Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-01

Discipline in the family has not wholly disap-
peared in England if we may Judge from the
following advertisement which appeared in
late number of the Guardian:
DIsCIPLINE-Wa Wanted, the assistance of
kind, judicious lady, used to girls, and accus
toned to apply the birch rod. Paitof time only
required, and liberal terms arranged A resi-
dent in London preferred, but not essential.
The Rev. Robert COllycr's son was 10 have
been married in Chicago ON the Tuesday after
the fire, but house. church, furniture and all
were burned the day before. On Wednesday,
however, the wedding took place, the young
bride wearing Il calico gown, the only dress she
saved.
il is announced that the ration furnished
each day in Chicago by the relief committee for
three persons consists of peck of potatoes,
three pounds of pork, one pound of sugar. one
pound OF cheese, three l0avcs of bread, one
pound of crackers, one bar of soap, one cab
bage, and two quarts of onions. Among all
their losses the Chicago people have not lost
their appetites.
An English advertisement reads : ITO Chris
tians-A yOnng man never having the blessing
of the use of his limbs through being set on wet
grass, earnestly solicits lony-t"o postage
stamps. In return he will send, fee, six best
nickel silver teaspoons and tongs to any part OF
London"
A letter from Dayton, Bourbon county, Kan
sas, dated October 6, 1871, says: "ln thirty
acre corn field the highest stalks were IA feet,
anu lnC uNCIdIt IL ltCls IltigHl VI lhC hi-uSot
ear feet, average and feet. largest circum
ference inches, average Al. We counted the
kernalS on one ear and found over twelve hun
dred, the average was thousand. we raised
two hundred bushels of oats from three acres of
land One man, our neighbor, has furnished
four hundred bushels Of sweet potatoes for the
sufferers. The man on the farm east of us
raised ten thousand bushels Of sweet potatoes.
1t has been so dry the farmers have not got their
wheat in yet; it has been very dry, but to-day
is a fine rain"
During the war, Henry Dillon, Jersey City
soldier, while accompanying his regiment on
Grerson's famous raid through Mississippi,
fell in with the rebel General Stegman and Il
staff officer. Shots were exchanged, and Stce-.
man fell by DiOn's pistol but while dying
took from his pocket his WILL bequcathing all
his property and an insurance policy of $4,000 |
to his wife and daughter, and entrusted it to
his slayer for safe delivery Since the war Dill |
lon has advertised in vain for the owners, and |
finally waited to be sought for. Recently re- |
ward of $500 was offered for the will in the Ala |
bama papers by Gen. Stegman's daughter, and
he quickly restored it just in time TO settle the
title to estates valued at $4,000 which spu-
riOus heirs had been trying to get possession OF
in the courts by means Oft forged VIII.
The gypsy parliament, which meets once |
every seven years, and consists of delegates from |
all the countries Of Europe, is expected to as
sembe soon near Canstatt, in Germany. The |
king of this nomadic race is one Joseph Rein |
hard who has reached the venerable age of |
years. He has had seven wives, |
and is the father of lorty.five children. Oar |
American idea of the whole gypsy tribe is |
rather unfavorabe. They are regarded gener-
ally as a set of horse and chicken stealerS, as |
few in numbers, and without organization or
government 1t is with some surprise, there
fore, that we find that there are in Spain about
40 600 of these gypsies; in England more than
$4,000, while Austria has 81 O00 and Moldava
and Walachia are the chosen homes of nearly
100000 more, Their religion has been the sub
icct of much unsatisfactory discussion, Per-
haps the Hindo saying, "There are seycnty-two
religions and half in the world, the half being
the religion of the that's Tor gypsies,)' comes as
near to correct definition as any.