Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-17
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ST. Paul Min is becoming an important
depot and outlet for the Northern fur trade.
Formerly, the entire product of furs from the
valley of the Red River Of the North" went
by way of Hudson's Bay to England. About
fifteen years ago, the first effort was made to
attract part of it to st. Paul The first year
only $l400 worth was received there. But
the amount has been steadily increasing, and
it is now between S150,000 and 100000. In
1858 it was Sl6l OPP. OF course these figures
are very far from representing the value of
furs when they reach the Eastern market,
where, after being prepared for sale, their value
is doubled and quadrupled.
In its February Fashions lie Toilet states
that in Paris the bonnets most worn just now
are made either of terry velvet, with trim
mings of plain velvet, or plain velvet trimmed
with feathers but those of quilted white satin
are exceedingly elegant. Tile Empress wore
lately bonnet of black velvet the whole of
the trimmings of pink satin, with the excep-
ton of the strings, which were of black satin,
and she looked VERY handsome in it.
Tragedyhas its comic accompaniment, even
as the best wit has sad element. Washing
ton was amused few days since with the mot
of an irreproachable married lady who said
"Ah am so sorry for that accident on Sun
man to speak with me since I've heard of it. i"
Mr.. Brown, the late Postmaster General, was
an amiable but rather weak man, with little re-
fnement, but great hospitality. His household
expenses at Washington were at the rate of
$4,000 per annum, which he could well afford.
He was candidate for the Presidential nomi-
nation, and had already published his biogra-
ply, which he distributed with great liberality
to his friends and adherents
! Henry Ward Beecher SAYS. an impudent
| as the neglect of the proprietor to advertise his
| wares.
The town of Hooksett in New Hampshire,
has voted to discontinue the liquor agency and
divide the liquors on hand equally among the
| legal voters.
| Preparations are making in Baltimore for a
hospital for foundlings, where this class of
| children may be reared, educated, and other
wise provided for; also for the infants of desti-
tute parents, who are prevented by poverty
from supplying their wants. The dimensions
! of the building are 80 by 100 feet.
| A newspaper correspondent writes. that
while travelling South he attended negro
meeting, when the sable preacher offered an
earnest prayer for ode white element in our
population"
There is to be another exhibition of the in
dustry of all nations, in London, in 1861, and
it is proposed to pay to the Prince Of Wales
the compliment of asking him to accept the
Presidency. The young gentleman will attain
his majority in that year.
A magistrate asked an Irishman whom he
was questioning-"Haye you ever seen the
sea g liver see the say, your honor Be
Jabers, and does your honor suppose that |
was thrundled all the way over the salt ocean
in wheelbarrow, on me back 2"
In New Haven, few nights since, young
man, while watching with a sick man. improv-
ed few moments to lie down upon another
bed in the same room, and taking cigar in
his mouth decided to enjoy that Also but fall
ing asleep, he was sometime after aroused by
fire, and found the bed all in flames and the
room filled with smoke almost to suHocation
The wife of Allen p. Deroe of Pennington,
Ontario county, N. Y, tainted and fell upon
a stove few days since, setting her clothing
on fire, by which she was terribly burned.
She appeared to be dead, but revived and con-
versed for few minutes, when she went inc
commissions. The next night she died
AT social party in Providence, r. l., few
nights since, a young man in attempting to
steal a kiss from the strawberry lips of young
lady, was so Indignantly and forcibly repealed
by her that he lost his perpendiculary and fell
to the floor, breaking one of his wrists.
Some miscreant, on the night of the 18th
ult., entered the stables of Messrs. Simms &
Sutton, in Grenada, Miss, and poisoned be-
tween thirty and fifty of their horses.
Southern papers concur in the statement
thai vegetation in that latitude is at least one
month in advance of ordinary years. Fruit
trees are in blossom, and flowers of various
kinds are in full bloom.
Shawneetown, ILL.,, on the Ohio river, was
submerged at last accounts, the streets were
navigable, and the inhabitants living in their
second stories. A vast sheet of water, miles
in extrnt, was seen in every direction.
The whole number of coolies introduced into
Cuba thus far is upwards of $4,000 The Gu
bans fear their future influence, as they are
much more intelligent and far less tractable
than negroes.
The largest liquor dealers in San Francisco
have estimated that the daily consumption of
liquors in that State amounts to about 5000
gallons per day.
A band of burglars is operating extensively
in Manchester, N. H. Six stores were bro
ken into last Monday night. Manchester is
excited
A Mr. Lloyd, in New Orleans, was arrested
few days since for stealing a negro. He
pleaded not guilty, alleging that he won the
"boy" in rattle
A Salem paper announces the arrival in a
brig from Africa at that port Of young lion
about as large as full grown Newfoundland
dog.