Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-14

eHtlre u"eHIuS Oh on by ~ rect, ana mas a
start OF six or eight feet on its second trip
round. The whole vine is 166 feet long.
Mr.. G. d. Crane of Rochester, N Y, has
accepted the call to become the pastor Of the
South Baptist Church in Hartford, rendered
him some weeks ago. He is not yet ordained,
and is expected to enter upon his duties in
about a month.
A few days since, the family horse of Har-
vey Keeler OF Ridgefeld upset hive of bees,
near which he was tied. The bees assailed
their unconscious enemy with such violence as
to cause him to run, frantic and blind, into a
ledge Of rocks, where he fell and threw himself
about till he died. Mr. Keller himself was
also much injured by stngs of the insects.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The total number of wild pigeons shipped
east from Michigan, the past summer, exceeds
two millions, which yielded $4,000, and on
which the railroads got So, 800 freight.
The Baltimore patriot reports that General
Foster, the democratic candidate for governor
OF Pennsylvania, who was supposed TO be for
Douglas, has declared for Breckenridge
There was Il sale of an extensive and vau-
able numismatic collection in New York, We'd
nesday evening. The specimens of American
colonial coin brought from 25 cents to $50, the
highest price being paid for Carolina cent Of
1894, OF which there are not more than half
es of our own mint brought respectable prices,
half dollar in copper commanding So 49,.
Some 2OO specimens of American tokens or
private coinage were also sold.
In London, G. w, at the Princes hall, Tues.
day evening, two of the most respectable
young men of Buffalo, who were with ladies'
were arrested by the detectives, who imagined
them to be pickpockets They were hand.
cufed and lodged in the cells all night, with
two prostitutes and squaw. The next morn.
| ing over a hundred Americans attended the
court, and there were strong symptoms of a
row Profuse apologies were rendered, but
they could in no way remedy the misery of
the matter.
One morning in the month of August, an
aged widow went to St. Peters church. in
Sudbury, England, TO interfere with the mar.
riage of her niece. While waiting for the
wedding party to arrive, she was heard to de.
clare, with a fearful imprecation, that she
would see the wedding when she fell, struck
with paralysis, to the ground, from which she
did not rise again in life.
The estimated population of Iowa is in the
neighborhood of 100000, which, under the
new apportionment, will entitle that state to
six members of congress This will be the
| greatest proportionate increase of representa-
ton of any state in the Union.
The quantity of fruit in Michigan is aston.
ishing. Along the line of the Central railroad
| the tree in the orchards are laden with apples
i'll most instances the boughs bending to the
| ground with the weight OF their soden colored
burden. 1t is one of the best fruit seasons
ever known i'll the state
An address of welcome and congratulation
was presented to the Prince of Wales by the
colored citizens, on his arrival in Montreal
The colored people of Toronto have also
adopted series of resolutions, expressing
their respect for the prince and their loyalty to
the queen.
AT Jacksonville, Fla. on the evening of the
I'D ult., q. Parratt, while sitting with his
wife at the teatable was handling pistol
| when it went of, the ball passing through her
throat, causing her death in short time.
Jose Solano Alvear, Havana agent of the
Credits Espanol of Madrid has disappeared
! from Havana with Il vast amount of funds be.
longing to that institution. The precise
amount Of the fraud is not known, though it
is estimated to be not much below 81 900 600
On Friday last Mr.. Opeayer Pearson of
| Oidtown, Maine, was present at a democratic
caucus in that town, and was chosen as tho
| presiding officer. In short time afterwards
while in the chair, he suddenly sank back in
an insensible state, and was Immediately con.
veyed to his residence, but he remained un.
conscious and died at O'Clock on Saturday
| morning His disease was apoplexy.
Mr.. Il. G. Denning of Harrisburg was NOR.
tally injured on the Pennsylvania railroad on
Thursday Of last week, and died the same
night. lie was engaged to Miss Gray of
that city, and, all parties concerned being de.
sirous that the marriage ceremony should be
performed, the rites took place hardly more
than an hour before the newly made bride be-
came a widow.
One of tile most disastrous storms of thun.
| der and hail ever remembered visited Turin
and the nelghborhood on the Dist. 1t was,
however, near Ferrara, in the papal states,
! that the tempest reached its highest point of
violence. Houses were levelled to the ground