Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-01-02

Mrs. Abigail Daccam died at Stamford
December oath, one hundred years and ten
months old.
Alfred Page has been appointed post
master at Shirley village, vice Israel Longley.
removed.
One of the prisoners at Sing Sing
died few days since while undergoing a
shower bath punishment.
Fifty.one deer have been killed in
Sandwich woods, bordering on Pocasset, dur
ing the present season-a larger number than
for any previous year for long time.
Matilda Heron, the actress, was mar
ried on Sunday evening to Mr.. Robert Stoe-
pei, late conductor of the orchestra at Wal
lack S theatre.
Mrs. Harriet Kent, of New Bedford
fell upon hot stove, on the 18th ult., and
died of her burns on Monday, 2Sth, having
never been able to artculate word after the
accident occurred.
The New York Herald, which has
had the post Office advertising on the showing
of the largest apparent circulation of any pa
per in that city. now declines to compete for
it, and declares the pay for the job so insult.
fcient that it will not accept it if offered.
A few weeks since, there were four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of
unsold fish and oil at ProvincetoWn. The Ban
ner says the sales have been so rapid that at
the beginning of last week, there were only
eighteen thousand quintals remaining unsod
in the place-less than fifty thousand dollars
worth.
Three negroes belonging to Mrs. Sarah
Du Bose, of Fairfield District, Ala, met a
terrible death one day last week. They had
entered the store-room of the ginned cotton,
and locked the door after them. One of them
carelessly lighted match, and in an instant
the cotton was in flames. Before aid could
reach them two were dead, and the third was
so much injured that it was believed he could
not survive.
A good story is told of Michigan
man who recently went down into Indiana to
buy drove of horses. He was longer alb
sent than he intended, and failed to meet a
business engagement. On being rather re-
preached for not being at home, he made due
apology. 81 tell you how it is, Squire at
every little town they wanted me to stop and
be president of bank
line insurance companies refuse to
pay the twenty. nine thousand dollars for
which Mr.. Holden was insured, who was
mysteriously killed at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
in July last. The ball which was taken from
his body exactly fits the pistol which was
found short time since, in a marsh little
distance from where MIR. Hoden's body was
found. The insurance companies hold, strange
ly enough it would seem, that Mr.. Holden
committed suicide to benefit his family.
Ephraim Pool of Dallas County, Ala,
when on his death bed bequeathed sixteen
thousand dollars to two mulatto women and
their children, his own offspring, and gave
the friend who drew his will negro for his
trouble, and made him sole trustee, with d.
rections to send those emancipated slaves to a
free State. His white relatives contest the
will on the ground of unsoundness of mind.
The question before the Southern tribunals,
will be whether an emancipation by dying
father of his illegitimate children ia proof Of
insanity, because those children are colored.
Mr.. Douglas, it is said, recently stat
ed that two years ago he could travel from
Chicago to New York by the light of his own
etfigy. That then, ministers preached against
him, and laymen, anathmatized him in the
conference room, and in their extempore ad
dresses by prayer to the Deity. Now con-
gratulatory letters-the "applause of listen
ing Senate golden sunshine of troops
OF enamored friends, filling his heart with JOY
and gladnets, have taken their place.