Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-06-25

Lord Seaforth. deaf mute from birth.
was to dine one day with Lord Melville
just before the company might be expected.
Lady Melville took the pains to send into the
room a female friend of hers, who was able
to talk with the fingers after the fashion of the
deaf and dumb, that she might be ready to
welcome Lord Seaforth. Presently in comes
Lord Guilford. The lady interpreter takes him
for Lord Seaforth, and forthwith begins to
gesticulate nimbly and fuently. Lord Gull
forG on his part does the same, and the con-
versation had already gone on TOR as much as
ten minutes, when Lady Melville enters Her
friend then says to her, ''You see | am get
ting on in conversation with this deaf mute"
"What, l a deaf mute !" exclaimed Lord
Melville. ''Not |, thank heaven l am not
deaf mute, but supposed you were one"
A messenger boy in Boston, running
across Milk street with one hundred and fifty
two dollar bills of the Maiden bank in his
hands, caught the arm of the porter of the
establishment to which he himself belonged.
and In doing so the bills were scattered broad
cast in the wind. All but some fifty of them
were found, and these alighted in an express
wagon, the driver Of which, surprised at see
ing them there, and thinking them shopkeep-
ers' advertisements, gave some twenty five dol
lars away.
Tha wife of DIR. Frank Fuller of
Portsmouth, N. H., and a young lady ac-
quantRnce, had a narrow escape from death
on Tuesday, in consequence of tasting of nj
trio acid, under the supposition that it was
wine. A child had been playing with the
bottles, and left the acid bottle in the place
where Mrs. Fuller supposed the wine bottle
stood. By the immediate use of proper rem
edies, it is hoped that Mrs Fuller will not ex-
perience permanent i'll effects.
The Legislature of Minnesota has
passed banking law which the wise men of
the capital thought was very favorable to the
monied institutions, but as it provides for a
general bank controller who shall be paid
$4,000 by the banks, and as there are no
banks at present, the difficulty is to get the
first one agoing with this heavy load on its
shoulders.
A man named Wilmot, EMPLOYED in
moving on the farm of Mr.. Charles f. Wood,
near Washington, being unaccustomed to the
velocity and power of the patent machine in
use, placed himself in position by which. I'm
an instant one of his legs was severed from
his body. He was Immediately taken up and
every care taken of him.
A Cincinnati justice recently fined a
Jew 50 and costs for delivering ice to his
customers on Sunday. notwithstanding thew
all testified that they required ice on that day
as much rs on other days, and the Jews swore
that he went to the synagogue regularly to
worship on Saturdays.
Rev. Zachariah Greene died al Hamp-
stead, i. l., on the Dist. He was soldier Of
the Revolution, and became a soldier Of the
Cross after the battles of his country were
fought lie died at the age of ninety-nine
years.
The sum Of S250O has been subscrib-
ed at Memphis, Tenn, in aid of the sufferers
by the explosion on the steamer Pennsylya.
mia.
A little girl hearing it said that she
was born ON the kings birthday, took no no.
tiee Of it at the time, but in day or two after
asked her father il she and the king were
twins.
Spiggles says that although there is
no such thing as muzzling the press in this
country, there is plenty OF book muslin.