Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-03-06


''oer ve years OF age, and knew nothing threading
until October 1850. They formed the second class.
Inc hrst class was made up of the remaining four
children, none of whom wero seven wears old. To
say that all reasonable expectations were answered
Is to say but little. The exhibition went beyo,d all
| that.
Inc exercises were reading and spelling, by the
old, as well as the new system, and also. in reading
photography. The hardest words we're given them
to spell-such as "dague,reotype,n s.Constantino.
pie" dictionary ''paaeI,'' "beau," &C., and
they missed but two or three times. AS was said
afterwards by one of the speakers, is not probable
that the same number of persons taken from the an
dience would have done as well, even if they had
been picked men. Their reading was equally wor
tny oil remark Of them twas hardly necessary TO
ask nderstandest thou what thou readest?'' he
cause the inonations of the voice gave evidence Of
thas and the listener, aso a natural result needed
no interpreter; a remark which cannot always be
made OF the oldest classes in our common schools.
In some OF the exercises, each child read only to
stop, when the next Immediately took up the strain,
and SO correct the infections of the voice. that
but for the difference in the tone, one would have
thought there was but one reader.
DIR. Stone wrote sentences on the blackboard
given him by one Of the Committee, in the phono-
graphic characters, which characters to the out.
fIders were as ineligible as Egyptian hierogyphics.
The children read them readily and correctly.
The exhibition was intended TO satisfy the Com.
mlttee on Education Of the praccability and Wis
dom Of introducing the system into our public
SC hools. At its close, remarks were made by Rev
H. Winslow, Speaker Banks, Hon A. Walker,
Hon p. Brigham, DR.. Gardner, of the Council,
Eizur Wright, and MIR. Abbott, Boston teacher.
The speakers, without exception, gave strong ex-
pressions to their interest in the OCCASION and to the
great results which visible in the children, and
which we've attributed to the above new system of
teaching.
DR.. Stone was understoon to say that he had
offered $500 to any child who could be selected out
OF the Boston public schools, who should be pro-
nounced BY competent committee, as good a schol-
ar as one ofhis of the same age. The time named
IN the offer has passed, and no appeared to con-
tend for it.
| The LAST SURVIVOR OF THE ssTEA Par
TY."-A correspondent Of the New York Tribune
| corrects snht $780, :: IL II:
son, the last survivor of the Boston "Tea Party
| He was born in November, 1886, and was con-
sequently lis years and monies old. An ex-
ceent portrait and biographical sketch Of Mr..
Kinnison appeared in the first volume Of Lossing's
4 Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution. Its there
stated that Mr.. Kinnison had lost all traces of his
children, and he believed not one of them surviv-
| ed. 1t is an interesting fact that surviving
daughter, who was living at Oswego, first obtain
ed knowledge that her father vas yet living by
having Mr. Lossing's publication put into her
hands. She Immediately went to Chicago, and
was with her venerable parent until he died.
| DAMAGES FOR NoN-FULFILMENToF Cow
| TRAcr.-The referees in the case of B. B. Sill,
| s. E. Smith, and Caleb Goodman, u.s. Marshall
0. Roberts, awarded $500 damages to each of
the plaintfs-not Ssl5, as has been reported
There were three suits brought against the defend
ant, as the legal representative of the line of the
U. S. mail steamers, plying between New York
and San Francisco, and commonly known as
George Laws line, for failure to furnish suita-
Bile fare andaccommodations to the plaintiffs who
were passengers said line, in the spring Of 1850.
A MUSICAL PRoDIGY.-The Gazette Must
Gale, French paper, gives an account Of "a pro-
digous musical boy, named Frederic Gernsheim,
aged only ten years-vho is already vigorous
enough pianist, to perform the Concerlos of
Weber, Moscheles, and Mendelssohn, in public.
Further, he composes in full score, is capable of
improvisation, and, in short, reproduces the mar
ves of finger, fancy, and feeling, wrought in his
boyish days by little Mozart.
KossUTH, in his farewell speech at Cincinnati,
alluded to Brownson as "a man who was found to
lecture for Russo-Austrian despotism Nth The aston
isang holiness Of an immense gnmance.' Kossuth's
cause, against Brownson, taken up, and pub
licy and ably advocated ID Cincinnati, by a Catholic
gentleman, Prof. Stallo and this Kossuth accepted as
another proof that it is just to charge Catholi-
cism in general with being snbservient to civil and
political despotism.
JUDGE ALLEN.--The latest intelligence from
Washington represents Judge Allen as improved
and that his physicians now entertain hopes of
his recovery. His disease is pneumonia---a vio-
lent inflammation ofthe lungs and the fact that he
e has survived the first assaults Of his disease and
that his condition has improved, Encourages the
hope Of his recovery.
a G7y-The fanaons Mr. Clemens, Of Alabama, in com
pairing himself with MIR. RLett, 10 the u S. Senate,
modestly said: