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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07
GBe 9mIp Spy aauser, GutsOap urning Nubembu T. 1871

who saw the movements of the girls, and by one
or two gentlemen who noticed where they sat
but did not happeI to see them when they took
the fatal leap, established that the Two suicides
as they seem to have leaped from the point
where they first sat dOWn-threW themselves
from the fat rock which forms platform close
TO the waters edge near the foot of the first de-
scent of West Pitch, which consists of two falls.
The first is a slight plunge upon a table rock;
then light fall for a hundred feet more or less;
then great cataract, with, at present, a fearful
fail of water, rolling down into a chasm many
feet from the base of the first fall. Here, Just
beyond the base of the first fall, they seem to
have thrown themselves into the river. 1t must
have been headlong leap with the current
They fell aud were plunged into the torrent and
out of the world in moment.
Miss Starbird of Auburn, and others, identify
the clothing rs belonging to Ada Brown of
Buckfed, and Anna Wood of Hartford, yonng
girls sixteen and fourteen years of age. Miss
Starbird says that both girls were at home on
Hampshire street, Auburn, Thursday evening,
and appeared In excellent spirits Anna Wood
left for No. 4 Bates block, on Thursday, where
she had been since Saturday. When she left
she said she was going 10 work in gentleman's
family in this city. The landlady paid her SO
cents, her due, when she left Ada Brown has
worked in the AndToSCoggin mill, and has been
of late at No. 2 Bates corporation. While Miss
Wood was at No. 4, Ada Brown called frequent
ly, and Miss Brown and herself went out to-
gether several evenings. Miss Brown came
here three weeks since. Her father, John Brown,
is a farmer residing in Buckield.
Her landady says that Miss Wood appeared
cheerful when she left the house, though she
had complained of sickness caused by eating
lobster. 1t is not certain where the girls spent
the night together, A young man recognized
the pin as the one he gave one of the girls. Ira
Foster says he saw both on the street at nine
O'Clock this morning. Miss Browns Oldest
sister has been at work in the city, and is fran
tic with grief at the sad tragedy, She left
this afternoon to carry the sad news TO her
parents.
Miss Woods father is dead. Her mother is
now in Massachusetts. Both girls had an APP
pointment to meet the older Miss Brown this
morning, but their failure to meet it caused her
to 90 out to look after them.
A party of lumbemen have been out in a
boat this afternoon dragging the river for the
bodies at the foot of the falls, but at p. NJ.
they had discovered no trace of them. More
| than likely they may yet remain in the under
| tow Of West Pitch. We remember several years
since that the body of boy drowned in the
| same locality was not discovered till several
months after the event, but possibly the eddies
and currents may thrown out the bodies of the
| victims in this sad event.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07
Double suicide n. Lewiston.

The Lewiston Maine Journal gives the follow.
ing particulars of the suicide of two girls there
previously reported in brief by telegraph:
About II 30 O'Clock A. NJ, Friday, Mr.. Cyrus
Cobb, who lives on Court street. just at the Au
burn end of the bridge, looking from the real
windows of his store and house, saw two fe-
males, apparently young ladies' sitting on the
Auburn shore of the river, on the very Jerge OF
| West Pitch. Mr.. CObb's daughter also noticed
the girls, and thought il very strange that they
should be sitting so near a very dangerous place
The more noticeable became the fact when she
saw them jump up and trip lightly and care
lessly down the precipitous, rocky and slippery
bank, where they removed their outer garments.
Miss Cobb then said TO her father that She he
lieved they medtated drowning themselves and
so possessed with this idea was she that she re-
solved to still watch them and see what they
were proposing to do. After removing their
outer garments, including their hats, she saw
the girls return to the spot where they had been
sitting and resume their seats.
In few moments, not far from one O'Clock.
the train from Bangor came laundering by, the
track being but two or three hundred feet from
where they sat. Miss Cobb says that while the
train was passing that point she saw the girls
rise, each throw her arm around the others
waist, and in this embrace they, apparently with
one consent, leaped from the shore into the
falls.
The fact speedily became known and crowds
gathered in the vicinity of the scene of the ter
| rlOle tragedy; but nothing could be discovered
Dut the garments, bearing silent and at the same
time sad witness of the tragedy. The clothing
was distinctly visible to crowds who gathered on
| the new bridge. Policeman Washburne of Au-
burne was the first to reach the scene of the
melancholy event. He found the clothing on a
spur OF the ledge, about opposite the main
plunge OF West Pitch. 1t was not rolled up
carefully, but seemed to have been laid down,
person. The clothing, which consisted of their
hats, waterproof cloak, shawl and a black
overskirt, with a mass of false hair, was of ratb
er Indifferent quality, yet apparently tjdy
Pinned into the waterproof was a brooch oi
some black stone, with medallion face in white
in the centre Of the stone-the WHOLE set in gold
Pinned TO the ribbon of the hat were two ten
cent bills.
| An examination Of the premises by Mr.. Cobb,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

