Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-14
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The New York Post describes new and in
genious invention for pegging shoes by ma
chinery, an achievement which is now for the
first time accomplished. Mr.. B. +. Sturtevant
is the inventor. His apparatus is made up
| simply of three or four cams and couple of
saws, but it does the work of twenty or thirty
shoemakers, pegging a large brogan in less
than half minute, while the most skillful
hands require ten or fifteen minutes to perform
| the same task.
Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxville Wing,
has learned that there is dressed hea's skin
in the Baltimore museum, containing the souls
Of seven delinquent subscribers to a newspa-
per the consciences of seven other men who
refuse to pay their advertising bills the ''prin-
ciples" of seven politicians, seven bachelors
hearts, and all the remaining sweetness of
seventy old maids.
1t is estimated that at least four thousand
persons in the United States Navy, annually,
are tattooed, with figures costing from seventy
five cents to fifteen dollars, and showing the
annual expenditure in the aggregate of tlcenty
thousand dollars! A single "artist" has been
known to pocket over thousand dollars in
cruise of a frigate, in these senseless India ink
pictures.
About six o'clock Thursday morning, thief
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of Leonard and Elm streets, in New York, and
In the course Of his explorations entered the
! apartment of Mrs. Monod, Brennan's sister,
who sprang from her bed, seized the burglar,
and held him till assistance arrived, when he
was handed over to the police.
The Gettysburgh (Pa) Compiler says lit
tie boy, four years of age, strayed from home.
After two days and nights, the dead body of
the little fellow was discovered nearly nine
miles distant. The little dog, which had been
the child's playmate, and which had accompa-
MED him in his long and fatal journey, was
found nestled in the childs bosom, with his
head reclining on his lfeless form.
Some sharpers have been doing flourishing
business by advertising for members to Join a
''hand-cart train" to Pixies Peak, charging an
entrance fee Of $50-which answered all the
purpose of initiating their dupes into the ma
ture of their rascality, but did not serve to ad-
vance them one step toward the land of prom
ise
The Journal of Commerce says the amount
Of foreign importations at New York, for the
last four weeks, is 81, $685. 03 greater than for
the corresponding four weeks of last year, 81, ;
$3.50, 406 less than for the same period of 1857,
and So, l0l sol greater than for the same peri
cd of 1856.
Mr.. Garrett, farmer who resided near AL
bany, n. T., is man of ready decision and
prompt action. One day last week he sold
his farm for $4,000, the next he settled $1,000
on his wife and children, and on the follow ing
eloped with a servant girl to California.
The keeper of lager beer saloon in St.
Louis drank one hundred and .Jity glasses of la
ger beer on Monday last, between the hours of
. A. NJ and II P. M, for wager of $25 and
the price of the beer.
Mr.. Pullup coming home late, ''pretty full !"
finds the walking slippery, and exclaims /:
"V-yer-very singular /; wh.whenever water
freezes it allus fr-freezes with the sl-slippery
side up; singular p
1t is said that cotton to the value of three
million dollars is now lying in vessels at the
mouth of the Mississippi, unable to cross the
bar to reach market.
No doubt there is room enough in the world
for men and women, but it may be a serious
question whether the latter are not taking up
more than their share of it.
The slaves of the late John Carson of ST.
Mary parish, Louisiana, were sold on the Oath
ut, mt an average of 1857 each for the slaves
whose ages ranged between Is and go years.
The jackson monument on the New Orleans
battle-ground, is now seventy nine feet high
at cost of 100000.
A movement is on foot to surround the
tombstone OF Byron, at Harrow, with neat
iron railing, and subscriptions are asked for
the purpose 1t seems that the Vandalism of
INSCRIPTIONS persons, in chipping off pieces Of
the tomb has been carried so far that a very
considerable portion Of the inscription is now
deficient.