Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-04

days ago. by turning them into a clover field
to feed. Cattle are often killed by eating too
much green clover
On poster advertising negro opera troupe,
now performing down east, is big cut of
darkey's head Some wag REPUBLICAN, 10
doubt recently wrote beneath the cut, on one
of the bills :-"Ths is the rock on which the
democratic party split"
BY building rude frame and stretching
over it two moose hides sewed together, they
have new way of making canoe on the
upper Penobscot. Two of these "craft" re-
Gently arrived in Bangor, from the river, with
a cargo of moose skins.
While Henry Clark and James Carr were
ina leaky boat, in the river near OldtOwn,
doing some work upon a dam, the boat sunk,
and Clark was drowned.
CONNECTICUT.
An old lady in Bethlem, named Sally Smith
is now in her hundredth year, and is believed
to be the Coolest inhabitant" in Ltchfield coun-
ty. She was born in Washington, Conn, in
1861.
MISCELLANEOUS.
In Wakarusa, X. r., July 18th, young
girl aged fifteen years, Isabella G. Marshall,
daughter of Zachariah and Caroline E. Mar
shall, formerly of West Groton, Mass, was
instantly killed by lightning. She was a grand
daughter of the late Samuel Putnam of Fitch.
burg.
Mr. Charles Reade's forthcoming work, en-
titled the eighth commandment, is not a mere
work of fiction, but a comprehensive treatise
upon the subject of plagiarism and the right
in literary and artistic productions.
Berries were never more abundant in Michi-
gan than this season. In Kalamazoo, on Sat
urday ,whortleberries sold at the low price of 81
per bushel, Mr. John NJ. Retain, living near
Owosso has picked and dried nearly four bar
rels OF black raspberries, and many of his
nelghbors have done about the same Many
have been sold as low as six cents per quart.
Two of the wealthiest citizens of Cazenovia
are the parties to a novel suit now pending in
the courts of that county. The suit is brought
by Gen. j. d. Ledyard against Henry Ten
Eyck, for obstructing the plaintiffs view of
Cazenovia lake from his house by planting
willow trees on the shore of the lake.
The .Lockport Advertiser says that Gov.
Hunt was the other day ordered by the court
to be fined S25 for non-attendance at the pres
ent session of the circuit court. Judge Bowen
pleaded IN extenuation that the governor was
a member OF the Niagara county bar, but
Judge Davis insisted on imposing the fine.
Ihaddeus Hyatt, the wealthy abofitionist
believing that aerial locomotion is possible for
man as well as bird, when substantially the
same conditions and arrangements are observ-
ed, offers $1,000 for a practical flying machine,
adapted to individual locomotion. The offer
is open to the inventors of the whole world
nile two young men were sky larking and
fooling in Jones' wood, New York, last Mon
day evening, one playfully cut the others
coat with his open pocket.knife, and when the
latter attempted to return the compliment in
the most playful mood possible, he ran the
blade OF the weapon into his friends abdomen,
lnf1lcting injuries of which he died the next
day.
The colored population of Kansas are in a
state of alarm on account of the presence in
the territory Of an organized band of kidnap-
peIs. The victims are selected principally
from among the Arkansas exiles, who a few
years since were driven from that state and
took up their abode in Kansas Their free
papers are taken from them by the kidnappers
and destroyed, and they are then coerced into
the admission that they are runaway slaves,
when they are taken into Missouri and sold for
a more southern market.l
An ingenious down east individual, who
has invented kind of Glove letter ink" which
he mas been selling as a safeguard against all
actions for breach of promise of marriage in
asmuch as it entirely fades from the paper in
two months after it was written, was done
brown by brother down easter, who purchased
a hundred boxes of the article, and gave him
his note for ninety days, AT the expiration of
the time the inventor called for payment, but
on unfolding the scrip, found nothing but a
piece of blank paper The note had been Oritten
'oih his oocn ink
A few days since lady died in Philadelphia,
lO7 years of age, and on the day of her funeral
there were present five brothers and sisters,
the youngest being over 80 years, and the
oldest III years. sight like this has seldom
if ever been witnessed in this city or any other
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