Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-21
Miscellaneous Ite,ns.

A st. Louis iron company contemplates erect
ing n blast furnace, twenty-five feet interior
diameter and one hundred feet high. 1t is to
rest on twelve columns thirteen feet high. 1t
will be the largest in the United States.
Virginia papers say that the powder tanks
found by the wreckors in the Confederate iron
clad Richmond, lying in thirty or FORTY feet of
water off Chatlin'S bluff, are in good condition,
and the powder as dry and ready for use as be-
fore its submerson six years ago.
In Pekn a newspaper Of extraordinary size is
published weekly on silk. 1t is said to have
been published more than thousand years ago.
In 1927 public officer caused some false intel
ligence to be inserted in this paper, for which
he was put to death. Several numbers of the
paper are preserved in the ROYAL library of
Paris. They are ten and quarter yards long.
William and MaTy's college, Virginia has
just elected Hugh Blair Grigsby the third cham
cellor of that institution since its foundation,
long before the declaration of independence
General Washington was the first chancellor.
He had no successor until 1860, when ex-Presi-
dent Tyler was chosen, and on his death the
place remained untitled until the present time.
The French elections have ended in victory
for the administration. OF III vacancies scat
tered all over France, nnety-one have been
filled by men who declare themselves moderate
republicans, and ready for the support of NJ
Theirs. Of the remainder, one is legitimist;
one, NJ. Magne, moderately Bonapartist; and
twenty-four radicals of different shades, none,
however, being communist. Among the mem
bers elected only one, NJ Gambetta, is OF the
first personal mark; and among the rejected
only one, M. Rouher, who was defeated by a
crushing majority in the Charente. The special
ly clerical candidates have all failed.
The Pail Mall Gazette of July saws: "Hon.
Judge Bowling, chief magistrate of New York,
is a useful person to have staying in the house
on certain occasions which are not so rare as
they ought to be in tne neighborhood of Lon
don, Hearing noise the other night in the
house OF friend to whom he is on a visit at
Richmond-terrace, Westboume-grove, and going
down stairs to see what caused it, the American
justice found himself in the presence of four
black-faced burglars, whOm--taking them per-
haps for niggers and dispising them according
ly-he attacked with an umbrela-sta dispers-
ing them and putting them to flight. Without
undertaking the strength and courage of the
judge, we may be permitted to remark that his
introduction of a new weapon gave him a decid-
ed advantage over his opponents. 1t is not stat
ed whether or not the umbrella-stand was load
ed with umbrellas; but in any case, such an
engine is to an ordinary household weapon
say, for instance, parlor poker-much what
the mitrailleur is 10 the common musket. On
the other hand, like the club of Hercules, it is
not every one who can WELD it; and we are
af aid there are but few persons in the country
by whom an umbrella-stand would be found as
it was by Mr.. Justice Bowling, a convenient in
strument for tho. punishment and expulsion of
house-breakeis."