Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-05

A commission, formed of members of the
iron and steel institute Of the town Of Dudley,
Worcester county, England, have left for the
United States TO report upon the management
of blast furnaces, etc.
Extensive chemical works are about being
established in st. Louis. The buildings for
them, now in course Of construction, will cost
nearly 100000.
A report comes from New Orleans that the
Dunn or custom house faction have made over
lures to the democrats for coalition against
the Yarmouth faction. They are DESTROYS TO
impeach Yarmouth at the next session of the
legislature.
The great interest of lower California is to be
the gathering of orchilla. 1t can be gathered
every two years, and is said by those who have
had experience in other parts, to be more alum
dant on the coast of lower California than in
any other part of the world. Every shrub is
| covered with 1t for miles inland from the sea-
shore
| The Prince de Jonville in refusing TO be
| candidate for the presidency of France, said:
| 'But if were king | should know how to gov
| ern well. The means are very simple. | would
| have constitution of two articles; the first ar
ticle should enact that every Frenchman should
be functionary; the second that every French.
man, on reaching the age Of FIVE, should be dec
orated.''
A little boy in Yorkville Canada, came to his
death a few days ago under most singular cir.
cumstances. He was one of party of children
who were playing together, and kissed one of the
little girls This so enraged another little girl
that, in fit of what may be called jealousy,
she struck him with stick, nflicting an in
jury from which he died in Il few hours.
Abiding to Or" RoSenzweig's assertion
that he had diploma which he purchased for
$40 from philadelphia college," the Phila-
! delphia Press says: 'If such institution can
not be proceeded against by the law officers of
our city, or by the medical college whose repu.
tation it is running, the people, the most ag=
grieved of all, should demand that the next
legislature afford some remedy"
Gold placer diggings have been found near
the Emma mine, Utah, and one man in two
days washed ont $500 worth of dust. Highly
encouraging reports are received from Cotton
wood. Two hundred thousand dollars have
been offered for mine that was discovered only
two weeks ago. SiXty-twO thousand dollars
from Phoebe mne, and S10,500 from Ophir
mine, in silver bullion, were forwarded last
week to New York. The yield from the Tiphc
mines averages 250 bars of base metal daily,
Christiana Nilsson, while going to St. Louis
from Memphis last April, dropped some $4,000
worth of diamonds from the window of car on
the Iron Mountain railroad. Parties searched
several days for the jewels, but without SUCCESS,
and Miss Nilsson gave them up for lost On
Friday Mrs. Flynn, wife OF laborer on the
railroad found the gems opposite her door,
they having been uuearthed by q fractions calf
that was tied to a stake near the railroad track
| Miss Nilsson was tele9raphed at Newport of the
| recovery of her treasures and she replicd that
she would present the Flynn family with $500,
The challenge of Sir Francis Lyoette that he
| win give S250,000 towards the erection of fifty
| Methodist chapels in London during the next
nine years on the condition thar an equal sum
be given by the friends outside the city, has
| been accepted by the denomination with Shirt
and $4,000 has already been subscribed, The
work Of building the phapeis is now going on,
| They arc to hold at least one thousand persons
each, and it is found that buildings of this size.
with the necessary school and class accommo-
dations, cannon be built for less than $50 ,OOl
each. The fifty ehapels will therefore cost 81 !.
100000
A Minnesota correspondent of the Church,
man has heard that the bishop Of Minnesota,
having declined the epscopate of the Sand
| witch islands, the archbishop of Canterbury and
the bishop Of Winchester have renewed the offer
of the episcopate of these islands in new form,
1t is that he assume the jurisdiction there and
| spend his winter months there, employing his
| time in his own diocese during the summer,
This correspondent adds this stdryi 1T is said
that an enthusiastic English clergyman re-
| Gently wrote to EmmegahbOwh, the Indian dea-
| con, TO know what salary would be paid to him
to come over here aud become assistant to him.
Emmegahbown repliedE Only rice and pota-
toes, and not always enough of that 1t is
strange to say that the Engishman has not vet
| reported for dutyI'
| JUG VI lllc flsltduOnS OF BISHOP Tall
bot in Nebraska he had occasion, as bishops
and ministers often have in new and sparsey
settled territories, TO hold service in loo school
house, in Richardson county, for the pioneers
In the course of the service he gave out hymn'
read it through, and as there was no one pres
ent to "raise the tune" commenced the singing
himself Finding that he was executing Solo,
| he omitted the second verse and passed on 10
the last One Of the pioneers noticed this ne.
fariOus proceeding, and, not being Wiling to
submit to it, jumped up and shouted, "Hello
misterl you've skippedP The fact was patent.
The bishop sang the missing verse; and as he
has a magnificent voice. the pioneer was clearly
justitiable in demanding the execution OF the
whole programme.