Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-13
miscellaneous Itcns.

miscellaneous Items.
The London nickname of certain well, but
not favorably known writer, is Ha'p-wOrth
Dixon.
Five out of eight young horses standing to-
gether in pasture in Missouri were struck dead
by lightning the other day.
The "Rogue's March" has been foisted upon
the innocent public of Davenport, Ia, under
the title Of the Greeley and Brown Polo
naise"
The lightning played queer freak at New
ark, n. j., the other day Striking well, it
not only expelled the water but partly filled it
with sand, much to the CONSERVATION of those
who depended upon the well for their ordinary
beverage.
Several of the Sioux warriors, who were re.
Gently on a visit to New York, rushed out from
their rooms at early dawn, a few mornings
since, uttering wild war cries and brandishing
their tomahawks. Ii seems that they were
aroused from their sleep by the yell of a milk
man, which they mistoOk for the war-whoop Of
hostile band coming to attack them in their
lodges.
An old planter who has devoted much atten-
ton to the growing OF the ramie plant, says
that it is now cultivated with considerable sue
cess IN Louisiana, where factory has been eS-
tablished to work up the fiber and is doing
we'll and it grows finely in Florida, Georgia and
South Carolina. 1t requires but few hands to
cultivate tia great desideratum with the pres
for the fiber in England, and it brings $40 per
ton of 2OOO pounds, or 81 cents per pound, it
being heavier than cotton and less bulky.
On Saturday night, a Rochester lawyer,
named j. II. Mcdonald, stumbled in front of a
glass window and fell against it, shatterng the
glass and giving himself fearful cash in the
face. The wound extended from beneath the
eye down the left cheek to the base of the jaw,
reaching TO the bone. The stroke of a saber
could not have made more savage cut He
was cared for surgically and is recovering.
A notorious character in Utica, New York,
known as "Blinky Jane" has been lately EN-
ployed as a nurse at the2small pox hospital.
She had previously made many enforced visits
TO the police office, and now at an interval of
her hospital cares, she made voluntary one.
When asked what she wanted, she answered,
well, I've come TO give you and the whole
police force and the chief and the recorder, the
small poX." For the first time Miss Blinky
Jane found herself shut out from the police
station.
One Of James Gordon Benefits queer IfancieS
was an immense bird cage filled with rare birds
IRON every section of the globe. So he had it
made as large as a house. and before it he would
stand for hours and study the habits of the diff
lerent members OF the featheTy tribe. Some
times he would liken his different birds and
fowls to well-known public men in real
life. Once he stood with a neighbor, and
kept him laughing for long time, as he would
point them out with an apt remark. Pointing
TO the robin, he said that is Henry Wilson; the
wOOdpecker that is Ben. Butler; the old goose
is Sumner; the sparrow is Logan; the owl is
Grant; the parrot is Garrett Davis; the old COB
bier is ConRling; the crow is Fred. Douglass;
the hawk is Wendell Phillips, and the canary is
Sunset Cox, SC. This large house cage is still
10 be seen at Washington Heights.
The Rochester Express says: One year ago
this month Seth Green deposited in the Genesee
river, below the falls, fifteen thousand Young
ol,a la Ash tI,r
hatched about the thickness of a coarse hair,
and one-thrd of an inch long. If anybody
thought these little creatures would be lost he
was greatly mistaken. They have been caught
IN mlnnow nets quite often this spring, and Mr.
Green received this morning a specimen caught
at Charlotte. 1t now measures 3-4 inches in
length. During the next year they will grow
to one foot in length, and the following year at
tain their full size, weighing two or three
pounds Next fall these shad will make their
way to salt water, and next spring will test
whether they can run the rapids of the St. Law
renee and the innumerable traps aud dangers
they must encounter to be able to return to
their Matching place. They will certainly at
tempt to do so, and if they succeed, the expert
ment of stocking the Genesee with shad will
prove success. If they do not come here they
viii help stock the lower st. Lawrence, Mr..
Green will next week deposit one hundred thou
sand young shad in Lake Champlain, which
must find the same outlet to the ocean.
VIM. Whitney, a teamster in Salem, N. Y,
had desperate fight with a horse the other day.
Having struck the animal, it turned suddenly,
seized MIR. Whitney by the shoulder and threw
him into pile of lumber. Although consider
ably hurt, he got up and led the horse into the
stable, when it again seized him by the Shout
der and threw him down on the floor and tram
pied upon him. Mr. W. called for help, and a
passer-by went to his assistance, and by beating
the horse over the head with heavy club sue
ceeded in releasing him. As soon as Mr.
Whitney rot out he exclaimed, 81 will unhar-
ness that horse now" and back he went into
the stable, when the enraged horse again caught
him by the thigh and threw him around the
stable as if he were a child, got him on the
floor and trampled him under his feet. The
man who rescued him before went in again,
beat the horse back and, not without much dan
ger to himself, released Mr.. W, who was then
carried to his house, he being unable to walk
Mr.. Whtney's injuries are serious, but it is
hoped that they will not prove fatal,