Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-19
SUMMARY.

One of the clergymen of Newburyport on
Sunday of last week severely rebuked the
| girls of his congregation for wearing hoops,
which he denounced as a ridiculous practice
and very annoying to other persons. 1t hap
pens that his church is often crowded, SO that
the men place their hats in the aisles. The
girls were not satisfied with occupying much
space by their outspreading skirts, but seemed
particularly pleased when the greatest number
OF hats could be sent rolling down the aisles.
The New Haven Courier says that the valu-
able horse which was poisoned at Waterbury
few days since had been hired by Judge
| Kellogg to drive Hon. Arson Burlingame
down to Naugatuck, to address Republican
meeting on Saturday night, and on Sunday
morning he was found dead, with his stomach
full OF corrosive sublimate. He was evidently
poisoned at Naugatuck, and probably by some
dastardly locotoco, out of spite.
1t is stated that the contract for the public
| printing of Pennsylvania, for the next three
years, has been awarded to bidder, who offer
ed to do it at fraction over nine cents per
| 1000 ems, ana the same per token for press
work, Notwithstanding every thousand ems he
! sets for the State costs him three times this
! sum, and every token of press-work double.
I The Sickles tragedy is the prominent topic
of discussion in the cafes Of Paris The French
theory is, that the really guilty party in the
| sad affair is the writer of the anonymous note
| the meddlesome informer-who is presumed
to be woman, jealous of Mrs. Sickles. There
is lady in Paris who knows a certain widow
widow in Washington, to whom Mr.. Key had
| been for some time quite devoted, who has
been made quite miserable, for a twelvemonth,
| by the pangs of jealousy. Did she play the
part of Iago in the bloody dramaa Perhaps.
| When DIR. Lyman Beecher was instructing
/ q lass of fuda nd aoft h.,
| put to him the question: "What if an atheist
should say that there is as much proof of the
existence of several Gods as there is of the
| existence of one % he replied Don't enter
into an argument with him, for quite like
| ly you might fail to convince him but tell him
that if his theory is true, and there are more
Gods than one, so much the ,corse for him"
DEUx DE TRoP The title of a recent
American novel provoked saucy comment
from Brown, who, by-the-bye, is the most in
corrigible of old bachelors. 1.-TWO Ways
to Wedlock!" said Brown, chats two too
manyp'
The Bridgeport Standard says that a Demo-
crat in the town of Washington, in Litchfeld
county, having had a skunk skin stolen from
| him, sought redress through the law, and not
obtaining it, the Republicans worked up ''the
denial of justice" into "an issue in the contest"
resulting in a loss of two Democratic repre-
sentatives and senator.
Advices from Montevideo to February s,
state that Mr.. R. B. Forbes of Boston had gone
on an excursion up the Uruguay, in the little
steamer Alpha, which was taken out on the
deck of the brig Nankin; his yacht Edith also
in company.
The Millerites of Newark, N. j., are now
preparing for the second coming of the Messi-
ah, or the end of the world, which they com
| pute will take place on or about the Passover
of 1859, which commenced last (Monday)
night and continues for eight days Six per
sons were baptized into this faith on Friday
| last at Newark.
The prison records of Vermont show that
five persons were convicted of murder, and
four sentenced to be hung from 1889 to March
last Ariel Martin, recently convicted of muir
der, is to be executed after one years imprs-
| onment.