Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-28
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Inc execution OF Mrs. Hartung which was
to have taken place, yesterday, has been de-
ferred, stay Of proceedings having been
granted by Judge Wright, on an application
for new trial which is to be argued before a
full bench. 1t is possible that the diabolical
exhibition may yet be averted.
Some of the Boston merchants have been
victimized to the extent of about $4,000 by a
pretended planter from Virginia who recently
opened magnificent club house in Kilby
street with great eclat and the applause of the
newspapers. He pretended to be on the point
OF opening similar rendezvous for the mer-
chants of Montreal when he was discovered
to be bogus" and his establishment was tax
en- by the officers.
Fern LeGt.-Fanny Fern says: 1 immedi-
atey love the man who bushes" She must
love her husband then quite often, if he reads
Fanny's contributions to the papers.
son Of ex-Secretary Gilmer, of Tyler's
Cabinet, committed suicide on Monday by
throwing himself under the wheels of a loco
motive at the Washington depot.
All Paris is ringing with scandal which af
fects Minister of State. An operate siren
from the Theatre Lyrique is said to have call
ed upon him to solicit some concession. The
Minister appeared softened but made the same
stipulations as Lord Angelo. The lady resent
ed the insult, and returned to her husband,
who, in conjunction with other operate hus-
bands, who decline to suffer their wives to be
converted into Pompadours, has formally COM
planned Of the Minister'S conduct
Little Tommy Wall who was flogged by the
Elliot School teacher for refusing to read the
Protestant Bible, is receiving gold and silver
present from the children of the same faith
throughout the country. The Pilot suggests
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the education Of the boy at some Catholic
college.
A special dispatch from Burlington, dated
Wednesday noon, states that Bishop Doane
was dying.
Marcus Cogswell, of New Haven, aged %,
a brakeman on the Canal Railroad while con
Meeting the cars at Southampton, Wednesday
morning, fell with his back on the track, and
was instantly killed. He leaves a wife and
two children.
A young Bavarian lawyer of fine talents
and little money, having been rejected by a
young lady to whom he offered his heart made
an designation with her in her fathers garden
and deliberately shot her through her heart.
He was arrested and sent to the fortress for II
| years.
During his travels, Alexander Dumas says
he became the guest Of a beautiful princess,
| all OllSHlftl pSdIlt WnO dSkeu MIN LOT Il sonnet,
not word Of which did she understand, and
in return gave Dumas a magnificent necklace,
which he understood perfectly well.
| Monkhanof, the Governor of Russian Po-
land is an ignorant fellow, who thinks literary
men are necessarily revolutionists, and should
be hung off hand. To the editors of Warsaw
he gives permission to speak in their teiilie-
tons of the sea-serpent, whose existence being
doubted, much may be said on both sides Of
the question for the amusement of their read
ers.
The Galena Advertiser states that miners in
the vicinity of Potosi, British Hollow, and
Rockville have done reasonably well the past
winter The largest diggings have yielded
only from 10000 to $4,000 pounds of mineral.
Owing to the failure of crops, many farmers
have turned their attention to mining
NJ Latry of Grenoble has invented singu-
lar method of making artificial wood, hard, sol
id, heavy, susceptible of the highest polish,
and ola dark color like ebony. 1t is made by
mixing sawdust with bullocks' blood, and then
subjecting the composition to very heavy
pressure by means Of the hydraulic press.
With the metal thus formed all kinds of furni-
ture and ornamental work may be made.