Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-09

ltsNtllCt anu NNituldNNA IiNA Nl-'AlN'i' "a ~
day on the LIST of May.
Slight patches Of snow can be seen on the
mountains in northern Berkshire. The only
patch remaining IN the Uoosac valley is on
w. w. Gallup's Clarksburg farm, the rem
nant of a twenty foot drift. Stamford folks
came down to borrow the article to cool sugar
wax on.
The editor of the Great Darlington Courier
has "tried" the new steel collars about which
so much has been said lately, and which are
washed by the wipe Of a sponge, but doesn't
appear to like them. He says, 1--WE tall back
to paper with a sigh OF regret that the Combi-
nation of collar and razor in one does not
add to the enjoyments of life"
NJ VIM. NJ. MITCHELL recently deceased, about
thirty years ago published paper at North
Adams called the GreyloclI Mirror.
The old popiars lining the spacious walk
between east and west colleges at Williams
town have been cut down.
Matthew S. Canahean fell from derrick in
the marble quarry at Lee on the 18th ult.. and
received injuries from which he died on the
23d.
Eleven tons of paper have been ordered at
Gardiner, for Siam.
A dispatch has been received in Bath eX-
pressing fears that Mr.. Thomas p. Harvard
of that citv has bpen drowned in the BLACK
Sea.
The Augusta Ladies' Aid Society have sent
S737 worth of comfort TO the soldiers the
past year.
The Lewiston journal says the Androscog-
gin Railroad Co., whenever the growth of
the city in the direction OF the beachcry
shall justify, intend erecting another passen-
ger depot near their engine house, below the
ssuuIlv."
THE number of vessels cleared for foreion
ports from Portland during the three months
endinr March ri was 1854. n-,,nbpr entered
from forn;gn norris os
VERMONT.
At an adjourned meeting of the holders of
the first mortgaoe bonds of the Vermont
Central railroad comnanv held nm Thursday
the 7tb n committed was ounointnd to adjust
matters of difference with tbe Vermont and
Canada railrood comnonv
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Tho d,,oIlira of nsnial Rf,rc, ,+ Porte
r,or+h VA. l,t,r,l ~, IJ-I,s,I,, ,,;-L+ a,,l
(,oid r,ator ~ eS55 yaIno stoIcr fTnn tha
"bon,bor NV william I1 ,raS sIoorin,
H.. rhanoao,. HIooro - Cenoord ,.os
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non+I,, a,J rnIbod IS ,..InahIo lroId ,,,atcb
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III tne I"t'el I"I' u! surprising ',i"t' n"'I"S
a reached thT happy lahu Oh Oah"ah'
Iuey 90 not care 10 uie. llcte IS an account
OF one old gentleman there, taken from the
Concord Democrat The latter part Of
March visited Mr.. Jacob Richardson, whose
farm IS two miles west OF Broad street. lie
was then little more than nlnety-one years
old. lie hoed considerable, &c, last sum"
mer, and dug potatoes IN the fall, keeping up,
for hours together, with common hand.
Like prompt middle-aged farmer he told me
how many bushels of each different kind OF
crop he had raised for the past two years
also the different persons he had hired, and
the amount he had paid each one. Not far
from eleven years ago. when he was eighty
years old, he replied to my question, that he
could do as much work III the field as any
man he hired was willing to do, and he could
get upon ms horse, without any saddle, on
level ground, when he chose sometimes to
rae nome TO ms meals. lie mad then recov-
ered from some Ianeness occasloned by being
knocked down by lightning when he was
about seventy years old, when daughters
husDahu' a YOKE OF oxen, ana Il morse were
killed. anu two hArrows broken to pieces by
the same 5hock, as they were narrowing near
each other. with two teams. while a shower
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lIen''llhG was 700 'huch Ior inc son ln-iaw' the
oxen ana me harro%s, 1t m met It's match when
i 'oU' 0i W. illo.''i Nso"'
Tho f,llo,,iro Is iist of +ta ofioars ,f tl,,
1egisI,tnra alnStod nm WoJnasda, tbo EEL,
Senat,,NPraliiont ,,,.a te,, Han = w PHI
Inns putnon,. rlorir f & Dov Cnlnhost'r.
niogsa,,a r n Saar1os tion,JlS,
sis+ort 7,aSso,,,rol. L Sho,1orI Tor,'i,I
dnori[ooner S9tb TiJsnn Torn,i,.b assista,,t
doorleaner Samnel 8 Colhnrn MarIhI.rl
ongh fInnsozS,',,al,,,r IInn r. y Cio,,d
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1IiJiIata,,., ,l,os,',,(rar n n iIalt Wi
In,rtnn. ossist,nt r,o9San,,or SAMUEL Min
doerkoc,,ors NatI,an 1iar,r;n NyiIfawi T,,,,o,
a1dn.i, Fast Ma,a, Ei,,rd w., W.
rorriH,illo
rh ~, frst lF1ortford, cor,rory If tbo Gov
ornor,s Foot GnarJ aIahrateJ ibe;r o9d ami
varearv bv a summer ot tho Citv Hall Uart-
fnrd Wednasday niohr rho GtI Over ooo
gnes+s sat down 70 t6n tabins inclrding Gov.
ernor Rmckinghar and snita and manv man.
;nont non If tba stato troasts ana shnrt
snonrbos ,rern tba order of thn nvoning
tr}o srn,n,or to,n1 Of Y,Ia coIInTo ann
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ne li"u ueen my ~ oN IeS>io'l u Spir-
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