Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-17

Personal.
1t is said, upon the authority of common re-
port, that Hon. Daniel E. Sickles has expert
enced "change of heart" and that he con-
templates connecting himself with some
church. His former friends say they have
noticed marked difference in his conduct re-
Gently. AT Washington he leads very differ
ent life from what he once led in New York.
Before he leaves the capital it is thought he
will make public profession of Christianity.
The funeral of j. w. Pitt Kinau, one of the
last of the pure descendants of the ancient
kings of Hawaii, the dynasty conquered by
kamehameha the Great, took place at Honolu-
lu on the 9th December. Keona, the great
grandmother of Kinau, is reputed to have pos
sessed the highest chief blood, according to
Hawaiian genealogy The stock of Aliis is
dwindling down to mere handful.
Ellen WEIGH, an own neice of Daniel O'Con-
mel, the Irish orator and retormer, was arrested
i'll Chicago last week, for vagrancy. She was
twice happily married, but her husbands met
with untimey deaths, she took to drinking,
and went down. Her father, man of wealth
and position, is still living in Ireland.
LITERARY.
There has been published in London,
contemporary account in Italian, of the muir
der of the monster Cenci and the execution of
his unhappy wife and children. 1t is the docu-
ment on which Shelly founded his tragedy,
and tells with much ndiUete the story OF the
man, of whom it was said that the scourges of
God, which in the time Of the prophet Nathan
were three, famine, pestilence and war, became
four upon the birth of Count Cenci
A Cambridge gentleman writes to the Bos-
ton Transcript that the familiar line of the
English Burial Service, Gin the midst OF life
we are in death, so far from being Scrlptudt
is derived from a Latin Antiphone, said to
L. N,.fly .nf,nly ~
st. Gall, in A d. oil, while watching some
workmen building bridge at Martinbruck,
in peril of their lives.
"soUTH SIDE" ITEMS.
The county court of Buncombe, North
Carolina, recently had before them man
named Franklin Davis, from Ferrelltown, ten
miles north of Charlotte, ior uttering incen-
diary language. The "Whig" newspaper at
Asheville, says 'nest of abolitionists reside
in that part of the county, and that since the
arrest of Davis they have been holding prayer
meetings for him." Davis was sent to Jail.
The Pittsburg Christian Advocate, the Cor
gan" of the Methodist Episcopal Church
North, in Western Virginia. had a hearing
before one of the magistrates of Raleigh coun-
ty, Virginia, last week, and the evidence being
deemed conclusive, was condemned to be
burned. The sentence was forthwith carried
into execution.
Stanmore Brooks, a planter in Abbeville,
South Carolina, lately found man named
Charles Ward tampering with his negroes, and
had him arrested for an abolitionist. Judge
the disgust of the court when it found he was
only gambler, who was "bursted" at Angus
ia, and was round begging among the negroes.
The Abbevie newspaper calls his arrest
vigilance"
MISCELLANEOUS.
While an audience was assembling in the
Union school hall, Ann Arbor, to witness the
junior exhibition of Michigan University, one
evening last week, it was discovered that the
floor was settling under the pressure, and dur
ing the panic one of the iron columns for sup
porting the roof, being loosened at the top, fell
over among the crowd, severely injuring sew
eral persons. One of them, son of Mr..
Chase, late treasurer of the University, was
not expected to recover.
Mrs. Westruff of gainesville, Ohio, went
during the heavy blow of last week to draw
pail of water from well near her residence,
when a gust of wind caught her and threw her
headforemost into the we'll When her body
was found life had departed.
DR.. L. G. Miller, inspector of liquors for
Wayne Co., Michigan, says Out of $50
cases of whisky, inspected in and near De-
troit, he only found two pure. He did not find
a single drop of pure French brandy. OF lO4
samples of gin. he found but 20 genuine. Out
of 81 samples of Jamaica rum, he found but
9 genuine.