Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-18


John Williams, who was indicted for the muir
der of the colored man Prime, plead guilty to
manslaughter, and was renanded for sentence.
Capt. Henry L. Champlin, one of the oldest
ship-masters out of the pert of New York, died
on Sunday at his residence, at Essex Connec-
ticut, at the age of 70 years Capt. Champlin
was long connected with the London line of
packet ships
RHODE ISLAND.
The summer migration to Newport COM
menced last week r., Van Limburg, the
Minister from. the Netherlands, has taken a
residence on Main avenue for the season. f.
l.. Barreda, Peruvian Minister, has taken
residence on Key street
Some of the Providence people are in move
ment to build a railroad from Warren to Fall
River. Such a road, finished and in opera
ton, would complete railroad communication
between Providence and Fall River. meet
ing has been held, and committee appointed.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
AT Cincinnati, the other day, lady was
passing through doorway, when her hoops
caught the door and pulled it to with great
violence, breaking two panes Of glass in it,
a large piece of the glass falling upon her arm
and severing the main artery, The blood
gushed from her arm terribly for few mo-
ments, and she grew so weak that she could
not sit or stand. Medical assistance was
promptly called ill., and the flow Of blood was
soon stopped, but at last accounts her life was
in danger.
The Davenport Qowa) Democrat has ru-
NOR from Pixies Peak that two men, who had
been prominent as letter writers during the
winter, had been hung by party of exasper-
ated immigrants whom they had humbugged.
Newspaper correspondents will please take no
tice.
DR.. Adam of Chicago sued DIR. Schmidt to
recover damages for a cowhiding, when the
the jury prescribed that F'the defendant, Dr.
Schmidt, should make three boxes of pills, and
that the plaintiff DR.. Adam, should swallow
them" The Court "snickered." and then,
with frown, sent the jury out again, who
finally brought in verdict for defendant, less
cathartic in its nature
Mr.. Van Anden, a wel-known organist of
Charleston, S. c., committed suicide on Sun
day last, by taking arsenic. The Charleston
Mercury says "He had been visited within
the past month by gentleman from abroad,
who accused Van Anden Of having run away
with his wife. Van Anden had been arrested,
and, in default of $4,000 bail, committed to
prison, which oppressed him heavily"
Thirty emancipated slaves from Western
Virginia, en- route for Liberia under the con-
troll of the agent of the Colonization Society,
started for Norfolk by way of Petersburg.
Only twelve arrived, the others escaped, pre-
ferring America to Liberia. In many cases,
such emigration to Liberia is forced
A freighting ferry boat 225 feet long and
43 feet wide; is to be constructed at Windsor,
G. W., to run between Port Sarnia and Port
Huron. She will carry eighteen railroad cars
at one trip.
Mr. Liddel, the Greek Professor of Oxford
University, and the author of famous Greek
English dictionary, has recently travelled in
Greece, and attended, in company of Mr..
Wyse, the competition of prizes for poetry in
the Academy of Athens. The prize was given
to the relatives Of a deceased poet-not one of
the eleven competitors having been found
worthy ofreceiving it.
Christian Essellen, one of the most accom-
plished and most sincere spirits among the
German emigration to the United States, died
at the Eunatic Asylum on BlackwelPs Island
on Sunday night, in consequence of the break
ing of blood vessel in the brain. He was a
native of Westphala, and was about thirty
four yeers old.
Sensation Story.-The Courier and Enquir-
er's Washington correspondence says; 1t is be-
lieved by army officers and others that Presi-
dent Buchanan is quietly concentrating nearly
the whole army along the Texas and Arizona
frontiers of Mexico, and that large fleet of
- 'NSSNiS 10 eeDOuS " bS SdIilOlSu1
1t is the prevalent impression that the Presi-
dent is about to take the most decisive mea-
sures for sustaining the Juarez administration
and his movements are considered preliminary
to war of conquest and annexation.
A large woodshed, nearly full of wood, be-
longing to the Vermont Central Railroad, stu
ated at West Alburg, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday morning. A bridge at Milton Hol-
low ane one at Charcoal Creek, near Alburgh,
were also burned.
About two hundred stevedores and grain
measures went on Monday to Staten Island
to settle a difficulty of some weeks standing
between them, by fight between their re-
spective leaders, James Brophy and James
Taggart. AT the end of the fifteenth round
squad of police, sent by Acting Superintend.
ent Carpenter, appeared and scattered them.
Only seven persons were arrested, including,
however one of the principals, his second, and
the two bottle holders.
1t was reported on Monday that defalcation
had been discovered in one of the departments
of the New York Board of Education, to the
amount of several thousand dollars, and that
every effort had been made to keep the matter
quiet, and from the public press.
A trotting match for $1,000, two mile heats
TO harness, between Lady Woodruff and
Mountain Boy, came off Monday afternoon
over the Union Course, L. l. The mare won
easily. Time-5: 81 5; 104.