Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-30

ven have broken down with the great weight
of ice in which they were encased. y small
twlg was cut from tree, and weighed twenty
one ounces, ice and ALL ON thawing the ice
away, the twig weighed but single ounce.
Mayor Deming OF Hartford, about TO leave
for the war rs colonel of Connecticut reg.
iment on Monday night sent to the aldermen
aud council his resignation of Office as follows:
Hartford, Jan. %, 1862 Gentlemen: here
by resign the offics of mayor. am, very re-
spectiully, yours, HENRY c. DEMUNG."
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t seems that the flight OF Governor Dim w
Dawson OF Utah was impelled ~by pressing
cauSeS-t"at a woman was at the bottom OF
his tribulations, he having got her into serious
trouble-at least says the Dessert News.
He was threatened by her friends with the
punishment he deserved, and attempted 10 es
cape. They OsertOok him, gave HIM thresh-
ing, and his companions, in defending him,
killed one or two OF the attacking party and
injured others; but We believe he finally made
good his escape. Dawson belongs in Fort
Wayne, Ind, and was appointed governor to
Utah in June last. He probably had an Oh.
ject for desiring to live among the Mormons
An old negro taken on uoard one of the
vessels at Port Royal, the other day, was over
heard praying vigorously that ode Lord would
Dress these id Yankees Poor Sambo
had never heard his friends designated by any
other title, and unconsciously used ii even in
his prayer.
Samuel Williams, formerly of the Utica
Morning Herald, is in charge of the Albany
Evening Journal during Thurlow Weeds ali
sence in Europe and George Dawson's absence
in the post office.
From Aug. H. 1861, to Jan. l, 1862, 8676
patients have been admitted to the general and
post hospitals OF ST. Louis and vicinity, of
whom 532 died The leading disease was ty.
phoid fever, of which 1856 died, of erysapeas
%, various forms OF dysentery, diarrha, Sc,
49, consumption 81, pneumonia 9S, bronchial
do. 70, typhoid do. 4, small pox y, gun shot
wounds IL The commission acknowledge
The receipt of over 400 boxes and packages of
goods for the sick, from benevolent women
of tue loyal states. Massachusetts and Wis.
conSin have been particularly liberal in their
contributions.
In a contested will case in the state of New
York, it was urged by one OF the counsel that
the absence OF all love letters between the ties.
tator and his wife during the twenty years of
their welded life, was strong proof that there
was no love between them The counsel on
the other side denied the inference, and insist
ed that The ordinary acts OF kindness and at
fiction in their every day life was a much
higher sort of evidence than love letters
That love letters in TRUTH were not to be ex-
pected between the most loving of married
couples.
a little girl, aged u years, was fatally burn
ed in public school in New York, the other
day She approached too near the stove to
warm herself, her clothes lgnited, and such
was the terror OF mistress and scholars, that
she was unaided until MORALLY injured.
Prince Albert died believer in the Sweden
borglan Interpretation Of the Bible, and it is
said Queen Victoria has also adopted similar
views oi reigiOus philosophy.