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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

CONTEMPLATING IN lNDIANA.-One day
last week, a man presented himself at the Of
fee in st. Louis of the Terre Haute, Alton
and ST. Louis Railroad, representing that he
had quantity of Indiana money which he
wished to exchange for other funds on pay
ment of a moderate discount. The agent,
having some 81 1900 to remit to the Bellefon-
tame office at indianapolis, thought it would
be good opportunity to pay the amount,
give his indianapolis friend pleasant surprise,
and pocket the premium himself. Accordingly
the bargain was made, and the seller of the
Indiana money disappeared. Next day the
$1,000 package was duly forwarded to Indian
apols, express charges paid, where the money
was found to be not worth the express charges!
The bills were excellently done, and purported
to be issued by the Manufacturers Bauk Of
Hartford" the word Indiana" being printed
in another part of the bill in exceedingly fine
type. There is no such bank in Indiana.
The next stage in the history of this gigantic
swindle took place here yesterday. Conductor
Morse, on the Cleveland and Erie train coming
West took $40 bill on this bank from two
stylishy dressed Young men, supposing it to
be a Connecticut bank-bill. On learning his
mistake, he returned and got five dollar gold
piece in payment of their fare. AT the next
station, he telegraphed to the depotoflicer
Clark Warren, who was at once on the alert
for the capture of the men, On the arrival of
the cars, they passed into the diningroom,
took dinner, and on leaving, rendered 81 bill
on the spurious bank, which was taken. The
men were Immediately arrested, and in their
carpet-bag were found II number Of the spuri-
GUS bills, and about 5000 in gold. The amount
Of bills found upon these parties was between
$4,000 and 1000. The defendants have been
committed to Jail in default of $500 bail
They did not give their real names, but gave
John Doe and Richard Roe Cleveland Herald
Feb IT,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

EXPLOSION OF POWDER MILL-Ticelue
thousand Pounds Of Gnpocder at One Charge.
On Friday morning, about 9 o'clock, the
good people of this vicinity were started at
terrific explosion, which shook every building
like an earthquake, SCATTERING glass in stores
and dwellings, 1t was seemingly the voice of
one of the "seven thunders." The drying
house of the Austin Powder Co.'s Works, sit
uated in the valley of the Little Cuyahoga
about a mile East of the limits of Akron, and
near the line of Tallmadge, had dsappeared
The spot where it had stood was a backened
hole in the ground no remnant of its structure
on its Site Over an area of several hundred
yards radius were strewn splinters of the al
most pulverzed lumber and hundreds of bro
ken empty kegs from the warehouse. A tree,
some eight or nine inches in diameter, twisted
off at hight of perhaps fifteen feet, as one
pulls a rose from the bush. Another large
tree is said to have disappeared. No trace of
trunk, boughs, stump, or roots were discover
able The buildings in the neighborhood (al-
though there were none near were all injured
Windows were broken, doors unhinged, roofs
lifted and a school house upon the hill, some
forty rods off, was pretty much demolished
The machine or wheelmlll of the Company
was unrooted
Happily no person was hurt. Col Sidney
Edgerton was passing along the road driving
buggy and saw the building on fire. He
gave the alarm, of course, and urged his horse
to his full speed. The workmen took shelter
in cellars and awaited the event. 1t was five
minutes after the alarm before the explosion.
One man who was wheeling tro barrels of po,o-
der from one shop to another, at distance of
not more than an hundred yards from the
drying house. did not hear the alarm. His
barrels did not explode, and he suffered no Sc
rious injury. He remarked to us half an hour
after the explosion, chs head dched some p
Col. Edgerton got across the creek at dis
lance of comparative safety before the explo-
sion. He describes the sight as magnificent.
Another person who witnessed it from the hill
says the umbrella-like canopy of smoke and
fragments, lurid with the glare of the flash,
was he thought about JSve acres in ertent
Nick Fox was at work in the drying house
when the alarm was given. He ran out in his
stockings, discovered the fire and started upon
the run. Then finding it rough travelling, he
halted, in a quandary whether to take the
chances and go back for his boots !; but finally
concluded to put on, and did so.
The quantity of powder in the building is
estimated at 10000 pounds or more. The loss
entire win be about $300O.-Akron (Ohio)
Beacon.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

