Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-13

went TO battle i'll the river at the ship-vard
near the Shetucket Railroad bridge, Monday
evening. Immediately after entering the wa
ter he sank and was drowned. His body was
recovered an hour or two later. He was
about twenty-five years old
"The BOYS Own School, is the name of n
charitable institution at New Haven. that takes
the poor and ragged children from the streets
in that city, instructing them in the common
branches of the English language, and provid-
ing them with homes in the country it is do
ing much good.
RHODE ISLAND.
Sunday night, highway robbery was at
tempted on Benefit street. in Providence A
colored man, who had displayed money in a
drinking shop, was assaulted, but the man had
left the money with friend.
Counterfeit twos on the Liberty Bank, Prov
idence, are in circulation. They are nearly
fac smile of the true bill, and the signature is
engraved. They have the words president
and Directors personally responsible on the
lower margin, which are not on the good bills
young man from thriving Massachusetts
village went down to Rocky Beach, yesterday
afternoon, on time" and returned this
morning sadder If not wiser man, having
whlle III state Of somnolence, lost his gold
watch and chain, and his money, in all about
SllO.-Procideace Press, july 18th.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Cleveland Leader announces the arrival
in that city of George Raymond, from Salt
Lake City, having come the entire distance
driving span of elks before wagon. The
elks are only three years old, yet Mr.. Ray
mond says he actually Travelled as far as one
hundred miles in a single day. Mr.. Raymond
is on his way to Vermont with his novel team.
The Keokuk Gate City of the 9th inst says
Zone day last week a Chicago dealer bought
on the prairie west of Carthage, ILL.,, twelve
hundred head of Mexican cattle, at S37 per
head. They were purchased in Mexico for So
| per head. They can be seen along the line of
| the railroad to Carthage. There are twenty
one Mexicans with their lassos in charge of
them"
The question of a successor to Mr.. Prescott
IN the French Institute just now occupies the
attention of the literary world of Paris, says
the New York Post. Among those mentioned
are Washington Irving, Jared Sparks (who is
favored by Guizot), and Philip Motley, who is
best and most favorably known to French lit
erary men.
An ingenious Scotchman has trained c0u-
pie of mice to turn small reel for twisting
| Irvine. The laborers run about ten miles a
day, and reel from one hundred to one hun
dred and twenty threads. A half penny S
worth Of oatmeal lasts mouse five weeks,
and the clear annual profit on each animal, per
year, is computed at six shillings. This beats
the industrious feas."
Hon. W. NJ Mills, late mayor of the city of
La Salle ILL.,, highly esteemed citizen, died
on the 9th ult, of the terrible disease of hy-
drophobia. He was recently bitten by his
small household pet dog, which he was fond
ling, at the time, and which proved to be rab-
id, and the disease became violently apparent
in few days. and he died of its dreadful eff
| fects.
The court house at Port Gibson, Miss, was
blown up with key of powder, on the morn
ing of the LIST, and half the building destroyed
The sheriff's office, adjoining, was also de-
stroyed, and his vault robbed of about $4,000
The occupants of the building escaped unin-
jured. The damage to the building is estima
ted at from $4,000 to $4,000.
Many worthy, economical, and industrious
people in Chatham, C. W., are said to be in
starving condition, on account of the failure o
their crops the past year, the hardness of the
times, and the want of labor They have hat
no bread for six or eight days, and are existing
on greens like the beats. One young woman
has died for want of food, and many of then
are as destitute of clothing as they are of food
marble shaft recently erected over the re
mains of Aaron Burr, in the graveyard il
Princeton, N. j., has been mutilated and bro
ken by some persons unknown. The shat
was erected by stealth, no one knowing whC
put it there.