Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-17
Miscellaneous Items.

Mrs. Sarah }. Hale, now in her eighty-fourth
wear, is still at work writing Tor Godey's La6y's
Book, TO which she has been contributor dur
INC its whole existence OF fOrty-four years
John Bunyan was once asked question about
heaven which he could not answer, because the
matter was not revealed in the Scriptures, and
he thereupon advised the inquirer to live a holy
life and go and see,
Greeley says that the hest way to raise early
pop corn IS to start it now. Put the corn,-any
kind will do,-in corn-popper, and suspend in
the sun over pan of water till the shoots grow
out between the wires; then in the SpIinu set it
out in pots or beds, and before June the popped
corn will he hanging in little paper bags all over
the branches.
After protracted struggle of several months
The Jesuits have been expelled from Guatemala.
The eXiled fathers, eighty in number, will prob
ably 20 to Ecuador, as none of the other states
in the country will receive them.
The Lafayette tInd.) Journal tells of a young
man in that vicinity who gave woman his note
for $500 as a balm for wounded honor, and after
ward married her for the purpose of getting pos
session of the note. He then DESTROYED the ducu-
ment aud left for parts unknown, and has not
been heard of since.
Queen Victoria was terribly pestered during
the prince OF Wales illness by quacks and char
latanS, one of whom, more impulsiye and conf
dent than the rest, rushed into the royal pew,
while she was at church, and made an incohercnt
appeal to the good mother to accept his nostrum
for her sick son, and life would of certainty be
assured.
The village of Windsor, Broome county, n.
Y. is greatly excited over the arrest of Eli Stow
and his wife, members Of the religious society
known as Nazarites, on charge OF cruelty
treating theirchild, aged eighteen mouths The
arrest was made on the complaint of Trial Kent,
grandfather of the child According to the
fathers statement the child had refused TO tell
its name, and he had whipped it, Mr. Blatchley,
a Nazarite preacher, says that the child was pos
seSsed of the devil, and its whipping was neces-
sary in order to drive the evil spirit out The
grandfather, who went to his daughters house
rs soon as be heard of the affair." found the child
covered with bruises and cuts. The child was
Immediately taken in charge by the grandfather
and its parents were taken before Justice StrinG
ham, Wlhi9 epT,,@Ged them under $500 bail to ap-
pe9F for trial. The child is said to be in very
critical con iitiOn.
A Berlin letter states that the German gov
ernment received circular from GOrtSchakoff
relative TO some incidents arising from the re-
call of Minister Catacazv. This circular is SAID
10 have been nee sSary from the following CIR
cumstanceS: The American Minister Kramer,
dulin9 a dinner at the house of the German
minister at Copenhagen, proposed reading a let
ter from the American government explanatory
ofthe Catacazy aifIr, bur the Russian minister
refused to listen, and the German minister said
that such letter must not he read in his house.
Subsequently Kramer r ad the letter TO them
lntNs u IcpOTf IL 10 Ilpll
governments The Russian cabinet feels vexcd
over the affair, and rumorS are afloat in Be- lin
that GOODNESS between Russia and the United
States has arisen thereir0m. The same letter
states that adyices from 81. Petersburg represent
THAT the emperor and all the society there cnn-
slider Alexis sighted by President Grant in not
returning the visit, and that the emperor will not
allow Alexis to return TO Washington.
The marquis of Waterford'S estates in Ireland
were recently sold for S1,5OO,O0O They were
divided into 121 lots, and the remarkable tea
ture of the sale was that the lots w re bought by
tenants some of whom paid at the rate of fifty,
Others forty, and none less than thirty wears
time. The great curse OF lreland and the most
fruitful source Of oppression and misrUle, has
always been that the tillers of The soil were not
the holders Of it. Vast estates have been handed
down from generation 10 generation of the rem
try-land that, sub divided, might have been
ccesstuv cultivated, has been allowed to
run to waste, or mlde iitO Larks and hunting
grounds for the aristocracy-and cruel and i'm
pudeut hrelln@s, acting as stewards for absent
Droprietors, have bitterly oppressed the tenants
IN an Irish town the traveller passes through
streets filled with the evidences of the most alb
ject poverty TO some one or two, or three
massive and costly residences of the gentry,
walled in and set apart from the desolaion and
misery everywhere present. If the change
seemingly inaugurated by the disposition of the
vast estates of the marquis Of Waterford can he
carried on TO its legitimate completion, the
event will prove that the dawn of a better day
has arisen upon Ireland, and teniansm, ARA
rianism, communism, and all the other ''isms"
that have their birth in oppression and their
ending in blood, will pass naturally away, by
re son of their very needessness
"The mysterious woman of the west" who
had TO do with the Miner counterieiting case,
has had a rather adventurous life, and has
enough life yet before her to become re.
markable if she improves it industrious
". Her name is Susie Freeman, and
she is one of the Freeman sisters,
who appeared at the Globe theatre, New York,
recently, under the management OF John Stet-
son, and are now playing at the National
theatre, Cincinnati. The accidental connection
of the Young lady with Col Wood and the Sc
cret service happened under quite romahtic cir
cumstances. The sisters had been travelling
with theatrical company, which had suspend
ed on account of bad business, and were left
peunileSs and far from home Undismaved BY
their misfortune, they took the first train for
New York, and although they explained their
situation to the conductor, he was uurelenting,
and was on the point Of putting them off the
cars, when Col. Wood, happening to be in an
adjoining seat, volunteered the payment of the
required fares. Before reaching their destl-
nation the detective learned the history of their
lives, and noting that the elder was extraord-
narlly energetic and shrewd, he placed her on
the trail of gang of cOunterfeiters. At last
firing If the duties OF female detective, she
returned with her sister to the stage.