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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

CHARCoAL FOR SWINE 1T is not, perhaps,
generally known, that one of the best articles
that can be given to swine while in prepare
ton for the tub, is common charcoal. The
nutritive properties are so great that they have
subsisted on it without any other food for sew
eral weeks. Geese confined so as to deprive
them of motion, and fattened on thee grains
of corn per day, and as much coal as they can
devour, have become fattened in eight days.
The hog eats voraciously, after little time,
and is never sick while he has a good supply.
1t should always be kept in the sly, and fed
to the inmates regularly like all other feed.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

WHEN TO WEAR INDIA RUBBERs.-We have
noticed that many persons wear India rubber
overshoes in cold, dry weather, to keep their
feet warm. This is an injurious and evil
practice. India rubber Shoes 49,.
1~-Alo ana valuable for covering the feet
during wet, sloppy weather, but they should
never be worn on any other occasion; their
sole use should beto keep out wafer. They
wearer enters house. and be worn as little
as possible, because they are air-tight and
both retain and restrain the perspiration of
the feet. The air cannot be excluded from
them, or from any other portion of the body.
for any length of time, without sensihly af-
fecting the health. 1t is our opinion that no
habit tends more to good health than clean
feet and clean dry stockings, so as to allow
the free perspiration of the neither extremi-
ties
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29
Police Court.
NOW on M

MONDAY, Jan. %.
Before Judge Green.-Jonathan Luther, bro't
up for assault and battery on Mr.. Heryey of Ok
ford was acquitted
Cornelius Crowley, for bastardy, was fined 81
and costs, and put under $500 bonds
Thomas McKeon, brought up on Saturday for
assault and battery on his wife, was fined 81 and
costs. and enrsl,~ go
ARTHUR GILMAN.--The lecture Of this gem
tleman, advertised for Wednesday evening, ought
to draw crowded house. We have never heard
Mr.. Gilman but from what we learn of him, we
judge that the public are to have an entertain
ment of fun and hunor, such as is not often pre-.
sented and such as no lecturer but Mr.. Gilman
can present. The Boston Transcript, in abiding
to Mr. Gilman's lecture upon its repetition in
that city, has the following =
Mr.. GILMAN's LECTURE ON NEW ENGLAND
HUNoR.-This lecture. twice delivered to fash
ionable and crowded houses, is to be repeated
againthi evening. It's quite uncommon that a
lecture delivered cut of the regular COURSES should
attract such large audiences. But this will not
be surprising to any one who was present on
either of the occasions of its delivery. Contain
ing as much of wit and drollery could we'll be
crowded into the compass of an hour and half,
this performance is undisfgured by single ex-
preston which could give shade of offence to
the most fastidious. the inimitabe manner in
which the lecturer disarmed all criticism in the
outset, by relating the reception his lecture met
with the first night it delivered in one of the
country towns, put the whole audience at once in
the best Of humor-and disposed them to allow
the speaker to be as witty as he chose at the ex-
| pense of others, since he could commence by be-
| ing so facetious upon himself"
We fully endorse the opinion of the Daily Ad-
| vertiser, in speaking of the first reading of the
| lecture, that MIR. Gilman had every reason to be
| satisfied with his success on that occasion. His
| powers Of wit and humor, and his rare faculty oil
story telling, have long been known to his friends
4 and it was no surprise to them that his triumph
i was complete. 1t would be doing injustice tc
| Mr.. Gilman to imagine him mere story teller
He has looked upon the humorous traits in the
New England character with an observant and
discriminating eye, and his stories, independent
OF their laughter provoking character, have value
in an illustrative point of view. His lecture i.
marked by an analytic spirit which classified thu
various elements of New England humor, and
traced them back to original principles"
The high and discriminating character of the
audience on both of these occasions was marked
Learned judges, acute lawyers, grave divines, anC
leading merchants of our city were intersperseC
with its wit, beauty, and fashion, land all JOINED
in peals oflaughter, hearty and intense. We see
no reason why Mr.. Gilman shall not continue tC
repeat his lecture, long as it affords scuh de
light to large and appreciative audiences
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

