Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-13
Miscellaneous pten,s.

A lump of pure gold, weighing half pound,
| was recently found by negro woman on
plantation in Union county, North Carolina.
| The woman was hoeing cotton and knocked the
| lump over with her hoe.
boomerang was recently exhibited in the
| California academy Of sciences, obtained from
| the Indians of San lagO canyon, Los Angeles
county, Cal The weapon Is described as being
used by the indians of thar locality in precisely
the same way us that in which it is used by the
| nations of Australia.
Detroit woman was lately married while
her son, young man of twenty, who bad APP
peared on the scene with revolver, threatening
10 shoot the bridegroom and preacher, was held
down and sat on by some of the invited guests.
Three negroes have just reached Japan from
San Francisco. An enterprisiug Jap. with an
eye to business. has Obtained permission from
the government to travel through the realm for
the purpose of exhibiting these curiOsites to the
wondering country folk of the interior of Japan
FIFTY dollars per month are to be paid them for
permitting themselves to be shown.
The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist says a
colony of fanatics from Massachusetts have set
tied recently near that place. Their Brigham
Young is named Joseph Z. Curry, haliug from
Springfield, Mass. He is invested with auto
cratic powers. Not only does he Olficiate as
chief executive officer OF the community, but as
Judge in settling civil disputes and as bishop or
pope in regulating religious ones, and he prac-
really owns all the property OF his associates"
These fanatics are probably industrious,
thrifty, intelligent Yankees. If so it is no won
der that their advent fills Mr.. Stephens with
dsmay.
The English horse Jockeys have invented
neat, simple but effective swindle, by which they
win the money of unsOphistcated Bfitishers on
Derby days, to say nothing Of an occasional
Yankee fiat 1t is quito the equal of the Ameri-
can confidence game, and consists in wagerS on
dead horses, or rather horses that have never
lived. The sharp, at The conclusion of n great
amount OF horse talk, takes bets with his victim
that these imaginary horses, which have most
beautiful names, will not win. In the excite
ment the stupid people make the bet, which is
promptly recorded in the sharpers betting book
and, unless wise enough to ask judicial interior
ence, which they are ashamed to do, they shave
to pay dearly for their dead horse"
A London journal says :-"rhere is at last
some protection being instituted for unatcS
abroad-uniortunately not, as yet in England.
A Brussels correspondent writes: A lunatic Girl
who had made her escape from an asylum at
Brussels, presented herself a few DAYS ago, at
the office of the PrOcureur du ROi. She asked
that official whether he had received letters of
hers complaining of the treatment she was re-
celying. No letters had arrived, aud at the asy-
lum it was pretended that the lunatic had never
written any. In consequence of this the ProCu-
reur d1 Roi has ordered to be placed in all luna
tic asylumS safely shut letter boxes, accessible
to all patients, from which his own subordinates
are to collect every week the letters addressed to
him. We who boast so much of our improve
ments and the like may perhaps follow the ex-
ample Of our Belgian friends. We have, we re-
gret TO say, had to report on more than one oc-
casion cases of cruelty in our lunatic asyIums,
and in our columns last week two scOundrels
were sentenced TO five years penal servtude for
cruelty 10 a patient. We unhesitatingly assert
that no means should be left untried in our hos
pitfalls at home and abroad, in furtherance of the
object which has been inaugurated by the Brus-
sells Procureur du Roi"