Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-01
NEWS AND NOTIONS.


A dancing master was taken up in Natchez
lately, for robbing a fellow boarder. He said
he commenced by cheating printer, and that
after that, everything rascally seemed to come
easy to him.
In two provinces in Denmark, women are
| allowed to vote, and in a recent election for re-
representatives., several ballots were cast for fe-
male candidates.
81 will lay a wager" said one sportsman to
another, ''that l will shoot more crows to-day
than you" 80, yes, you can beat any one a
| Growing"
The Court of Quarter Sessions, Philadel-
phia, has decided that a false entry by a clerk
in the book of accounts of firm is forgery
at common law, and punishable as such.
The farmer whose pigs got so lean that they
could crawl through the cracks in their pen,
stopped their fun by tying knots in their tails.
The Peter Funk establishments in New
| YOk are still going, going. An Alabama post
master was swindled out of S95, in one, on
Thursday.
ga lawyer" said Lord Brougham, facetious-
| ly, sis learned gentlemen, who rescues your
estate from your enemies, and keeps it him
self"
| The New York Journal of Commerce says
| that one hundred negro residents of that city
contemplate leaving for Africa in the Spring.
Horse chestnut oil is the latest remedy for
the govt 1t is said to ease the anguish OF the
| sufferer Immediately.
The question for debate" announced by
rural lyceum is, "Was Shakespeare born in
Massachusetts or South Carolina 2"
The two rival candidates for senatorial hon
ors in District No. 8, New Hampshire, Walter
and Benjamin G. Hartman, are brothers, who
live on the same farm, and in the same house.
Michael Brady, of Philadelphia, was recent
ly bitten by tame fox, and unmistakable
| symptoms of hydrophobia have set in. He
cannot survive,
The scarcity of grain in many parts of Can
ada is said to be such that the farmers will find
| it impossible to procure the necessary seed for
| spring sowing.
Two Germans were arrested in New York
on Saturday, while attempting to pass counter
| S3's on the Spicket Fall Bank, of Methuen
| Mass.
| A noble steer was exhibited in State street,
Boston, on Saturday 1t was a six year old
| Durham steer raised by Thomas j. Field, of
| Mortified, and, and weighs on the foot $500
| lbs His girth is nine feet four inches, and he
is thirteen feet eight inches in length.
The Illinois House of Representatives has a
the roll of the members is called through once
or twice, and, as his name is called, each men,
| Der has right to call for the consideration of
| one bill, and to have it put on its passage.
Many private bills are thus reached and passed.
| The Buffalo Commercial says an Irishman
named Walsh, residing in Ellcottville, Cattar-
angus county, lately fell heir to $1,000 in
money and female slave in Cuba, the portion
| of deceased brothers estate bequeathed to
| him. He at once forwarded to the British con-
| sui at Havana the papers for the unconditional
emancipation of his chattel.
The deaths of three very aged women are
recorded in late New Jersey papers. Two of
them were colored, and died at the ages of 103
and l0o years respectively. The third was
Mrs Hannah Phillips, the widow of revolu-
tionary hero, who died in her 108th year, in
the possession of all her faculties
| AT gymnasium exhibition in New York,
| Monday night, man named Brady caught a
ring suspended from the ceiling in his left hand,
| lifted himself upward until his shoulder and
| cenched hand were in horizontal line five
times and very nearly succeeded in perform
ing the feat sixth time.
A horrible affair occurred last Thursday in
Orange New Jersey A woman deliberately
cut the throat of her son, boy of four years,
nearly seyering his head from his body. She
gave as a reason that she feared the child was
to be taken from her by the Overseer of the
Poor.
The green tree-frogs are used to this day in
Germany as barometers they are placed in
tall bottles, with little wooden ladders The
steps of the ladder mark as it were the de-
grees the frogs always go up towards the top
in fine weather, and lower down at the ap-
proach of bad weather
Miss Susan Shuck, of Lebanon, KY, while
dressing for her bridal, on the Dist inst, was
terribly burned by her clothes taking fire.
Her sister, Mrs. Burr Harrison, was so badly
burned in her efforts to extinguish the flames,
that she is not expected TO recover. After
Miss Shuck's wounds were dressed, and while
she lay upon her couch, suffering the most
intense agony, the marriage ceremony was
| performed
A few days since, Capt. - of Northamp-
| ton, while peddling "oysters, CLANS haddock
| &c" somewhere on the route, imbibed so
| freely as to cause a drowsiness to come over
him, during which his faithful white horse
| kept on the road till coming to a brook, when
| he turned out for drink, but not steering very
| well, tipped out the valiant captain, together
with his whole load of fish, into the brook
This aroused the captain, but not in season to
save all his load.
Two young ladies belonging in Newbury-
! port, few days since, wishing to go from
Lowell to Lawrence, preferred skates and the
Merrimac to the cars and railroad, and made
the passage OF ten miles in forty minutes For
some portion Of the way there was strong
head wind, Or the feat might have been accom-
plished in less time.
/ The ship Elizabeth, of Kennebunk, new
ship of 1910 tons, on her first voyage, from New
Orleans for Boston, was wrecked on Cedar
Point, near Scituate, during the storm on Sat
urday. The passengers and crew were res
cued about two hours after she struck. The
vessel and cargo was insured for $4,000.
Mrs. Bosley, the colored woman who was
| recently cut down with an ak by her daughter,
in Elizabeth street, New York, was able to APP
pear in court on Thursday, although still very
weak. She made an affidavit charging her
daughter and Martin with the attempt to muir
| der her.
Crowley, who murdered his wife in Boston,
a short time since, has been arrested at Charles
ton, S. G., by Capt ii. W. Hendricks, and
officers have gone from Boston to bring him
home from trial.
The Journal of Commerce says the amount
of foreign imporations at New York for the
last four weeks is $4,95S,00S greater than for
the corresponding four weeks Of last year,
$3.50, 406 less than for the same period of
1857, and So, l0l ,60l greater than for the same