Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-06

Some Of the Canadian newspapers are so
angry at Gen. Is. f. Butler that they omit the
capital letters in printing his name.
gentleman attending Surgeons weekly
prayer meeting writes that, the evening being
wet there were only fifteen hundred persons
| present.
There is good story of Posey country ed
| itor who explained the meaning of the French
word elan, to subscriber. what is this elan
| that the French army is so full OFF," inquired
the sub "Elan is French for beans" succnct-
| ly replied the conductor of the great moral en-
gine.
In 1864 $500 ,O4S77 was collected from the
excise from tobacco From that point the sum
steadily increased until it reached 1904 09l 03
in 1868. In the first year OF President Grants
administration the receipts from tobacco rose to
1923 ,43O, 7O157, while in the fiscal year ending
june 30, 1870, they rose 10 the splendid total of
| S31 $50 7O7SS.
True diamonds have been found in Arizona,
as well as rubies and garnets, and the gold
| miners have thrown some excellent stones away,
! ignorant of their value. True diamonds have
also been found in fifteen or twenty places in
| California. They are found in the gravel de-
posits of the gold placers, but it is asserted that
| washings for diamonds would not prove remun-
| eratiye. 1t is, however, suggested that the
| Arizona gold miners should acqualnt themselves
| with the appearance of diamonds in the rough,
! and not lose the chance of enriching themselves
by the accidental discovery Of precious gems.
! Maggie Cooper, a school teacher of lndepen-
| dence Iowa, deserves fame for true hcIoism.
| In the wall of her school room, high above the
floor, are heating registers, weighing about forty
| pounds each. Miss Cooper noticed the other
morning that one was leose and about to fall.
| She saw there was no time to warn the little
| children beneath and so ran up and caught the
| heavy, hot iron on her extended arms, thus be-
ing severely injured herself, but saving her pu-
| pills from harm.
| The killed and wounded on the railroads of
the United States during the year ending Oct.
81, 1870, were, killed 1GS, wounded 4S4. Kansas
leads the slain, with twenty-seven killed; New
York comes first in the wounded list, with sixty
eight. The largest number of persons killed at
one accident was twenty-One, being upon the
Mississippi Central railway, near Buckner, Feb
ruary %, when the train broke through treStle
bridge, and fifteen were wounded New York
had fourteen accidents by which lives were lost.
New Jersey had several. In MARYLAND not 4
person was killed by direct accident during
the time named
The magnificent prohigate, Charles, duke of
Brunswick, who used to attend receptions in
dress suit blazing with diamonds, and the most
valuable perquisite of whose lackey was to pick
up the personal adornments he had shaken off,
is made the respondent in a suit brought in the
superior court at Chicago by his lawyers in
years past, to recover S7O77 due for their ser
vices. The bill was sent to the scampish duke
six years ago, but has received no attention, and
the creditors now pray an attachment on his
real estate in Chicago.