Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-16

them in all directions through the woods.
Some one sang out, "lie down on your faces"
and as the whirl passed, the trees Were actu-
ally bent to the ground, touching the backs
of the PROSTATE persons. The spout coming
in contact with some woods near the shore
got ''aired," and broke with the noise OF dis
tant cannon, and then far and near the air
was filled with branches of trees, leaves,
sticks, SC. The whole performance lasted
fifteen minutes.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. Adoniram b. J1dson, oldest son of the
late DIR. Judson, missionary, has been appoint
ed assistant surgeon in the navy.
Fredricka Bremen has just published a new
work entitled "Livet Gamla Verlden,' a
journal of travel in southern and eastern lands,
in two parts. Miss Bremen is now in Greece
writing book on the modern Grecians.
Rev. Mr.. Chidlaw, well and tavorably
known in connection with sabbath school
work at The west is chaplain for Gen Ander-
sons Kentucky brigade.
By the marriage of the Count Won Leining.
en-, captain of cavalry in the Bavarian SER
vice, to the daughter of brewer at Munich,
the young lady becomes allied to the royal
family of England
MISCELLANEOUS.
There are about 400 ragpickers in Paris
They sleep in rooms without any distinction
as to sex, paying from five to ten cents night
y for their lodgings. The rag picker retires
to rest at five or six o'clock in the afternoon,
and gets up at eleven. Then he goes on his
rounds, turning into a public house toward
daylight and generally getting drunk.
On Thursday night, about niue O'Clock, an
earthquake was sensibly felt through central
New York, causing not little CONSERVATION.
In one place it is reported to have dislodged
cr0ckery from the shelves; in another it sci
the door bell a jingling; an invalid who retir-
ed early with wine glass and spoon by his
bedside heard them tinklng, and got up in
alarm. Seuera old ladies were startled and
searched their houses, fearing some ntruders
had broken in. in many places the motion of
the earth and the rocking of the houses was
sensiby felt lasting three or four seconds.
Mr.. Nathan jackson, a gentleman eighty
two years of age, but for fifty-oae years res
ident of New York, bore the Massachusetts
standard in the procession of the "Sons of
Massachusetts" from the Astor House, on the
reception of the seventh Massachusetts regi..
ment On arriving at the steamer Commo-
dore he presented one of two boquets, which
adorned the staff Of the standard TO the regi-
ment and the other to Col. Couch.
Two or three slaves have recently found
their way from Baltimore to the Relay House,
one of whom, who had been taken into the
employ of the eighth regiment, was given up
by order of Col. Jones' Another who had
been brutality shot by his overseer, and fled
faintng to the camp, was pursued and claim
ed but Col. Jones was at last accounts hold
ing the matter under adyisement.
A woman aged fifty years. and the mother
OF five children, recently eloped from Iowa,
with the nephew of her husband. The couple
went to Peoria, looked around town a little,
and finally took up their abode or the opposite
side of the river, the woman writing to her
friends to direct her letters to the Peoria post
office. Some of her relations, who thought
they could do something with her yet, tried to
persuade her to return but it was 'no 60"