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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

SINGULAR PHENoMENoN.-Persons who have
passed over Seneca lake. or visited its shores
within two or three weeks past, have noticed in
Vulnerable dead fish upon the surface of its
waters, varying in length from four to six
inches. Where they come from, what kind OF
fish they are, and what has caused their sudden
and simultaneous destruction, are problems
that no one has yet been able to solve to the
satisfaction of the public. Millions upon mil
lions Of these little 6nny specimens have tioated
to the shores Of the lake, and can be picked up
by the bushel on either side, anywhere from
Geneva TO Watkins, while as many more are
still dotting the surface of the waters with their
shiny sides. Speculation is of course rife as to
the cause of the singular and uncommon phe-
Domenon, and almost everybody seems to have
a theory of his own in regard to the matter.
We confess, however, our inability to solve the
problem, or even to judge as to which of the
many theories that have been advanced is the
nearest right.
Mr.. T. K. Anderson gentleman residing at
Hornellsville, and man of seeming candOr and
intelligence, called upon us last week and as
signed tOlerably plausible cause, which we
propose to give in the absence of anything bet
ter. He says the fish are young shad. He
thinks they originate from the shad garbage of
both sexes being thrown promiscuously into
the lake, the eggs becoming thus impregnated,
millions of young shad are soon reproduced,
which grow and prosper until they attain q
certain age, and then they seek salt water
(their natural element) to be developed and per-
fected for spawning, which is always done in
fresh water after this developing process has
been accomplished.
He AYERS that it is a well known fact with fish
propagators that shad always breed in fresh
water, but that they run down the rivers into
the salt water at a certain age, then return again
in the spawning season, and that they will die
if they cannot thus have access to their develop
ing element The same phenomenon of millions
of little dead fish was observed in Lake Erie, at
Cleveland, Ohio, few years ago, which fisher
men readily recognized as young shad, and they
fattered themselves that an abundant supply of
shad was soon to load their seines; but after dill
gent waiting all hopes of Lake Erie shad van
ished, and we understand none are TO be found
in that lake.
If it be a fact that these little fish spring from
the garbage of shad thrown into the lake and
its tributaries, and die because they cannot
reach salt water, it is highly important that the
spawning elements be kept out of the lake, both
for the increase of her natural fish, and the
health of the people along the shores.-FroDe
the Watkins Express.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

A correspondent of a western paper writes as
follows from Frankfort, ILL.,, under the date of
June 10:
"Two young ladies, daughters of James Will
liams, living about eight miles from here, have
been attacked in singular manner by what is
said to be witchcraft. Witcheraft, or whatever
craft it may be, it puzzles the physicians. The
young ladies were first affected about the LIST of
April. | think that it was known among the
neighbors that there was something wrong with
them, but any strangeness in their actions was
generally imputed TO insanity. Matters re-
manned thus until last Wednesday, when their
father called upon physician Of this place and
got him to visit them.
Since that time their actions have become
generally known, and both men and women
have gone TO see them. Some fifty or hundred
persons are there every night, and they say it
is quite entertaining TO witness their perform
ances. They are perfectly sane during the day,
but at the APPROACH Of night they become fren-
zied and uncomfortable, performing feats that
the best acrobats could hardly perform. Sealing
the house, they dance upon the comb of the
building, apparently with perfect case and i'm
punity, uttering. at the same time, the most
hideous and frenZied screams, Very frequently
they take something like fits, or spaSms, and
fall perfectly stuff; but, if they chance to be on
the hoHse-top, they never fall of, however near
the cave they may be.
They are aged respectively sixteen and
eighteen years, and are both rather small, be-
ing below the medium height. During the day,
at which time they are perfectly sane, they
seem to be rather modest and reserved, but will
converse freely with any one They are fond of
music, and play upon the dulcimer. The spell
comes upon both at or near the same time, gen.
orally between shutdown and dark, and first
manifests itself by both of them breaking into
run. They always run north in the direction
of the house of an old lady, who, they say, has
been practicing witchcraft upon them. They
say she has recently put harder spells upon
them, on account of their telling something that
she forbade, and that she and a cat are with
them in their housetop dance. They have a
language which they use in conversing with
each other, and which they seem to understand;
but it is 'Comanche' to everybody else. There
are some strange things connected with them.
They catch and eat all the flies they can get
hold of, until nausea is produced, when they
both vomit at the same time. What one does,
the other is doing. Their gestures are alike and
simultaneous They seem to both be moved by
one controlling power. You can imagine the
excitement when tell you that since l began
to write, nearly fifty people have passed through
our little village on their way to see the girls"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

