Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-22

Crow Indians, has been killed by party of |
Oncpaoa Sioux. Attempts are to be made to
arrest and punish the murderers.
Appleton Oaksmith, who used to publish
Putnams Monthly and Emerson's Magazine,
has been fined $1,000 by New York court,
for pummcIing poor engrayer who dunned
him for pay Tor work that Oaksmith said was
! botchpd; the bill was only eight dollars.
The funeral of Herbert Ingram, proprietor
of the London Illustrated News and one of
the victims OF the late Lady Elgin disaster,
was attended by eighteen thousand persons.
His remains were carried to England and the
funeral services took place at Boston, where
he had resided.
AT the Conversations of the Social Science
Association in Glasgow, Immediately after
Lord Brougham had partaken of p of tea,
gentleman stepped up to the purveyor and
offered him half sovereign for the cup, which
was at once accepted.
Miss Agnes Baltic, sister of the late Joanna
Baillie, recently gave a party on the compile
ton OF her one hundredth year. She has re-
sided near London for many years, and enjoys
excellent health and spirits. Her faculties are
quite vigorous, and she still pursues her liter.
airy geanings. Her habits, though necessarily
retiring, are cheerful, for her breakfast table
would be incomplete without the morning pa
per, and she speaks of the friends of sixty
years ago with freshness of memory that is
truly surprising.
a duel was fought near Nodaway, Mo-. on
the 18th inst, between Isaiah j. Porter, Esq,
president of the democratic club and CHAIR
man OF the executive committee of st. Joseph,
and Col Harlem of Boonville Mr.. Porter
was addressing q political meeting at Noda-
way, when Col. Harlem called him a liar.
Both parties were seriously though not fatally
wounded.
CONNECTICUT.
George Soue, a young man Is or 20 years
of age, was accidentally caught by the main
shaft in the hoe factory at Norwal<, and was
whired around at the rate of 120 revolutions
per minute. His left arm was broken in sew
eral places, his left side crushed in and all his
clothing torn from his body. He is likely to
recover.
Some of the citizens of Bristol went to a
house Tuesday night, reputed to be a "house,"
and after setting everything inside outside,
nailed up the doors and windows. They
haven't been opened since.
The golden wedding Of Mr.. and Mrs Tru-
man Woodtord of West Hartford as celebra.
ted on the 18th inst, the fttieth anniversary o
their marriage. The family circle, including
the ministers under whose sancturies they had
been accustomed to sit, comprised some fifty
or sixty persons. 1t was an interesting and
happy occasion.
The town Of Hartford has voted to reim-
burse Chas. d. Mott, constable, to the amount
of $4,000 or more for losses occasioned by
Selling liquors under the Maine law. 1t was
also voted to apply to the legislature for REIN
burSement to the town.
The annual regatta of the Yale navy took
place on Wednesday afternoon. The "Thu.
liza, holder Of the champion flag, took the
first prize for shell boats, and the "Cymsthoe"
for the barge boats. The "Varuna' received
the drill prize.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The son Of Mr.. Bradbury, of the eminent
firm of Bradbury & Evans, London, proprie.
tors OF Punch and other well known pubIica-
tions, while recently attending the amuse.
ments of the celebrated Cremorne Gardens,
by sudden impulse flung quantities of silver
from the dancing platform among the crowd,
and while standing before them poured vial
OF prussic acid into glass of wine, proposed
the health Of the Gro Sd, drank off the poison,
and fell dead in their midst
While the prince was in Albany on the 18th
inst, Philip Mills, an old veteran of Waterloo,
and one Of the Guards to whom Wellington
said, on that eyenttul day, Cup, Guards, and
at them, was presented to him. The old sol.
der exhibited nj, Waterloo medal with sol
der's pride, and also handed to the prince two
letters, containing highly commendatory no.
tees OF his bravery, the seals of which had re-
NAMED twenty-five years unbrollen till they
were broken by the prince.
In December last, a young man, named
Evans, went from Illinois to Texas, and at diff
terent times carelessly suffered himself to be
drawn into conversations on the subject of
slavery, Of which he expressed his dIsapproval.
Soon after one of the conversations he was
seized by amob, stripped, and scourged till he
died. His dead body was left unburied by
the roadside three quarters of mile from the
town OF Henderson, where the murder was
committed
The pistol, valuable as a relic of the Wash
ington family taken by Cook from Col Wash
ington during the Harper's Ferry raid a year
ago, has been returned to the latter by Thad.
deus Hyatt, who received it from an unknown
source.
D. w. Gerard, known as the Adonis of the
New York bar, talked to some school children
IN that city, on Wednesday. Speaking of the
ease with which crowds were collected in this
country, he said he doubted whether the
Prince of Wales had ever seen such CROWD
before as the one which welcomed him to New
York, eUen upon the occasion Of the coronation of
his royal mother
The Louisiana Is. C.) Herald says that last
week citizen i'll the upper part of that dis
trict Mr.. lsham S. Bolt, committed suicideby
blowing out his brains with Il shot gun. tap
pears that he had been harassed in mind with
the fear of an instruction for some time, and
had lain with his arms beside him the night