Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-24
miscellaneous tem..

A Cincinnati servant girl stole two wagon
loads of furniture while the family were at the
theatre.
Cape May hotel walters waylay the train and
scatter their cards, with the number of their
table thereon, 10 charitable looking individuals.
Schoolboys in Wisconsin fill their pockets
with locusts, and at a given signal each boy
taps on his pocket, causing the locusts to give
forth their deafening, doleful cry.
Colonel William A. Phillips is prominently
named as the probable successor of General
Parker as Indian commissioner. He has the
recommendation of the board of Indian COM
missioners, and is thoroughly informed in rela-
ton to the different tribes of Indians and their
requirements.
A writer in an English magazine gives some
account of the sermon trade in that country.
The usual price for an ordinary sermon is from
one shilling and threepence to one shilling and
siXpence, postage paid. Two sermons for each
Sabbath for year would cost about six pounds
ten shiings. But the wholesale rate would re-
duce this sum to five pounds four shilings.
Sermons for extra occasions Of course come
higher.
Specimens of a curious fly have appeared in
the vicinity of Hamilton, Ontario, and the
people are beginning to credit the theory that it
is the vertable insect which tradition claims
has been the forerunuer of pestilence on former
occasions The Hamilton Spectator says it is
rarely or never seen in ordinary years, and that
section, previous to the breaking out of the
cholera in 1854. The insect is somewhat smaller
than the common house fly. 1t is jet black on
the back and wings, the latter being round and
short. The belly and under side of the wings
are striped with yellow, while the legs are yell
low, tipped with black near the tip. 1t is found
mingling with the common flies, and those
seeking specimens find little difficulty in cap
turing them.
A singular scene was presented in O portion of
New York on Thursday. The two huge rock
cries on Cherry street, known as Gotham court,
dsgorged their inmates at the command of the
board of health TO enable the place to be cleaned
and remoddled. The pestiferouS cellar vaults
are to be cleaned out and brcked up, and high
arches cut through the long lines of buildings
for the admission of air. Eighty-four families
lived in the buildings, and it was curious sight
TO see whole families passing down the street,
staggering under the loads of household imple
ments they had piled on their heads and Shout
ders while denunciations loud and deep were
uttered against the officials who had thus con-
Siderately driven them from the filthy slough
in which they were wallOwing. Their attach
ment to the reeking hive in which they had been
swarming was evidently sincere, for many re-
gretful gances were cast back from beneath
loads Of washtubs AMI bedding as the heavy-la-
den pilgrims passed out of the little court. The
rooms which they vacated are black and moi
some in the extreme, and the whole building,
which has been steadily occupied for more than
twenty-One years, is SO much in need of renova-
ton that it vigorously appeals to every sense of
the visitor. 1t will take fully two months to re-
pair the buildings, so that they will remain uu-
occupied during the very hot weather.