Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-26
GENERAL SUMMARY.

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hallucination, attempted recently to buy up
the Michigan Central road, and would have
ruined himself but for the sagacity OF his bro
ker He disguised his insanity by ordering
the stock to be purchased in the name of the
cashier of one of the city banks-a trick of
stock gamblers which the cashier regarded as
a strong evidence of sanity.
In dispute will case before the Supreme
! Court, wherein two wives of Benjamin Lakin,
deceased, laid claim to his property ($12,000)
the first having deserted him twenty years ago
and married again. the second, his wife for ten
| years past having received his whole prop
erty by his will, Judge Shaw wisely decided
that the woman who deserted him till he was
laid in his grave had no claim to his estates,
and that the will must stand.
The waste of motive power in some of the
masked balls of Europe has been calculated by
a Norman engineer to be five hundred horse
power, which would turn 100000 spindes,
| spinning 1900 pounds of cotton or would i'm
pei ship of 1900 tons 30 miles
! A rich Greek, Evangelis Zaopas of Buchar-
est, has given to the Greek nation the interest
of 400 shares in the National Bank at Athens,
and 600 drachnaas in cash. to found and
support new QIympics for the benefit of art,
manufactures and agriculture. royal order
has appeared for their regulation They are
to be celebrated every four years. They will
combine an Art and Industrial Exhibition with
an Agricultural Fair. The prizes will be
money, medals, and honorable mention.
The last case of "child lost" is related as
having occurred down in Mobile, where small
| boy walking along with his mother, wished to
change position and get on the outside, but, UNI
| fortunately he had such distance to go to
! get round the lady that he lost his way, and
has not since been found.
Isaac b. Maxwell, OF Springfield, proprietor
Of one of the city express wagons, while hur
rymg to the depot in Chicopee to take the
cars for home, on Friday, suddenly ruptured a
blood vessel and fell in the street. No effort
could save his lite and the unfortunate man
expired in a few moments after his fall. He
was about 35 years of age, and he leaves a wife
in this city.
The wife of Andrew VIII of Ware awoke
on Wednesday night, and feeling unwell got
up and tried to walk, but could not, and then
laid down and died Immediately. She had
been the mother of 13 children 10 of whom
are living.
Last Saturday evening in st. Louis, a Mex
lean fell upon his knees upon, the pavement in
front of revolving wax fashion figure, and
proceeded with his devotons, in spite of the
Interruptions of passers by He had evidently
mistaken the figure for some saint or for the
virgin. The idlers laughed at the mistake
| but if the worshiper was sincere, he got just
as much good as if it had been a real Virgin.
AT farm house, near Ballymena, Ireland
a little girl was found by her mother in
churn, into which she had fallen while taking
milk from it.
Achilles fuller, formerly a wealthy and es-
Unable citizen of Tiffin, Ohio, committed sui
eide on Wednesday last He was active as a
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tiles were going on i'll the State Treasury, and
incurred the mortal hostility of those who were
interested in concealng them. They pursued
him from place to place, and from year to
year, till he was compelled to find relief in
death.
Among the possibilities and probabilities of
the approaching military campaign, is an en-
campment in some central place of all the mi
litia in the State.
Hon. Frank Blair, in a speech delivered in
| st. Louis, said that zone slave stands more in
the way of building railroad, than three
mountains"
Benjamin w. c. Carpenter of Willettville,
Narragansett, r. l., aged fifty years, was found
dead in swamp April 10th, where he had
been lying week on the wet ground, in by
place. His brother and friends had made sew
eral unsuccessful searches for him before. De-
ceased came to his death from exposure ard
the excessive use of stimulants.
The machine shop, four locomotives, and
about two thousand cords of wood, at Wind
sor, Mich, belonging to the Great Western
Rairoay, were destroyed by fire on Sunday
morning The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Nine tenements and large furniture manu-
factory, at the corner of Brush and Geraliat
Streets and two buildings at the corner of
Hastings and Franklin streets, in Detroit, were
burnt Sunday morning. Loss $30000-par-
TALLY insured All were incendiary.
Antioch College, in Ohio, was sold at public
auction in Cincinnati, last week, for $4,000.
The purchaser was an agent of Mr.. Francis A.
Palmer. After the sale, however, the College
was transferred to its former owners free from
debt, and will be Immediately recognized.