Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-04-12

About fifty acres of woodland situated
in the easterly part of Seekonk, was burned
over on Saturday week.
The March receipts of the Erie rail-
road ere S75, 900 behind those of March 1857,
and those of the Rock Island road show a
decrease of $4,000 to $50, 600.
At Ripley, ohio, the proprietor of a
gambling saloon was recently converted, and
at his request, daily prayer meeting was or,
gained in his rooms, and is being carried on
with great animation.
Rev. Mr.. Finney has closed his labors
in Boston. He has returned to Oherlin. A
purse of over a thousand dollars was made up
and given to him and Mrs. Finney, before
they left
In Newburyport, on Friday, William
Saxon, an Englishman, struck Michael Cary
so violently as to produce Inconsistencies
and but faint hopes are entertained OF MS re-
covery. Saxon was arrested.
Mr.. Harte, correspondent of the New
York Courier and Enquirer, has been ex-
PEELED from the reporters gallery in the House
of Representatives, by Speaker Orr, for APP
plauding the vote against Lecompton on
Thursday.
A lady residing on Leverett street,
Boston, was filling lamp with fluid, on
Thursday eyenii g, when the fluid ignlted,
setting her clothing on fire and burning her
very severely.
Caesar an African, who was accident
ally drowned at Baton Rouge, La, few days
ago, was 100 years old. An old citizen of 70
years remembers that when he was a boy
Caesar was too old and infrm to work.
-Four women, at the present term of
the Rutland County Court. Vermont, keepers
of notorious houses in Rutland, were sentenc,
ed to be confined to hard labor is the States
Prison for four years, and to pay the costs of
prosecution.
Reuben ABBOTT, a young man who
has been for a short time in the employ of
Currier, Tower, & Baker, in Hanover street,
Boston, was entrusted with $3.50 to deposit
in the bank on Thursday morning, and alb
seconded with the money.
A Judge in Indiana threatened law
yer with fine for contempt of court. IL
have expressed no contempt for the court"
said the lawyer on the contrary, l have
carefully concealed my feeling.
A man named Lee, charged with alb
Va, on four indictments and sentenced to
receive 90 stripes, publicly laid on, at the rate
of five per day, and 10 be confined in the PEN
itentiary for twenty-five years.
Mr.. Thompson of Washington coun-
ty,Ohjo, has little daughter who, at the age
of four years, weighed one hundred and fifty
pounds She is now four years and five months
old, and weighs, IS her parents suppose, one
hundred and seventy pounds
During a thunder shower on Sunday
evening, young man aged about nineteen
years, named Samuel D. Hall, son of Mr..
Samuel Hall, residing on the Philadelphia
road, about seven miles from Baltimore, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
On Sunday last, the wife of Mr.. John
Logan, of B,oomingdale, N. j.. met with Il
very sudden death Mr.. Logan left the house
for few moments, and upon his return found
her standing on the outside of the house with
her head III the window, and the sash resting
on the back OF her neck. She was dead
A company Of Washington ruflians
who went to Alexandra Sunday week, with
the remains of one of their comrades, on leav-
ing the latter city discharged twelve or fifteen
pistol shots from the cars, shooting negro
OlAAl IA %HO Houth5 anu severely WOuhuinS
her. Other persons narrowly escaped the
balls of the demon outlaws.
The body of George w. Durfee of
Gloucester. r. l., was found suspended to y
tree near Siatersyille, in that State, on the I'd
inst. gold watch, ten dollars in money,
and three hundred dollars in notes we've found
In his pocket. tie had been employed in Bur
rillvllle during the winter, and was last seen
alive about seven weeks ago.
A Pennsylvania editor says: "Some-
body brought one bottle OF sour water into
our office. with the request to notice it as
lemon beer. II Esau was green enough to
sell his birth-right for mess of pottage, it
does not prove that we will tell tour shilling
lie for five cents