Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-17

Mr.. F. W. Beecher, son of the Rev. Ed
ward Beecher, d. d., and a graduate of Chi
cago Tn illogical Seminary, has just been or
dained as a Congregational minister at Mil.
waukie.
Gen Harvey, by the death of his wife in
Paris, has recently come into possession of
property, for himself and children, to the
value Of five million dollars. He is fourth in
rank of our list of army officers.
Morrissey, the pugilist, has purchased the
Troy Budget, of which he is to oticiate as
manager. Personalities will be at a discount
among the Troy fraternity hereafter.
Hon. Alexander Harper of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
an old lawyer, judge and member of congress-
died few days since at the age of IS years.
The late Prince Jerome Bonaparte left
100000 francs, which the emperor, accord
ing to the MOniteur of The 9th ult has dis
posed Of by adding 100000 to the income of
the Princess Mathidc, and reverting the bal
ance to the public treasury.
THE INSTITUTION"
AT Pror's Point, Tenn, Dec. 3, northern
man, who had not intertered with slavery in
any way, was questioned upon the subject of
slavery, and on his answering untavOrably
toward the sacred system" he was seized
and lynched with rope. Next morning the
cotton-giu and one hundred bales of cotton
DtlOHSIlS 10 tle lilSlSduCT Ol llllS Ddllu Ol
southern chivalry was found to be in ashes.
1t was enough. The cowaIdly bloodhounds
again seized the poor man ON suspicion, who
had been lynched so numerically by them,
put him into pork barrel, with some stones,
headed him up tightly and rolled him into the
Mississippi river.
The following expression of feeling is made
i'll letter from Memphis Tennessee -" If the
north yields one inch in this crisis, | hope
perdtion will light upon it, The battle is
more than half won the outer redoubts OF the
slave power are TAKEN and it the north, if the
American people are but true to themselves,
to freedom, and the great rights of humanity,
after little suffering all will be we'll"
A lady residing in Maryland writes to Il
friend III Boston that slave woman belonging
to one of her neighbors had been in the habit
Of doing her weekly washing, but recently has
been careless in her work The writer remon,
Strated with the woman, who replied "You
ought to be be satisfied with the work, for next
spring, when Lincoln is president, You may
have to wash for me !" The letter says that
the people are constantly in dread OF an out
break of the slave population.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Fifteen of the pupils of an Episcopal semiu
airy at Bedonia, Italy, with their protect, were
sufiocated In their dormitory on the 18th of
Oct. Inc walls had been newly whitewaSh
ed, and on lighting a fire, emitted a fatal
quantity of carbonic acid gas. They were
found dead in their beds
The base bali players of the country held
their fourth annual convention in New York
on the 18th inst. Thirty eight clubs were
represented. The annual dues were lessened
from So to 81 per annum. Several "regula-
ton amendments were passed. The game
of catching ION the fly" was voted against
The United States steam frgate Niagara,
with the japanese embassy on board, arrived
at Batavia, island of Java, on the Both Of Sep
TENDER, en- route for Japan, having made the
passage from Loando, a distance of 5000 miles,
in 46 days without stopping, All well and
happy, including lively practice at the
"Scotch fiddle"
Caleb o. Woodbury., the defaulting post.
master, of White Pigeon, Mich, who was
supposed to have committed suicide, to have
been put in his coffin and regularly buried, is
reported to have been seen in Chicago few
days since. His grave at White Pigeon was
subsequently opened, and his coffin found to
contain only a stick of wood