Do GooD.--Thoussnds of men breathe,
move, and live-pass off the stage of life, and
are heard of no more. Whys They did not
a particle of good in the world and none were
blessed by them, none could point to them as
Instruments of their redemption not word
they spoke could be recalled, and so thoy per-
lshed; their light went out in darkness, and
they were not remembered more than the in
sects of yesterday. Will you thus live and
die, Q, man immortal Live for something.
DO good, and leave behind you monument
OF virtue that the storm OF time can never de-
stroy Write your name in kindness, love
and mercy, on the hearts of thousands YOU
come in contact with year by year YOU will
never be forgotten. No, your name, your
deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you
leave behind, as the stars on the brow of even
ing. Good deeds will shine as the stars in
Heayen.-Dr. Chalmers.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29
OxyYcRafed Bi11er..
From The Boston Mornanr Post,

'U7I tte DVStUH UIOFfts7lg P0W.
GOOD ADVICE TO DYsPEPICs. these DAYS of 1uack
cry panaceas and wonderful cures it is hardly safe ia
recommend any thing in the catalogue of patent medi
cines and we viii not knowingly misead our readers in
ese matters but when we have undenabe proof of the
real value of medicine aud the testimony Of good and
esmahie citizens besides. feel it duty TO give public.
ity to such remedy. The Orenated Bitters sold by
Messrs seth W. Fowe Co., l3S Washington street. we
know nave received the sanction of scientific nen and
their virtues and efficacy are fully aested by many c
zens of the highest respeetability.
any lnaNiuual suffering from weakness and derange-
men OF the stomach, nervousness or debility In any
wneyer regret making fair trial of this Invaluable med
icine.
None genuine unless signed l. BUTTS, the wrapper
Prepared and sold wholesale and retail onIy bv SETH
W. F0WLE, Boston, Mass whom all orders should be
addressed, and for sale by his agents.
AGENTs.-J ames Green, D. Scott, NJ B. Green, Chas
Clark, Worcester; G. IL. Coburn, Leominster
inn2S end2wE,r2t
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

CONGRESSIONAL Proposed Union
bet'oeen Democrats and ABaericGHS-- The Wealth
er IN Washington. Nv Washington, Jan. 27.-It
may not, perhaps. be generally known that
during the present unorganized condition of
the House of Representatives, no money can
be drawn from the Treasury for the payment
of members of that branch of Congress- In
this condition of affairs, A. s. Glossebrenner,
Esq, Sergeant-at- Arms of the last House,
and who is still acting in that capacity, hav-
ing been applied to by Members of Congress
for money to meet their present necessities,
procured funds from some of the Pennsylva-
MIA Banks, upon his own responsibility, and
paid it out to members, taking their receipts
therefor The bankers of Washington indi-
vidually have not loaned to Mr.. Glossenbren-
ner one dollar, but the banks have literally
discounted to him. This course of the Ser
geant-at Arms has had the effect of depriving
a5d fd tbs gnRas l aRd e Causes use MUGS complaint
among them. There is now due 10 members,
on account of per diem and mileage, about
$290,0O0, of which it is said Mr.. CLOSE.
brenner has paid to them about $50, 900.
The Union proposes union of Democrats
and Americans on the following principles =
That the Democrats return Mr.. Orr as the
candidate on their own-platfarm, and that the
Americans also nominate him-at the same
time reaffirming their own platform lit being
understood that neither make any concession
of principle while voting for the one candi-
date.
Two inches of snow fell here this morning;
for the remainder Of the day it rained hard it
is now freezing. Navigation is completely
closed here. The ice extends down the Bay,
and in some places it is frozen SO that horses
and sleighs have crossed over it.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

Poisonous BIRDs.-Ihe Philadelphia Led
ger states that great numbers of pheasants are
offered for sale in that market, which are no
more tit to eat than so much poison. The
bird is not only out of season, but the recent
SHOWS have deprived it of its ordinary food,
and it now has to resort to anything it can
procure, generally the leaves of evergreen
trees and bushes, some of them of rank poi
son. These birds, if eaten, will be almost
sure to cause sickness, and even death. Dur
ing the British occupation Of Philadelphia,
when the officers INDUCED in pheasant shoot.
ing on Wissahicken heights, several persons
were poisoned at the supper succeeding the
sport.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

