Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-21


I pany, and a young French girl. The parties
| are supposed to be now in Canada Ward
| has a wife and two children in Enfield. and
leaves debts behind him.
RHODE ISLAND.
AT a meeting of the Rhode Island Historical
Society held last Friday in Providence the.fol-
| lowing subjects relative to the state history
were reported for investigation and research
by the society: First. The local history
of each of the several settlements of the
state, including biographical notices of their
founders and conspicuous men,. 2. The eccle-
siastical history of the state, and the history
of education 3. The commerce of the State
at different periods, including its leading ex-
ports, and also its distilleres. T. The history
of the slave trade, and of slavery in Rhode
Island. 5. Our manufactures and mechanic
arts. 8, The fisheries of the state. Z The
| history of the Indians and all other matters
relating to their character, their language and
the memorials of them now in existence s.
The history of the several boundary disputes,
and all matters connected with them. 8. The
army and navy in their relation to this state.
The alumni of the Friends School have in
vited Prof. Thomas Chase, of Haverford Col
lege, to give an Grafton, and John G. Whittier
poem, at their coming anniversary, to be
held at Newport.
The Bristol Phoenix, in recording two cases
of children being severely bitten by dogs in
that town, says that Notwithstanding stringent
laws, these numberless ours still abound in their
Streets and hopes for some remedy that will
extermnate them.
Alexander L. Britton, Esq, member of
the Rhode Island bar, has assumed the edito.
rial management of the Warren Telegraph,
vice John Wheaton Smith, Esq, who has be-
come a resident of Madison, Fla.
AT the annual Bishop prize debate before
the Linonian Society Of Yale College last
week, the question discussed was "Ought
representative in a republican government to
be bound by the will of his constituents 2"
There were fifteen competitors. The first prize
was taken by Leander f. Chamberlain of
West Brookfeld, Mass; and the second by G.
Walter Allen of this city.
The New Haven Journal says, workmen
have been engaged for few days in demoish-
ing the venerable old shingle,sided house on
Chapel street, opposite the South College 1t
is one hundred and fifty years old, and sup
posed tobe the Oldest in the city. At one time
Washington had his head quarters there. In
destroying the building number of old coins
have been found, which have been duly pre-
served by the curious.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Gen. Lamoriciere, according to a Kilkenny
paper, is an - lriShman. His true name is
Morrissey. AS is well known, all remarkable
men are of Irish origin. Adam was an Irish
man, the common mode of spelling his name
being corruption of O'Dam Cain, we
know was an Irishman, and when it is stated
that he went to the land of Nod, it is meant
that he left his country for America, to save
his neck.-IrdUeuer.
The recent territorial census of Washing.
ton territory shows that the population is now
5,S44. Assessed value of property, SO, 293,-
695. There are 13,468 acres of land cult
vated thirty lumber mills, five flour mills,
ten churches, thirty lone schools, 20l ,472 acres
of land taken by donation and preemption
and there are seventy-two sail vessels and
seven steamboats, owned in the territory.
A very interesting story is told in the Moni-
teur DIES Sciences, of a horse that died from
grief on being separated from another horse
with which he had lived long. His disease
was called "a pseudo madness entirely moral,
brought on by regret at separation from an
affectionate companion, and increased by isoa-
| ton.
The Collier controversy, in England, about
that old Shakespeare volume, is about over,
and Mr.. Collier is victorious. His assaants,
who sought to prove him a knave, have only
established the fact that they are themselves
fools