Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-04

/ though somewhat improved, is by no means
restored.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow, minister of the
Second Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, has
rendered his resignation. He proposes to
make a trip to Europe. He is, as is generally
known, brother to Longfelow, the poet.
Noble Downer, Esq, American consul at
Bridgewater, Barbados, died short time
since, after a brief illness. He was buried
with all the honors.
| Mr.. w w. Story, the sculptor, is making
bust of Theodore Parker.
The Empress Eugene, as we learn by re-
cent arrivals, promises another heir to the
throne of France, and that at a very early day.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Our exchanges all contain brief editorials
headed prepare for the Census" A woman
in Herkimer county, New York, has done so.
She presented her husband with two fine boys
and a girl.
+ From various quarters we have the cheering
tidings that the indications for full, old fash
toned crop Of peaches are more favorable than
they have been for several years.
The New York Observer states that the
Presbyterian Board of Domestic Missions will
report this year an increase of more than
twenty thousand dollars, and the Board of
Foreign Missions a still further increase of
thirty thousand dollars over the income of the
previous year. This inspires fresh zeal
Eight hundred thousand acres of the New
York Indian lands in Kansas, lying south of
the road from Independence, Mo-, to Salt
Lake, and said to be some of the finest lands
in Kansas, will be thrown into the market in
June.
1t is said that VIM H English Of Indiana.
with an eye to Fitch's seat in the Senate, will
decline a reelection to Congress, this fall, and
that John b. Norman, editor of the New Alba
ny Ledger, will be his democratic successor.
The Philadelphia Inquirer brags that it sold
forty thousand copies of the Heenan extra
last Saturday. Pretty good for the quiet city
of Brotherly Love.
The editor of the Spiritual Eclectic, publish
ed in Maine, speaking of promscuous, spirit
ual circles, says they "have been very general
y discontinued, and not seldom in consequence
OF the breaking out of moral disorders of the
most fragrant character"
The Madison wis., Argus says the num-
Der of mortgages upon farms to railroad COM
panies in that state, is $500; the average of
the mortgaged is $1,000, and the total amount
$5,500,000.
The friends of Mr.. George Peabody, in Bal
timore, have made a contribution for the
purpose OF procuring a full length portrait
OF him. The painter and poet T. Buchanan
Read, has been employed to proceed to London
for this purpose.
wonderful cave has been discovered and
explored in Kentucky, now known as the
Hundred Dome Cave" 1t is stated to be
fully equal in attractiveness to the celebrated
Mammoth Cave, not many miles from which
it is located.
Thomas W. Parsons, in poem published in
the Atlantic Monthly, says that OF late he eth
er rests within his chamber,
"Or walks the room with measured tread
Murmuring with head upon his breast,
My God! and is Macaulay dead?n
Mr.. Parsons might be much better en-
ployed.
A lady observing little girl apparently lost
in the street, accosted her with the question,
Whose child are you?" "Child of wrath,
ma'am," cried the little urchin, dropping
courtesy, as if addressing the parson The
lady resumed and said "Where were you
born 2" Born in sin, ma am" persevered the
dimiputive theologian.