Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-04-23

H"O oiH") . III my 4llC, od1o S6SoI
Hannibal ''found the gals to be de fust in
Tub, fust in quarrel, fust in de dance, fust
in de ice-cream saloon, and de fust best and
de last best in de sick room What would
we poor fellers do widout dem Let us be
born as young, as ugly, and as helpless as we
please, and woman am ready to receive us
she it am who puts close upon our helpless,
naked lin bs, and cubbers up our footses and
toeses in long flannel petticoats and it am
she who, as grow up, fills our dinner basket
wild dough nuts and apples as we start to
school, and licks us when we tear our trow-
sers."
A daughter of Mr. John Draro, OBJ
serving that large rock had fallen upon the
track of the Plttsburg and Connellsville
Railroad, at the point where there is a sharp
curve, she rowed across the river to the rail-
road in her fathers skff, and then running
along the track waving a red handkerchief,
succeeded in attracting the attention of the
engineer of an approaching train, just in sea
snn, in the opinion of the officers on board.
to save the lives of all on the cars. Had they
not received timely warning, they probably
would have been pitched into the river.
A California widow, Mrs. Empy, in
Rochester, had not heard from her husband
for tive years, and giving HIM up for dead,
recently married one Thomas Roble Soon
after the marriage the original husband turned
up and becoming very indignant when he dis
covered that his sx spouse had come into pos
session of considerable fortune, sues her
for bigamy. Mr.. Robbie is a respectable ply
sician, fifty years of age. Husbands Nos.
and are now at swords points, and the courts
are settling the difficulty.
The Pittsfeld Sun says that on Sun
day night last portion Of the tunnel on the
west side of the Hoosac Mountain. some twen-
ty feet in length, was filed up by the earth
from above falling in, in consequence of the
temporary roofing and support giving away.
The workmen employed in removing the foot
ing, instead of beng able to resume their la
Dor on Monday morning, lou8d three days
| job before them to clear away the fallen earth.
An itinerant phrenologist stopped at
rnstic farm house, the proprietor of which
was busily engaged in thrashing. "Sir am
phrenologist Would you like me to ex-
anime the heads of your children. l will do
it cheap" "Well, said the farmer, pausing
between the strokes, II rather guess they
don't need it. The old woman combs them
with fine tooth comb once a week.
Mrs. Bryant, the young wife of Major
Beloin's overseer, while taking a nap in the
afternoon, was shockingly cut about the head
and shoulders with an axe in the hands of an
old negro woman and negro girl, who have
confessed the deed. Mrs. B. was not expected
to live. The affair occurred III Houston Co.,
Georgia.
The Chicago Press advances the opin-
ion that the wheat harvest in Southern Hi
nois will commence at least one or two weeks
earlier than in 1857, when new barley from
that locality was sold in Cincinnati on the
9th Of June, and the wheat harvest had fair
ly commenced by the 4th of July.
Orson Hyde, one of the Mormon
apostles, boasts that if he lives ten years. and
thrives as he has been thriving, he will have
"sons enough to make regiment by them.
selves"
The direct trade with Liverpool from
the Lakes, is not abandoned. Five vessels arc
loading at Chicago, for Liverpool, and George
W. Bissell of Detroit, is about to send YES.
sci to Europe from that port
A rogue has been travelling through
Middlesex and Union counties, N. j., obtain.
ing the signatures of people by false pre-.
lenses, and afterwards using them for forged
notes and orders In one case the signature
of very old man was obtained by threats O.
violence.
They had an earthquake in Ashtabu
la county, Saturday morning. Buildings tot
tered, the ground heaved and trembled. and
the trees made obesance like the sheaves il
Joseph's dream, although not breath of ali
was stirring. Many of the people were con
siderably shocked.
Caesar, an African, who was accident
ally drowned at Baton Rouge Louisiana,
few days ago, was one hundred and twent,
years old An old citizen of seventy years
remembers that when he was boy, Casa
was too old and infrm to work.
Two Irishmen were in prison, one fo
stealing COW and the other for stealing
watch. "Hallo, Mike what o'clock is It =
said the COW stealer to the other. "Ant
sure, Pat, | haven't any time piece handy
but think it is most milking time"
" Doctor" said despairing youth t,
his physician, Z" am in dreadful state.
can neither lay nor sit. what shall do q
Why, then, replied the doctor eravely. :,
think you had better roost."
An old settler out West, who wa
elected justice of the peace, couldn't rails
enough to pay an officer for swearing him in
80 he stood up before looking glass an,
qualified himself.
A Southern paper says that Mr.. Blu
chanan - is likely to find himself sold.p W.
shall pity the buyer. LoaiSVsile Journal.