Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-23
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Two silly people in Ohio, husband and wife,
having led a troublesome and unhappy life, re-
solved to drown themselves in the Scioto riv-
er. They marched up to the bank boldly, and,
hand in hand, jumped into the raging deep.
Finding the process very disagreeable they
both sought the shore, and decided to postpone
the important event till the water was a little
warmer and notquite so deep.
Heenan, the Benica Boy and Tom Savers,
the champion of the English prize-ring, are ex-
pected to have a "stand-up fight" sometime
the present year. Benicia has made the chal-
lenge, and received a conditional acceptance,
SO that we may soon be favored with brilliant
mill, :" which will decide whether Columbia or
Albion shall continue to rule the wave.
A widow lady and daughter, named Wilson,
on their way from Ohio found themselves in
New York, this week with only two three cent
pieces left, the expenses of their journey hav-
ing exhausted the pittance with which they
hoped to reach their friends in Maine, it being
all that was left them from the sale of their
homestead in Ohio, which had been disposed
of to pay the debts of the recently deceased
husband and father. Their msforutnes found
them abundance of friends, and they were free
ly passed over the road and went on their way
to their friends rejoicing.
Upon the conclusion of marriage in vii
lage church, the bride signed the register with
his y mark. The pretty young bride did the
same; and then turning to a young lady who
had known her las the best scholar in the
school, whispered to her, while tears of honest
love and admiration stood in her bright eyes,
''He's a dear fellow, Miss, but cannot write
He's going to learn of me, and | would not
shame him for the word.'' Something
ST. angely winning is there in the above bonnie
episode of village life.
The Governor of New York has signed the
bill which provides for the appointment of a
State Inspector of Gas Meters Hereafter all
meters will pass under his inspection before
they will be issued by the companies, and who
ever may consider himself aggrieved by the
quarterly statement of the gas consumed on his
premises, must hold the State Inspector re-
sponsible, and not the companies. A pro rata
assessment is levied ON the companies to de-
fray the expenses Of the new department.
The booksellers and publishers of Boston
held n meeting Friday morning for the pur-
pose of consulting with reference to trade
book sale in the city. VIM. d. Ticknor pre-
sided. 1t was voted to hold trade sale early
in August. 1t was left to the care of an exc
cutive committee consisting of Messrs. Brew
ster, Ticknor, Swan Shepard, Bazin, Perkins
and FIagg.
Frederick Leonard the Boston householder,
who pretended to have been robbed in New
York of $3.50, was an impostor. He was fol.
lowed closely by his suspicious creditors, and
the money was at last found snugly hidden in
his boots. Leonard owned up, and was suffer-
ed to escape.
The dignity of the New York Courts was
illustrated the other day, when a score OF more
of wantons were on trial. Large delegations
of bruisers, short boys, and other ruffians, who
live by their wits and make crime a pastime,
were graciously admitted to seats within the
railing, on the right and left of the Recorder,
who Joined them in smoking and in ribald tests
while justice was being dealt out to the miser-
able women before the bar.
A girl of nineteen, dressed in mems clothes,
was arrested at Detroit on Saturday. She
was from Canada, had stolen money from her
father, and was on her way to Pixies Peak,
which she supposed to lie somewhere near
Chicago. She was taken home to her parents.
Tbs trains on the St. Louis, Alton, and Chi
cago Railroad, were stopped at Brighton, ILL.,,
for several hours, the other day, by a mob of
the creditors of the road who insisted that no
trains should pass until their bills for wood, Ia
Dor, and other supplies were paid. An officer
with special posse, went up from Springfield,
and arrested eight of the ringleaders, and the
trains were able to move again. The culprits
are honest, well-meaning men, who thought
the stopping of the trains the best means to
enforce payment from the company.
Several attempts have recently been made
to assassinate Rev. Clement Frachon, Catholic
priest at St. Thomas, Canada On the night
of the 10th, he was stabbed and left for dead
in his own house. No reason is known for
hostility against him. except that he has been
active in putting down the drinking saloons
During the carnival at Leghorn, mar
dressed as Louis Napoleon, and wearing
mask like him, appeared in the streets Ht
had in his hand a folio labeled "The Treate.
of 1916" AT every step he took, he would
tear leaf out of the book and trample it un
| der his feet.
The editor of the Louisville journal says
"People may often run into excess with the
vices, but their virtues are seldom urged be
yond the boundaries of prudence" Prentic,
has very sly way of making a comparison
What he affirms of people in general, is Ger
tainly true Of himself