Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-06

EXPLOSION OF A "HARMoNiAL" COMMUNI-
TY.- A society OF spirituasts has been loca
ted for some time at Harmony Springs, Ar
kansas, living together as one family, "with
all things common, with the general purpose
OF attaining to higher life than mUrlals gem
orally reach i'll what they cali the false rea
tons our present social organization
Things have been going on well, bat it was
lately discovered that DIR. Spencer, the leader
OF the community, had wife elsewhere, and
that the Mrs. Spencer " it'll him in the happy
family had no legal right to share lis bed and
board.
When the brethren and sisters began to be
stirred up by these disclosures, the doctor and
his param0ur clandestiuely packed up the
most valuable goods belonging to the commun-
lty, consisting OF caipcting, bedding, unmade
clothing, some fifty pairs of boots and Shoes
silver ware, cutlery, crockery, &C., together
with every dollar belonging to the treasury OF
the society, and tile titles of all their
real estate, and suddenly left under pre-.
tence Of being absent but few days, or until
there should be a greater degree Of thar
mony" in the family, But the rUnaways were
pursued on horseback and taken back To their
harmonal home, where they were detained
until the doctor had conveyed the property
over to the society, III part remuneration for
large sums Of money Of which lie could give
no satisfactory account, when the couple were
SEM upon their way rejoicing.
The doctor was postmaster at Harmony
Springs, and among the developments was the
discovery that he had been in the habit Of
opening letters, reading their contents, and re-
sealing them with paste, being thus able TO
1oretel the arrival of letters by mail, and what
they would contain, and titus establish a re-
putation as "a seer OF remarkable insight, "
nc 1u,l.an1 bo Tho boc do
cided to break up and seek their "higher life
henceiorth in the old-lashioned way. The
experience has been dear and unpleasant
one to the brethren and sisters, but it may be
worth what ii has cost in the final result
LAST DAYS OF AN OLD BEAU.-Poor old
Beau Brummeli, once the friend and fashion
able rival Of George the Fourth, paid in his
old age the btterest penalty Tor all the false
glories of his wasted and prolligate youth.
His mind went even before his health Though
only some sixty years Of age, almost the
bloom of-ife with men Of good habits he lost
his memory and powers of attention His old
ill manners became positively bad manners.
AT last the Beau was reduced TO the level of
that slovenliness which he had once consider
ed as the next step to perditIon. Reduced to
one PAIR of trOwsers, he had to remain in bed
till they were mcnded. He grew indifferent
to his personal appearance, the surest sign Of
decay Dwelling, VIE tched, in debt, an OBJ
ject of contempt 10 all honest men, he dragged
on miserable existence. Still, with his boots
in holes, and all the honor Of beau dom gone
forever, he chung to the last to his Eau de
Cologne, and some few other luxuries, going
down, TOOL and top, to the grave. To in
dulge his SILLY tastes lie mad TO part with one
piece OF property after another, and at length
was left with little else than the lock OF hair
which he had once boasted, The unhappy
dwellings Of old age are no fit subject slor
rdcule, yet in the case OF a man who sneercd
so freely at his teow.crcaurcS they afforded Il
useful lesson One Of his lancics was to give
imaginary parties when his servant used to
Announce with proper decorum a long line of
titled visitors, The poor old creature received
the imaginary parties, with the old bow, and
talked to them in the cd strain, till his ser
want announced their imaginary carriages, and
he was put dwelling TO bed. At last the
= ldiocy became a mania. He burnt his books,
his relics, hls tokens. He ate enormously,
and the man who had looked upon beer as the
ne plus ultra OF vulgarity, was glad to imagine
sit champagne.