Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-31

which, by the utterance of the. magic word
Jenny" and a tender of coin, the specific
fluid desired was made to appear without dis
closing the person who dealt it out
The cotton storehOuse at Arctic, containing
between 100 and 200 bales of cotton, belonging
to Messrs A. & w. Sprague, took fire at about
nine o'clock on Saturday evening. Loss from
$4,000 to $1,000.
Charles McKenna, while grinding the scythe
of a moving machine in Lonsdac, Saturday.
received a fearful wound, one end of the scythe
having caught in the belt and been forcibly
drawn across the side of his neck
The Providence journal say the streams in
Rhode Island are very low, and many mills
are stopped either partially or altogether. The
drouth, i'll the present state of the dry goods
market, is serious misfortune, occasioniug
great loss to manufacturers, and depriving
many dependent persons of their means Of
support.
CONNECTICUT.
While the workmen were digging out an old
cellar in New Haven, last week, they came
upon a qunatity of imported brick, such as
were made century ago and between two
stones in one corner the old cellar was found
an Irish half penny, bearing date of 1724
MISCELLANEOUS.
Harrison Sherman, an estimabe citizen of
Waterford, N. Y, was murdered in front of
MS residence, Friday evening, by one of his
neighbors named Vandenworker. Mr. Sher-
man being a man of influence and taste, had
been instrumental in having a small town tax
imposed, for laying out and identifying the
village His neighbor was opposed to the tax
and to the improvements, and while in a state
OF lntoXicatiou fired the fatal shot
Lord William Godolphin Osborne" Ia son
OF the Duke of Leeds) 25 years of age, is in
1aI in ,Op6nr forr Ot l.; r.
borne, of the New Hampshire Register. saws,
in justice to people of that name, on this side
OF the pond, it is proper to state that they cut
the acquaintance OF that branch of the family,
more than two hundred years ago!
James Stewart, Esq, well known and
hlghly esteemed citizen of Amsterdam, was
instantly killed Saturday evening by train of
cars on the Central railroad He was a man
OF wealth and high character, well known as a
railroad contractor and agricuturist.
Inc IRISH soldiers of the pope have had an.
other row at Rome and pummeled some of
thelr Italian compatriots terribly, in order to
settle the question which were the best Catho-
hes One of the Irish was sentenced to death
by the court martial, but the pope would not
allow him to be executed
While the labOrers were quarrying stone in
Ottowa, &. w, a few days since, they came
upon boulder bearing on its surface the UNI
mlstakeable impress of two human feet, the
largest that of an Indians right and the small
er that of squaw's mocassned foot, sunk
about three'tourths of an inch in the solid
stone.
1t is reported that a French armorer has
sent to Garibaldi a gift of coat of mail, dag
gerproof and bullet-proof. Its workmanship is
perfect, and it is valued at upward of five
thousand francs. 1t may be worn under the
uniform like shirt, for it is extremely fexi-
bic, light, and portable
Typographical errors come in odd some
times The other day we were reading de,
scription OF enthusiastic demonstrations at a
political gathering, when the type went on with
THE air was rent with the shouts of three
thousand people"
Sunday, the ninth day of the Hebrew month
Alb, and the anniversary of the destruction OF
the temple of Solomon, by Nebuchadnczzar
and of the destruction of the second temple by
Titus Vespasian, was celebrated by Israeltes
everywhere as day of fasting.