Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-13

Inc HarlS correspondent OF the London Lit
erary Gazette states that few days ago the
Emperor sent NJ. de la Gueronniere to M.
Lamartne, desiring him to say that he intend
ed to propose to the Corps Legslatif a vote of
100000 francs (f4000), to be paid to Lamar
tine during his lifetime. The poet refused,
begged M. de la Gueronniere to request the
Emperor to give up any design of the kind,
adding:
81 should be obliged to refuse the sum, if
voted, for [ cannot recognise the Emperor
merely because he makes his power serve my
convenience, having refused to acknowledge
that power when it oppressed me in common
with my fellow citizens"
The Baltimore Patriot states with much sat
isfaction that never for years has Baltimore
enjoyed the quiet and freedom from disorder
that she now does The change it attributes
in great part to the reorganization of the Fire
Department, the observance of the law pro-
hibiting the sale of liquor on Sundays, the Wig
lance of the Police Department, the convic-
ton of offenders, the wholesome dread inspired
by just verdicts the awful sentence of the law,
and the active eXertions of Christian associa-
tons among the depraved classes.
The New York police have discovered a nest
ofreceiyers of stolen goods whose head-quar-
tiers were in Avenue c. Ten arrests were
made on Saturday; two of the prisoners were
women five of them were found in Hacken-
sack, N. j. and the others in the city. About
$3100 worth Of goods, consisting of silks, vel
vets, and other costly fabrics, have been re-
covered. The supposed leader of the gang has
not yet been arrested. 1t is believed that the
gang is composed of over thirty, and that their
operations are not confined to that city
After whipping and coaxing had failed to
induce horse to move, the gentleman who
was driving, or trying to, gave up. Then
cartman went to him, saying, of you please,
sir, I'll make him 60" The privilege was
granted, and going up to the gutter, he took
up handful of mud and rubbed it upon the
nose of the horse, whereupon the horse started
without trouble The cartman accounted for
the effect, saying, 80 sir, it gives him a ne,0
| idea"
| The jaier of the Ross county jail at Chilli
Gothic, Ohio, went to a wedding on Tuesday
evening, leaving only a servant girl to guard
| the building when a man disguised in mask
gained entrance and pointing pistol at the girl
frightened her into giving up the keys of the
cells, with which he proceeded to liberate
man waiting trial for murder, and two other
culprits.
! On Saturday last a daughter of Mr.. Joseph
| Concklin, of Warwick, Orange county, N. Y,
was killed in a singular manner. She was de-
scending flight of stairs with sugar bowl in
her hand, when she stumbled and fell down
the last two steps, breaking the bowl, piece
of which cut the jugular vein, causing her
death in few moments.
AS Benjamin Brown was returning from the
| polls in Killingy, CT, last Monday, in compa-
ny with Lewis Williams, their carriage was
run into by passing team, and Mr.. Brown,
being thrown therefrom, was so severely in
jured by a fracture of the spine, that he died
Wednesday morning.
A bill has been introduced in the New York
Legislature, which gives to married women
the sole control Of their own property and
earnings, and the right to invest the same in
trade, free from any liability for the debts of
the husband, and entirely free from his CON
troll, the same as if they were single.
An lrishman who was put off from the New
| ton special train of the Boston and Worcester
Railroad, for alleged disorderly conduct last
fall, has commenced a suit against the compa-
ny, fixing his damage at the sum of $4,000.
Last Friday night the house of Michael
Pheeney, in New London, was burned to the
! ground, and his wife and two children one
three and the other five years of age, lost their
lives in the contiagration.
A goose, few days since, attempted to fly
over a barn in Perry township, Clarion County,
Pa when the wind drove it upon the lightning
rod, which penetrated its neck and Killed it
instantly.
Intelligence reached Fort Smith, Ark, on
the 2lst ult, Of the death Of the famous Semi
mole chief, Billy Bowlegs Suspicious are en-
tertained that he was poisoned.
Two more persons have died of the strange
epidemic in Orange, Conn, and dozen are
dangerously ill. Some families are alarmed,
and preparing to leave town
jerome Bonaparte, the survivor of all the
brothers and sisters of Napoleon l., "stl
lives, at the age Of 49, lie was the youngest
of the family.
There are from 5000 to 6000 interdicted
priests in Paris alone Many of these clerical
outcasts have become either walters or cab
men.
A La Porte (Sierra Co., California; paper
mentions snow storm which lasted three
'oeeks, and left from fifteen to twenty feet of
snow on the ground
An old man aged seventy years, named ia
cob Bertrand, was killed in New York, last
week, by stones thrown by rowdy boys.
In York County, Pa, they have got up
new KIND OF Insurance Company. 1t insures
horses against being stolen. The company
has capital Of 100000.
A female burglar was caught while in the
act OF robbing u dwclling-house in New York,
| on Thursday night