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thn ~ st ,t ~ fntInid aid ,,art;or1ari H.
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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07
The los angeles mossacrc.

The only appropriateness in the name of the
California town Los Angeles, arises from the fact
that it seems to be Inhabited by fallen angels,
and they have fallen very low. The late massa-
ere Of the Chinese there turns out, according to
later accounts, more atrocious outrage than
the brief telegraphic report indicated. Ii was
not merely riot in which blows were given
on both sides, and victory, at the cost of some
bloodshed, finally came to the stronger party,
but II was nothing more or less than massacre
and pillage. Chnaman shot policeman who
was trying 10 arrest him and then followed an
attack by citizens and policemen, with the city
marshal at their head, and other officials en-
couraging. Eighteen inofiensve Cinnamon
were shot or hung, or both, their houses were
broken into their goods pillaged or DESTROYED.
The mob numbered more than five hundred
persons, aud was as savage and merciless as
any mob of baIbarians that ever murdered and
tortured a Christian foreigner. Some of the
victims were women. Hundreds of the innocent
celestials were stripped Of their property and
driven from their homes, and Others fled in ter
Tor, leaving everything behind The property
stolen is said to amount 10 $50 900.
II such an atrocily had been committed in a
Chinese city upon Europeans or Americans, the
world would have been Oiled with horror and
indignation. There would have been univel-
sal demand for redress and even the punishment
OF all the actors in the tragedy, liberal pecuna-
~ compensation for the property and lives de-
stroged, and humiliating apology from the
government would have been insufficient to
appeasc the demands Of the power whose
citizens had suffered. The Tien-tsin out
rage did not compare with this in mag
ntude, yet we can all remember what de-
nunciations Of Chinese barbarity it called forth.
Vocal ourselves Christian people, and speak
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

The loss Of thirty or more vessels from the
Arctic whaling feet is a severer blow to that in
terest and to New Bedford, our principal whal-
ing port, than the piratical cruises of the Shen-
andoah. The loss is said to be about Il million
and half and though much of it is covered
by insurance, yet as the insurance is mostly in
New Bedford companies, this heavy loss is not
shared with capitalists in other places. The
whaling business has for years been declining
through the discovery of petroleum and other
causes Of late years ''the catch of OIL" rs
the whalers say, has been very large in
the seas to which access is had through
Behring's Strait, and the whales have been fol-
lowed very far to the north, 1t is not consid-
cred safe TO remain in these seas later than the
first Of September,bu the large number of whales
tempted them to stay longer than prudence
would warrant. The New Bedford Mercury of
yesterday says:
"The news from the Arctic feet is the most
disastrous ever received by our ship owners
worse than the tidin9s of the depredations by
the pirate Shenandoah. The loss is at least Q
million dollars; for though most of the vessels
were well insured, the insurance is nearly all il
our own mutual offices. 1t is really almost az
severe blow to New Bedford as was the grea
fire to Chicago. Ii Isl blow, too, TO the whaling
business here, from which il cannot expect to re-
cover. Four only of the ships in the Arctic, be
longing here, are saved and those lost comprise
the best of the feet OF course, in addition to
the immediate loss, is that which must follow
the prostration of the main business of our port
This will not be abandoned, it is true but we
have no expectation Of ever seeing the place OF
the lost ships supplied.
The feet from New Bedford numbered twenty.
FIVE, including barque 0riole which has already
been reported lost. OF the number nineteen are
reported lost, and four saved, and one not heard
from.
The Union Mutual Marine insurance office has
upon the ships about $500 ,00O the Ocean office
about 100000. The amount in the Commercial
we did not learn; but it is probably little more
than that of the Ocean,"
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contemptuously of the "heathen Chinee." The
practical Christianity of Los Angeles is proved
by numbering the helpless foreigners with more
mprovoked brutality than q Chinese mob ever
exhibited, and without any chance of the re-
dress that might have been extorted from the
Chinese authorities. The affair is humiliating
and shocking in the extreme.
The Los Angeles people are not ashamed of
their conduct, but they are somewhat disquictcd
about its possible consequences. They have 4
vigilance committee who profess to be indignant
at the outrage and DESTROYS TO bring the muir
dcrers TO justice. They have held meetings
aud made efforts to disown the responsibility
for the massacre. Mexican horse thieves, they
say, were the criminals, but the very men who
make these professions were foremost in stimu-
lating the evil passions of the mob. Men who saw
and recognized the rioters are afraid to testify
for fear that they will be themselves murdered.
The atrocities of the kuklux in South Carolina
do not surpass the murderous savagery of
the Los Angeles mob, and for this murder
and pillage, as well as for all the
wrongs and iudignites that Cinnamon have
suffered in California the leaders of both politi-
cal parties in that state and the press, are in a
great measure responsible; they have cringed
and pandered to the popular prejudice against
Cinnamon, and feared TO rebuke it, and the le-
suit is this wickedness.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

