Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-10
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

IDTI6IlJ HSNSDOg IA 49,
d. Bradham of Onslow County, N. C., was
killed ON the 9th ult., in an atiray with his
son Stephen.
What kind of drum is best which cant De
beaten A conun-drum.
James Wright, clerk of johnson County
Tenn, Court, was killed by lightning on The
25th ult, while sitting with his family
1t is exceedingly bad husbandry to harrow
up the feelings of your wife
A German actor named Bremmel fell dead
in the street, in St. Louis, few nights ago,
just after the performance
A man can get along" without advertising,
and so can a wagon wheel without greaslng,
but it goes hard
The town of Taunton boasts of four sisters
living there, whose united Wright is 93o lbs,
the youngest weighing 256 lbs.
"Biddy, did you put an egg in the coffee to
settle it :" eyes, mum, put in four; they
were so bad, had to use the more OF them.
"Jim does your mother. whip?" "No-
but she does precious sight worse, though"
"What is that 90 "She washes me every
morning"
Young Rawbones wanted to kiss his pretty
cousin under the mistletoe; but she snatched
her head away, saying, Manners, sir; don't
thrust your doctors bill in my face
There is an old gentleman living near Highs
town, n j., (Mr Robert Ayres) who has had
twenty four children-nineteen now living.
His grandchildren number ifty-seven.
Blanche NJ, a little daughter of Jonathan
B. Moore, of Manchester, N. H., was so badly
scaded by the upsetting of kettle OF hot wa
ter, on Friday, that she died on Saturday.
"What has been your business 2" said a
judge to prisoner at the bar. "Why, your
honor, used to be a dendst-now | am pu-
gilist; then l used to put in teeth-now l
knock 'em out"
The Chicago Democrat comes to us with
supplement containing .torty-eigM columns OF
closely printed matter, representing delinquents
of that city for the past year. Not less ethan
thirteen thousand lots are thus advertised for
non-payment of taxes.
The New York Tribune related the story of
a poor woman who was starving with her fam
lily, in spite of her efforts to gain subsistence
by making boys caps for two cents apiece
the regular price allowed by New York hat
ters Eighteen dollars was sent to her through
the Tribune office the next day-a small sum,
but equal to what she received for making nine
hundred caps.
A new Cincinnati penny paper, the Press, is
printed on a press driven by one of Ericsson's
caloric engines. After giving this motor fair
trial, the editor says its complete success is es
tabshed, and that his expectations are more
than realized. The expense of running it is
only one cent and a half an hour, or thirty six
cents for twenty-four running hours.
George w. Burnet, a bachelor, who died at
Cincinnati, last week, aged fifty, graduated at
Yale College in 1926 and by his will he be-
queathed all his property, about S3OO,OO0, to
his brothers, sisters and their children.
DR.. John Webb who has been practicing
medicine and preaching the gospel according
to Alexander Campbell, at Salem, Ohio, was
arrested last week, for couterfeiting. He had
over $4,000 in bad bills in his possession.
Francis Wainwright was instantly killed
about o'clock Tuesday morning, in the Con-
necticut River Mills, Windsor Locks, by being
crushed in the hoisting machine.
The democrats of Sumner county, Tenn,
have put a new plank into the platform, and
voted that they will never hereafter vote for
an odd fellow or member of any secret soci-
ETY..
The Springfield Republican says it is given
out that there is to be reduction of ten per
cent. in the wages of the operatives at the
armory in that city
The story of a singular cave, with gigantic
bones and old coins, in Ohio, was a hoax.
Northern Ohio is being industriousy secured
for skunks, their skins selling for 80 to 60 cts
One man has sent to New York 400 this win
ter. Fifty men in one town were hunting the
"varmints, +" and in one case AZ were taken
fran single tree. The air of Cleveland is
full freighted with the sweet scents that stick
to the skins brought there in great numbers.
A lot of 436 slaves, belonging to Pierce But
| lor ofD hiIoIoInb;o II,
Mrs Fanny Kemble, was sold at auction in
Savannah last week, for the sum of $500, POS,
| being an average of SIG head. They were
| sold the Savannah News says, ''mostly in fam.
lies" The "mostly" is distinction with a
considerable difference.
An application for divorce is before the
Pennsylvania Legislature, from the parents OF
child not fourteen years old. The bartender
Of her father, who is the keeper of hotel, in.
duced the child to marry him, secretly, and
the ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr.
Clay. The husband is twice the age of the
girl, and man of bad character
The Judiciary Committee of the Pennsylva,
MIA Legislature has reported to the House 9
personal liberty bill, the purpose of which is to
nullify the Fugitive Slave law, and to gram
fugitives the right of trial by jury. 1t also pro
hibits the use of the jais for the detention O
fugitives, and permits judges to release them
upon bail without minimum limit.
Henry Flicker, a German shoemaker a
| Cleveland, Ohio, has been detected in the muir
der of his illegitimate child, by his wfe's sis
ter. He first threw it into the hog-pen, but the
hogs refused to touch it, and it cried so that hi
feared it would alarm the neighbors, and hi
then cut its throat and threw it into the vault
The brute has been arrested.
Ezekiel Lloyd, colored man, who is in the
habit of lubricating his body with camphene tC
relieve the rheumatism, was shockingly burn
ed in New York, on Sunday, in consequence o
a piece of lighted paper coming in contact with
him, and igniting the camphene.
A Mr.. Beale of Ohio has received $500 from
a railway corporation for having been elected
from the cars by a conductor, to whom he had
refused to pay the extra five cents for tickle
purchased in the cars.
German naturalist has described six hun
dred species of flies, which he has collected
within a district of ten miles. Thirty thousanC
different kinds Of insects, which prey upor
wheat have been collected
Richard Tinker, conductor on the Cambridge
horse railroad, was murderously assaulted OF
Saturday evening, by three Irishman who
had made some difficulty about paying theil
fare. One of them dealt him several blow.
with the iron switch chisel, breaking his skull
and leaving him insensible He is still in
critical condition. The williams escaped
KENTUCKIAN LIBERATING EIGHTIES
| SLAyES-Ihe entire number of slaves ON