10 say, It is not in itself very improbable. II
the supposed specific proves to be valueless, il
will disappoint many hopes, lately kindled in
hearts which had long been hopeless. DR.. Bliss
who has given favorable accounts,of the efficacy
of cundurango in his practice, finds, as the re
suit of careful inquiries made by him, that there
are one hundred thousand cases of cancer in thi;
country, the deaths from which average one
hundred per week.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

Ben Hill, of Georgia, has been interviewed
by Herald reporter, and found to be in very
gloomy frame of mind-like Davis and Toombs,
and many others of his old friends, he processes
to think that, if the democrats should carry the
next presidential election, Grant would try to
make himself dictator, and what is worse, Mr..
Hill thinks be might succeed. But, unlike
Toombs and that set, Mr.. Hill accepts the new
departure, not SO much because he altogether ap-
proves of it, as because it seems to him to offer
the only chance, and that q slender one, to save
the republic. His views on these subjects are
not much more valuable than cheerful; but
there is subject on which, strange to say, he
talks sense, not old fashioned southern sense,
but something that he has learned within the
last ten years-a very hopeful sign for him and
for Georgia, SO far as it is represented by men
of his kidney. Hear him on the subject of
slavery:
81 thank God from the very bottom Of my
heart that slavery has been abolished. | was a
slave owner, and yet see that slavery was the
terrible curse that blighted our land, and kept
1t so far behind in material development. The
war has brought upon us much suffering and
misery and oppression, but the abolition OF
slavery Is worth it all. And when look back
and see that neither the north nor south in
tended the war to result in such a social reYolu-
ton, | recognize-and say it reVerently-the
hand of Providence. Free labor is best and
cheapest. OF course it is the cheapest. | en-
ploy now $50 negroes, and get along with them
admirably In the old days, when l owned
slaves, had TO watch over their entire life
There was no conscientious slave owner who
did not feel it his duty to see that the negroes
lived decently and well, morally as we'll as
physically, and this was a responsibility that
weighed very heavily upon the minds OF good
men. Now, most of that responsibility is lifted
from our shoulders and even if free labor were
a loss to us, it would be infinitely preferable
But il is not loss; it is very considerable
gain. The negroes are doing splendidly. |
have been very agreeably disappointed in them.
confess that feared there would be trouble.
But there is no difficulty in managing them if a
man exercises sound discretion and treats them
fairly. Perhaps, in the future, however, negro
labor may deteriorate. | am unable to decide
how much of the present good conduct Of the
negroes is due to the habits of order and indus
try and subordiDation they acquired in slavery,
and bow much comes of their innately good and
contented nature. | am afraid the next genera
ton will be more troublesome than this. Man
is but bundle of habits, and we trained the
colOred man under slavery to certain routine
of labor and life, and he is now unhappy when
he strays out of it. The rising colored genera
tion is, fear, lazy and worthless and vicious;
il is the young negroes who steal and loaf
about, and figure IN the police courts. But
sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

JEFF. Davis having been invited by society
in Mobile to deliver lecture in that city, re-
specially declines. His talk, be says, at this
time, injuries southern friends" and is liable to
be misrepresented. On this account, he will be
SILENT for the present, and wait patiently for the
time "when such restraints will no longer
exist" He evidently hopes the presidential
election will bring that time. At any rate, he
will speak no more until after election, lest by
telling the country what his party managers
actually mean, he should do something to in
iure them. The Mobile Register says, the invi'
tation was intended as a rebuke to those who
would subject him to gag laws"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

