Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-16

Out of two car loads of hogs shipped from
Lafayette, Ind, to Indianapolis, only Ten ar.
rived alive, all the rest being frozen to death.
An Argentine paper says that large number
Of counterfeit Chilean ten dollar pieces and
ounces, of American manufacture, have been
placed In circulation at Cordoba.
A young lady recently visited the Racine
lighthouse to witness a storm. She got enough
of the Jun, for storm arose that kept her
prisoner for five days.
A termagant whose husband finally beat her
ran home to her father to complain, and the old
man, with great Indignation, said, "Tell your
husband that if he ever beats my daughter
again, I'll beat his wiiel"
For city Of its size-it has at present pop
ulation of about ,000-Frankfort-on the-Man
is said to be the wealthiest in the world. Over
hundred of its citizens merchants and bank
ers) are reported TO be worth more than S5,0O0,-
900 each.
Samuel Miller, lumber merchant of Eddy,
Sullivan county, New York, was married the
| other evening TO Miss Parmentcr, and, after the
wedding feast went with his guests to escort his
bride and her uncle to the depot to send them
off on the wedding trip, as he had no time to
attend to it, and he was anxious she should have
wedding trip somehow or other.
When Thackeray was in Boston, he asked the
proprietor of the hotel, on Sunday morning,
where Theodore Parker preached, and when the
man of smiles and bows said he did not know,
he exclaimed in his most astonshed tones :
Don't know? Why, sir we've heard his voice
away across the Atlantic. He is the greatest
preacher in America"
The approaching resignation of the speaker of
the house of commons, the Right Hon J. Evelyn
Denson, is announced. The speakership is an
Office which, in real dignity, ranks below very
few in the realm. The holder of that Office is
the first commoner. He has assigned to HIM a
princely residence adjoining the house, which
is splendidly furnished and maintained at the
public expense, and he enjoys salary of $4,000.
On his retirement he is created viscount and
receives a pension of $4,000 year, which is
further continued to his successor in the title.
Neither the late speaker nor the present have
sons, so that their peerageS will, in effect, be
merely for life.
The Lexington (Mo.) Caucasian is wonder
full sheet In a recent deuunciation of the
national debt it SAYS: "Whimper no more over
the hapless victims of old world tyranny.
Cease your idiOtic shifting over Austria, Turk
ish or barbaric thraldom. Dry up the fountains
of saline righteousness, which have been wont
to gush over the wrongs of the down-trodden
Hiberman, Hungarian and Pole. Gaze, and
gaze astounded, Mortified, indignant, upon the
gigantic evidence of your own enslavement hui
initiation, ruin aud ShameP'
Josiah A. Cure of New York, well known in
the telegrapmc fraternity as Dir. Cure, died sud
denly Saturday, at the age of sixty. DIR. Cure
was one of the oldest telegraph operators in the
country, having commenced work at the Morse
instrument in 1916. lie was one of the men
who worked the first wire laid between New
York and Washington. Since then he has been
a faithful and assiduOus servant of the Amer-
can and the Western Union telegraph compa-
MES.
There is quite colony of Californians at
Dresden, the capital of SaXony. 1t commenced
with a nucleus of some twenty families from
San Francisco, Sacramento, and other towns of
the great gold-producing state, and has since
considerably increased Quaint old cities like
Leifzig, Dresden and Munich, offer quiet, easy
habit of life, which seems to have peculiar at
fractions for the hardy California pioneers after
the stirring and exciting events of their early
Years. Those who have children find rare educa-
tiOnal advantages in these towns.