Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-24

James Fogg of Northampton was
badly gored by an enraged BULL on Tuesday,
destroying one eye and otherwise injuring
him.
The Inequalities extended to the
Montreal soldiers at Portland, Me-, seem to
have been rather exuberant. ior, on Wednes-
day, during a review, three persons were shot,
one OF them quite dangerously, by random
discharges.
In Lafayette, Indiana, they have a gi-
gantic Indian on exhibition. He is nineteen
years of age, stands seven feet, seven inches
in his moccasins, and weighs four hundred
and eighty six pounds.
A few days since a young daughter
of George S. Underhill of Chester, n H.,
was picking black berries, and was bitten by
spider on her great toe. The foot swelled,
extending up her leg; erysipelas set in, and
she died.
The Cuthbert (ia) Reporter says
that two brolhers-in- law, VIM. Willirous and
9. c. Watson, quarreed in the streets of that
town on the llth instant, when Watson was
shot twice by Willirous, which caused his
death In fifteen minutes. The coroner's iury
found that Willirous had acted in self. defense
A numerous tribe of Gipseys are en-
camped near Buffalo, and are being visited by
large numbers of the curious in that city
They aIe from Cornwall and Lancashire,
England, and are waiting for large de-
tachment, (some three hundred) of the tribe.
to join them from the {" old country
The Daily Ledger of Leavenworth
City has been informed that immediate an.
plioation will be made to Gov. Denver to call
an extra session of the Legislature of Kanzas,
in order that steps may be taken for the form
alton OF another Constitution for the Terri
tory.
The latest trick of the New York
pickpockets, is to surround the person they
wish to fleece, and while one blinds him by
throwing snuff in his eyes, the other rifles his
pockets. This operation was successfully
tried on Hibernian on Saturday, near the
Battery.
Louis XIII, coming from the council
with Richelieu, whose opinions had Just over
ruled those of the king, the latter stood aside
to let the monarch pass. care We not master
here 2 said the king, pushing him angrily.
$50 before me-" ~ can only do SO . re-
piled he adroit courtier, taking a torch from
one OF the pages, "by assuming the duties OF
the humblest Of your servants"
The inhabitants of Brandon, Vermont.
claim for Thomas Davenport, deceased, and
formerly resident Of that town, the honor
OF beng the Giscoverer of the electro magnetic
principle, During the process of his expert
ments he was visited by Prof Morse, who
witnessed the operations of his battery, and
consulted him in regard to it.
A slave mother in Florence. XIV. a
few days since, took her aewly born infant by
the heels and beat its brains out, and then
concealed 1t beneath some rails, where it was
discovered. The mother acknowledged her
quit, and gave as reason for the murder of
her infant, that she would not raise up chill
dren to work for others all their lives
At East Killingly, Conn on Sunday,
the Sth inst, two men entered the house of
Mr.. Cutler. and alter making some disturb.
ance, passed on. MIR. Cutler borrowed a
gun, and when they returned shot one of
them, an Irlshman, SO that he now lies in a
critical condition.
A boy named Mclaughlin, residing
In Masarois, lett home last week in company
with an old man who had obtained a bottle of
rum from the boys mother. A few hours
after their departure the man and boy were
found lying in ditch beside the road, dead
NtNHA' Inc OOg was carried nome, where he
died-literally killed by rum, furnished by
his own mother.
Tuckerman's ravine is one mile south
Of the top of Mount Washington, and in that
deep, dark, wild gorge, two thousand feet
down, pile of snow may be seen five hun
dred feet long, two hundred feet wide, and
forty feet deep. Through this pile of snow
runs the stream that makes the 9" fall of a
thousand streams" and this stream has worn
an arch through the snow one hundred and
htty feet long, thirty feet wide, and twenty
feet high. Fancy party driving in that wild
grotto with thunder cloud and hail storm
passing IN midsummer.