WITHDRAWAL OF THE CUBA BILL BY MIR.
SL1DELL-TARIFF MOVEMENTS. = WasIiny-
ton, Feb g. 2 p. M.-The firmness of the Re
publicans on test of endurance until |
O'Clock this morning, against the thirty mil
lion scheme, has compelled SIidell to withdraw
his measure from the arena, acknowledging to-
day that it cannot be passed.
The Committee of Ways and Means have
agreed to report Phillips's, Morrills, and
Phelps's tariff bills, to-day The Cobb Demo
Gratis will try to substitute Phelpss which is
the tariff of 1916, for Phillipss bill, which sac
rifices almost every other interest to Pennsyl-
vania iron.
The Republicans will vote against Mr. Phil
lipss bill, and concentrate upon Morril's bill,
which treats all the great interests with much
more fairness. 1t is thought the Pennsylvania
Democrats will vote for the latter, if they cam
not get Phillip Dispntch to the Bos-
ton Traveller.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-Congressional leg
islation is considered at an end for the present
session. The war of the factions defeats bust
ness, and the chances are that the several ap-
preparations will fail. Many members have
avowed their determination to vote against ey-
erything. Mr.. Phelps, to-day, charged Mr.
Phillips, of Pennsylvania, with having declar-
ed his intention to vote against every appro-
priation bill. Mr.. Phillips was appointed on
the Committee of Ways and Means as spe-
cial friend of the Administration.
The time spent by the Senate in consider
ing the Cuban bill is thrown away. The
House Committee on Foreign Affairs will
make no effort to take it up. Mr.. Wilson's
amendment to the bill to-day attracts much
attention, and challenges the approval and
support of many Southern men. The oppo-
nents of the Slidell bill are determined not to
be forced to hurried vote. They say they
will be heard against it, and without being
compelled to speak at midnight Their plan,
probably, will be to constantly call the yeas
and nays between 9 at night and II in the
moining, unless the friends of the bill desire
to speak, or an adjournment is agreed to-
Special Dispatch to he NeD York Times.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

GEFFRARD AND SoULoUQUE.-A gentle
man at Hayti, writing to friend in New York,
says:
at is spoken of here as a glorious revolu-
ton, as thousands of weapons were drawn,
but not single life lost. The President, Gef-
trard, is a soldier every inch of him. The
Emperor and his partizans have received all
the kindness and protection that truly noble
and humane man could give them. The mob
was ready to tear them to pieces if they had
not been restrained by the President. You
will receive enclosed copy of the abdication
The ex-Emperor was escorted by Capt. Nc
Crea, captain Of artillery, to the French con-
sui, with strong escort of guards of the Pres
ident's. can't say if the Governor made his
escape from the Consulate on board the Mel
bourne; popular Indignation is very much
aroused against him.
The Emperor Soulouque is said to be i'm
mensely rich; his wealth is estimated at up
wards of 100000, banked in Europe. He
has upwards of one hundred houses, mansions
in Hayti. AT the breaking out of the revolu-
ton he had at the palace 100000 in gold, and
two millions of paper dollars; the paper mon
ey he had to leave, which the mob divided
among themselves, and a good deal of gold
was found in the Empress and Princess
rooms-the mob took it all. He has large
amount Of money and valuables with him.
A Tie Deum was chanted at the new Roman
Catholic chapel, on Monday morning, by re-
quest of the Haytien refugees, in thanksgiv-
ing to God for the amicable manner in which
the troubles of Hayti have passed over.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

LONG SEARCH FOR AN ABDUCTED CHILD.
in July, 1854, the wife of Giles Reeder, of
Canaan, Ohio abandoned her husband and a
little son three years old. The. husband gave
the boy in charge of his brother who lived at
Cleveland. The mother was living at Berea,
Ohio, and the uncle had an interview with
her, taking the boy with him, in order that the
child might influence her to a reconciliation
1t was all in vain. The boy was left while
with the mother, and then the uncle removed
him to Cleveland, where the mother did not
follow him, or make any effort to get him, or
even to see him. But after one year had pas
sed, during the uncle's absence, his house was
assaulted by party desirious of recovering
possession of the child. They succeeded,
after sharp contest. This was in 1866
Since that time, the father has searched far
and near for his boy who has been carried
from place to place, living among strangers,
and had his name changed so often, for pur-
poses of concealment, as almost to drive out of
his mind the recollection of his real name
| The Cleveland Herald announces that at last,
the child has turned up in Iowa, five hundred
miles from either of his parents, among stran-
gers. The little boy has suffered mentally,
morally and physically, while his little body
weighs less by near four pounds than when
stolen from his father and friends.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

