Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-22


the business panic has had upon the hotels
and upon the pleasure travel of the country
1t is palpable at Rockaway, at West Point, at
Newport, at Saratoga, at Niagara Falls, and
all the Springs Of the country. Men do not
feel as rich as they were, and the season will
turn out the dullest for many years, and we
fear a losing one to many who cater for the
public taste and general health our town resi-
dents.-LosOeN Courier.
A romantic looking, comfortable brick
ma.lsion, with a splendid garden contiguous,
on Fitty-frst street, New York, has the repu-
tation of being haunted the owner cannotV
get tenant for it at half price. At twelve
O'Clock every night the ghost makes an exhi-
oiuon OF himself at the windows. The place
was searched by the police and others
the other night, but his ghostship kept shady.
Levi Garfield, Of SabuIa, Iowa, was
pulling plug, which stuck tightly, from the
bottom of an ice cream freezer, when it came
out suddenly, and his right hand flew back
with considerable violence against the edge
Of Ratchet, which inflicted wound sever
ing the veins and cords, and cutting il nearly
in two.
Last Sunday afternoon a shocking af-
fair took place in Chester. John Ladd, while
drunk, brutally stabbed and butchered a man
by tho name OF Robert Thompson, Scotch
man. Ladd was quickly arrested. Thomp-
son was alive Sunday evening, but there was
little prospect Of his recovery.
Good wheat was sold four miles from
Bristol, Tennessee, on the goth OF June. at
81 IL cents, cash. per bushels and it is stat.
ed 1t could be readily bought at forty cents
M hnchpl fhOuOh fba Ill =
Tsctly by railroad with Lynchburg and Rich
mond.
Alfred Buckminster Frost, Youngest
son of Rev. B. Frost, lately pastor of the
Unitarian church in Concord, who had been
living with his parents at Fayal several
months, while on an expedition 10 the Peak
of Picu, fell from a precipice seventy feet
high. His back was broken, and he received
other injuries, from which he died in three
days.
A saw-tish measuring fifteen feet
long, with saw measuring four and half
feet, was caught in Beaufort; N. c., last
week. The saw has fifty four teeth some of
them about an inch in length.
Grain is coming abundantly from the
West AT Buffalo. some 100000 bushels
na'o OcSh AoSot'Su elhce navigation opened,
above the receipts of last year. The immense
stores OF the western farmers are finding
market even 1.-THE present moderate prices.
The track of the Troy and Greenfield
Railroad, from North Adams Westward. is
being laid at the rate of eight hundred feet
day, and the force will be doubled this week.
A New York paper says, in relation
to the British in Hindustan, ITO understand
the pending Indian war, one must fancy the
Florida war magni6ed ten thousand times"
The comparison hits the nail upon ihe head.
A fishing party at Charleston. S. c..
last week captured shark over thirteen feet
in length, and on ripping him open found a
sailors pea jacket and other large articles in
his NAV.
Francis Roueche, in New Orleans.
has been sentenced to fifteen years hard la
Dor in the Penitentiary. for killing his slave
by long course of inhuman treatment.
Michigan is the first to inaugurate an
Agricultural College. Az vet il has only ac-
commodstions for one hundred students. at
the commencement of the present term there
were but twenty-eight vacancies, while nine.
ty-three appeared and were examined.
A large table spoonful of -four, mixed
thoroughly with little less than half tum-
bier Of water, and then drank, is said to be an
eHectual remedy for the diarrhea.
The little daughter Of VIM. G. Lewis,
esq, Of Framingham, who was so badly bit.
zen by aSdog, supposed to be rabid, about
four weeks since Is recovering finely.