Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-27

cipnati. in compliment to Mr.. Richard Smith,
an esteemed citizen.
The muskrat refuses to break ground for his
habltaton this season, and consequently we are
TO have an open winter.
The latest excavations at Troy, not New York,
have led 10 the discovery Of burnt house at
the depth of AZ feet, which contained the COM
plete skeleton Of Trojan woman with her gold
ornaments. The bones of child were also
found in The original soil.
1t is reported that the joint military occu-
pancy Of the island of San Juan by the United
States and British forces was terminated on
Friday by the Withdrawal of the latter, in ac-
cordance with the terms OF the decision at Ber-
lin under the treaty OF Washington.
California butter dealers mingle bricks with
their wares. A man in San Francisco bought
key last week OF very choice butter and found in
it fifteen pounds OF bricks and granite blocks.
An Oh City widow recently bought TWO hum
dred acres of land for $500 from a New York
company She has since resold part Tor SO, coo,
and the rest is worth about 100000.
The new Grand Pacific hotel that is being
completed in Chicago, has a network of four
inch iron pipes built iulo the walls and, having
hose couplings on each of the six floors, these
pipes are so connected that steam fire engine
lnl the street can flood them Instantly. 1t is
thought that the saving of time may be of great
help IN case Off fire.
A prominent manufacturer in Baltimore, who
has several hundred men under his employ, has
given room, rent, aud pay the salary OF super
Intendent for the establishment OF good hotel
and restaurant near his work, where no liquors
whatever will be sold.
In st. johns county, Florida, at the last term
of the circuit court, the grand jury presented
this: "Alter three days OF careful Investigation
we fail TO find that Si9le violation of law has
occurred in our county since the last term Uf
court, more than year ago."
Here is an anecdOte from MIR. Fields "Yester-
,Ia,rg ryifh A Ind fFOtr ID To In 1pct noo
night when Mr.. Fields was touring it with Haw-
thOrne i'll their native land they made the ac-
qualnance of cabin boy, off duty, who was
reading Il large volume, which proved, on ill.,
qury, TO be Il commentary on the Bible When
Hawthorne questioned him why he was reading
then and there that particular book he replied,
with a knowing wink, "There consider Die
hersy in our place, and Pm a-studying up for
EN-
Mr. Stewards house, at Auburn, is filled with
singular testimonials OF regard and esteem from
every quarter OF the world, which have been pre-
sented 10 him since his retirement to private life.
There are specimens of ore from western mines;
specimens from the young art academy of Mex
lcO; walking sticks and snuff boxes from the
four corners of the globe. But the most curious
present is a gorgeous silk banner from China,
such rs the men Of rank have borne before them
i'll professions, with the portrait of Mr.. Seward
in the centre, his sons embroidered at the top,
and around the border a grotesque crowd of
hypothetical ancestors.
In letter to the clergy and laity of his
diocese, the bishop of Lincoln, England, has
published a narrative OF the Old Catholic con-
gresS at Cologne, in which, alter stating that
Pere Hyacinthe was present by invitation,
Bishop Wordsworth incidentally says: "Pere
| Hyacinthe was married before a civil magistrate.
1t is well known that in France and Belgium
the contract OF the parties before civil magis-
trate Is obligatory in all cases, and is regarded
tl,o 81,
| ought also to be known that Pere Hvacinthe,
| kneeling side by side with his betrothed, re-
| ceived a nuptial benedictiOn from a Roman
| Catholic archbishop, who said that he regarded
enforced clerical celibacy as 'piaie de PEglse' ,"
Father Burke, referring to Mr.. FrOude's last
lecture, in which he fails 10 dispose in a salts
factory manner, of the Irish race, said that the
days Of persecution were gone by. | tell them
that the English nation is Visby and rapidly
crumbIing to decay. There are certain positive
indications when such an event IS about to &C.
cur in the history of an empire; when it begins
to relinquish its outlying colonies, when its
| material supplies show si4ns OF failing, when it
begins TO pay its enemies, when corruption en-
tiers amongst its rulers when the popular mind
begins TO cnange as to the proper form of gov
eminent. All these signs apply to the BRUSH
nation; and tell Mr.. Froude that it will soon
he q question how long the Irish people will
| condescend 10 remain united with their old time
rulers, and when, throwing off all ties, our
loved country will stand mistress Of her own
| destiny
Several weeks since, lady, while passing
along street of Sacramento, lost TWO govern
ment bOnds-one for $500 and the other for
SOD. They were advertised for, but unsuccess-
fully. A few DAYS since, however, an advertise
ment appeared in the Union, inimating that a
bond had been found, and inquiry led 10 the
discovery OF both Of those which mad been lost,
Two boys having found them. Their families do
tn bavra hoas, ,I,,t L.,
was Of value, and the big bond was kicked about
loosely, the children playing with it. One of
the coupons, worth SIS, was traded off by one
OF them for an apple probably as big price
as an apple ever brought Another was chewed
up by the baby and rendered worthless and the
bond itself was found in the wood box, but with
the exception of the coupon masticated, the loser
recovered all her property.
Poole, the tailor 10 the prince of Wales, is a
character in his way, and any number of stories
are told of HIM. One day young captain in
the guards is said TO have stopped him when
driving on the parade at Brighton, and asked
him, as bit of fun to look at his coat and see
how badly it was made. Poole flung his reius
10 the groom, gravely scanned The coat, took a
piece of chalk from his waistcoat pocket, and
chalked any number of caballstic diagrams or
problems from Euclid on his customers back.
"Ah," he said, contemplating his work with
much satisfaction, "that will do now captain
just go to my place and let the cutter see these
marks, and he will know what do" and return
ing to his pb@ton, he lett the poor fellow
chalked all over like an April fool. Poole takes
care TO hold his own ground among his ariSto-
cratic clients, who are rather amused than of
tended by his blunt ways. They sometimes in
yite him to their country houses, and on one
occasion, his complaint that the company he had
me6 was very mixed was met by the remark
that me could not expect them to be all
tailors.'