A DECISION OF CONSIDERABLE IMPoR-
TANcE, as defining the rights of employees
against combinations or trades unions, was rem
dered in the supreme court at Boston on Fri
day. John Carew, q stone cutter of South Bos-
ton, had made contracts to furnish cut free
stone for various buildings, among others for the
Roman Catholic cathedral. His orders being
greater than the capacity of his works, he was
Obliged TO send some of his freestone TO New
York TO be cut. This was contrary to the rule
of the iourneyman freestone cutters associa-
ton, which proceeded to assess fine of $500 on
Carew, which he paid under protest and from
necessity, it being otherwise impossible for him
to perform his contracts. He sued TO recover
this sum back and damages for the injury sus-
tanned from acts of the defendants.
In the superior court the judge ruled that the
action could not be maintained, and judgment
was entered for the defendants. But Carew APP
pealed TO the supreme court, which reversed the
previous decision, in the following rescript: "a
conspiracy against a mechanic who is under
the necessity Of employing workmen in order to
carry on his business, TO obtain sum OF money
from him which he is under no legal liability to
pay, by inducing his workmen TO leave him and
by lettering others from entering into his en-
ployment, by threats or otherwise, so that he is
induced to pay the money demanded, under a
reasonable apprehension that he cannot carry
on his business without yielding to the illegal
demand, is an illegal conspiracy, and the acts
done under it are illegal, and the money thus
obtained may be recovered back, and IL the par
ties succeed in injuring his business they are
him."
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04
W oRCEST E R d.
ruEsnAY. JULY 4. 1871.

No PAPER To.MoRRow.-Tho people en-
ployed in this office, propose, like their friends
and neighbors, to enjoy the national holiday, as
usual. Therefore, no paper will be issued from
this office fo-norrow
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04
LATEST MARKETS.

DOMESTIC MARKETS.
, NEW YORK July 3.-There was regular meeting of
the cotton exchange to-day and outside transactions
show slight advance of about future saes some
IOO bales were repofled sold Four-65OO; state and
western dull and q loo lower; superhne state IS 20
~ 660 OHIO $3.50 q 6,65; western $500 a Il southern
$3.50 "a 80 Wheat heavy q &c lOwer sales $4,000
bush; No spring $ll5 a l46 ahoat; No. spring
SlazS 9 l,43A ahoat; winter red and amber western
$l,52 q l,4; white southern $3.50, Corn heavy "a &c
lower sales l65 900 bush; inferior and common mixed
western g. "a Toe; good to choice do 70H a Tie. Oats
lowers ONO 81 Q 69c western 64H a 65c Pork steady
new mess Sl557 q 1850; prime $l2 q Sl3 Lard steady
At W 20 l0Hc, Butter dull Ohio IL a zoe; state 20
@ SVc Whiskey quiet; western free 99c. Groceries
quiet, nomnally unohanged nearly all places of bust
ness closed until after lth July
CHICAGO, July 3.-NO regular board to-day. Wheat
actiyei No spring Sll9 q l,2O. Corn fairly active
No mixed 5l& q size. Oats inactive; Rye dull. Re-
ceipts-4OeO bDls flour $4,000 bush wheat 900 bush
corn $4,000 bush oats 1000 bush rye Shipments 5000
bbls flour, 2OOO bush wheat $4,000 bush corn 4lOOO
bush oats.
CINCINNATI. July g. PrvisiOns firm, exccpt bulk
shoulders, which are in good demand at "a 81 Hogs
declined, S4,l5 a $40. Cattle unchanged Whisky arm
at sec,
NEW ORLEANS, July S.-Cotton nominal; middlings
20Ae.
Foreign MarketS.-rBv Atlantic Cable1
LONDON, July 3.-Consos closed at 92K Bonds ls62s
VIZ 1868 old, 9lh 1865 80; ten-fOrties S91.
Is 900 bales, ' ~
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

Causes consequences and cure of Spermatorrhea and
other forms OF seminal debility, fully explained In the
New Pocket Medical Adviser Price 20 cts. to be had
No. Buhnch ST., Boston, Mass. d&wK Jo5
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

DIR. Lighthill will be at the Bay State house on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 9Th, 7th and
9Th
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

Even the rose bug leaves immediately on applica.
ton of the Grafton mineral fertilizer and destroyer
of insects
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

DIED
In this city, June &c. Thomas Nugent aged IS years
lCaliiorna papers please copy.l
In this city, July at the residence of her brother
Miss Margaret Kendall. of Providence aged 10 WIS m
Funeral Wednesday, at O'Clock, at 20 Main street.
providence and Hartford papers please copy.l
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04
worcester Gas Light Company.

