Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-21
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young man in OswcTo recently stole 5000
to pay bis wedding expenses.
"The breath of a charming women" is the
name OF n new perfume.
A Free Love community, after the Oneida
pattern, has been started at Badwinsvile,
"Pctroleum V. Nasty" Is writing n lecture
about the experiences of an Apache Indian seat
out by his tribe as missionary to the American
people
Paris was very excited on Tuesday last, Aug
15,-thc 102 annY ersary of the birth of Napol-
con l. There upon all sorts of rumors went
Iabroad, and a new revolution was predicted for
an early day. But no signs of an outbreak
have vet appeared.
Accounts from Fort SILL Indian territory, rep
resent that a severe drought prevails in the
southern norton of the territory and ia the
northern counties of Texas. Vcgetation is
burning up, snd the cattle dying in many places
for want of water All the Indians are reported
as pcaceable and on their reservations.
Coy. Jacob of West Virginia saws that he is
in favor of the constitutional convention pro-
posed bv his democratic friends but that he does
not approve the proposition to strike out the
clause of tho present constitution which iorbids
the legislature 10 grant the credit of the state to
works of internal improvement.
Messrs. Durlee and Peck, the government
contractors against whom writer, in the
Sioux City Times, recently made charges of I'M
fair dealing, publish card stating that: The
writer shows his Ignorance of facts; that no
person has right to sell goods in the Indian
country unless he has filed bonds in $4,000 that
he locates his place of business and receives
license from the Indian department according
to law It is well known fact that the secre-
tary of war appoints all suffers, and without
such an appointment no man has q right to
trade with soldiers. We are under bonds to the
government in from $4,000 to $4,000 for every
post we have established, and shall claim our
rights as traders, knowing that outside traders,
not under restrictions, would peddlc whiskey,
and unless they were caught in the act that we
would be held responsible. 1t is the duty of
every post commander TO see that outside traders
are prohibited froIn dealing with Indians and
soldiers If every steamboat that navigates in
the upper Missouri was allowed 10 peddlc il
would cost the government millions of dollars
yearly to keep the Indians.
The Boston correspondent of the Evening Post
writes this pleasant news: 'ncw good thing"
may now be looked for by the rea lers of books.
The musty manuscript of a complete romance
by Hawthorne has found its way to the fremont
street publishing house, and some time during
the coming year il will be published uniform
With the new illustrated edition of his works
now publishing. 1t was found | understand,
by Miss Hawthorne among the papers left by
her mother, whose death in the spring has been
noticed, and she sent It at once from her home
in England, to her fathers publishers here
Those who have had the privilege of reading it
say that it is fully equal, and in some respects
superior, to the best Of his known works.
Why it has not come to light before
is not known, but it is coniecturcd
that it was one of those secret works of Haw-
thorne which bis peculiar dread and mistrust of
the public kept him from bringing out of his
desk. You know he used to lock himself into
his towcr-study at Concord, and toll hours on
some mysterious work. This some think may
have been written there, and perhaps other rare
papers are to be yet unearthed MIR. Babson's
("Tom Folio's") collection of Hawthornc's stray
and almost forgotten papers, so long promised,
will be out in book form now, before long, but
though containing many good things, it will not
have the attention it would have had had not
the greater stray paper been discovered.