THE HIGH SBHooL.-Mr. Editor 1t may
be deemed a spirit of extreme sensitiveness
and criticism to presume to sit in Judgment on
any department of the exercises connected
with the High School in this city, but there is
one feature that cannot fail to strike the re-
f1ecting observer as anomalous in the character
of an institution offering equal advantages to
both sexes, that in the highly interesting rhe-
torical exhibitions connected with it, not sin
gle girl appears on the platform. 1t is true,
some of them read essays, but reading is not
speaking. This may not be the fault of the
greatly esteemed Principal of the institution,
who believe has no prejudices on the subject.
1t may be that public sentiment, which never
intended that woman should be public speak
er, has extended its proscriptiye spirit even
here, but then, where is the limit ? In all our
primary schools, both sexes share equally in
this exercise and why should they not go on
through successive grades, until they reach
the High School, and there both take part in
the declarations and public speaking?
There is probably no department in which
woman is so deficient as in this, because she
has never become accustomed to it, and is
frightened at the sound of her own voice
Certainly, it would be benefit to her, if she
never intended to speak in public for in the
public meetings of the benevolent societies in
which she is the chief agent, it is sometimes
highly important that she should make sug-
gestion, which she is now deferred from doing,
besides adding to her efficiency in the capacity
in which she now acts in those meetings II
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

No important change has taken place in the Dry Goods
market since last report and do not look for any
at present The business this year. has greatly
ceeded that Of previous year In the history Of the
trade and all parties very well satisfied. Cotton
Goods have been comparatively quiet but the advance
noticed last week fully sustained manufacturers have
contracted far ahead, that of them have
goods for present delivery and in consequence bust
in certain kinds has been greatly restricted Wooden
Goods firm, but not very active good feeling how
ever prevails and the trade generally look forward with
confidence to a healthy and promising business. With
the 0bbers trade has increased considerably during the
week and we notice more general activity among them
than for some previous weeks particularly in dress and
fancy goods. A good many buyers are here from the
Southwest, and Western buyers beginning arrive.
Shining List
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

SPIRITUALIsM SuRPRIsED.--A test of Spir-
itualism was recently made at New Bedford,
which we commend to believers in the NEW
revelations" The son Of Mr.. Wade was sup.
posed to be lost with wrecked ship some
yearshgo. The father, a full believer in the
truth Of mediumship between mortals and i'm
mortals, enjoyed communications with the
spirit Of his loved and lost son. The son.
through a.medium, informed him that he twas
hspPy among the saints, and that throne Of
glory was In reserve for himself" Mr. Wade
however was taken all back" few DAYS
since, by the arrival Of his son In the form Of
nesh and blood, and his relation Of wondrous
escapes by field and food
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28
Boston Boot and shoe Market-Feb IS.

There is change notice in the Boot and Shoe
ket the past week large number Of buyers here
from the South, West and Southwest, and others
daily arriving The demand for desirable goods is fully
equal to the supply and the spring business will evidently
quite the expectations Of the trade Prices
are very rn and viii be sustained during the
goods selling very low, when the
broken, although there is still very desirable, though
not large assortment to select FROM With the manufac
turers business continues active noticed for
weeks, and all who turn out good and desirable work
have orders ahead Leather and Hides have varied very
little during the week. There is not much demand, but
holders quite firm previously noticed, and do
not look for change in the price of stock for the pres
ent.-Shinninp List
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

CAMBEIDcE OBsERvAToRY.-Georee Phil.
lips Bond has been chosen Director of The on.
4 seryatory at Cambridge. He is gentleman
Of great merit and of rare modesty. and HE
appointment viii give as great Satisfaction u
scientific men as to his friends While m mn
dergraduate, his good qualities SO endeared
him 10 his classmate the late Edward Brom.
field Phillips, that the latter was believed 70
have been influenced by this circumstance, in
giving, by his will, one hundred thousand dol
lars, 70 make permanent fund for the support
Of the Observatory.
Mr. Bond graduated in 1916, and has been
for several years Assistant Observer TO his ia.
ther, whom he now succeeds. Boston Travel
Lr.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

