Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-07

| A little girl, busy in making pair of worsted
| slippers for her father, said to n young COM
| panion near her, "You are very lucky, you are;
| your papa has only got one leg"
| . A Swiss journal, published at Geneva, says
| only six wOmen-three English, two German,
and one American-had climbed to the summit
of Mont Blanc since Jacques Balmat first made
| the ascent in 1885.
Congressman William Williams of New York,
and Congressman William Williams of Indiana,
will be likely TO suffer some inconvenience by
mistakes in the delivery of their letters during
their sojoum in Washington.
| 1t is reported in England that Home the
famous spirtualist has become a convert TO
| EpiscOpalianism, and is soon 20 assume holy or
| ders. He is said to have been led to that church
| by revelations from the spirit world, where
creeds have been hitherto supposed to have no
| existence.
The antipathy of the Scotch people to reading
sermons is well known. AT Kircudbright, at an
inauguration" an old woman on the pulpit
stairs asked her companion f the new minister
was reader. "And how can he read, woman p
was the reply; "the poor man is bin" To
which the first made answer, "Pm glad to hear
it; wish they were a bin"
The mails on the Louisville and Frankfort
railroad have been discontinued. If the citizens
along the route want them again, they will have
to take the kukluX in charge, and restrain them
from attacking the mail agents, n iavorte
amusement with the midnight marauders in
that section.
Sojourner Truth writes to the National Stand
ard concerning her New England tour to get
petitions sent to congress to grant lands to the
freed people: 81 have been hoping somebody
would print little of what am doing, but the
papers seem to be content simply in saying how
old | am"
Cardinal Carracci, who recently died in Rome
left a large property, which, as usual, was
claimed for the church. But in a few days
woman, with seven children, appeared before
and m ho no u,;E of
the preatc. The cardinal, she alleged had
married her in France, and had lived with her
ever since as her husband. She showed her
marriage contract, and so the courts issued an
injunction against the removal of the cardinals
property. There are many such conflicts of re-
ligious and secular authority in emancipated
Italy.
Celtic hearts will doubtless be reioced to learn
that The 0'Donoghue's bankruptcy is to be an
nulled, the chieftan having compromised with
his creditors for 81 in So. The Knights of
Kerry The Knight of Glyn, MacGillicuddy of
the Rocks, and 0COnnor Don are, with The
O'DonOghue, now the only persons holding the
ancient titles of Irish chieftaincy, with the ex-
ception of person calling himself The O'Gor-
man Mahon, whose right and titles to assume
this peculiar style arc far at least they are
founded on hereditary descent, demurred to.
Prior to the revolution, peculiar titles of this
sort existed in France.
A long time ago, a minister who had two dea-
cons in his congregation given to sinful ways,
preached very practical sermon, but without
thinking of them. During the delivery of his
discourse he took occasion to say, Liar stand
on your feet" and, to his amazement, one of the
deacons stood up and remained standing until
the eXhoTtation was concluded. 1t so happened
that the next paragraph commenced with these
words: "Let those addicted to double dealing
stand forth" The deacon who had already arts
en- looked over to the other deacon, and whis-
pered: "You had better get up; did" -[Rob-
ert Collyer.
James I. Wyeth, the chief robber of the mail
car on the Central Pacific railroad, at Alta, Ne
vada, January 81, and who has since his arrest
made several desperate attempts at suicide,
proves to be really Stephen Miller, federal sol
der through the war of the rebellion, and son
of Col. Stephen Miller, formerly governor of
Minnesota, with whom he has since been en-
gagged in mining, at White Pine. His accom-
plice was his younger brother Robert, route
agent on the road, who is also under arrest.
Stephens endeavors to kill himself were to
shield Robert from punishment but the latter
has now turned states evidence for the same
purpose.
Within week or two u singular achievement
of the telegraph has occurred A gentleman
suddenly became i'll of pneumonia in Washing
ton city. His physician, a gentleman Of great
attainments and fame, resided in New York.
and he was anxious that this physician should
be consulted about his case. A telegraph wire
was by his direction taken into his room and
the New York doctor being summoned to the
telegraph office there, the Washington phys-
clan attending the patient informed him of the
| state of the case, and even enabled him to feel
| his patients pulse by causing the wire to vi
| brate as the pulse did The case thus being
thoroughly diagnosed in New York, the neces-
| sary prescriptions were sent thence to Washing
ton. The attack, though violent, soon yielded
to the treatment, and the patient is now very
cheerful convalescent.