Worcester daily spy., 1859-03-11
NEWS AND NOTIONS.

grand juror having applied to the Judge
to be excused from serving, on account of
deafness, the judge said, "could you not hear
my charge to the jury, sir 2" "Yes heard
your honor's charge" said the juror, "but
could not make any sense of il" He was Eek
cused."
At the January term of the Supreme Court
of Alabama, it was decided that person
whose great-grandmother was the daughter of
muatto, by a negress, is not a competent
witness against white person, although his
father, maternal grandfather and greatgrand-
father were white men,
Don't live in hope with your arms folded.
Fortune smiles on those who roll up their
sleeves and put shoulders to the wheel that
propels them on to wealth and happiness. Cut
this out and carry it on your vest pockets, We
who idle in the bar-rooms and at the corners of
the streets.
The census of st. Louis, just completed,
gives total of $4,000, of which only 81 ,657
are Americans. The Germans number 49,
874, the Irish 22,013, the English 3,55l, and
the French 1887. Free black, 1872; slaves,
1884 OF the latter, 1,033 females.
The words of women are more intoxicating
than wine and dearer! Jones says it is SO. 1t
costs him $40 every time his wife says "My
dear" while not less than $40 is deemed an
equivalent for cher dear Hubby"
A gentleman direct from Charleston, S. c.,
mentions that the orange trees are in blossom
pea vines growing vigorously, and. that last
Sunday the windows of the various church
edifices remained open during the day.
A pedestrian travelling in Ireland met a
man, and asked him rather gruffiy why the
miles were so plaguey long, when the Hiber-
nian replied, 'You see, yer honor, the roads
are not in good condition, so we give very
good measure.
"Wonder what makes my eyes so weak %
said top to wit.
"No wonder about it," said he, "they are in
a weak place"
Fop vamosed, threatening pistols and coffee
for two.
A recent Glasgow paper gives an account of
the sale by auction of the wines belonging to
the late Lord Justice Clerk. The cellar con-
sisted of upwards of 100 dozen, comprising
port, sherry, claret hook, Madeira, hermitage,
champagne, &c. The greatest price given was
for Johannisberg of 1884 and 1942, noted in
the Lord Justice Clerks cellar book, as
"Prince Metternich's" This lot went for Ell
IS. cd. dozen-a little more than 81 per bot
tle
There are 7770 dram-shops in New York, or
NiiS ~ wy w u VIZ POPute1elOh, yOuuE anu
old. Of the whole number, just 72 pay the
decent respect to law to procure a license to
sell intoxicating drinks, less than l in 100. 1t
is officially stated that 1886 of these drinking
saloons pursue their traffic on Sunday and at
low estimate, the sum of 81 ,34S, $50 is ex-
pended in them on the Sundays of year.
Two hundred and thirty negroes were sold
in Savannah on Wednesday last, at an average
of $3.50 each Some of the families, says the
Republican, sold very cheap, others brought
from 81 ,250 to 81, $50. A family consisting
of woman a years of age, boy q, girl II,
girl 15, and boy II, brought $6,025, or an av-
erage of 81, l,205 each. A plain plantation
blacksmith and his wife brought 1900.
A freight car was opened at Benwood, Vir-
ginia, which had been kept closed since it left
Philadelphia, near week ago. No sooner
was the door opened, than out jumped a young
man, who took to his heels without stopping to
answer any questions An examination show
ed that the traveller had provided himself with
enough of eatables to keep him on a much
longer trip than the one he made
A servant man in the employ of F. b.
Loomis of New London, heard persons walk
ing in the house a few nights since, and sup
posing it was morning, got up and went down
stairs, when he found two men endeavoring to
open the locked closet where the silver ware
and other valuabes were kept The robbers
made a sudden exit through window, taking
sash and glass with them, but no booty.
BY the explosion of tank in sugar refine
ry at Brooklyn, on Friday, a man named John
Kelly was thrown against the ceiling with such
force as to break every bone in his body and
killing him at once.
Mr.. Garrett, a farmer at South Westerlo,
Albany county, few days ago sold his farm
for 5000, gave 81, 900 to his wife and chill
dren, and with the balance eloped with a SER
want girl to California.
cotton factory is in operation at Augusta,
Ga, which employs three hundred hands and
manufactures sixty thousand yards Of cloth
weekly.
Fanny Kemble, being asked her opinion of
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, said "My father
and brother studied for the church, and then
went on to the stage; Mr.. Beecher seems
adapted to the same change of vocation"
DR.. Joshua Webb, a clergyman of Salem,
Mich, has been arrested for counterfeiting on
an extensive scale. More than $4,000 in
spurious money was found in his possession.
A correspondent at Hyde county court
house, N. c., writing to the Newburn Pro-
gress, says that there are three men within
halfa mile of Swan Quarter who have had
eleven wives and ffty-six children, and that
neither of the men are fifty years old
The piano makersNjn New York have held
ameeting and determined to demand 15 per
cent increase of wages: A number of frrni-
ture carvers have struck for twenty per cent.
advance.
The $67S raised in Boston for monument
to James Fennimore Cooper, has been trans.
mtted by the consent of Messrs. Irving and
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