The BANK DEFALcATIoN AT BROOKLYN
Some of the papers put down the amount of
the defalcation of the teller of the Atlantic
Bank, of Brooklyn, as high as $4,000, which
must have been purloined during the last six
months. This bank is one of the safest fund
banks of the State, having capital of $780,
000 and had surplus of $l08,223 on last
December. 1t is stated that the paying teller,
Mr.. Oscar S. Field, has been in the bank six
years, and possessed a good reputation the
whole time up to the detection of the defalca-
ton. 1t is supposed that he has lost the mon
ey in grabbing and in Wall street.
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Spetial 9Autrtrs.

CurtIs's Cure for Badness. LCURTIS'S CURE
FOR BADNESS will stop the lair from falling! NO
OIL, NO LEAD, NO SULPHUR! The Proprietor of
this invaluable hair restorative lost his hair BY degrees
until he became entirely bald while in good health and
after trying of the many preparations adyer
tised for the prevention OF badness without success
procured hpe growth OF hair by the this remark
able hqd and being anxious to further its virtues
he furnished it to others, whose with il equal
TO his own.
badness, and he warrants it, in all cases. prevent the
hair from falling out 1t harmless in its action
desirable article for toilet use, contains sub
stance, and cleans the dandr from the hair aud the
fever from the scalp To those are losing their hair
this is valuable as it will stop its falling in all cases
For sale by all druggists.
CHAS. RICHARDSON q co, "A India street Boston
sole Wholesale Agents for Boston.
J. Nj. CURTIS, Proprietor,
No. Westminster street, Providence II. /.
f2S deStf
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

LATER FROM LrBERIA.-By an arrival at
Philadelphia, we have letters from Liberia to
the close of December The country was en-
joying peace and prosperity. A letter written
on the 10Th December says that the National
Fair was then in progress at Monrovia, and
was far more interesting this year than last,
there being more articles exhibited, and of
more utility.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

GREAT EXCITEMENT IN THE ILLINOIS LEG
IsLATURE.-By special dispatch to the Chi
cago journal, we learn that the Governor re-
turned the apportionment bill to the House,
yesterday morning, with his objections, when
the Douglasites forcibly elected the Governors
Secretary who brought it in. The bill was Ia
ken from the hands of Page by Green, doug
lasite) who threw it upon the floor. Church
(RepublicanJ picked it up and placed it on the
Speakers desk, and the Speaker knocked it
off. Green then put it in his pocket.
During these proceedings the greatest ex-
element existed in the House.
The Chicago Tribune publishes the follow
ing dispatch:
SPRINeFIELD, Feb %, 1860
Editors Press and Tribune NO quorum In House.
Apportonment vetoed Senate in session General
dispersion tomorrow No Appropriation bill pass
ed. Democrats enraged. Republicans jubilant
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

CrOckery, Glass, and French China Ware.
Our stock Of the above goods complete i'll its
parts, and offers GREAT INDUCEMENTS to those who
wish TO replenish their tables and especially to all
who are about commencing housekeeping. We have on
hand at all times, ROGERS BROS. PLATED GOODS,
): RUSSELL " CO.'S CUTLERY, (pIated or not) which
we have tried and not found wanting
The Old Dominion Coffee Pot,
Plated and Britannia Tea Pots, Casters, and Spoons
Solar Lamps Kerosene Lamps, Fluid Lamps Tea Trays
Table Mats-eyeryhing that is needed to furnish your
tables in the best annerTerra Gotta Paran and China
Vases, and Fancy Goods.
Our goods all selected with great care expressly for
our retail trade of the first quality and at the lowest
prices FOR CASH.
Every article warranted represented
apps deodaw FIRTH & NICHOLS
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