COKE.
This CHEAP AND MOST DESIRABLE FUEL for Manufacs
turng purposes and Family use is now offered to the
Prices:
One Chaldron of SO bushels. ..............s5OO
One Half do. Is .....,...,..,..,,., $50
In quantities less than half Chadron, Is Cents per
bushel.
Payments may be made, and orders delivery will
be Issued only at the Office OF the Company No. Bank
Block, Foster street, up stairs.
REPAIRS, &c.
Irregularities or failure ofsupply should be report
ed and applications for service pipes and may be
made at the Repair Room, No. Cromptons Block Me
ehanic street up stairs. dtf jal
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Special A0t1tes.


Patents Secured.
Reissues Extensions, and Foreign Patents procured
lhtererences eonducedi all kinds OF business with the
PATENT OFFICE,
Transfers of Rights and Patent Gases attended TO- by
OFFICE No. 266 MAIN ST.
al2 DIFF
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank.
OFFICE, NO. Os MAIN STREET, WORCESTER
This Bank is every business day from nine O'Clock
in the morning to five O'Clock in the afternoon.
DEPOSITS from FIVE CENTS to ONE THOUSAND DOL
LARS received, and put upon iRere The first Of every
month.
DIVIDENDS OF INTEREST are made in January and
July, and If not withdrawn are added to the principal
on the nrst of the following month.
Smallest sum entitled to receive interest Three Dol
lars. CLARENDON HARRIS
y5 du Treasurer
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

Five Per Cent. per Annum
Allowed for Money on Call E. A. GOODNOW
aus diff First National Bank.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

Aconyention Of Presbyterians in Philadelphia,
q few weeks ago, solemnly resolved that the
horrible miseries which Paris has lately suf-
fered, were sent upon that city as Judgment for
the memorable massacre of St. Bartholomew,
three hundred years ago. This attempt to in
terpret the purposes of the Almighty was re-
ceived with very general amusement and re-
buke. But it is not American Presbyterians
alone who think they have been admitted into
the secret ,counsels of Providence. DIR. Man
ming of London, formerly an eminent divine Of
the hgh-church party in the English estab-
lished church. and now the Roman CATHOLIC
archbishop of Westminster, is also able to &C,
count for the Judgment of Paris, but his ex.
PLANTATION does not agree with that Of the Pres
byterian convention. The offence which, as he
is informed, provoked such punishment, wa
much more recent, and, SO far at least, more
nationally suggestive of the penalty which fol
lowed it. In his sermon, delivered on the
twenty-ffth anniversary of the pope's accession,
he said that, if the subject were not too painful,
he would dwell on the manifestation of a divine
seourge in a neighboring city-the very city
where the syllabus was prohibited" Evidently
either the Most Reverend Archbishop or the
Presbyterian divnes have been msled. 1t il
possible that neither has authentic information
on these subjects.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

DIR. j. Wesley Kelley will be in attendance the
IRSTTHURSDAY and FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH
to give advice to the sick Diseases of Liver Lungs
Heart, Kidneys, Spleen &c. Also, all Diseases of lie
Blood as Scrofu or Kings Evil Canker, Ernptions
men are invited to call
S~Ohce AdUtce Free Zen dS6t
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

-. Office Of GEO; W. PRRNTIss, Holyoke Mass Ma, a.
ioI.-hOlyoke Machine Company-Gentlenen: Tie I'D
men American Turbine Wheel purchased Of von for INV
new wire mill driving all machinery very steadily
Titouu Iegnator II works to my entire satisfaction
nave used other Iron Wheels but consider this sne,r
10 any WITHIN the range OF my experence i9 feet fa
too. Aouls truly GEO. W. PRENTISS
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I.
A. NJ, from till O'clock-F Examination of Classes
Evening, commencing at ~ o'clock at the First Ban
list Church
Diplomas ''4N "
The public are invited diff ieSO
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TO MAsoNs AND BUILDERS i.

