Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-09
a car as the train was approaching Stonington.
1t was believed that he would recover
PERSONAL.

/ car as the train was approaching Stonington.
1t was believed that he would recover.
Personal.
Miss Lizzie Wayt, the lecturer on home
ties, who had the $1,000 affair with the old
gentleman at Pittsburg, has been picked up in
the streets OF that city, insensibe from the
use OF opium. She says she took it to end a
life made miserable by newspaper calumny.
We fear Lizzie is naughty girl
The n Y. Evening Post announces on the
authority Of a private letter from an intimate
personal friend of the novelist, that Mr. Charles
Dickens will visit this country during the en-
suing Autumn, and give the readings from his
own works that have been so successful in
England.
The Hon F. Lyon, NJ. 2. of Tewksbury,
says a London correspondent, is just now
creating extraordinary eXcitementin the House
of Commons, by the somewhat exceptional
nature of his costume. He wears white hat,
crimson neckcloth, yellow waistcoat, mawUe
ineXpressibles, red socks, and lemon -colored
kids
AT the commencement of ST. Johns College,
(Catholic) at Annapolis, Md, last week, the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was con-
terred upon Chief Justice fancy.
MISCELLANEOUS
A Mississippi County Court Clerk having
issued marriage license for young man,
shortly after received the following note from
him:
Steate of Miss July the 1859.
"Mr Moody pies let This matter stand over
until further orders the girl has Flu the track
by her own Request and Release my name off
of this Bond if you pies"
The church-going people of Dubuque are
much excited on account of the attachment of
the bell Of the Congregational Church in that
CITY for debit tn a Ia
bama The Marshal removed the capper,
threatening to keep it till the debt is paid Or
the bell sold under the attachment The Du-
buque Sun says, this tongueess bell was
brought from Boston some sixteen years ago,
and was partly purchased by the Ladies Sew
ing Society in that place, and partially by do
nation. 1t was the first large bell brought to
the west and was conveyed from Boston to
Dubuque free of charge.
Two men who attempted to escape from the
Ohio penitentiary one day last week, were shot
by the guard, and both badly if not MORALLY
wounded The government of the penitentary
had been previously informed OF a concerted
plan among large number Of the prisoners to
escape, and were on the watch to prevent it.
Joseph Thomas, an aged and gray haired
rascal, has been arrested near Harrisburg Pa,
for obtaining horse and buggy under false
pretences. lie is seventy years of age some
times known as DR.. Bond, has acted in the ca
pacity OF doctor and preacher, and is sup
posed to have stolen more horses and buggies
than any other person now living.
The Helena (Arkansas) Democrat says that
the free negroes Of Arkansas, who are required
by law to leave the State before 1860 seem
generally to have selected Kansas as their ttl-
ture home, and intend removing there at an
early dav
In New Orleans they have a custom of firing
a salute with cannon, in honor of private citi-
zens when they depart from or return to the
city. The Crescent says "a salute of TWEEN
ty-iiye guns was barganed for and fired by the
Orleans Artillery a few days since, in honor OF
sugar broker about leaving. We believe
New Orleans is the only city in the country
where this fiery and noisy style of goodbye
prevails. Half dozen such parting salutes
have been given this summer
In New Orleans, a humpbacked Frenchman
who made an honest living as pedar, has
just drawn $4,000 in the Royal Havana Lot
terry. 1t has turned his head. On getting the
news, he Immediately began to give away his
goods, wildly, saying, Cake that give yeu
that Keep your money draw twenty-five
thousand dollars, and don't care one damn p
He is likely to spend the money and become
an outcast.