Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-26

A family named Stearns, residing in
Counth N. Y, were recently arrested for
cruel treatment of young girl who was
bound to them, Mrs. Stearns, besides order.
ing her husband and son to administer sundrv
severe whippings, had at one time tied the
girls hands behind her, and then, with a
shoemaker's awl, pinned her up to the door by
the ear For this tendish conduct the wretch
was fined the sum OF one dollar.
The third trial of Capt. Rudolph,
who commanded the steamer Montreal. on
the occasion of the most fatal disaster which
occurred to that boat last summer, whereby
upwards OF one hundred lives were lost-bas
just been concluded at Quebec, and the re.
suit has been the same as at the former trials
the jury could not agree.
Jennie E. Kramer, daughter of Will
liam B. England, died at Pittsburg. PennsvI-
vania. last Tuesday. In playing with a bet
rabbit, few days previous she punetured
the palm Of her hand with the point of
chlld's toy sword. Inflammation supervened.
and from this almost imperceptible beginning
death ensued.
A new tribe of negroes has been dis
covered in Australia. who if the account is
to be believed, are entirely without hair
Their complete badness give them strange
unearthly appearance. at which it is said the
Balonne blacks were at first very much terri
fed.
The New York Times states that in
the supreme, superior, and common pleas
courts of that city, there are at this moment
upon the law and equity calendars, untried
and undisposed Of about nine thousand cases.
involving at least 500, 900, and very many of
these Causns over thrpa vaore oll
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
says the lake commerce of that city thus far
this season far exceeds that of any previous
year, and "we have every reason to expect
to record at the close of navigation an in
crease of at least one-third in the -four and
grain receipts over those of any former sea-
son."
The father of Gov. Gardner laid the
foundation of his large property by inheritng
as an eldest son, double portion of his pa.
ternal inheritance. He was born while that
old law was in force in Massachusetts.
The great overflow of waters " down
South has given the alligators widely ex.
tended territory. The New Orleans Picayatne
states that on one plantation over one hum
dren OF these amphibious monsters have been
killed.
The New Orleans Delta of the 18th
inst, says that up to that date but twenty
five deaths from yellow fever had occurred in
that city.
1t is reported that DR.. Brooks. late
Superintendent of the State Almshouse at
Monson, has received an appointment in New
York to take charge of one of the public in.
situations OF that city.
The young lady up town, who burst
into tears" the other day. has been nut to-
gether again, and is now wearing hoops to
prevent recurrence OF the accident.
There are now in the United States
hundred and twenty-four colleges and uni
versllies, with an aggregate number of stu
dents of fourteen thousand.
ANY son of Crispin may find work in
Weldon, North Carolina, for there is not a
boot or shoemaker in the town, nor il there
any within eight miles OF it.
The Harvard boat Iris has been pur-
chased for SlSO, by company OF Irishmen
AZ Springfield, who are bent on teating the
Yankee clubs,
A white robin, something new under
the sun, says the Salem Observer, was OBJ.
served recently, on two or three successive
days in garden in that city.
Moses M. Fuller, who stole the $4,000
package at hotel in Hartford, some time
since, has been sentenced to three yoars IN
the State Prison.
Nearly twelve hundred thousand con-
les Of Webster's Spelling Book were sold bv
ono firm in Boston last year.