The month of February is generally sup
posed to close winter as it closes ITSELF but
such Is not exactly the fact. Winter contin.
ues always until some time beyond the middle
nal equinox, which takes place about the 2lst
OF March, is the commencement of Spring
and not the first day of that clustering month
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

last few miles north of this place, at the res
idence of Mr. James F. Humphreys. A ne.
gro woman, belonging to Mr.. Humphreys,
took her two children, boy about five and a
girl about three years of age, to an old well
some three or four yards from the house, and
threw them in, where they were found next
morning drowned. She then went back to
her own house, piled all her things in the mid
die of the floor, set fire to them, and ran away
and up to the present time no trace of her
has been found.-Nadisor tFla.) Messenger,
18th inst
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

The GREAT REPUBLIC MoNTHLY.-This maya
zine deserves popularity. The number for the pres
ent month contains less than thirty articles With
such an array there must of course be spread before
the reader great variety and such is really the case
The proprietors of this magazine are apparently de
termined to make 1t attractive. Its articles are en-
tirely original and free from sectional or sectar
an bias. In each number there are always numer
GUS Illustrations.
oaksmith & Co., publishers, New York. Price
three dollars year.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

The STATE OF lTALY.-Austrian bayonets
bristle all over Lombardy and Venice. Aus
trian cannon frown from every fort, and Aus
trian troops patrol every highway. The Ital-
ians hate them, and have long plotted to turn
them out. The recent apprehensions ofwar in
Europe have been largely based on the fear
that the Western Powers would lend these
plots encouragement.
But this appears to be unfounded. In the
House of Lords, Earl Derby, speaking of the
Ministry, sides with the Austrians. Earl Clay
speaking for the opposition, comedies that the
Austrians must stay. In the Commons, Pal
merston, for the opposition, says Austrian
withdrawal ought not to be asked, and Disra-
eli, for the Ministry replies that it will not be.
The Queens speech, and Napoleon's pamphlet
| openly expresses, the opinion that the Austri-
ans in Lombardy cannot at present be disturb
ed. The King of Sardinia wants to attack
them, but cannot, his allies restrain him.
| The Lombards know by hard experience that
an unaided revolt against them, is likely
to be crushed in the outset So the black
eagle still floats securely over Venice and
Milan.
In regard to Rome, the case is different.
Two armies occupy the Eternal City"-an
Austrian one and a French one. The with
drawal of the French would leave the city in
the hands of the Austrians. The withdrawal
OF the Austrians would leave it in the hands
of the French. The withdrawal of both would
be the signal of a revolution, to overthrow the
Papal throne.
This is the problem that puzzles the West
ern cabinets. The English would gladly see
the Romans left to govern themselves, but Pro-
testant interference would hardly be tolerated
by thetwo ''tavorite sons of the Church.
the rival Emperors, who have the Pope in safe
keeping but dare not entrust him to each 9th.
er, nor to his own people.
The official pamphlet sanctioned by the
French Emperor suggests reform of admin
istrative abuses at Rome, concessions to the
people, and, if need be, a separation of the
temporal from the spiritual power, with view
to the ultimate and gradual withdrawal of for
eign influence Something of the sort is evil
IDENTIFY necessary. Some change must be made
in the civil government of Rome, or the two
foreign armies will have to stand watching it
and each other till doomsday.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

CIVIL CouRr.-Beore Chief Justice Mellen
The case of Bacon Us. Williams ct al, of Barre,
which has occupied several days, was decided
on Saturday by verdict for the plaintiff, after
which the Court adjourned sine die.
The March term will commence on Monday
next, when it is understood two Courts will be
held, one before Chief Justice Mellen and the
other before Judge Sanger.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

10 The Agricultural College bill, one of
the wisest and most benefcent measures which
has received the sanction of the present Con-
gress, has been killed by the veto of the Presi-
dent He says 1t would diminish the revenue
of the country s5,ooo,oOO during the current
year-which is just one-sixth of the amount
nc asked for on account of his Cuban project.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-28

NEwBURYPoRT.-The Newburyport police
assisted by New Hampshire officers, have sue.
ceeded in breaking up at Plaistow, N. II a
den of bogus lottery dealers, who hailed from
the first named place. The rascals had fled,
but their books and papers were secured.
Among them was chest four feet square, fill
ed with letters from their victims, mostly from
the Western States. The books show names
of agents in every State in the Union. The
proprietor of this bogus concern will, it is to
be hoped, be looked up and punished.