WESTERN GAME.-The Detroit Advertiser,
says that the game laws passed by the West
ern States having cut off the usual winter
supply of grosse, prairie chickens and quails,
for the tables of eastern epicures, a great de-
mand has sprung up for venison and such
other game as tie western forests will supply,
which the laws do not forbid to be killed at
this season Of the year. The demand has in
creased the price, and the hunters are reaping
rich harvest, immense numbers of deer being
slain and forwarded TO market over the Great
Western Railway. From the town of Paw
Paw about six hundred have been shipped
eastward, and many other town have set as
many. The weather and the "tracking snow
have been extremely favorable.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

DECEPTIVE IN THE ExTREME.-A friend of
ours, who Is mixed up with molasses, sugar,
and the heavier groceries generally, had a fair
visitant at his store the other day for the pur-
pose of being weighed. Now judging from
appearance, the man of the scales formed an
estimate of the probable weight, and placed
on the bar the equivalent for several hundred
ually to subtract, as he saw the1od rose not,
till only one hundred and five avo;rdapois re-
manned. There the weight was ascertaied, and
the obliging shopman relieved of his uncer.
tainty. He concludes now, that things are
not always what they seem-especially when
hoops are in the fashion.-Spriagfe5d Repub-
icaa.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcr.-'rhe following waif,
ahoat on the s'sea of reading we clip from
an exchange. We do not know its paternity,
but it contains some wholesale truths, beau.
tifully set forth:
Men seldom think OF the great event of
death until the shadow falls across their own
path, hiding forever from their eyes the traces
of the loved ones whose living smiles was the
sunlight OF their existence. Death is the
greatest antagonist life, and the cold thought
of the ton is the skeleton of all feast. We
do not want to go through the dark valley,
although its passages may lead to paradise !;
and, with Charles Lamb, we do not want to
lay down in the muddy grave, even with kings
and princes for our bed fellows. But the fat
of nature is inexorable. There is no appeal
or relief from the great law which dooms us
to dust. We flourish and we fade as the
leaves of the forest, and the flower that blooms
and withers in day has not Trailer hold
upon life than the mightest monarch that ever
shook the earth with his footsteps. Genera
tons of men appear and vanish as the grass,
and the countless multitude that throngs the
world to- day, will tomorrow disappear as
the foot steps on the shore
In the beautiful drama of Ion, the instinct
OF immortality, SO eloquently uttered by the
death devoted Greek, finds a deep response
in every thoughtful soul. When about to
offer his young existence as sacrifice to fate,
his beloved Clemanthe ask if they shall not
meet again, to which he replies; II have ask
ed that dreadful question of the hills that look
eternal-nf the clear streams that flow forever
of the stars, among whose fields ofazure my
raised spirit had walked in glory. All were
dumb. But while gaze upon thy living face,
feel that there issomething in the love that
mahtles through its beauty that cannot who'll
ly perish. We shall meet again, Clemanthe."
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

TONGUE FROZEN FAsT.-In Cincinnati, on
the 10th, one boy induced another to put his
tongue against futed iron post-the Their
mometer at the time indicating temperature
far below zero. The tongue stuck fast, of
course, and the poor boy suffered great agony.
Several passe1s endeavored to release him, but
in vain. Matters were in this situation for
over five minutes, when gentleman named
Taylor went into the Telegraph House and
{ brought some hot water and whiskey, with
which he bathed the tongue of the suffering
boy, finally liberating about one-half, leaving
the other sticking to the post, where it re-
manned for the balance of the day, warning
to youngsters how they recklessly lick cold
iron in freezing weather. The luckless boy
was taken home in extreme agony.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

Coon HoGs.-Mr. Cyrus Stow of Concord,
Mass, gives us an account of four Suffolk pigs,
fatted by him. We saw them a short time
before they were killed, and noticed that,
though not remarkably large, they had great
weight of carcass for the bone and offal. They
were bred by c. B. Clark Mr.. Stow says
"These four pigs-all sows-I bought on
the Sth eff February last. They weighed l45,
40, $780, 100: total 523 lbs, at IL cents
$27,45. Deduct for shrinkage forty per cent.
would leave Sl4 lbs. dead weight when 1 pur-
chased them. They were killed on the 10th
of December, and weighed 440, 374, 366, 367
total 1865. l sold three of them at my door
at II IL cents per pound-kcpt the other for
my own use. Aggregate value of the four,
$l7S,04; deduct cost, 1927 ,4S. leaves a gain
of $l51,4S. They were kept by me 800 days
and gained, as calculate, 1247 lbs, or a tri .
file over a pound each per day-nothing to
brag of if they had been high fed-but they
were kept very cheaIdy, and had but little
meal until the last month of the time, when
they were fed with cob meal--corn and cobs
ground together. Theremainder of the time
they had the wash of the house and the skim
med milk of two or three COWS, with small
potatoes, and pumpkins boiled up with lit
tie meal. keep Ave COWS and sold about
one-half the milk Boston Cuiticator.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29
Boston Stock Sales.

