Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-22
GENERAL SUMMARY.

An opulent and public spirited citizen of
Cambridge has proposed to purchase the
/ church now occupied by the First Parish in
that city, and secure the same to Harvard
University for public celebrations. The pro-
| perty has been estimated at $4,000; the gem
| tleman will devote it to the uses of the Col
lege. if the Corporation will pay low inter
est on the investment during the life time of
the purchaser, and receive the estate at his
| death.
The Apalachicola Advertiser, commenting
on the telegraphic dispatch recently sent out
from Washington, declaring that the Govern
ment had taken measures to prevent the land
ing OF cargo of negroes on the Southern
coast, says there is not single vessel or
steamer of light draught now attached to the
home squadron, and the only available vessel
suited for the purpose is attached to the coast
survey expedition in the Gulf of Mexico The
Advertiser concludes there were never better
opportunity tor landing slaves, and that the
government telegram was merely meant to
| CANNON the aboitionists.
Speaker Littlejohn of the New York Legis-
lature was hung and burnt i'll efigy in the pub
lie square. Newburgh, on Saturday evening,
A crowd of more than 5000 people attended
the execution. The cause of this demonstra-
tlons is the course of the speaker in forming
the select committee on Highland county.
A party of Stockbridge Indians, under the
lead of jesse Wybrar, haIf-breed, and Levi
konkapat, have taken possession Of farm of
two hundred acres in Copake, Columbia Coun-
ty, N. T., under their claim to a tract of six
hundred thousand acres in the Counties of
Albany, Rensselaer, and Columbia. Some
trouble is anticipated.
A merchant in Bucyrus, Ohio, having de-
tected his wife in an intrigue with one whom
he had regarded as a friend, cut off the sedu
GERS ear, forgave his wife for the sake of his
young child, and returning home, preserved
the ear in spirits, and saved his family from
disgrace.
Ellen Finn, poor vagrant from Chicopee
Mass, who, penniless and homeless, and driven
from town to town by the authorities anxious
to escape the burden of her support, killed the
infant she could not feed or protect, and was
sent to prison for year for manslaughter in
consequence, died in the jail on Saturday.
Some snarling critic in an Oregon paper at
tempts to prove that Poe's Raven is stolen from
Persian poet The respectable American
bird has great cacS to complain of this shame
full libel. One of our esteemed friends fatty
disowns the .torl as Persian.
A bill has been introduced into the New
York Legislature, the object of which is to re-
munerate the holders of the spurious stocks in
the New York and New Haven Railroad Com
pany 1t provides that the company shall pay
tax of 81 on each passenger carried to and
fro between New York city and the State line ;
that whenever this tax shall accumulate funds
to the amount of 10 per cent. on such Stocks
it is to be applied to payment-and so on, till
the whole stock is cancelled, and the tax is
then to abate.
In the United States Circuit Court at Bos-
ton, Thursday morning, the mutineers of the
ship Junior were convicted, Plummer of muir
der, and Cartha, Stanley and Herbert of man
slaughter. Plummer was sentenced to be ex-
ecuted on the oath of June. He made a
lengthy statement why the sentence of death
should not be given him. His three fellow
prisoners received the full penalty of the law
On Thursday of last week, during a brisk
snow storm, in Concord, N. H., vivid flash of
lightning lighted up the leaden atmosphere,
followed after considerable interval by peal
Of heavy, rafting thunder. The fluid took
the wires leading to the telegraph office in Con-
cord, and came upon the operator with an I'M
ceremonious flash and report as Of pistol and
with a heat which melted the wire in one of
the magnets.
"That cat has got cold" said friend to
Jerrold, pointing to domestic tavorite. eyes"
replied Jerrold, "the poor thing is subject to
catarrh."