Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-06-07

The report that an American vessel
had been fred into by British cruiser and
one man killed, IS traced to the interior of
Georgia, and as this is not precisely the direc-
ton to which we should naturally look for
maritime intelligence, the news is not regard
ed as probable. The government has not been
able to obtain any information confrmatory
of the rumor.
An Arctic tern, an exceedingly rare
bird i'll these ATTITUDES, was shotin Greenfield,
Mass last week. The bird measured four
teen inches in length, with spread of wings
of nearly three feet 1t is sort of sea swal-
low, living entirely in the air or on the water,
it's feet being mere paddles, placed far behind,
and of little use in land locomotion.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, on the 23d of
May, man by the name Of Rosseter, former
ly of Canandaigua, New York, shot James
Chantler and q Miss King, and then shot
himself. The two men Ged almost instantly,
but the lady was alive at last accounts
Chantler was Rosseter's rival for the hand of
Miss King, who preferred Chantler. Hence
the bloody deed Of Rosseter.
Tell me, ye winged winds, that round
my pathway roar, do we not know some quiet
spot where hoops ore worn no more Some
lone and silent dell, some island OF some
cave, where women can walk three abreast,
along the village pave The loud winds
Kissed around my face, and snickering, an
swered, "nary place"
Two brothers, named Cornelius and
James Gormley, the former thrty-seve
years Of age, and the other twenty seven,
were sutfocated to death, at Philadelphia,
Thursday, by being overcome with the foul
air Of well in which they were engaged at
work, and falling to the bottom OF it.
The Greenfield Gazette says that Abel
Benjamin of Montague and several others
went a snake hunting in Ewing on Friday,
and as result of their days work brought
home twenty-seyen rattlesnakes, measuring
from foot to five feet N length each.
The General Presbyterian Assembly,
recently in session in Chicago, has decided,
by vote Of l60 to So, that divorces cannot
be granted unless adultery be clearly shown,
and that any one marrying person divorced
for any other cause, is himself guilty of ad VI
terry in moral view of the case.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad is
covered with water for nearly ten miles in
Illinois, and passengers are carried to and fro
in boats. All the streams are greatly swollen,
and large tracts of country are flooded.
1t is said that there is large migra-
ton from Iowa across the line into the State
of Missouri. The st. Louis Democrat saws
that the death of slavery in that State is de-
creed.
A Southern Methodist minister, de-
failing his experience on certain circuit,
counted twenty six children that were named
after him, and added that during the year he
received ,as compensation for his labor, thir-
teen dollars.
A young man by the name of II. Bar
Der, in Clarksburg, Nd, while running
race with young companion, attempted to
make his horse leap over COW lying in the
road. The COW rising up, pitched the horse
over, killing Barber instantly.
Bourbon Williams, it seems is will
ling to waive his royal assumptions for pecu.
MARY purposes. Among the private bills be-
lore Congress is one " Tor tho relielsof Flea
zar Wiliume, sole surviving son and heir of
Thomas aud Mary Ann Williams"