Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-26
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A Washington letter in the journal of Com
merce says the report that Miramon, the sue
cessor of Zuloaga as the head of the Mexican
Church party, has offered to treat with the
United States government for the cession of
Chihuahua and Sonora, grows out of the fact
that Gen. Robes did propose some terms of
the sort, in case he should attain supreme
power as was his expectation. But Miramon
is only at the head of a factious opposition to
the constitutional government of Mexico, and
his treaty would be worth just as much as that
Of discarded Spanish Minister of State would
be, were he to engage with Mr.. Preston to cede
Cuba to the United States.
1t is stated in a recent issue of the Toledo
Blade, Ohio, that drove Of six thousand geese
intended for the New York market, were seen
at Winchester, few days before. The owner
had driven into one car the number of fifteen
hundred, paying from fifteen to twenty cents
each, as freight. The calculation of the owner
was that the feathers would pay him for his
outlay in raising them and getting them to
market, and that the proceeds for the carcasses
would be clear profit.
A suspension bridge at Grand Falls, c. w,
which had just been erected at a cost of 500
000 fell last week one of the chains having
snapped, in consequence of the cold. Three
teams upon it were lost and two men danger
ously injured.
Bishop James, of the M. E. Church, advises
young cergymen neither to use tobacco, make
apologies, or speak of their sacrifices in the
ministry.
The Fashions" in the last number of LIE
Toilet say, that, with Paris ladies' loose indoor
jackets trimmed with fur are very popular
The Algerian jacket of velvet, embroidered
in gold, and the "Zouave" article of ruby each
emire, embroidered in black silk, and trimmed
round with small hanging buttons, are instanc-
ed as elegant and distingue!
A farmer from Duchess County reports that
since the commencement of the Winter up
wards of twelve hundred sheep had died in
that part of the country, from the disease call
ed the "scab," and that this meat had been
sent to New York and sold in the markets of
that city.
Animalcules have been discovered so small,
that one million would not exceed a grain of
sand and five hundred millions would sport in
drop of water. Yet each of these must have
blood vessels, nerves, muscles, circulating flu
ids, &C., like large animals.
Last year there were imported into the coun-
try pa 1853 tons of sugar, and the home crop
was 143,734 tons, making the consumption for
the year 388,492 tons, more by 100000 tons
than the previous year. We should be very
sweet tempered people.
The gold fever is decidedly raging through
out the West, and hundreds of young men are
preparing to start early in the Spring for the
newly discovered mines of Western Kansas In
many CT the large towns companies of fifty to
one hundred are organizing.
The police at New Orleans have recovered
$4,000 worth of jewelry and watches stolen
from firm at Havana, Cuba, but they could
not detain the two thieves, because there is no
extradition law between Spain and the United
States.
Poor John A Washington has hard time
with his black chattels. His negro man Joe
has, teloniously, and with malice aforethought
run away, and he offers $500 for his recovery
There is a gentleman in New Orleans,
merchant, and planter and, we regret to add,
bachelor, whose income this year will reach
the handsome sum of five hundred thousand
dollars, who, twenty-five years ago, was clerk
with salary of fifty dollars month.
On Thursday last it was discovered that a
Frenchman named Campan, near Detroit had
killed his wife and buried her so carelessly that
the toes of the corpse appeared above ground.
lie was arrested, and the case sent to the grand
jury
There is more meaning and philosophy than
at first sight appears in Coleridge's answer to a
lady, when she asked him whether he believed
IA 6nOetS' vi, no, lhadan, L nave seen too
many 10 believe in them"
Mr.. b. Coffee, who is said to have preached
the first Gospel sermon in Memphis Tenn.
was found few days since lying in state of
mtoxication near one of the railroad depots.
and taken to the caIaboose
Water from the Dead Sea in the cabinet of
the Brooklyn Heights philosopher, E. Merriam,
became thick like oil, on exposure to the late
severe cold.
Mr.. Robert Chambers contradicts the state
ment that he is the author of the "Yestiges of
Creation"