Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-20
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S2S7 ,9S0,032; in 1853, SS55,62l ,579, being an
increase of SCI, GAL $40 last year.
A Southern magazine says some people
drink hot gin because they do not like cold
schnapps.
The population of Washington is estimated
at $1,000, which is an increase of fifty per Ct
since 1850.
What did Adam and Eve do when they were
expelled from Eden? They raised Cain
The New London tCt.) Foundry and Ma
chine Company's establishment, which origi-
nally cost $S0,000 was sold few days since
for $4,000.
A printer was wayIaid few nights since, in
Troy, N. Y, and robbed of gill or SO of
popped corn-all the property he had
Perform a good deed, speak kind word
bestow pleasant smile, and you will receive
the same in return.
A bald eagle, whose wings, when extended
measured eight feet, was shot on Thursday
last at Topsfeld, by Eleazer Lake. A regu-
lar spread eagle" that.
1t is said that roasted onion bound upon
the wrist, on the pulse, will stop the most in
veterate toothache in a very few minutes
Worth trying.
The first two years in Buchanan's admins
istration have cost the nation more than any
other two years in the history Of our govern
ment. e
&. NJ Brown, of Adams, Berkshire County,
has been appointed Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms
in place Of E. M. Brown, removed.
J. H. Michon, French Catholic priest, has
written brilliant pamphlet urging perma-
nent removal of the Pope to Jerusalem, the
cradle of the Christian religion
So many bar-rooms were recently despoiled
of their stocks, the liquor being emptied into
the street, in Charlottesville Ind, that local
paper says the town smelt like topper after
spree for some time.
The citizens in the town of Bloomington, in
Douglas county, ILL.,, have recently passed an
ordinance, emitting the women to an equality
with the men, as voters.
The young lady in Paris, who lately made
her tortleth ascent in a balloon, has certainly
taste for circulating in the upper circles.
The st. Louis Democrat estimates that the
census OF 1860 will increase the number of
representatives from the Northern States to
l55, and decrease the number from the South
to rs.
Auguste Wilhelm, surgeon, was recently
found guilty of murder, at Liverpool, England,
for causing the death of female by an at
tempt to procure an abortion, and has been
sentenced to be hung.
There was striking spectacle afforded to
the street public of Washington, near the Bal
timore Railroad depot, Friday. A string of
slaves, with white man at their head loaded
pistol in hand and another in the rear, armed
in like manner, marched from some private
save-pen to the depot, to take the cars for Bal
timore, where they will be SOLD.
Under the will of Stephen Grard none but
orphans could be admitted into his new college.
dispute has arisen as to the true meaning of
the word orphan, but the Court has decided
that child whose father only is dead, is an
orphan in the eye of the law. The trustees
had decided, that, to enable child to enter the
College, both parents must be dead.
The feeling in Indiana, where the Henry L.
Ellsworth estate is mostly located, is very saw
age upon him for leaving only about 100000
to his wife and three children. The Indian
apolis journal says there is no doubt that the
will will be broken. The estate is estimated,
out there, to be worth 81 100000, and the value
of the balance left to Yale College at one mil
lion dollars.
On opening the store of w. G. Carter, of
Holyoke, the other morning, the presence of a
burglar was suspected, in consequence of the
singular conduct of the Watchdog, which re-
fused to suspend his guardianship of the safe
a search OF the premises resulted in the dis
covery Of large muskrat which had forced
an entrance into the store, and ensconced him
self under the safe.
Mr.. Lorenzo Stratton, of New York read
paper before the U. S. Agricultural Society last
thursday, giving an account of his expert
ments in demonstrating the American Elk
which he is of opinion can be raised in many
sections OF the world, the Elk have been nearly
exterminated from the regions which they once
occupied. 1t was accepted and referred to the
Executive Committee.
During the last year one hundred and Eve
whaling vessels were entered at New Bedford
with cargoes valued at $500, POS. Sperm oil,
S2,395,2O8; whale oil, $5,042, 694; whalebone
$9o7 ,3l6. In Falmouth two barques brought
IN 1850 barrels sperm oil, In Provincetown
there were brought in 1047 bbls. SPERM and
1850 bbls. whale oil. In New Orleans 565 bbls.
sperm and 3040 bbls. whale oil
"Mr Morphy," says the Illustrated News of
the World, "may now fairly take rank as the
champion of the Old World as well as the
New No Englishman is found to do him bat
tie, and every foreigner of note has now, with
the exception of Der Lula, fallen an easy prey
to the youthful conqueror. 1t is question
whether he be not the finest player to whom
the world has yet given birth"
The other day, a Cincinnati landlord stepped
into the store of one of his tenants, and said he
didn't think the business done there was enough
for the rent which he had been taking He
therefore voluntarily reduced the rent 500.
The tenant was surprised at his land
lord, and questioned his sanity. But the land
lord declared he was in earnest, and the
papers were made out.
The N. Y. Herald publishes what it styles
"Elihu Burritts cash plan for abolishing South
ern slavery" being call for a State conven-
ton at Albany on the 25th and 26th of January,
OF all parties, for the furtherance of the Cleve-
land 1851 movement, for the purchase of all
the slaves in the Union by the Federal Govern
ment. The money required about 1915 000,-
000-being raised by selling the public lands
as fast as the several States were ready to close
up the bargain.
General Scott was robbed of his overcoat by
a couple of clever rascals at the ST. Charles,
New Orleans, last week. AS he was going up
the stairs surrounded by crowd, two indiyid-
uals insisted upon relieving him of his over
coat Gracefully ne consented, supposing that
the act was only part Of the hospitality which
had been offered him but unfortunately he
has heard nothing since of the supposed ad-
mirers of his overcoat, and has had to procure
another.
Recent letters from Rome announce the COM
mencement of proceedings in the trial of the
priest Bogiasco, for the murder of boy under
circumstances of peculiar atrocity. To force
the child to reveal secret with which he
thought him acquainted, the priest tied him to
tree and pricked him with knife or lancet,
until at last getting, it is supposed excited and
Intoxicated by the sight Of blood he wounded
him so severely that the boy afterwards died.