Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-22

recently blowing in Il field which had not been
disturbed for sixty years, brought to the sur
face the handle of knife, of which the blade
had rusted away. The handle had success
fuily resisted decOmpos.ti and bore on its
sidcs IN distinct characters the words Success
to the-British fleet"
While party of young ladies from New
Bedford were bathing on Horseneck Beach, one
of them was taken by the surf and lifted from
her feet: Dr. Sisson, who was riding by, saw
her peril, Immediately plunged into the surf,
and rescued the drowning girl just as she was
sinking for the last time. She was taken
home in state of Inconsistencies.
An insane man, named Lewis c. Welcb,
advertised that he would walk on the water
at Fall River, on Sunday last. AT the time
designated, great many foolish people went
out to see the lunatic, who was taken to the
middle OF the river, and Immediately meas
ured Its depth by sinking to the bottom. He
was rescued, landed ION the other side of Jor-
dan, and has not since returned.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Greenfield Gazette and Courier saws
that Harris W, son of Welcome Whiting of
auckland, y years OF age, rose from his bed
about midnight, on Tuesday, 18th inst, went
to the barn and committed suicide by hang
ing. No cause is given. What little money
he had was leftin two piles for his sisters
Hon. Henry L. Dawes has distributed eight
hundred copies of the patent office agricultural
reports among the farmers clubs of Lenox,
Deerheld, Coeraine, Charlemont, Cumming
ton, Plainfeld, Middlefeld, and Worthngton.
The son of James Curtis, aged some u
years, recently captured and killed two rattle
snakes on the mountain north of the Erving
road, one of which had thirteen rattIes and
measured 81 feet, and the other seven rattles,
measuring y feet.
The town OF Deerield, for the sake of pre-
serving the old records of the town, are having
them neatly and substantially rebound. The
oldest of the lot is the tax book of 1887.
The republicans of Greenfield, Deerfeld,
and other towns in the county hold their eau
cuses for the choice of delegates to the state
convention on Thursday evening next
Oscar Hale of Gill shot bald headed eagle
on Friday last which measured six feet and
seven inches from tip to tip OF its wings. He did
not kill the bird at the first shot, and before he
could load again the eagle took after Mr.. Hale,
who ran for his life.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Truman Davis of Sheffield, killed his wife
by beating out her brains with club and hoe
on Friday night last. He was intoxicated.
The murderer has been arrested and is in
Lenox jail
RHODE ISLAND.
The child of Elizabeth Mcdonald lost sew.
eral days ago, has been found in Quinsnicket
Pond in Smithfield, where il had tagen from
an overhanging rock, and was drowned. She
was girl of two years, and wandered away
while its mother was gathering fuel in the
woods.
CONNECTICUT.
The building at the corner of Chapel and
Church streets, in New Haven, was seriously
damaged by fire on Sunday noon. The prop
erty was owned by E. B. NJ. Hughes, whose
loss is stated at $1,000. There were Sc eral
tenants and storekeepers in the block, whose
losses by water or fire range from $500 to
$500. The building was insured for $4,000,
of which $500 was in the Peoples office in
Worcester.
Warren Thompson, an old gentleman of
New Britain, SO years of age, formerly resid-
ing in East Windsor, died very suddenly on
Sunday afternoon, while taking nap. He
was half an hour previous in the enjoyment of
his usual health.
The Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coke, D. D.,
rector Of Grace Church, Baltimore, and for.
mery rector of st. Johns Church at Hartford
has been unanimously elected president of
Trinity College, in that city, vice the Rev. Dr.
Goodwin, resigned.
PERSONAL.
Baron Rothschild, the great Jew banker, is
very intimate with Napoleon, is seen arm in
his right hand at public dinners. The politi-
cal gossips say that the baron is to be made
king OF Jerusalem, under the protection of
France, "lor a consideration" A Jew ruling
in Palestine would be notable event, and
would answer for fufllment of several pro-
phetic texts.
1t is stated in the English journals that age
and intirmity have so tar prevailed that the
Rev. z. Bronte, father OF Charlotte Bronte,
has been compelled to cease from active duty
He preached his last sermon in Haworth
church on Sunday, 2lst ult. The Rev. Mr..
Nicholl, husband of Charlotte, it is thought,
will become the incumbent of Haworth.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The hat worn by Andrew jackson on the
occasion of his first inauguration as president
of the United States, is still kept in excellent
preservation by one of his admirers near the
cold hermitage" 1t is white chapeau, with
very broad brim, and has a wide Grape round
it, The tip bears the imprint of the maker,
"Orlando Fisk, Broadway, 1877 New York.
Manufactured expressly for his Excellency,
Andrew jackson"
When Louis Napoleon was attacked with
paralysis, and the physicians were in doubt
what to do for his relief, the Princess Mathilde
said, "Giye him bouleYards give him boule-
wards they will cure him if anything will"
The laugh echoed all over Paris at his males
tvs expense - but, considering that Louis
raised Mrs. Mathilde from the poverty where
her husband had cast her, to afluence, it seems
an ungrateful sarcasm on her part.
When the forces of Garibaldi had taken
possession Of Messina, a small body of people
pulled down the bronze statue of Ferdinand
H., and amidst the applause of the spectators
1t was taken off to be cast into cannon. A
marble statue of the tyrant was dragged on a
hurdle through the streets. Other statues
obnoxious to the people were protected by
Garibaldi, who had them deposited in the mu-
scum.
The Garibaldi festival took place in Wash
lngton, Monday. 1t was a dignifed and APP
propriate celebration. Germans and Italians
turned out in large numbers and formed a pro.
cession, the latter bearing the Italian tr.color
Mr. Schimmepennick, a German patriot, made
a very eloquent address, and was followed by
Mr. Guerin, in French.
On Sunday morning last, gentleman board.
ing at the Belmont. house in New York. was
awakened by a peculiar sensation, and on
lighting his gas, found his face and pillow
covered with blood, and spouting from a
wound i'll his cheek bone stream of blood
about the size of u knitting needle. The blood
flowed for several hours till he was quite ex-
hausted The physicians attributed it to the
bite of a mosquito.
There is now growing in the gardens of
Moorsend, near Cheltenham, England, an ex.
traordinary white rose tree, thirty feet in
height. 1t is now a perfect picture, and is es.
timated to have between $1,000 and 10000
blossoms upon it, being literally smothered in
bloom, besides having thrown off whole heap
Of petals, which lie in cluster round it, and
presents the appearance of bed of snow
Rev. William Charles Inman, of Great Con
erby, Crantham, Lincolnshire, has destroyed
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