe oficors "a IA -. 10 .eiG ior
the neonIa fron, I,,,,oh; "@ ,,?lN ""iA 10 keep
-'0'' '!Noni''s am
who bad Co.. 49, $40 S ~ 70 IL llce,
to dan,btor nf 1obn eoa paSiIs attention
V;roin;a Don" 'ln Vi huhenourg,
want ~ tbo bonso " tii' "l'I oi 'he la'her'
1yornod oar u.s. I; "a .ue la''er' ana was
advance IT,. y I'm, ous On MS perssung TO
gun, causing his death in half and bour. ~
They have b,bv os = boLu l.,
in Wasb;noton ooUrt;, ~ o. lazy uo"n
a half yea1s old ~ 0n ,oo. - ID iour ana
around tbo ohas. nnJ - S -, pa ieeI
and eiobtv. sx nounds Sne oL Injured r
Mrs. johnson, who has been offered AS per
month for the privilege of exhibiting it through
the country.
Allen MotIev a Miss;se;nr; n1o,,.o,.
anneared in tho P,ohoto 60, r. P-@'i'o,
on the 9th and TOOK 40 a. o'".,nna'i
on ", anu 'ooN me necessary steps to
his son by yellow girl, who was his slave.