Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-11
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shire Gazette

A young man, just 10 years old, eloped with
his step-mother in Bloomington, Ill., last week.
The father was absent on business at the time.
Richard j. Foster, convicted at Charleston,
5. c., of burglary and larceny, has been SEN
fenced to be hung GU the 25th of March.
The number of emigrants who arrived at
New FORK during the past year, was 1859,
or 105,l86 less than in 1857, and 60, 1853 less
than in 1856. OF these emigrants, 81 ,S74 were
from Germany, 25,075 from Ireland, and 12,-
324 from England.
Most persons are particularly spiteful against
those foibles in others which they themselves
have. They remind us of monkey scratch
ing and grinning at the mimic monkey in the
glass.
The Rev R. H. Clarkson, D. D., of Chica-
go, came very near his death lately, by taking
opium by mistake for another medicine. He
laid insensible for two or three days.
Phe English Christmas pantomimes have
proved fatal to two ballet girls, whose dresses
took fire from the foot lights OF theatres at
London and Birmingham,
One of the Boston Posts correspondents
abroad informs us that it is thought the British
government will select Boston as one of the
ternini Of the Galway Packet Mail Line.
Miss Alice G. Wedge, daughter of joseph
NGhSC VI L ldUtSN lllC, AGuudl COUNTY, 1llnOlS,
aged eight and a half years, blind from birth,
had her sight Immediately given her, few
days since, by an operation for cataract, which
was the disease that had obscured her vision.
We must award the credit ofone clever say
ing to the Washington Union-the first of
which we have any recollection. 1t says =
"There is class of politicians in this country
with whom nothing but the dyspepsia is con-
stitutiona"
The fellow who has recently victimized
large number of clergymen in Western New
York and Canada, by protesting to be con-
vert from Romansm, DESTROYS of fitting for the
Protestant ministry, has been arrested at St.
Catharines, c. w. He owned up to his rogue
ry.
Plutarch says, in his Life of Alexander, that
the Babylonians used, during the dog-days, to
sleep on skins filled with water. A Boston
paper says that in these days men sleep on
skins filled with bad rum.
Major Culbertson, who has just come from
the Rocky Mountains, says that the head wa
tiers Of the Missouri and Columbia are so near
together that he at one time drank from the
Missouri, on the East side of the Rocky Noun
tains, and half hour afterwards from the Co
lumbia river, on the Pacific slope.
AT soiree at Count de Kisseleff's, in Paris,
!" nv" 4 VASh "e'ihD was iHbIOuuCCO5 III WHICH
each gentleman holds glass filed with cham
pangne, and NE grand point is to go round the
room without spiling the wine. Some young
Russians displayed great address in perform
ing this feat.
The Avalance Office, at Memphis, Tenn, has
been set on fire twelve times within short Pc
Rod, but fortunately the fire was discovered
before any damage was done. The incendiary
proves to be negro boy, who acts as fremen
in the press room where the paper is printed.
George Heustis, nephew of Elias Heustis,
Of Lawrenceburg, Ia whose house was recent
ly robbed seventeen nights in succession, was
shot by mistake, while guarding his unce's
house in company with several others, on Sat
urday night, being mistaken for a burglar He
attempted to enter the house without giving
due notice to the party within.
A melancholy occurrence took place at Os-
tend a short time ago. A person named Sweet
love was lying on his deathbed, surrounded by
his wife and children, when his father came to
see him. The father was so affected that he
was struck with apoplexy, and he and his son
died at about the same moment.