style the classical music of Beethoven and
Mozart on the piano. while the other played
accompaniment on the harp. A third anala-
gous case was that Of Blind Tom, the negro
boy, whom we all know.
There is pSeudo-scentdc way of accounting
for these maryels, which only confuses one.
Phrenologists find a solution in the organs of
the Uranium; psychologists in superior nerve
force. 1t is, in both cases, but heaping wonder
upon wonder. What men call mature" is
prodigal in the physical world, scattering pearls
in the ocean and gems under the mountains.
There is no eye to see nor intelligence to under
stand them. The wealth of mental talents is
distributed by the Creator with apparently
eQual waste.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

A SUBSTITUTE FOR MAHOGANY has been de
Ylsed by French chemist, who has invented
process by which he causes any species of wood
of close grain so nearly TO resemble mahogany
i'll the texture, density and polish, that the most
accurate judges are incapable of distinguishing
between the imitation and the native product.
The first operation in this process is to plane the
surface so as TO render it perfectly smooth, and
the wood is then rubbed with diluted nitrous
acid, which preserves it for the materials subse-
quently TO be applied. Afterward one ounce and
a half OF dragons blood, dissolved in pint of
spirits of wine, and one-third of that guam tity
of carbonate Of soda, are mixed together and
filtered; aud the liquid in this state is rubbed,
or rather laid, upon the wood with soft brush
This process is repeated with very little altera-
ton, and in a short interval afterward tine wood
is found to possess the external appearance of
mahogany. When this application is made with
the requisite skill, the surface resembles that of
an artificial mirror; but if the polish becomes
less brilliant, by rubbing it with a little cold.
drawn linseed oil, the wood will be restored to
its former brilliancy. For all the various uses
10 when mahogany, as an ornamental wood, is
used, this French substitute is said to be admir-.
ably adapted.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

Look out for fraudulent ballots! They
have been printed for use in this city and else
where Look out for them! They are in crcu-
lation with the regular republican heading.
Those who contriyed them will not come to you
in person. They will employ others less likely
TO be suspected, who will offer you "republi-
can ticket" with the names Of democratic can
didates son it. Beware Of this trick; and be
sure to read every name on your ballot before
placing it in the ballot box.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07
nArEsr MARKETS..
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

NEW YORK. Nov. 6,-Money was firm most of the day
at a per cent but closed with free loans at per cent
Sterling exchange at 1885. Gold strong but not active,
at liz a. l2A Loans "a per cent for carrying. Clear
ings S52OOO00O. Governments firm. state securities
dull South Carollnas alone active. but rather
heavy. Stocks strong and not active Lake Shore
the ea tnre in old stock and advanced from 1907 to
l03h new, minus dividend, ranging from "a TO Sc. The
dividend is forty shares OF scrip, for which the holder OF
scrip pays onehrd of the par value ten per cent cash.
thp AnnuaL
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