The Directors of the Worcester Gas Light Companv
are desrOus OF receiving proposals the erection OF
House over their new Gas-Holder ~ " 4"
Works. N az 'ue u"s
Proposals to be addressed to the Superintendent of the
worcester Gas Light Co. on or before July 6,
Inc directors reserve the right to reject any all bids
w.. 80 F, Q. SHERMAN, supt
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

MONDAY.
A. NJ, from till l2h o'clock and p NJ, frcm tn
oelook-Examinatton OF Glasses.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

July 1, 16S1.-0ur BILLS TO this date are ready
for settlement Those indebted will confer special IA.
Vor by settling their accounts at an early day.
Jyl distf j. II. CLARKE & co.
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VNHE AMERICAN
TURBINE WATER WHEEL.
HoLToxH, MASS
BEND FOR CIRCULAR.

Once Of WHITING PAPER COMPANY HoIyoka Mas,
May rs, lSIl.-Ho yoke Machine Company- CentIeman,
we are running two OF your American Turbine heels in
our new mill; they are first class wheels and work 10
under 10 feet fall. N 'No 20 i'i'"'
Yours truly, WM WHITING Apent
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DREAD COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE,

MONDAY and WEDNESDAY July q
md 3, 1871.
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MONDAY EVENING at DIR. Cutters Church.
Commencing at ~ O'clock before the Young Ladies Of
the Institute "
AENIvERsARY ADDRESS
By Rev, A. T. Peabody. d. D.. OF Harvard ColIeQe
ANNIVERSARY POEM
By Rev. S. d. Phelps, d. D.. of New Haven OF
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-20
TRUSTEES SALE OF A VALUABLE

rTRUSTEEg SALE OF A VALUABLE
4 FARM INfHALlFAX- COUNTY.-By rir-
tue Of a desd of trust executed on the 9Th day of
August 1859, by JAS. &. Moon and F. 3. Moon
andtheir wives 10 William @. Perdleton and j. n.
Gordon, trustees, for the purposes therein nance.
we, will as said trustees, sell, on FRIDAI, me
day thnreafter) on the premises, ut II o'clock NJ
at public auction, the TRACT OF LAND in said
d ell mentioned, 1t being the same tract on which
James a. Moon now resides. and which the late
Alfred Blanks sold TO the said Noon, lying ON the
north side OF Dan river, In the county OF Haufa
containing /. ls4 ACRES, more or less. and bound
ed by the lands Of The late Richard Logan and DIT.
g. X. Fleming.
This farm is In one Of the best neighborlloods in
the county conyenent to ehuTehes ah9nt e,gG'
DWELLING Of SIX rooms, built In 1880. npan the
best style ana In perfect epn anS abo mt
twenty other buildings, such as tenant houses and
tobacco barns all new. There are large mum
her OF apple and eaea trees re @" tne
grain OF ali kinds especially WHEAT. C,,OFER,
and TOBACCO, and is now In the highest state Of
i'm movement. Said to be the best wheat land In
1t is Seldom so desirable place is put upon the
msrket. 1t Is but eight miles from Scottsourg
a M35a SIX lP;eHH NT t ACHES of CLEARED
LAND the place 200 OF whsh are the han pesge
is forest. A large portion of the plIceis IN nne
II has lately been divided into two tracts, and
viii he sold either as whole or as Two tracts, 20
, suis Purchasers
TERMS The deed requires the property to be
sold for cash sufficient 10 pay OFF the deed.
The title is perfect. Pnrch 'sers are invited &c
eYamins the property. James a. Noon will take
pleasure In showing the property to any who m a.
wish TO esa amir e with view OF purchasing. fos'
session viii be given at once.
For further information, apply to either OF the
trustees, at Lvnchburg. Va.
j. y. GORDON, Trustees
W-M. {. PENDLETOE, trustees.
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