Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-30


by the great Roman swindler, the Marquis OF
Campana, is now offered for sale by the Pom
tifical Government to repair as far as possible
the loss in the Government Savings Bank and
loan. occasioned by his speculations. The
collection is an extraordinary one, and the
lowest sum for which it can be procured is
about s500000. There is talk Of an effort to
purchase it for New York.
Ex-Gov. Wright, the Hoosier, minister at
Berlin, treats his countrymen to buckwhest
cake and molasses when they call on him ;
hires church and has a bible class in the
Sunday School. He is said to be the only
genuine Yankee at any foreign court, not
taken in by the aristocracy.
It's understood that Jerez. the Nicaraguan
Minister has received intelligence OF Walker $
medtated foray upon Central America, and
that the English and French admirals upon
that coast have instructions to seize him and
his followers either ashore or af1oat.
Mr. Groux, on his first visit to Boston signed
will which was drawn up by Mr.. Choate, by
which his body was solemnly devised to the
profession of this country if he died on the
American continent.
The body of young Abbott, the missing stu
dent of Bowdoin College, was found i'll the An
droscoggin river on Wednesday.
The Louisiana Democrats have nominated
Thomas Moore, Slidell man, for Governor.
Capt Townsend, of the SLAYER Echo, whose
trial has been i'll progress for several days at
Savannah, is acquitted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Jacksonville ill.,, correspondent of the
Springfield Register says most terrific tor
nado occurred twelve miles south of that city,
recently. The violence of the whirlwind is
described as exceeding anything Of the kind
ever witnessed, except in the West Indies
Sixteen persons are reported killed, and many
others seriously injured. Houses, barns, &C.,
were torn to atoms. The names OF the killed
are not yet ascertained.
The estates of Simon Bolivar, the liberator
of Spanish South America, in Venezuela, are
to be sold in London, on the 18th Of June, 80.
They comprise tract of land fifty miles long
by thirty in width-eleven hundred and fifty
square miles, having forests Of mahogany, ce-
dar, guayacum, ignum vitae, and fustic.
In the Municipal Court, at Portland, Thurs
dav, man named Brennan was sentenced to
fifteen days in the House of Correction, on
conviction of having, for the sake of gain, pre-
tended to have knowledge in physiognomy,
psalmistry, and to tell fortunes and destinies.
The women of Blissheld, Michigan, have or
ganized lodge of the Daughters Of Malta"
and are holding their mysterious meetings two
or three evenings in each week. The men
and manners of the new society
The retreat of the prince of counterfeiters,
Wash Taylor, was discovered in Camden
county, N. j.. last week, and broken up The
officers caught him in the act of manufacturing
notes, and seized upwards of $4,000 counter
felt, all ready to be put in circulation. Taylor
owned large farm, and was ostensibly en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits.
Robert Way, twenty years of age, is an
establishment at the west for his feats in jump
ing. On wager Of $3.50, at Avon, N. Y, he
accomplished thiriy-seren feet at three standing
jumps on level ground, with ease and in adj
dition cleared t,Oenty-secen feet and one inch in
two standing jumps; and at one single jump
made sixteen feet This is perhaps the most
extensive jumping on record.
Instances of juvenile precocity in the shape
of suicides, are becoming aarmingly frequent.
The last case that has come under our notice,
is that of a lad named Cemees in Clinton
County, n Y, only fourteen years old, who
hanged himself during the temporary absence
of his father and mother, on a visit to neigh
Dor, few days ago. His action was not sus-
pected, and no cause for it is known.
Over six hundred persons, nearly all young
ladies, were confirmed and partook of their
first communion at the Roman Catholic
Church of ST. Francois Xavier, in New York,
Wednesday morning. The young ladies went
in procession to the church dressed in white,
and enveloped in long white wells. One of
them was young bride, Protestant lady,
who, a week ago, married Romanist, and
had since been converted. The mass was very
imposing.
In the attempt to arrest a young man named
Riley, in Albany, last week, for stabbing a
comrade, the following manifestation of Ro-
man virtue occurred. His aged father, hear
ing of the misfortune, fastened to the spot,
and, placing his hand on his sons shoulder, he
said, did you stab this man z" His son re-
piled in the affirmative. 'Then," said the
father, Ego to the station house." And he act
ed the part of good citizen, and assisted the
officers to take him there.