''We had dream the other night,
When all around was still,
We dreamed we saw host of folks
Pay up their Printers Bill ~
If dreams like that are right,
Ne dreamed dream, the other night,
When all around was STILL
We dreamed we saw host of folks
In Eaton's for drill: -
To Eat0n's for drill they came,
With eyes so full of meaning,
That people wondered, as they looked,
What they were about beginning.
One Fogy, walked up to the crowd
And looked for something green
The fellers all, both great and small,
Showed none of that was seen.
They marchednp boldly, step by step,
And then exclaimed Eureka
Walked in-then signed and PAID THE "T1N'
And made their fortunes quicker,
By getting a complete understanding
OF BOOKKEEPING, COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC,
COMMERCIAL PESMAHsHIP and other
Kindred branches so successfully taught
At the MEhCATILE AND MATHEW ATICAL
ACADEMY, BANK BLOCK, FosTER-sT.
Worcester; JAN 2S. div
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29
Court OF Common pIens.
CRIMINAL TERM-JuDeE BISHOP pREs1D1x

CRIMINAL TERM-JUDGE BISHOP PRESIDING.
MONDAY, Jan. 2S.
Elizabeth Norbury, Sutton, for adultery, was
sentenced to the House of Correction for Is
months
Charles Britman, for shop breaking, sentenced
to 3 days solitary, 6 years State Prison.
Charles B. Pratt was arraigned for fslse pre-
fences, and put under $1,000 bonds for his ap-
pearance from day to day.
Charles Conner and Lawrence Conner, convict
ed for larceny.
Joseph Damon Of Lancaster, for larceny, con.
victed on two counts.
Edward McGowen, arraigned for nuisance, was
put under bonds of $500 for his appearance.
John Tanner. for DEMONSTRATING in Southbridge,
was sentenced to 2 days solitary, and year hard
labor in the State Prison.
The case of John Morey, for horse.stealing, is
now on trial.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

MARRIAGE OF ANToINETTE L, BRowN.-
Married in Henrietta, Monroe county, New
York, on Thursday, January Gath, by Joseph
Brown, Esq, father of the bride, Samuel G..
Blackwell, Esq, of Cincinnati Ohio. to Rev.
Antoinette L. Brown, Of Henrietta. The
Rochester Democrat states that Miss Brown
had kept her own counsel so discreetly, that
none of her friends in that place had any sus.
picion of the affair till the marriage was an
nounced.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURES.

MONDAY, Jan. Is.
SENATE.-PetitionS Presented and Referred
of Hampshire Mutual Fire Insurance Co.,
for renewal of charter; I. F. Caldicott,in be-
half of the Ladies' Collegiate Institute.
Orders Adopted-To inquire what amend
ments, if any, of chap. %, sec. So, of the Re-
vised Statutes, requiring companies formed
under said act, TO publish a statement of their
affairs, is necessary; whether any legislation
is necessary to provide for q more equitable
distribution of the profits among depositors in
Savings Banks.
B'Hs Engrossed-Bills to prevent the eva
sion of the laws for the suppression OF lotte-
RES; to change the name of the American
Lead Works; authorizing an increase of the
Lawrence Gas Company 800, 900; in addi-
ton to an Act concerning the duties aud rights
of jurors.
The bill as amended in relation to the
rights and duties of jurors, was then passed
to be engrossed.
Papers came down from the House, and
were concurrently acted upon.
DEMONSTRATIONS of Francis Low and 9th.
ers OF Chelsea, for annexation to Boston of
A. A. Frazer and others of Boston, for ex.
tension of two years time in the act Of incor-
poration of the Western Avenue Railroad
Orders inquiring whether any further leg
lslation is necessary is necessary relative to the
assessment and collection of taxes; instruct
ing the Sergeant Arms to pay for the
American Almanacs ordered by him. tit
was adopted unanimously
Resolve in favor of Worcester South Agri-
cultural Society, and bill to change the name
Of the South Congregational Society in Wo-
burn, were passed to third reading. Bill to
incorporate Salem Marine Insurance Com
pany passed to be engrossed.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

