Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-18

"John, did you find any eggs in the
old hens nest this morninge' ''No sir. If
the old hen laid any, she mislaid them
"Can you tell me what are wages
here y inquired laborer of a boy. 81 don't
know. sir What does your father get at the
end of the week p "Get," said the boy,
'why he gets tight as brick"
Mrs. Peter Piper's baby was making
tremendous noise, and friend asked Peter
why it was so cross. sit has a stormy moth
err said Peter with a sigh .'you needn't
wonder tits little squally-it is quite natu-
raj" aa
Abel Porter of Greenfield, had hive
of bees stolen short time since, and the re.
mains have been found in a neightoring
meadow, where the thieves built a bonfire,
killed the bees, sucked the honey, and left
pair OF brass knuckles to show that they were
case hardened scamps. -...
Tacitus says that early marriage make
us immortal-that is, the soul and chief prop
of empire--and that the man who resolves to
live without woman, or the woman who re-
solves to live without man, are enemies to
themselves, destruction to the world, apos-
tates to nature, and rebels against heaven and
earth.
No man can be a gentleman who
would wound or morcify another No mat
ter how refined or how cultivated he NAV be
ne is in reality coarse, and the innate vulgar
ity of his nature manilesls itself here. Uni
formIy kind, courteous, and polite treatment
OF persons, is one certain mark of true gen.
tleman
Mr. Joseph Houston and Mr.. John
Bradley have been absent from Dover, Me-,
hunting on the Schools river, about four
weeks, and during that time have killed nine
bears, for which they have received bounty
OF SIS. The skins of these animals will, on
an average now bring in the market six dol
lars apiece.
The Gardiner, Me-, Intelligencer saws
that a lady ofconsiderable property, who died
in Litchfeld last week, after an illness of
twenty four hours, and was buried, has been
disinterred, and coroner's inquest held on
the body. 1t is suspected she was poisoned.
The result of the investigation has not yet
TRANSFERRED.
Among the cases tried at the Common
Pleas Court, before Judge Briggs, at Green
field, was that of Robert Wiley Of Greenfield
Us, Aaron Fulton and others, for a breach of
contract in agreeing to purchase plaintiffs es-
tate at $1,000, the defendant backing down
after the preliminary steps to a transfer had
been taken. The court ruled that the action
could not be maintained because the agree
ment was not in writing, and the case goes
up to the Supreme Court on exceptions.
Benjamin Gates of Wilbraham, started
for California last June, by the overland
route, and strayeG from his party on the 18th
OF July to hunt up his horse, when he fell in
with small party of Camanche Indians, who
gave him signs of friendship. One of them,
however, enticed him to one side, tomahawk-
ed him, shot several arrows into his body,
rifed him, and left him for dead. In few
hours he revived, and succeeded in crawling
back to the road, where he hung his coat up
OH tree and lay down to die. The next
morning portion OF his party came up, who
found him alive, but past help, and he died
in few hours. He was about thirty years of
age, and leaves wife and widowed mother
at Wilbraham.
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