Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-14
miscellaneous re,,,s

| The expenses legitimate ofthe recent election
| in the city of New YORK are officially announced
as S130, 00016.
Out in Minnesota they raise sunfowers for
fuel, and two acres of sunAnwers win produce
| enough fuel 10 last a family through a long
| winner.
| Some San Francisco ceestials recently tried
| one OF their number for stealing, and, discount
tenancing the moral irresponsi5ility foolishuess
| found him guilty, and threw him into the bay.
| boatman who witnessed the execution rescued
| the heather.
An East India journal states that during a
| recent flood at BulSar, a high mountain in the
| jungle was washed away, and the place wheie
| the mountain stood became level with tie sur
| rounding ground About 400 persons inhabit-
| ing the .iungles were drowned, aud their bodies
were discovered the next day floating near the
| coast.
The Prescott (ArZona) Minor says OF General
| Crooks campaign against the ApacheS: In less
than two mouths he has avenged the murder OF
Loring and others, taught the sava9es TO respect
| the power Of the United States, and made them
come to him and accept such terms as has felt
disposed 10 grant them.
This is certificate of good moral character
| which Troy legal gentleman signed without
| looking at, for student who was about TO pre-
sent credentials for admission TO the bar: 81
hereby certify that the bearer, -, was a
student in my office for ten months; that dur
ing the whole OF that time his character of
piety, chastity and honesty was above reprOach
and his example was such that from my daily
contact with him, l. have now become a pious
and consistent member Of the church and Il
useful member OF society.
On the presumption that the Mr.. d. A. Wells,
who was stabbed while playing peace maker in
street aflray in Milford, Kan, month ago,
was the Mr. David A. Wells OF revenue reform
fame, the London Anglo'American Times eushes
thus: This little paragraph will carry with il a
gtrOuu lpelinG of iu0iuuntipu tO wi m 1o-
eve that The most valuable life in the United
States is that OF Mr.. Wells. We ali known that
the lie OF man may he taken by any rufllan
who docs not shrink from risking his own. But
the TACT that such futliln should have almost
deprived The United States of such a life, be-
cause the pre-emnently useful citizen took the
part OF the peace maker, brings the fact iorcibly
TO the mind. The scoundrel that, by scarcely
any act Of his own, can do good, can, at the
same time, be the instrument of an enormous
evil. He can burn down the temple of Diana,
or lie can assassinate a David A. Wells.
murder trial with a peculiarly Frenchy ter.
mnation has just been held at Paris. A young
man named Lagorce, son oil an arstocratc fam.
iyo Limoges, attracted by a SNOWY watch and
chain worn by grsette, resolved to murder her
TO obtain it; escorting her home from the cafe,
one night, he remained in her apartments until
one O'Clock, at which time he was seen stealing
down stairs with his shoes in his hands The
girl was found dead, and Lagorce being can
tured, alter much plevaricatiOn, admitted that
he had killed her by holding a vial of prussIc
acid TO her nose, and had stolen her yauables.
The defence urged was the position occupied by
the Lagorce family. His mother said the court
could not disgrace an honorable family for the
sake of social Ouicast, and the picture Of the
scandal that would arise in case of capital
sentence was so strongly presented that the
young man was acquitted ON the murder charge
but sentenced to ten years penal seryltude lor
robbery.