Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-26

| A gentleman who had been arguing with an
| ignoramus until his patience was exhausted
1 said nc didn't wish him DEAD but he would
| Be glad TO see him knolg more
| aOne rainy Sunday number of strangers
| crowded into Surrey chapel for shelter; where
| upon the eccentric Rowland Hill said, some
| people are blamed for making religion a cloak,
but do not think those are much better who
| make il an umbrella.
American manufacturers are actually compel
ing with Englishmen in Hindostan itself. An
| eastern firm advertises idols of every sort 60
| suit the Indian market" at rates below those Of
/ the Birmingham makers, who have hitherto
monopolized the market for these peculiar
wares.
| A Florida young man lately got the notion
| into his head that he had been bewitched. He
| took to his bed, and no person could induce
| him TO leave it until his brother moulded sill
yer bullet and shot an effigy OF the supposed
witch. The young man then recovered.
A leading wine firm of San Francisco give it
| as their opinion that it is almost certain that
| the vintage of the present year, though some
| what reduced by froSts in some localities, will
| foot up much greater than that of the year
| previous. They estimate that 100000 gallons
| of wine will be made, besides the large guam
| tty of grape manufactured into brandy.
There is every prospect of an immense peach
| crop this season. Our New Jersey, Delaware
/ and Maryland exchanges all tell the same
| story, with the addition that the quality will be
/
| crop is Just ripening, though no good specimens
| of the fruit have as yet got into the market. In
a fortnight more we shall begin to experience
| the annual delights of peach eating.
| The Dublin judge who assures his political
! prisoners, on trial for burning an unpopular
man in ettigy, that they could not be permitted
| TO do so even in the United States, knows as
| much of our political institutions as the London
| Times of our geography. II there be one right
| which the American holds more Sacrcdly than
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self. If the British government only permitted
a like privilege to the Irish people, there would
be more justice in that country and good deal
less law.
A cotton harvesting machine has been in
vented, which, it is claimed, will perform the
| work of fifty hands per day, collecting land
gathering into bags the cotton from twelve
acres with the assistance of two men, one boy
and pair of mules. The cotton plant passes
between two sections, and the foliage is left I'M
disturbed for the second and third pickings.
A boy baby ten months old, son of a Mr.. Ed
wards, of Troy, was almost choked to death at
| Round lake camp meeting. The child was be-
| ing drawn about in a baby carriage when one of
its cloak strings became entangled about its
| neck, and one end caught in one of the car
| rage wheels. AT each revolution of the wheel
the string was frightened around the baby's
| throat until il become black in the face and un.
| til blood was forced from the eyes and ears
| Fortunately its condition was noticed in time to
| save the child.
Henry Fox Talbot has investigated the Assy-
| rian tablets in the British museum, and finds
on one the following account of the birth and
| infancy of Sargina, who was legislator, con-
queror and king of Babylon fourteen or fifteen
centuries before Christ; "In secret place my
mother brought me forth, She placed me in an
ark of bulrushes; with btumeu she closed the
door. She threw me into the river, which did
| not enter into the ark. The river bore me up
and brought me to the dwelling of kind-heart-
ed fisherman. He saved my life and brought
me up as his own SON." The similarity to the
account of the infancy of Moses is very curious
and suggestive.