Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-21

The Richmond Wing of the 9th says: ain
Danville five dollars in gold were sold at auc-
ton, day or two ago, for one hundred and
forty dollars in confederate notes.
little boy once SAID to his aunt "Aunty,
L should think that Satan must be an awful
sight of trouble to God" "He must be
trouble enough, indeed should think" she
answered. 81 don't see how he came to turn
'out so, when there was no devil to put him up
to it" said the urchn.
The late king OF Denmark divorced two
wives who did not suit HIM, and married NOR
ganatcaly and afterwards tremendously
MadamoiSelle Louisa Christina Rasmussen, a
liberal like himself This lady had previous
ly been governess, Il ballet dancer and a
mlllner. She had common sense, however,
and proved an acceptable queen.
The most extensive convention of wool
growers and stock raSers ever held in Amer
lea, will be held in Columbus, Ohio, on the
9TH Of January, 1864
The Los Angeles vigilance committee hung
another man last week. Ii was an English
mormon from Salt Lake, and is known to
have killed three men in Utah. He confess
ed to six other murders and was concerned
in the Mountain Meadow massacre. He was
seized in the court room Just after pleading
not guilty.
a billiard match of one thousand points, at
caroms. for $1,000, was played at INDIANAPOLIS
on the 18th, between McDcvitt of that city,
and Parker OF Chicago. .McDeyitt won. nv
The president has presented to Senator
Sherlan tor transmission to the Cincinnati
sanitary fer. the original draft of the procla-
mation appended to the late message.
The steamer Prima Donna struck on a
sunken coal barge, eighteen miles below
"a Ill. Il.
in floor.
A magnificent pear-a Duchcsse d'AngOu-
leme-weighing two lbs 2 2 ~. and meas
uring II l inches in circumference width
way and from the root of the stem to the
centre of the base Is l-2 inches, has been
brought from California. 1t is as fresh AS
when picked last August in Los Angeles and
may be seen at the Boston sanitary fair,
Cora l.. V. Hatch, the we'll known spiritual
medium, has obtained from the judicial court
Of New York decree div0rcing her matri-
monial bonds with B. +. Hatch, and that
hereafter she will take her former name of
Scott.
Sylvester Lowrie and others, owners of a
silver mine in Arizona, have entered a suit
against Carleton, West and Others for over
million dollars because OF the military pos
session of their mine few months ago.
Mrs. zen. Banks held a grand Solree in
New Orleans on the 9th.
Six thousand coffee plants are growing near
Sacramento. They stand the California vim
ter well. The state gives $1,000 for the first
hundred and fifty pounds of coffee raised in
California
Prot. Whitney, the state geologist of Cali
fornia, says the big trees of Tuolumne are
1850 years old.
A curious and interesting discovery has re-
Gently been made in California, of pyramid
very similar in construction to the Egyptian
pyramids, only very much smaller.
A mercantile firm in San Francisco SUBJ
scrlbed $4,000 to the sanitary fund.
The snow is already forty feet deep among
the Rocky mountains.
The governor of Michigan has called an ex-
ira session of the legislature, to meet at Lam
sing on the 10Th of January.