Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-02-01
PERSONAL,

The Sheriff of New York makes nearly s25,-
600 year, all his own.
The Hon. L. A. Hannegan, Ex-United
States Senator from Indiana, has taken the
field as lyceum lecturer.
Bayard Taylor is the author of "The Palm
and the Pine" in the February number of the
atlantic Monthly"
John Richards, the well known publisher of
the Spirit Of the Times, died at New York on
Thursday, at an advanced age.
Mrs. Mary Taylor, of Lee Mass had sur
prise party Of her fifteen children, on her Tooth
birthday, January 8.
The wife of Charles Henry Parker, much
beloved, amiable and benevolent woman, sister
OF Creenough, the artist, died very suddenly
on Friday last
A little girl, years of age daughter of Mr..
John Merritt OF Brunswick, Me, set fire to
her clothes on Tuesday last while attempting
to light candle, and was burned to death
Col. Joseph Bond, of Macon, Ga, has made
this year twenty-One hundred and seventy
bales of cotton, which would at present prices
bring him over one hundred thousand dollars.
President Lord of Dartmouth College was
skating on the Merrimack river on Wednesday,
and Lowell paper remarks that although he
is sixty-six years of age, for celebrity and grace
of motion he was unequaled by any Of his more
youthful competitors.
The President has pardoned Mr.. Spear, who
was two or three years since a clerk in the Post
Office in Boston, and was convicted of opening
letters and abstracting money. He was SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment. His pardon
was secured by the Jealous efforts of his wife
On the occasion of the new year, the Prince
Regent of Prussia, after the public reception,
proceeded to offer his personal congratulations
to the venerable Humboldt, says Berlin letter
The old gentleman, H., is in salubrious health.
The Calais Advertiser states that Mrs
Jemima Noble, aged 80, died in Calais, Jan A.
A year or two before she died, an entire new
set of teeth had grown in her mouth, and she
could see and hear as well as when young.
For pocket money Louis Napolean, it is al
legged, gives fat Prince Napolean q million of
francs ($200,000l upon his marriage with
Clotilde, Miss of sixteen, daughter of the
King of Sardinia. The newspapers had been
directed not to mention the present
Mr.. R. Ridgely, son of wealthy banker of
Springfield, Ill, has eloped with young miss,
10 years old. He leaves behind wife and
two children 1t is also stated that the sum of
81, 900 is missing from the bank of his father,
where Mr.. Ridgely was employed.
Mrs. Rhoda Smart, of Fryeburg, Me-, de-
serves the name she bears. She is II years of
age and during three months of the past sum-
mer and fall spun 300 skeins of yarn and wove
125 yards of wooden cloth, 25 yards Of which
were carpeting. She is an aunt of Hon, L. X.
Smart.
The English papers say that great rush of
people to Rome is expected this season, as the
Prince of Wales will be there and 'high jinks'
are anticipated The Prince has commenced his
travels, and was lately at Brussels and went to
the theatre in that CITY aprOn1DaDipd nv tho
King, the beautiful Duchess of Brabant, and
an Alustrious suite. When the Royal party
entered, the orchestra played the Belgian ma
tional air, but the acclamations raised in honor
Of the King and the Prince were so loud that
it could scarcely be heard. The theatre was
crowded to excess, chiefly by elegantly dressed
ladies.