Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-18
Gbs 4aig spg Gloucester SATURDAY 4urng Apt s 1863.

at $40; Connecticut savings bank, of New
Haven, 81 900 at m average of Sl09 90.
The whole amount bid was over one hundred
thousand dollars.
lIezckiah II. Brace of New Britain, while
repairing saw mill ut New Britain last Fri
day week. was caught in Jhe betting, and
whirled round the pulley, receiving injuries
from which he has since died. He was much
respected, and leaves wife and three child
rem
RHODE ISLAND.
The son of the Prince de Joinvile, now at
the naval academy at Newport, is a contin-
gent heir to the throne OF Brazil. His mother
was a sister of the reigning emperor, and in
case Of the death of his two daughters, and OF
the children of Donna Jamsaria, his eldest
sister, the Orleans member OF our naval acad-
envy would become the emperor of Brazil; or
be might effect such result in a shorter
and easier way, by marrying the immediate
heir, his pretty cousin Isabella
Lieut.. Wheaton of Providence undertook
successfully the hazardous task of bearing
dispatches from Newborn to Gen. Foster He
started on small steamer, took small boat
and succeeded in reaching Gen. Foster, exc
cuted his mission successfully and returned to
Newbern, after two days Of imminent peril.
Personal.
Mrs. Eliza Fleury Berangers "Lisette,"
has Just died in Paris hospital, II years old
For some time previous to her death she lived
in a poor attic, on ten hat-pence per day, the
produce of her handiwork. Not one OF the
many admirers of Beranger seems to have re-
membered his old friend or tried to alleviate
the hunger and want to which she must have
been subjected when her hands failed to earn
her pittancc.
In memory of the residence of the ex-queen
of Naples at Augsburg, a silver medal has
been granted to the female scholars in the st.
Ursula convent The medal bears the in
scrption :-'Soyenr of the visit of her MAJ
esty queen Marie OF Naples in the cOnventual
school of St. Ursula Augsburg, January 3,
1868" The nuns have received copy of the
medal in gold.
Since the death of Nathan Hale, the man
who has been longest in editorial service in
Massachusetts is William Lloyd Garrison In
1926 he edited The Free Press an indie
pendent journal in Newburyp0rt; in 1927,
1.-THE National Philanthropist," temperance
paper in Boston; in 1889, ''The journal Of
the Times" in Bennington, Vermont; in 1929
and 80 "The Genius Of Universal Emanci-
patton in Baltimore; and from January /,
1881, till now, 'The Liberator"-in all, COW
ering period Of thirty-seyen years.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The antquaTianS in Europe are excited by
the alleged discovery at Bucharest Of the
sword which belonged to Absalom. The
blade has on one side the following words
traced in Hebrew characters :-"Present
from Gessur to Absalom, son Of David Jeho,
Jeho." On the same side is engraved the
image of the hexagonal seal of David, and on
the other some characters, the meaning of
which has not been yet explained On the
corresponding place to those Of the Hebrew
characters, and on the opposite side Of the
blade, are these words, engraved in gOld:-
Titus accept eX Jerusalem This sword
had a handle in gold, representing at the up
per part q warriors head, covered with a
helmet, and joined by a chain to dragons
head which formed the hilt. The old monk,
possessor Of this weapon, procured it from a
Janissary, INTO whose hands it fell during the
disturbances at Constantinople in 1907. In
a moment of distress he sold the handle and
the scabbard, which was, he says, made of Il
kind of serpent's skin, and mounted in gold.
The ancient origin of the blade is proved by
manufacturers mark traced in Semitic char
acterS.
The private seal of Gen. Washington,
which was supposed to have been lost, is still
preserved in the family of S. A. Washington
of Illinois, to whom it has descended as an
heir loom. The seal was lett to the late judge
Bushrod Washington of Mount Vernon, who
transmitted it to Bushrod Washington, Jr.,
father of its present owner, and the nearest
relative bearing the name of Washington.
Morgan, were killed in the mill of Mr. Smith
Harper, at Arburyton, Pa, on the 4th inst
One of them was first caught by her dress i'll
the machinery, and whirled round the shaft
ing, and the other, in attempting to rescue
her, was also caught, and shared the fate of
her friend. When the machinery was stopped
both ladies were dead.
One of the boarderS at the Shelby House,
Louisville, was out on the porch with Hen
ry rifle, when the negro at the pump said to
him, YOU'D make pretty soldier" where
upon he took aim at him, saying, eyes, I'll try
it" and fired. The ball entered his head kill
ing him instantly.
Poor Col Webster, hung by the rebels in
Richmond, could not stand up as both legs
were broken, to have the rope put about his
neck, and was swung off chair, himself Civ
ing the signal.
Two young girls, named Angelina Portlip-
pi and Josephine Thompson, aged eighteen
and nineteen years respectively, were killed
in New York, Thursday, in the most shock.
ing manner. They were employed in making
artificial flowers for Elliot c. Cowdin & Co.,
dealers in fancy goods-their work room be-
ing i'll the fifth story of his establishment.
They were preparing to go home, when by some
accident they both fell through an open
hatehway from the fifth floor to the cellar.
They were painfully mangled, and died almost
instantly. Both were respectable girls OF in
dustri0us and Yirtuous habits