Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-17

evening" 10 pOoNpoAlGu uulll luIuuILbW evening
The occupancy of the hall by the Young Mems
Convention necessarily retarded the work of pre-
paration, and the committee of arrangements
find it necessary to keep the doors closed for an
other day, from that cause
WORCESTER COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIR-
TVS CATTLE SHow.-The thirty ninth annual
exhibition and blowing match of the Worcester
County Agricultural Society will come off at the
Soeietys grounds in this city, on Wednesday and
Thursday of the next week, Sept. 23d and oath.
The gates will be open for the admission of WISH
tors at nine o'clock and the blowing match, trial
ofworking oxen, and exhibition of stock, will be
on the first day.
At one o'clock, the Society viii dine at Agri-
cultural Hail. and after dinner the reports of
committees will be read, and the premiums will be
declared.
The second day will be devoted entirely to an
exhibition of horses, to commence at nine
o'clock, A. NJ, with trial of draught horses.
In the afternoon, the track will be open for the
exhibition and trial of speed of trotting horses in
harness, owned in the county, under the direc-
tion of special committee, appointed to super
intend that part of the exhibition, who will, at
the close of the trial, make their awards from the
stand.
As the exhibition this year promises to be un-
usually attractive, there will undoubtedly be
large concourse of people from the adjacent
towns, and in fact, from all parts of the county,
and we hope that our agricultural friends. wher-
ever they may reside, who are possessors of nice
stock, whether cattle, sheep, or swine, will be
willing to do their part to add to the interest of
the occasion, by sending them to the show
--sss-
RELIC OF THE PAsT-Among the curiosi-
ties which the ladies of Worcester County have
sorwarded for exhibition at the Mechanics Fair,
is an infants blanket, wrought hundred and
forty years ago by the hands of the mother Of
Samuel Adams, of Revolutionary fame 1t now
belongs to lady of Fitchburg, who is descend
ant from that family, and it is known to be the
identical blanket in which the infant limbs Of
that noble old patriot "Sam Adams" were
wrapped when he was carried to church to be
chIistened.
In those days, to have "seen SAM" meant
something, for that was a sight worth beholding :;
and we doubt not that, even in these degenerate
times, there are many who would rather possess
even the blanket of the ancient Sam, than the
principles of the modern one, the dark lantern
and Know No thing ritual included.
sd The ROBBERY OF THE WORCESTER COUNTY
BANK MESSENGER No clue has as vet been
discovered that will lead to the detection of the
thief who robbed the conductor of the Norfolk
County Railroad, of the funds of the Worcester
County Bank, on Tuesday afternoon. The funds,
amounting to $500, were all in bills Of the
Worcester County Bank, and were taken by Mr..
Cole, the conductor of the train, from the Suffolk
Bank in Boston, to be redeemed. Mr.. c., as was
his custom, placed the money. which was in a
small trunk, in a safe, located in the saloon car,
locked the safe, and locked the door of the sa-
loon, and put the keys in his pocket. Just be-
fore arriving at Blackstone, he opened the safe
and found the trunk gone. 1t is probable that
both the safe and the saloon were opened with
false keys, by some person who had made his
preparations beforehand.