Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-23

Miscellaneous Items.
The New York correspondent of the Boston
Journal announces the advent of the "ch0era
fly" pestilent insect, which, it Is said, pre-
cedeS the pestilence. Fudge
The secretary Of the navy has determined to
appoint class of cadet engineers for the naval
academy, not to exceed fifty in number, and the
candidates for admission to the class will be
ordered to report for examination about the
18th of next month. No one can enter the
class under eighteen or over twenty-five years
of age.
The Troy common council propose to get up
a picnic to lqudate the outstanding indebted
ness of the Fourth of July committee, the pay
ment of which bills the mayor has vetoed.
Thursday night the mayor sent In veto of the
picnic. which the board refused to act upon
Lewis Cass' monument at Detroit is COM
pleted. 1t is twelve feet high and is built of
granite. On one side is the name, Lewis Cass,
and on the opposite side the Michigan coat of
arms. The remaining sides contain an oak and
ivy wreath, and the names, date of birth and
death of the general and his wife. 1t cost $10,-
900, and weighs forty-sX tons.
Mr.. j. t. Wood has been for some time en-
ployed in making excavations in search of the
Temple of Diana, at EphesuS. He claims to
have found the remains of that building on a
spot which is nearly two miles from that
searched by Mr.. Falke9er, and far from any pre-
viOusly suggested Site
AT l)llotOiJ A-hSidhhJ INT OlhSi Il iSopOCt-
ably dressed woman, who was in great mental
distress, was arrested as "disordery." Before
the magistrate she stated that she had been sold
by her husband to another man for $50. The
husband admitted receiving the money, and
seemed annoyed that the woman would not ac-
quiesce in the bargain. All the parties were
discharged.
KoOpmanschap, the importer of heather Chi
nese, has been to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to look
after the interests of $50 Cinnamon, who were
there to work on railroad, and have received
no pay. He found them living on blackberries
and crawfsh, and probably deemed the diet
healthy for the Mongolian constitution as il is
said he left them to continue the same regimen.
In Sheffield, England, witness, who was also
complainant in an assault and battery case, was
found to be intoxicated. "Why, you are drunk
now," said the mayor. who was presiding in the
court, and who is an extensive brewer "lf am"
responded the witness, SIT is your beer that has
done it," There was general laughter in the
court, but his worship did not see the point of
the joke, for he commanded the tipsy witness TO
be locked up until the next day.
The Alaska Herald announces the arrival in
that portion of United States territory, of NJ.
Levashinsky, Polish exile, recently escaped
from a Siberian dungeon, where he had been in
generated three years and half. He is said to
be Il man of superior education, having grad
uated at the college of St. Petersburg. His
father was a colonel in the last Polish rebellion,
ence of his native country.
A bill is before the English parliament, the
object of which is to place habitat drunkardS on
the same footing as lunatics, and subject to the
same process for their own protection and that
of their friends. 1t is not at all probable that
the bill will pass but is there any reason why it
should not? Is there any man crazier than he
who is crazed by drink?
The savans of France are now disposed to at
tribute their recent national calamities TO the
lack of scientific education, and, as means of
regeneration, the Revue Scentifque insists that
science should now concentrate a great part of
public attention. 1t reiterates the opinion that
the power of Germany is largely due to the sci
entifc spirit of its people, and especially its uni
Versities. sit is science alone which to-day
gives the victory"
DR.. Hooker, who is now engaged in exploring
the Atlas mountains, describes the upper val
leys of that range us very steep and picturesque.
They are thickly Inhabited by q fine race of
people called Shelloes. The height of the peaks
Of the main chain of mountains is very uniform
for aconsiderable distance, and they have very
steep faces. There are no glaciers nor perpetual
snow, properly so called; but snow lies all the
year in steep gulies of the north face, stretching
downward for probably five thousand feet from
the summit. The vegetation is chiefly Spanish.
The Chattanooga Times says mare fell over a
precipice on Lookout mountain $50 feet high.
After falling about fifty feet she struck on a solid
rock, and bounding off fell near hundred feet,
lodging in the top of a small pine, and the har-
ness catching in the limbs ii bent over and eased
her to the ground. A gentleman who saw her
after the injury says that she received one severe
cut on her side. She was standing on her feet
and appeared to be doing well, though he
thought she would soon die for the want of at
tention, having received none since the fall.
The bands Of Cherokee Indians which have re-
manned in North Carolina up to the present time,
are preparing to 90 to a reservation in the In
,l,o,,, Id
nitely known, but it is probably between two
and three hundred. The chief, James Obadiah,
is making out roll of those who accept the pro.
visions of the law for their removal. No one is
to leave his present home except voluntarily.
At London, Tennessee, there is now q camp of
eigthty-nine waiting for the completion of the
arrangements for their transportation. OF these
thirty-three are under twelve years old.
There is much greater scientific activity in
Russia than is generally supposed. In astrono-
my the famous observatory at Pultowa has been
second to none in the world. In zoology, how
ever, the present activity is quite remarkable.
several embryoloeists, educated under the cele-
DRAFTED Prof Leuckart of Leipzig, have and are
puDllshing series of frst-class memoirs on the
aoeVelopment of the lower animals, and among
theul are some of the strongest advocates of
Dur%ihism. The eminent Won Baer and the
Two Two bandts have enriched biology, and recently
Mlddendorf has published an elaborate work on
the animals Of Siberia.
40 'ioout oue-hal1 OF the states now choose
thelr legislatures biennially, and the number
seems to be on the increase considerahle alton
ton has already been directed to the class Of
United States senators whose terms will evnire
III 1873. 1t embraces twenty-four, as follows,
Spencer OF Alabama, Rice of Arkansas. Cole If
California, Ferry of Connecticut Osborn Of
Florida, Hill of Georgia. Trumbu of Illinois
Morton of Indiana, Harlan of Iowa, Pomeroy Of
Kansas, Davis of Kentucky, Kellogg of Lo1isi-
ana, Vickers of Maryland, Blair of Missouri.
Nye OF Nevada, Patterson of New Hampshire,
Conkling of New York, Pool of North Carolina,
Sherman of Ohio, COrbett Of Oregon, Cameron
of Pennsylvania Sawyer of South Carolina.
Morrill, of Vermont, and Howe of Wisconsin
MIR. Jaryes continues his articles in the Lon
don Art journal on "a Genuine Artistic Race
lie is as enthusiastic as ever over the artistic
genius OF the japanese. He writes :-"Indus-
tf1al or social science is no impeachment to art
IN Japan 1t gets at its result in its own wav.
AS a people they contriye to live pleasantly
without being in bondage TO any system OF SUI
perfuous wants. They have no furniture to
speak Of But their most common articles in
some fashion must be stamped with beauty.
Tins is the feature which first strikes the senses
Convenience is secondary, There is no surer
method OF demonstrating the radical defects of
the average European ornamentation than by
placing 1t beside tue common examples of ia.
pam"
A writer In Nature says of the glacial phe-
nomena in the neighborhood of Edinburg, that
the ice was Of sufficient depth and mass 10 over