Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-04-30

IL Is Sdlu IudL the amount IOunQ IN the
letters addressed to the bogus lottery con-
Germs in New York exceeds $50, 900. These
were lotteries that were not drawn they
were wholly impositions, and the money sent
from all parts of the country, shows how ca
silly the eagerness for the acquisition of UNI
earned wealth can deceive men who are ordi-
narlly shrewd on general matters. These DO
gus lotteries are but one class of the swim
ding concerns that impose upon the credu-
lous. The mails are loaded with their circu-
lars, and their victims are in every part of the
country. Some of them are styled gift enter
prises, and all of them promise what are
so seldom met with, very large returns for
very moderate investments About sixty
dealers in these promises were arrested in
New York by the police last Tuesday, and as
many more were spotted.
"The number of Custom House off,
GERS for the port of Portsmouth is twenty
one, including eight inspectors. The amount
paid by the government to these officers for
one year is $l0,973,65. Amount of reven-
ne collected last year 81 500, as will be seen
by the report ct the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, at an expense to the Government over
the revenue collected of $6,s73,65.
The Detroit Free Press states that the
bones and clothing Of a man which were
found in the woods sixteen miles from that
city, two weeks ago, have been ascertained to
be the remains of John Hickey, railroad
conductor, who was murdered and robbed of
large sum Of money in August last, and the
police are on the track of the man who prob
ably murdered him.
The Governor of Wisconsin now gets
yearly income of $1,000. A proposition
having been recently introduced in the Lesis-
lature to increase the salary 10 So, OOO Gov.
Randall notified the members of that BODY
that If adopted, he would veto the measure.
whereupon the proposition was dropped.
Gov. K. is rare specimen of an office-holder.
A bill has been reported upon favor
ably by committee Of the Legislature. for
the removal of the seat of government of
Pennsylvania, from Harrisburg to PMladel-
phia. 1t provides for the removal in Deem
Der next of all the State offices to the city,
and the next Legislature, and all succeeding
ones to meet there.
One of the pastors of Hartford. Ct.
says that within the last four or five weeks
more than one thousand persons have called
on him to converse on the subject of religion
This reminds one of Whitefeld's week in
AohAOAg WACA A0 IcCtlN6Q q Thousand letters
from persons anxious about their souls.
A short time since slave woman and
her three children passed through Cincinnati
on the way to Canada via the U. G. Railroad.
1t is said the owners of the slaves have dis
covered that lady furnished them with their
tickets, and are now searching for her. with
the intention of proceeding against her under
the Fugitive Slave Act.
The Duke Panl, the distinguished
traveller, an uncle Of the King of Wurtem.
berg, arrived in Cincinnati from the West,
and left few days ago, for New York, en-
route to Australia. Although sixty. one years
OF age, he is still hale and hearty, and has
probably travelled over as much of the habita-
bic globe as any man living.
Joreph Clayton died in Trenton. N
j., last Thursday, aged over one hundred and
seven years. He was an active young man OF
twenty-five years of age when the Declare.
ton of Independence was made.
A Miss Gray, of Brighton, Monroe
county, N. Y. on returning home from ar
exhibition at the Academy, found the door
locked. and attempted to get into the hous,
through the window, when the sash fell upon
her neck and caused her death.
The revival that has extended so wide
| ly over the Atlantic States has manifested
itselfin California, where the attendance at tn,
churches has increased, and much religious
feeling has been awakened.
Another slave State is about to BE-
invaded by the adherants of free labor. On,
evening last week a number of New Yorker
met at the Westchester House to organize
| plan Of emigration into Eeastsrn Tennessee
Between forty and fifty entered their name
and joined the emigration society.
At Bedrock, Illinois, a little son o
Mr.. Etchelberger was thro wing parched corr
into his open mouth, when grain lodged il
his windpipe, causing his death in few mo
ments.
Asa Raymond and wife of Shutes
bury, parents Of q. H. Raymond of Green.
field, are aged respectively % and 90 years
and have passed II years of married life to
gether-living in shutesbury for 70 years.
The Wisconsin Board of Education
recently resolved ito erect a building lnrp
enough TO accommodate five hundred student
three stories high"
The oldest clock in America is one il
the Philadelphia Library, which is nearly tw,
centuries old. TWAS made In London. keen
good 'time, and is said TO have been owned b,
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