Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Montreal Telegraph Company, owning
all the lines in Canada, have decided to extend
the RiYiere du Loup line $50 miles east of
Quebec, where all large vessels will pass near
the shore, they will be boarded and the news
transmitted to the Associated Press much ear
Her-an important movement while the news
from Europe is awaited with such intense in
terest.
Among the applicants for admission to the
lnebrlate Asylum recently established IN New
FORK, are twenty-eight clergymen, thirty-six
physicians, forty-two lawyers, three judges,
twelve editors, four army and three naval Off
GERS, one hundred and seventy nine merchants,
fitty-tive farmers, five hundred and fifteen
mechanics, and four hundred and ten women,
who are from the higher walks of life.
In field called the Hospital Field, on the
estate Of the Prince Consort, England, three
boys, employed to collect the loose stones,
picked up something on the surface Of the
EARTH which proved to be leaden case, con-
tanning upwards Of $50 silver coins, principal
ly halt-crowns, Of the reigns of Elizabeth,
James |. and Charles l., most of them being in
admirable preservation. The coins were col
lected and forwarded to her majesty, and the
lads suitably rewarded.
Henry Morris, shoe dealer in Toledo, bound
to many creditors by ties stronger than those
of affection, one day last week tied piece of
Grape on the knocker of his door, and gave
out that his brother was dead After the Grape
had done service for two days, the creditors
broke open the doors, and tound-a beggary
account Of empty boxes The bereaved mer-
chant had fled with the goods.
John Joyce, young man in New York of de-
tective education, went last Thursday evening,
to the house Of an old woman named Freeman,
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daughter War rose between Joyce and the
| old lady. Bridget intertered to save her
mother, and was stabbed six times in the
breast with large pair of shears, infcting
wounds which will probably cause her death.
The young woman was conveyed to the hos
pital, and Joyce to Jail.
The "tender passion" which is said to be
worse than the itch, has got among the pau
| pers down In Connecticut and to keep up the
Responsibility of the institution" George
Bailey and Catherine Malley eloped from the
almshouse in old Lyme recently and were
married.
According to one of the Western Methodist
papers, Bishop James, during the recent noisy
conference in Texas, had, in the hour of ex-
tremity, given the Masonic sign, when the
rabble dispersed, and the Conference was per-
mitted to close its session.
In the Police Court at Taunton, on Thurs
day, on complaint of the Fish Wardens of
marlborough, three individuals were fined
| $40 each, and to be imprisoned one day, for
throwing stones into the waters of Taunton
Great River, near a fishing place known as the
Pumpkin Hole, and thereby disturbing the fish
known as shad and alewives.
"If man steals my umbrella" says Hun
ker, 'its no use maxim a fuss--it only shows
that an umbrella equilibrium has been broken.
Now, it take one from some one else, that
restores the equipose. There is really no UNI
brella lost; an umbrella is only lost when it is
used up"