Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-17

surface, was struck, and the top shiyered into
fragments. The fluid, it is said, went off plow-
ing a furrow through the field.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The patriotic Englishmen who have been
moved to enlist under Garibaldi have taken
pains to conceal their purpose under the dis
guise of an excursion party. One gentleman
is so delighted with the scheme that he pro-
poses to take along with him eight hundred
friends at his own expense. Others who are
favored with the sinews Of war, but are unable
to travel abroad in the winter, propose to send
substitutes by the hundred.
One of the physicians in Chicago, named
Friedlander, recently suffered distressing
death, caused by the bite OF fly on his
cheek-the fly having been poisoned by feed
ing on the carcass of poisoned dog. So fear.
full were the effects of the disease that few
hours after the breath had lett his body, his ag-
onized friends were forced to hasten his re-
mains to their burial
Hon. James l.. Green, member of congress
from Missouri, was riding over to Waterloo,
IN that state, on the 9Th inst, to make public
| speech, when he was thrown from his buggy,
and received a shock which rendered him in
sensible. He lay in this condition, by the
roadside, several hours, till a stranger passing
by saw his peril, and removed him to place
OF safety. He was severely injured.
The village of Freusburg, in Chautauque
county, N. Y, was visited by brief, though
furious tornado, on the 7th inst, removing
some houses from their foundations and un-
roonng others, uprooting trees, demolishing
fences, and destroying crops. Those who were
out OF doors at the time say the air was full of
nre balls, on which the rain had no perceptbe
effect The phenomenon was probably no
more than what is vulgarly called {" seeing
stars"
One OF the leading merchants and tax pay.
ers OF Lexington, Missouri, who voted the re-
publican ticket headed by Gardenhire for gov
ernor has had his house fired, his property
despoiled, and has been compelled to leave
town, because the mob became SO furious as to
seek his life. Thousands are for the time
awed by these acts of violence, but the right
Judgment Always comes uppermost in the end.
A runaway nun has been one of the visitors
at Saratoga Springs during the late season.
The Troy Aurora says that, "sick and tired
OF confined life, she ran away from the cloister,
and Is now here with her friends, recuperating
her health. Her face is really beautiful, and
she attracts no little attention by her modest,
unassumng behavior"
Rev. MIR. Bell, pastor of Methodist church
IN Brooklyn, who infused little more anti
slavery sentiment into his sermons than the
trustees could bear, has been dismissed and
the religious operations of the church suspend
ed. They first refused to pay his salary
when he in public meeting of the society
proclaimed his need of the necessaries of life
hts opponents repulsed him, and a very excit
ing scene ensued.
he terror OF slave instructions has extend.
ed INTO tennessee, and the rumors of the out
breaks farther north have led to the adoption
OF strlcter regime over their slaves. The
movements and maneuvres of the slave popu.
latlon of Memphis have excited especial
alarm, and the editors call the police to re,
newed vigilance. Mr.. McDufiie's "corner
stone OF the republic" is becoming rotten.
The English papers give the particulars of
the death OF woman, 70 years OF age, which
occurred in rather a singular manner. She
went INTO the kitchen one evening and seeing
a cockroach running across the floor. she
stamped upon it to kill it. In doing so she
fractured both bones of her left leg, producing
a compound fracture, from The effects OF
which she di d in few days.
There were several water spouts seen
upon Lake Erie last week The clouds seem
ed to dip down to the surface like a funnel.
and draw water up in spiral column with
great force, resembling whirlwind in its on.
ward course.
One of the Lelands, of New York, wishing
to avoid boring delinquent customer with a
letter, wrote, as is often customary -;
dear sir-will pou send us the amount of vour
bill Yours, etc" The one addressed imme.
dlately replied; "Messrs, Leland-S8O 62b.
Yours truly -"