Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-07
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AT Lockport, ILL.,, few days ago, some
slight misunderstanding occurred between Mr.
| Horace Morse and his son Frank, which re-
suited in a passage at arms with pitchforks and
clubs, without serious injury to either party.
Both parties then armed themselves with load
| ed shot guns and after parleying and threaten.
ing each other for while, Morse took deliber-
ate aim and discharged his gun directly in the
face Of his son, being not more than fifteen
feet from him at the time of firing. The shot
took effect in the face and hands of the son,
but did not prove fatal.
Rev. DR.. Beresford, of England, who is re-
lated to a noble Marquis and who, with liv-
ing of FL 900 year, committed forgery to an
enormous extent, is now employed in sweeping
the wards in the new prison at the convict sta
ton in Fremantle, Western Australia, whence
he was transported for his crimes. England
metes out justice without respect to persons.
Accounts from Sebastopol state that only a
few of the old inhabitants have returned the
city appears almost deserted, and commerce
at an end. Formerly, Sebastopol numbered
$4,000 inhabitants now it contains scarcely
sixth of that number. The wood huts built
by the French serve as residences for the peas
ants. The funeral monuments of the French
and Englirh at Sebastopol and Balaklava are
uninJured.
A couple of American travellers stopping at
the Hotel Franchise, in the city of Cordova
the capital of the Argentine confederation
were surprised and amused by noticing, on the
bill of fare, eggs on horseback" Determined
to know what it meant, they called for the
equestrian dish, when it was placed before
them in the shape of (horse y beefsteak
with two eggs on top,
The family of Mrs. Lucinda Burr of North
Wilbraham, according to the Palmer Journal
consists of one father, three mothers, two
grandmothers, one great-grandmother, two
widows three children, one husband, one wife,
two daughters, ore granddaughter, one son,
one grandson one great grandson, one mother
in-law, and one son-in-law yet the family num-
bers but five persons, who all live under the
same roof.
The indianapolis (Indiana) Journal says
that some months since a mock marriage was
performed in that city, by sham magistrate
The woman has since been deserted by the man
whom she thought her husband. There were
no witnesses present at the ceremony, which
she thought was real marriage, and she has
no redress.
1t is estimated that the earth annually borne
beyond its mouth by the current of the Mis-
sissippi, amounts to 15,000,000 cubic Yards
This is the process by which Louisiana and
Lower Mississippi were formed and the con-
tinuation of the same silent workmanship is
said to be rescuing from the sea a square mile
of land each year of our era.
Some workmen at ST. Louis left whiskey
bottle where couple of little boys, about five
years old, got to it and drank of the whiskey
which gave one of them ravenous appetite
and he ran home to appease it. The other was
stupefied, and died in spite of medical efforts
to save his life.
The journeyman painters of New Bedford,
who lately struck for 81 day, have returned
to work, their demand having been acceded to
by their employers.
The Pope has recently ordered two large
barns to be pulled down for the better prose-
cution of excavations in the Roman Forum,
from which interesting discoveries are antici-
pated.
A number of American ladies, resident in
the Sandwich Islands, have sent to Mr.. Ever
EFT the sum of Sal as their contribution to the
Mount Vernon fund.
Lahaina, the second city of the Sandwich
Islands, has two lawyers, two wholesale Ii
censed liquor dealers, and not single licensed
retailer.
An extensive iron mine, of exceeding rich
ness, has been discovered in Oregon, about
thirteen miles from the city of Portland.
A report has been made in the California
State Senate, in favor of releasing the sureties
on the bond of DIR. Bates, late State Treasu-
rer.
The Lawrence Herald of Freedom states
that the prospects for the establishment of a
University in Kansas, are very flattering.
Five men at the marlborough Steam Mill,
make forty thousand spools day, from small
white birch poles, for which the company pay
one cent for eight feet.
Accounts of the crops from Ohio, Maryland,
Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri, are highly
favorable to good harvests.
The Cincinnati and Louisville peach trees
promise an abundant yield this season.