SLEIoHIKs CAsuALIrrEs.- We learn from
the Providence Transcript that on the turn
pike, on Thursday afternoon, drunken fell
low dashed SO recklessly over the ground with
his vehicle as to calse the smashing up Of no
less than six sleighs. A lad was also consid-
srably injured, and horse received severe
wound. which may prove fatal. Enough mis-
chief for one man, certainly.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

morning, litter it carefully from its dress into
a eiean bottle, cork it and keep it for use. A
taOie- spoonful OF gum water stirred into a
pint OF starch made the usual way, will rive
10 either white or printed shirts look Of
newness that nothing else can restore to them
after washing '''''-'
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

You are, hear, attending more to diet
than heretofore. If you wish for anything
like happinlss in the fifth act of life, eat and
drink about half what you could eat and drink.
Did ever tell you my calculation about eat.
ing and drinkings Having ascertained the
weight of what could live upon SO as to pre-
serve health and strength, and what did live
upon, found that between ten and seventy
years Of age had eaten and drunk forty four
horse wagon loads of meat and drink more
than would have preserved me in life and
health The value of this mass OF nouIish-
ment considered to be worth f7, 900 sterling.
1t occurred to me, that must, by my voraci-
ty, have starved death fully one hundred.
Sydney Smith.
The other day, New England Yam
kee, in an earnest argument with John Bull
on our national institutions, was endeayoring
to floor his antagonist, who had snoeringly re-
marked that fortunately the Americans
couldn't 60 further westward than the Pacific
shore" The Yankee searched his pregnant
brain for an instant, and triumphantly replied
=" Why, good gracious, they are already lev
cling the Rocky Mountains, and carting the
drt-out West had letter last We elk from
my cousin, who is living two hundred miles
west Of the Pacific shore--on made land"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

PUTNAM's MONTHLY, for February, is rich
and entertaining number. Among the contents
are article on Washington at Boston-sixty.
six years ago." Part Second of "Owl Copse,' .
High Life"-At the North Pole" "The Phil
Osophy of Punning," another Of the inimitable
Spanowgrass Papers" Life in the County,"
1.-The Haunted King and'the Loaded Dice" &c.,
&c, The ability with which this very superior
periodical is conducted, and its truly liberal and
American character, give it claim for support
such as is presented by no other work of the kind
within our knowledge. 1t is published by Dix
& Edwards, New York, and is for sale at Thomp
sons
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29
Fnon wAsHIso4oS.-I'he N. York Heralfs

FRoM WAsHINeToN. -The n. York HeyalGs
correspondent at Washington, telegraphs -
"Resolutions testing the relative strength
OF the Nebraska and Anti Nebraska parties,
monopolized the time Of the House on Satur-
day.
Mr.. Meacham' resolution, pronouncing the
repeal Of the Missouri restriction a factious
agitation of the slavery question, was regard
ed 90 the test. and passed by vote of l0S to
"a
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

The State Reform School for Boys at West.
boro Is an excellent but expensive institution
for the State, it's expenses last year be ing Rf-
ty-eight thousand seven hundred dollars, Of
which forty .six thousand three hundred and
eighty mine dollars came from the State treas
ury, and less than nineteen thousand dollars
were earned by the labor Of the boys There
have been eight hundred and eighty lone boys
in the school during the year 1866, of which
ave hundred and eghty-one remain now
The estimated appropriation reg uired to sup
port the school this year is forty.four thou
sand dollars, and the work Of the boys is ex-
peotod 10 yiold six thousand six hundred dol.
.ars.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

A French peddler Of jewelry named
jules du Collier, was murdered at Hannibal,
Mo-. last week, by man named William
Huh, with whom he lodged at D hotel. and
who made his escape to Illinois, with trunk
full Of valuable jewolry, belonged to the MUIR
dered man.
Nine murders have been committed
in Memphis Tenn, within a year, and not
ono Of tho murdorors has boon brought " jus.
tico.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-29

ACCIDENT ON THE DELAwARE.-A despatch
from Philadelphia. states that on Saturday, as
large party were on the Delaware River, op-
posite the upper part of that city, the ice gave
way, carrying down sleigh containing a gen.
tleman and four ladies. A widow named AL
bright was drowned, and the others were res
pund