Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-04


In families, is to multiply jealousies.
The man who couldn't stand it any
longer, has taken a seat. and now feels quite
comfortable.
Isabel Gomez died in Havana, on the
llth ult, aged one hundred and two years,
and in the full possession of her faculties.
A wag about town says that the head
coverings the ladies wear, now a-days, are
bare: faced false hoods.
On Sunday night, tine store of Tobias
kohn. in Hartford, was broken into and rob-
bed Of $4,000 worth of silk goods.
Parson Brownlow has been at Balti-
more. and declares that if he is denied the
! privilege Of going to heaven, his next and
last request is that he may be allowed to 60
| 20 Baltimore.
A friend recently told her "help. :"
newly arrived, to boil the clothes, prepara.
tory to washing. Several hours after, she
found that the tea kettle had been filed. and
was doing good service. but slowly, on ac-
count OF its limited capacity.
Mrs. John Wood and her husband
have had the usual matrimonial infelicity of
stage life. They are in California, and John
gets drunk and abuses her, and she asks for
divorce, and has got her mother and children
with her,
There are three sisters in Canton, Vt,
weighing in the lump nine hundred and
thirty five pounds The shortest is six feet
IN her stocking and weighs two hundred and
tfty-six pounds.
The Florence, (Ala) Gazette an
nounces the marriage in Lauderdale county
OF Mr.. George Martindale aged %. to Mrs.
sidney M. a. McMurray, aged AZ years.
Whose business is it,
A blue crane was killed a few DAYS
since, near Greenfield, S. c., which mea-
sured live feet eight inches in hight, and six
feet three inches from tip to tip Of the wings.
The bill was seven inches long.
News has been received at Kanzas
City, that the renowned Col. Titus, with his
company, who recently started for Arizona,
got into fight with the Cherokees, and
came off "eecond best having seven men
killed. and being himself taken prisoner
On the night of the 23d ult., bears
attacked the cattle of Rainsford Cannedv and
Oliver Yaw, in West Readsboro. Vt, killed
and partially devoured two calves, besides
badly mangling cow.
The indianapolis Sentinel thinks that,
on the whole, the crop of wheat in Indiana
VIII exceed that of last year. In Laporte
county alone it is estimated there will be a
surplus OF seven hundred thousand bushels
for shipment.
Five hundred dollars have been raised
at Springfield, to be offered as prizes for
grand regatta of row boats, to be had on the
Connecticut River, on Friday August 9th
Every arrangement will be made on most
liberal scale, and the best boats in the coun-
try are expected to be present.
A very sad affair occurred at Hartford
on Saturday forenoon, by which David
Y Hern, young man, twenty three years
Old, was crushed to death. He and eight
other men were rolling out of door an iron
plate Weighing 1900 pounds. which was al
lowed to fall on the chest of the young man,
killing him instantly. He was to be married
in two weeks.
A report of the post norton exami-
nation OF the state prison murderer Magee,
lately hung in Boston, published in the Med
zeal and Surgical journal, suggests the start
ling idea that Magee was MT killed Nv the
hangman's rope, but by the scalpel of the
surgical operator; that enough life remained
after the hanging for proper appliances to
have famed it into an activetAame.
After picnic at Fairview. near Phil
adephia, baby was picked up on the
grounds, and taken care of by person living
near The father came the next day from
Philadelphia TO reclaim it. 1t had been left
oy accident, the mother surprising an aunt
had it, and the aunt supposing the same
thing of the mother Being in different cars,
they did not miss the darling until they ar
rived in Philadelphia.
A cOuntryman, on 4 visit to New
Bedford, fell in with a man who wished to
exchange coats with nip The trade was
contaminated, and the cSuntryman thinking
he had got the best of the bargain, walked
off feeling quite gay in his new attire. In
short time another man eccosted him. claim
ing the garment, took it from his shoulders.
leaving our country friend in his shirt
sleeves.
The Green River Barrens. in Ken
lucky, that fifty years ago were covered with
grass and strawberries, morning glories and
other flowers, and were the resort of immense
hocks of Quais and multitude of rabbits.
are now great forest of oaks, hickory and
chestnut trees. This great change from
field to forest has been made in less than a
half century.
Rev Mr.. Vinton has met with seri.
GUS accident. He was at the house of his
brother, at Pomfret, Conn, near by which is
his own residence. While standing on a set.
tee, he fell through the bars on the back aud
broke his leg in two places. He writes to his
friends in quite cheerful spirit, and express
es belief that the accident will conduce IN
his ultimate good
A man in Madrid, N. Y, many years
ago, bet glass of rum he could SWIM Grasse
river within four rods of the dam. This bet
was taken, and he won and drank the wager.
Grown holder, he offered to bet another glass
he could win it within two rods of the dam.
The bet was taken, and this time the swim
mer lost be had collected the dram he
won, but he never paid the one he lost. The
editor who chronicles the fact was at his finn.
eral.
Francis Granger and William Whver
were sufocated in a well at Pittsburg. pa
on the 10Th ult. The well had been duo to
receive the contents of vault, and the two
men foolishly remained in the well after tan.
ping the vault, the noxious gases from which
al once oyerpowered them. A third person
who was let down to their relief, was also
overcome by the foul air, but was rescued bv
means OF graphing hook.
Between twelve and one o'clock on
Sunday morning gang of dead Rabbits'
aud "Bowery Boys" had a sharp encounter
in Centre street, New York city. Afterwards
man named Cornelius Rudy sixty years of
age, with companion, passed along when