We trust that no republican will fail to be
at the polls to-day, and vote. One or two votes
may decide the election of one or more cand-
dates in some of the districts; and it will be un-
awaiting TO regret falling to vote when you see
that by doing so you have allowed the election,
in some case, to go against you.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07
Sinking Fast,

Pale miserable discouraged, without relish for food
without energy enough for exerton, yet with acute
pain other specific indication of disease how often do
we see feeble nyads fading out of life without
any apparent cause We say of them that they
sinking FAST or "sinkng gradually" as the case may
be- But there is good why they should sink at
ALL Per ons in this dead-aliye state simply want nyig
Grating and valizng, Nature, in state of torpOr, de-
mands help Bring out the reserve of vitality in the
SYSTEM brace the nerves. tone the stomach break up
the morbid trance of body and mind with course of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters 1t can be done 1t has
been done in thousands of instances The effect upon
the enervated frame is electric NeveIgve up however
languid and broken down Remember that for the ex-
hausted, the deblltaed the despondng this powerful
vegetable restorative genuine elixir 1t is mere
stimulant that provokes transient fash of vigor in the
system, and then leaves it in depressed condition
than before It the of debility by alter
ing the secret)ns and regulating the action of the
ternal organs, well re-enforcng them. II is par
tculary valuable medicine at this season, because is
antidoe to the malaria which produces intermittent
fever, bilious collie and other disorders of the bowels
prevalent in the fall, d&wlw NJ
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07
BOSTON sruos sALEs-Nov. 6.


NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-CottOn in moderate request !;
sales 2Oi4 bales; middng uplands lshc Flour dull and
us; Ohio $3.50 "a 1928 western S6T5 a 40; southern
$3.50 a. 925 Wheat q &c beJer sales l43 900 bush;
No spring Sl,5lA az 81 latter extreme; No do
s41 @ sl5l amber state SIG a LII winter red west
Sl.55 a 5S. Corn scarce and "a &c better; sales
and I9c atoat Oats scarce and mer sales q 900 bush;
Ohio and, western 81 a. 53c. Beef quiet. POrk quiet
and shade hrmer;. mess SlS a 1920 Lard dull and
heavy at 81 (9 l08c. Butter steady. Whskey dull at
9Ola a Sic. Rice qulet Carolina N a Sic. Sugar
quiet and firm; Muscovado SA q exc; refining 90 a
Moasses dull. Naval stores-Spirits turpenne quiet
at 6Sh q 694c; rosn firm, at S465 q Ats tor strained
Petroleum steady; crude ID q BAG refined 2Sc. raow
CHICAGO, Nov. 6.-Flour quiet Wheat active and
higher NO | spring Sl,2lh "a l2S; No 2do 81, 1873 q
last half OF the month sllSa a l2Os; seller Decem-
Der Sl2OA. Corn active and higher; mixed at ls "a
seller last half OF the month Sh % 3ac. Barley dull
No 2 81 81 Sc e. !, P9Ek firm a. S5 49, seller DE
Lard steady at SIZE Bulk meats firm; hams 7c, shonl-
ders 3& q &c; short rib middles 5Hc. Whisky nOmi-
@ a56 Soe T G hogs seadS AZ so q 5o m
Receps-6O00 bbs flour, "a 900 bush wheat 100000 bush
5000 bush oats 10000 bush barley 10000 bush rye
ShiPments15gOO bbs hour, ijO00 bush wheat 100000
bush corn 1000 bush oats $4,000 bushrye, 5000 hogs.
No session OF The board Tomorrow.
CINCISNATI, Nov. 6:-POrk higher. at S3. Lard
dropping, at 50 q SC. Bulk firm; sides az a &c.
Bacon firm; shoulders TIC; sides TX "a &c. Live hogs
higher; sales az S4l5 a. 435 Whlskey steady at Ssc
at lSc.
Foreign MarEets.-TBy Atlantic CableI
LoNDoN, Nov 6-Consols closed at 92K; U. S 2Os,
1852 do. 1865, old, 9lA do 1861, y3S; U. s. ten
LIyERPooL. Nov. 6-Cottcn quiet and steady; mid
ding upands 95sdi do. Orleans 9Ad; sales 10000 bales
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A JEwEL-sozoDoNT Puriaes sozodont Boautifies,
sozodont GratiGes all who it, Sold by Druggists
and Pernmers dTu&F nj
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

