Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-17

building of the Redwood Library. The dona-
ton will not probably fall short of hundred
pieces
Sunday night, Francis Leonard was arrest
| ed in Providence for assaulting his wife and
her mother. The trio had been together dis
cussing the contents of a suspicious looking
black bottle The Post says 1.-THE officers
and their prisoner were escorted to the police
station by about as ragged, dirty, and noisy
| looking set of bareheaded and barefooted young
ones as we have seen for many day, and
| their appearance together on Market Square, to
the number of about fifty, excited as much at
tention from the loungers and passers by as
would the advent of a tribe of Digger Indians
| from the praires.
The braiding of straw in this country was
first begun in Providence, in 1898, by Mrs Bet
sey Baker, daughter of the late Joel Metcalf,
and now residing in Dedham, Mass. The first
bonnet she made was of seven straws, with
bobbin let in like open work, and lined with
satin.
PERSONAL.
1t is stated, on what is regarded as reliable
authority, that owing to the disturbed state Of
affairs in Italy likely to ensue in consequence
of the war in Europe, it is by no means i'm
probable that the Pope will visit the United
| States before the close of the present year.
Perhaps he is coming to "take" us. Who
knows
John Candlebox Calhoun, at late conven-
ton in Nebraska city, made speech against
the annexation of Nebraska South of the
! Platte to Kanzas, at the close of which he was
knocked down and rolled off the platform by
Esq. Mason. Thcreupon there was free
fight among the crowd, but no great damage
done.
A letter from Rev. Theodore Parker, read
on Sunday, at Music Hall, spoke rather favor
all of hat
standing he is yet troubled with cough. He
expects to leave Santa Cruz ON the 18th inst,
i'll an English steamer, for Southampton, Eng
land
Gen. Leslie Coombs had a rough-and-tumble
| fight on the Sd of May with Mr.. Henry T.
Duncan, in the managers room of the North
ern Bank in Lexington, Ky. Gen. Coombs
punished his antagonist severely. The Gen
eral is ~ years old, and Mr.. Duncan is over
| 80.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is told of distinguished clergyman of
New York, that few Sundays since, seeing
poor woman lettering up one of the aises of
his church, waiting in vain for one Of the con-
gregation to offer her a seat, he paused in his
sermon, descended from the pulpit, showed
her into his own pew, and returned to his desk
again. The rebuke was a severe one, and
must have been felt.
There has recently been an unusual mortal
ity in the family of Mr.. Joshua H. Selby, at
Bladensburg, Md. On the 18th ult. his son,
aged ten years, died on the 18th his daugh-
ter, aged thirteen years, and on the same day
his wife, all of scarlet fever, and on the follow
ing day Mr.. Selby himself died of consump-
| ton.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 8th says
| owe saw gentleman from New York, yes
terday, who assured us that Teresa Bagioli
| Mrs Sickles) is preparing for the stage, and
will appear on the boards next Autumn"
Alonzo Jackson, who was for three years
footman to Gen. Pierce, when President has
been arrested for stealing certain miscellane-
Gus articles of table furniture from the Astor
House, New York, and committed for trial
He was in the habit of placing his stolen booty
under heavy overcoat and walking out with
| it under his arm.
The Chicago Journal says: "The cattle are
said to be dying in large numbers in the vicin-
ty of Metamora, in this State, from feeding
upon diaeased straw. Large numbers also
| died i'll Peoria county from the same disease"
The rivers in New Hampshire are very high
at this time, occasioned by melting of snow
on the mountains and the recent rains. The
warm south wind of last week started the snow
in the woods and on the northern mountain
slopes.
The fourth annual meeting of the National
Dress Reform Association" (Bloomerites) is to
be held at Auburn, N. " on the 22d and 23d
of June. One Edward d. Van Slyck signs
the call as chairman of the committee, and in
vites everybody to come "to examine the great
question Of reform in woman's dress, and
with candor act upon their convictions of
duty"
The house of Mr.. DaggStt, few miles
north of Portland, Me-, was consumed by fire
Thursday morning, and sad to relate, himself
and his wife were lost in the ruins. They were
attempting to save their furniture, when the
rapidly spreading flames cut off their escape.