Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-28

to New York The affitir furnishes capital for
Canaan scandal.
Forty-three sharks were caught at one haul
in the net Of the Field brothers, off Neck
/ Beach at Madison, Monday, June 25. The
largest measured nine feet in length and
weighed over three hundred pounds.
Twelve hundred barrels of alewiyes, valued
at $4,000, have been caught and sent to mar.
| ket from Keeney's Cove, Pratt's Ferry, on the
Connecticut river, this season.
PERSONAL.
Little Patti, the new prima donna, saved a
boy from being run over by a car in the streets
of Cincinnati the other day. The child STUN
bled and fell when the charming little song
stress, WHO was walking on the sidewalk,
rushed to the spot and saved him.
Miss Stevens of New York city, the even
tual heire IS of the vast Stevens estates in N.
York and in New Jersey, is to be married on
the 4th of July next, to NJ. r. II. Garnet, NJ.
G. from Virginia.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
Last week Monday, a dead child las sup
posed) was being buried at Catteraugus, N.
T., but as the dirt began to fall upon the cof-
fin, feeble cry was heard. The coffin was
Immediately raised and opened, and ehriek
of mother burst from the lips of the re-
suscitated child 1t is useless to attempt a de-
scription of the scene that followed. The child
| is IN fair way to recover.
The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy
Trinity, in Philadelphia, last Saturday after
noon, was destroyed by fire. The fine paint
ing OF the Trinity" i'll the center, was lost
which with the frescoes cost about S250O The
fire was caused by fireworks, discharged BY
careless boys in the vicinity of the church
we were shown day or two since bunch
OF rye, consisting of l52 stalks grown from
one grain. Each stalk was headed out and
tne tallest OF them were upwards of five feet
The specimen was taken from a field belong.
ing to Luke Dunn, of Exeter.-Monroe t1fich.)
Commercial
There is an Artesian well in Calhoun Co.
Mich, $50 feet deep. AT the depth of 1870
feet current of water was struck which ran
with such rapidly as to cause the bore to
trembe violently through its entire length.
so swift and strong is this underground cur
rent, that it has been found impossible to force
stream through it, though The shaft has been
sunk 270 feet below
Rev. Patrick McMenamy, Catholic priest
in New York, was burned to death, Sunday
morning, under distressing circumstances. He
was alone in his bed room, when it is supposed
ne fell IN an epileptic fit, overturnng his can
die and setting fire to his clothes, and burning
him to death before lie could be relieved
AT Cleveland, Ohio, an aggregate of three
e"N"Ss'iit SS'NIl hullhltu anu seventy DuSneiS
of strawberries and cherries have been shin.
ped during the three weeks of June, from five
dealers, to say nothing Of the nurserymen and
| gardeners WHIP have shipped on their own ac-
count The raspberries, currants, blackber.
RES, and peaches, are still to come. 1t will
take big figures to express the total fruit trade
of Cleveland for 1860
The annual regatta for second and third
class boats of the Schuylkil navy took place
on Saturday afternoon above the Paramount
dam, Philadelphia. The first race between
the four-oared boats (out.riggers) Intrepid and
Luciter being declared the victor Time, 10
minutes A seconds.
Judge Watson Of Howard county, Missouri,
was sentenced to the penitentiary for three
years, for robbng the treasury of the county
Of $4,000. He took an appeal to the supreme
court, gave bonds in $4,000, and then left the
| state. lie is said to be possessed of property
| to the amount of $4,000.
Speaking of the grand japanese ball in
New York, Monday night, it is said the bo-
| quets used at the ball cost over S110O The
wine bill alone will not be less than $4,000!
Of the 'dem'd total" of honoring the Orien
tails, the Times says, eff New York gets off
with 100000, her taxpayers may congratu-
| late themselves"
There was tracas at the Protect House in
Harrisburg, Ky, Tuesday, in which young
man named Miller was shot by clerk of the
hotel. Miller is not expected to recover
Other shots were fired without effect.
| Agriculturists through the country are be-
coming alarmed at the rapid increase of OBJ
noXlous weeds, which until recently were un.
| known IN America. The weeds are brought
over in the straw used in packing crockery
crates, and in the soil around fruit trees.
shrubs, and plants