Mr.. Thomas Gates, the democratic candidate
for senator, feels disturbed by what we said of
his nomination. He viii take notice that we
said nothing of him beyond the fact that the
nomination was secured by the management of
"some half dozen men" who oppose extending
the Worcester and Gardner railroad TO Win
ehendon, Perhaps we overstated the number.
Probably there are not half dozen of them
but there can he no reasonable doubt in regard
to what they mean. We do not believe it safe
to trust, on this question, any candidate who
may be affected by their influence.
Mr.. Patrick Collins, who spoke at the demo-
cratic meeting, last evening, led the senate OPP
position to extending this railroad, and was
followed by every democratic senator except
Mr. Steams His speeches against the meas
IRE were very offensive, being filed at times
with ridicule of the city Of Worcester. The
influence Of the half dozen Tor less) Worcester
men, to whom we refer, works at Boston as
well as in this city 1t worked there last win
ter. 1t will be there again, and it seems to us
unsafe to trust any senator or representative
whom it can reach
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

We understand that, in the second Worcester
senatorial district, there will be an attempt,
this year, toplay over again the game by which
Mr.. Within was defeated, last year. Printed
ballots have been circulated throughout the dis
trict, bearing the names of all the republican
candidates, except that of S. NJ. Grggs, the re-
publican candidate for senator, for which tie
plotters have substituted the name of J. Henry
Wood, of Grafton, whom they contrived to elect,
year ago. Mr.. Grggs is an admirable candi-
date, and should receive every republican vote
in the district Let the republicans in that dis
trict look out for the fraudulent ballot.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07
WORCESTER
Elcerion-Tuc.aay, November 9Th.
Republican Nominations.

For Governor - WILLIAM b. WAsHBURN, of
For Lieut.. Governor--Joseph Tucker of Lenox.
Secretary of State--0liver Warner of Northamp-
ATTORNEY General-Charles r. Train of Boston,
Treasurer-Charles Adams, Jr., of North Brook
field.
Auditor-Chares Endicott of Canton.
FOR COUNCILLORS.
Third District-AIio Hildreth of Northboro.
Seventh District-Elijah B. Stoddard of worces-
ter
FOR COUNTY OFFICERS.
Sherif-Augustus B. r. Sprague of Worcester.
Clerk Of the Courts-Joseph Mason OF WoTces-
ter.
County MISREPRESENTATION o. Brown of
Fitehburg.
Henry f. Rice OF Barre
FOR STATE sENATORs-woRCEsTER COUNTY.
Dist Adm Thayer Of Worcester.
Dist 2-Samuel NJ Griggs of WestbOro
Dist 3-Andrew }. Bartholomew of Southbridge.
Dist. 4-Baxter d. Whitney of Wmchendon.
Dist. George A. T0rrey Of Fttchburg.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,.
4th Dist-Harding Woods of Barre and Lyman
Woodward Of hubbardston
9Th Dist-George e Towne and j w Kimball of
Fitchburg, and Lucien A Cook of Leominster.
9Th Dist-George A Parker of Lancaster
eth Dist-lsaac n. Ross of Holden.
10th Dist-Lewis Barnard, John Gates and b. W.
Potter of Worcester.
nth Dist--Iohn S. Baldwin, Joseph R. Torrey
and George P. kendrick Of Worcester.
Eth Dist-George Slocomb of Grafton.
10th Dist--John Hopkins of Millbury, e Harris
Rowland of Oxford and Horace / Joslin of Web
ster.
18th Dist-William Upham of Spencer and l.. G
18th Dist-W II Montague of North BroOkfelt
and II Sibley of Warren.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

John Selby Watson, the reverend and learned
wife murdererof England, has been convicted
Of gilful murder
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-07

John .. Clark % Son, Commission Merchants
cined Plaster, Or Bone. Cement, Salt Guano upper
239 Front st. Worcester. Mass
diff JOHN 4. CLARK a SON