Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-27
GLEAN1NGs BY THE WAY.

! DR.. Richard Madison Smith has been COM
mitted in New York for having three wives.
He was supporting them all at once.
General Robles's success makes the fifty
fourth change Of government that Mexico has
experienced in thirty-seven years.
The New York Tribune thinks that the
present rate of importation-ab twelve mil
| lions worth in all having entered New York
port since Jan. l, will bring about another
smash this year if it is not checked.
A man stopping at a hotel in Cincinnati, left
| his room and ran into the street under the i'm
| preston that robbers were after him. He was
locked up in station house and jumped out
of window, cutting his throat with piece of
glass SO that he died in short time.
| The monument to Ethan Allen, at Burling-
ton,> W.T. is completed. 1t is forty feet high
A colossal statue of the Green Mountain hero
! if yet to be placed on the summit
The personal effects of the late Gen. Persifer
F. Smith were sold at auction in New Orleans
last week. They included several valuable
paintings, $4,000 worth of silver plate, and
several swords presented to him in honor of
his services in Mexico.
Grace Greenwood, in lecture on children,
says eve know by babies crying for the
moon that heaven is nearer to them than to
u.s." Mothers should bear this in mind, and
not spank the little dears when they cry with
such angelic longings.
A nephew of Burns's Highland Mary and
her nearest surviving relative, named VIM,
Anderson, lives at Caledon, Canada. His ED
est daughter goes by the name of Highland
Mary He brought to this country the Bibles
presented by Burns to Mary, but sent them
back to Burns club in Scotland some time
ago.
Perpetual insurance. new feature-to wit:
insuring dwellings so long as the house shall
stand, by the payment of a single premium,
and that only at two and half per cent, guar
anteeing return of eighty per cent. We see
it stated that this method has been in practice
in Philadelphia for several years, and that it
has recently been introduced in St Louis
The Cunard steamer Niagara, Captain Lang,
sailed from Boston at noon Wednesday, with
twenty-one passengers for Halifax, sixty-six
for Liverpool, and SIT ,569 in specie.
A lad, fourteen years of age, was sent to an
exchange office in New York, on Tuesday, to
obtain Sl86 in uncurrent money. The boy on
reaching the door was met by man who rep
resented himself to be an officer, and charged
him with intending to pass counterfeit bills
His conduct frightened the boy into showing
him the bills, when the fellow ran off with the
money and escaped
The Newburyport Herald says there is a
child in West Newbury, that has four grand
parents, and seven great grandparents living
parents, grandparents and great grand parents,
thirteen.
The exports of Charleston, S. c., for 1858,
amounted to $19,321 ,585, while the dutiable
imports were only S9l2,S2S.
A Mr.. Bailey, residing in Simpson county,
Ky, induced Mrs. Moore, the wife of neigh
Dor, to elope with him recently. Her husband
pursued the guilty pair and overlook them
near Shakertown, where he shot Mr.. Bailey
through the head, killing him instantly. Moore
then gave himself up to the authorities.
They that govern most make least noise.
You see when they row in barge, they that
do drudgery work, slash, and puff, and sweat
but he that governs sits quietly at the stern,
and scarce is seen to stir.
An unknown wretch quietly entered the
residence of a colored washerwoman, at st.
Louis, a few days since, and, unobserved by
her, set her clothes on fire, and amid the awful
screams of the victim, made off with six shirts
The poor woman died in awful agony.
Red Jacket an Indian Chief of the Six
Nations, once said to man who remarked in
his hearing that he had not time enough, DWELL,
| suppose you have all there iS2"
Mrs Charles Dennis, young married lady
of Syracuse, N. Y, was fatally burned by a
camphene explosion on Friday last
The number of births in Lowell last year,
amounted to 8lS. The year before there were
upwards of 1000