Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-29

Mrs. Tyler, widow of the ex-president, her
daughter and infant grandchid were recently
baptized and received into the Catholic church
at the Georgetown convent
After more than a eentury's labor in Labra.
dor, the MoraYian brethren have now COMPLETED
translation of the Scriptures into the Esqui-
mauX language.
The people of Milford, Del, have begun to
ship strawberries north, and expect to send
about three thousand quarts They promise to
ship thirty thousand baskets of peaches, if no
disaster beialls the fruit before it ripens
Upon the destruction by fire of large por-
ton OF feddo, a few weeks ago, the enterpris-
ing Japs published map of the burnt district,
winch IS SAID TO far excel those issued in Chca-
go, TO show the limits of the fire in that CITY.
Some OF Detroits practical missionaries lately
visited sick and widowed neighbor, shingled
her house, planked her sidewalk, picketed her
fence, painted one room and papered two, and
split and piled load of slab wood.
Madame Mallett musical celebrity of some
note in the early part of the present century,
and who, IN 1905, at the age of seven years, gave
concert in Boston, died in Bangor last Satur-
day.
The famous African explorer, Rohlfs, SAYS
that with proper treatment Africa might again
be turned into the paradise that some portions
of il were under the Carthaginians and Romans
He declares that central Africa is as rich as In
dia, and that grand highway to the kingdom
of Soudan might easily be constructed across
the desert from port TO be established on the
site Of ancient Carthage
Edwin Forests agent lost $1,000 of his mas
ter money, the other day, in the barber shop
of the Continental He supposes that he
dropped it on the floor, and that some indiyidu.
al who wasn't honest picked it up and held fast
to it in silence. MrForrest says that IFS all very
well to say on the stage that che who steals my
purse steals trash, but when it comes down to
real life and disgusting, sober reality it alters
the case very materially.
Experiments have recently been made to as
certain the amount Of loss that coal undergoes
| when exposed 10 the weather. Anthracite and
camel coal suffer least, but ordinary bitumin.
| Gus coal loses nearly One-third in weight, and
| nearly one-half in gas making quality, From
| this il follows that coal should be kept dry and
/ under cover, and that TO expose il TO rain or
damp is to lessen lis quantity and 10 weaken is
quality.
Among the passengers Of stage riAed by
| road agents IN California the other day, was a
preacher who pleaded earnestly for his money
and his watch, urginghis profession as reason
| why his property should be spared. The ban
dts at first scofed &C his cntreaties but at lasl
yielded so lar as 10 return his watch on condi
ton that he would pray for them to the full
value of it.
A Darwinian has applied to the bishops to b,
appointed as member Of the committee for re
yising the translation Of the Scriptures He sen
IN the following version of a couple Of verse
| hulh INT ealnlhJ rs Il specimen Of his powers
MY protoplasm was not hidden from the
, when, far back in the Silurian epoch / Aoate,
on the sea fried and fiounced Medusa, Yea
~ ages still more remote, before differentiation
j mao begun, thine eyes did see my sarcode an,
Is IN my thought my limbs took form before the
were evolved" wv
, lhe New York World the other day publisbe
hh,ea''t lloh Felix Grundy, purportine TO boy
r ueeh written on the day precedino nc nnhlica
,f uou, ana asserting as fact within the ,yi,a,1
own knowledge, that Gen Jaci'snn S;d ~,
&c ms own messages Of this letter H.. p w.,
l. clal Advertiser saws: "The World eo' hD'..
10 the under world for corrcsnoudobgs oes IV Y,
succeeded In getting a letter ont os ht auu pa pa
Thursday, that journal said that Gen " Jac,, "
l. did not write bis messages. The same a. oaoA eo
a a letter from IF Grundy," whom the' W vgul'
. characterzes as zone of the able phe,amm,o ~
G democratic senators who supported Preside
y Jackson, and mad his confidence" Had N
i Grundy lived till now he would have been
! years old. lie died, however, In 1870. I
World is enterprsing; but il would have be
:. Just as easy 70 procure an affidavit from Jacks
y as q letter from Grundy, only most people {
= Of BerlSs county know that jackson Is dei
7 while 20 most people the name and fame Of
+ attorney general are but shade. "F. Grund
If says that Jackson did write his messages. 4
e. World proves by Parton that the revelation
!. this poor ghost Is as mistaken as most
= the communications raped out from the spi