Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-16

NONNECIiGDIE
While the wide awake celebration was in
progress il Meriden, after the election, Miss
Anna Curtis OF Prattsville, whose parents are
not republicans and refused to illuminate their
dwelling, or allow her to do so, took posses
sion Of 1t school house in the neighLorhood,
brilliantly Illuminated the building, and rung
the bell while the procession was passing.
Good girl
Owing to the election of Abraham Lincoln
November seems to bloom like June From
the garden of f. A Tryon of UnonvilIe, ripe
Strawberries, grown in the open air, were
picked yesterday and 10 day. We have seen
the fruit and vouch for its genuineness.-Hart-
ford Press, 14h
II. L. Chamberlain, young man from Fair
haven, doing business in Buffalo, was one OF
the victims by the burning OF the Clarendon
Hotel. His room was in the fifth story, ana
he was awakened too late to make his eS'
cape.
The old Connecticut Hotel building, in
Hartford is to be demolished in the spring, TO
make room for a Portland brown stone build
ing, four stories high, with front of 50 feet
on Main street, and 50 feet deep.
A very beautiful grave stone has just been
prepared at Hartford, Conn, for the grave OF
a young girl in Alabama. Under the project
ing moulding at the top of the stone is bird
cage in relief, with bird escaping through
the open door. The cage is ma le in bars not
so large as pipe stems, aud every detail is
wrought out with the incest delicacy.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sometime during the last month a sailor at
tempted to swim TO his ship, few lengths
from the shore at Fernando Pc, and when
about midway a shark started in pursuit of
him. Looney, the sailor, swan for dear life,
but the monster came down upon him with a
e..
lowed, literally, in the jaws Of death. His
brother sailors from the deck OF the vessel,
were witnesses Of his terrible fate.
Some twenty or thirty negroes were sold at
Eutaw, Alabama, on the 18th ult., at prices
from 40 20 80 per cent below the ruling rates
of last winter. A fraction over S12OO-and
that for very likely fellow was the highest
price that was obtained very likely young
woman, such as would have commanded $500
TO $1,000 last fall, brought only traction over
$1,000.
The renowned DR.. Philip Rcord, of Paris
lately retired from the clinical chair, which he
has held for thirty years in the Hospital du
midi He is an American, and was born i'll
Baltimore, Dec. 10, 1890.
Downing who recently swindled one hun
dred poor girls out of So each, under pretense
of teaching Photographic transferring, was
arrested Wednesday, on returning from Bos
ton
AT the late vote on annexation i'll Naples,
a woman who from her heroiSm, has become
famous, La Sangioyannara, claimed the right
to vote, and voted She is the leader OF a
large district in the city of Naples, and fought
at Capua. Having borne arms, she was all
judged thereby to have gained the right OF
suffrage.
The free mason in Canada, of the highest
personal rank, is his grace, the newly elected
Archbishop OF Montreal, Dr. Francis Fulford,
who was initiated, passed, and raised, in the
Apollo University lodge OF Oxford in the year
1921. His grace has been forty years a mason,
and has ever been Il warm admircr and patron
of the craft
Some workingmen employed in digging in
the forest Of Fontainbieau, have just found a
cameo, consid cred by antiquarans a bijou, lost
probably by the Marqujse de MonteSpan, in
one Of the royal hunting parties in which she
was in the habit Of accompanying Louis XIV,
through these beautiful gIades.
During the burning Of the Clarendon Hotel
in Buffalo, eight Of the fremen raised ladder
to a fourth story window, and amid the dense
smoke and binding flames, two Of them CROPPED
into the chamber, seized in their arms a ser.
| want girl who lay sick with fever, and bore heI
! bravcly and safely to the ground.
Miss Catlin, the young lady who was SO
| dreadtully burned Il few days ago, by the burn
| ing fluid explosion in SkaneatcIes, n. Y, iii, on
! Friday Mrs Mitchell, who was burned on
| the same occasion, died the same night.
The citizens OF Syracuse held pub ic meet
! ing, last Saturday evening to take into con
sidcration the subject OF removing houses Of
ill fame from that city. No decisive measures
were adopted but the meeting was 50 con.
stitutcd that expressions friendly to mob law
were received with the greatest applause.