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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-29
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ANTIDoTE FOR PoIsoNs.-A farmer writes !:
at is now over twenty years since learned
that sweet oil would cure the bite of a rattle
snake, not knowing it would cure other kinds
of poison. Practice observation and expert
ence have taught me that it will cure poison Of
any kind, both on man and beast. The patient
must take spoonful of it internally and battle
the wound for a cure. To cure a horse it re-
quires eight times as much as for man. One
of the most extreme cases of snake bites oc-
CURED eleven years ago. 1t had been thirty
days standing, and the patient had been given
up by his physician. gave him spoonful Of
the oil, which effected cure. 1t will cure bloat
in cattle caused by fresh clover 1t will cure
the sting of bees, shiders or other insects, and
persons who have been poisoned by a low run
ming vine called ivy"
IRON FOR PEAR TREEs.-A correspondent
writes as follows: ~ had very fine pear tree
(Flemish beauty that became affected, first by
blight in one limb, which | removed, and then
another and another was affected in the same
way until had removed considerable portion
of the top of the tree Early the next spring
resolved to try the application of scrap iron to
the roots. | procured my iron, removed the
soil from the roots carefully, deposited the iron
between them, and replaced the earth. There
was no further progress in the blight, the tree
continued to grow that season. and the next
leaves and blossoms came out vigorously; no
black spots appeared on the leaves, and the tree
bore finely; and no appearance of disease was
seen in the tree atterward. In subsequent con-
versaton with friends | found that some Of
them had become informed on the same subject,
and had tried the same remedy with perfect
success. Some told me they had procured turn
ing and drilling chips from the machine shops,
as they thought with much advantage to their
trees"
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DOMESTIC MARKETS.

NEW YORK June 2S-COttoH advanced kc and more
DONG sales 1926 bales nddling uplands 2Ohc Flour
sales 500 bbs; state and dull and without any
change; state $3.50 90 GO; western $3.50 "a ITO;
southern $3.50 "a $500 Wheat frmer; sales $4,000
bashi No spring $3.50 a ISL No spring 81 ,4S % l49
winter red and amber western Sl56 a l,5S. Corn a
shade irner; sales ~ 900 bush; inferior and
Oats heavy Ohio and western GA "a Sc. Pork frmer
new mess $3.50; prime Sl2 e SIS. Lard quiet at 81,
q 0hc. Butter dull; Ohio 10 a 2lc; stale 20 "a sic
Whskey a shade trmer; western free g2 "a 92Lc Rice
easleri Carolina ~ q SIC. Sugar active; MuscOyado
g@ gSci iair to gOod refining "a q SIC. Coffee dull
RIO ~ % l5ac Spirits turpentine steady 45A "a Acc
roSn firm; sales At $40 a 275 for strained Petroleum
steady at 81 a sac.
CHICAGO, June S-FlOur more active. Wheat Armer;
No spring SIPS Corn steady; No 2 mixed al 54c
Oats quiet and declined hc No dull at 48Ec RIVE
stronger at 81 az Sc Barley73 a 7je High wines S9e
froylslons hfmer. Mess pork $l4T5. Lard l04c, Dry
sited meats hun shoulders 81 "a SIC: short rib mid
DIES ~ @.l4c, Live hogs active at $3.50 "a 42O Cattle
quiet ~ $40 @ ISL Receipts-4OOO bbs Hour, ~ 900
bush wheat ~ 900 bush corn 90 900 bush oats 1000 ryc
MgO hogs Shipments 5000 bbls -four 1900 bush wheat
J4i,UVO bush corn, 81 900 bush oats, 5000 hogs
SlhCINEATl. June 28-PrOYislOns firm Mess nOrE at
2o Lara at IOc Bulk meas-shoulders &c; sides IA a
esc bicOn-shoulders 61 a 67c clear rib sides Sstc:
Gielr sides &c sugar cured hams at AZ "a l5Hc Live
hogs llrn, at $40 O. 40. Whskey advanced al SIZE
2Ohc, s' --''"sS
Foreign Markets.-rBy Atlantic Cable
LONDON, june 2S.-Consos closed at 92H American Sc
W. ten-fortes S8h. w. '''
LIVERPOOL, June 2s.-Cotton hrmer. mIddlin, nm
lalda SID; sales 1000 bales. ~
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CES Err.
THURSDAY. JUNE go, 1871.

The Richmond Wing gives the particulars of
a case of murder, which will encourage the
faith of those who believe that people are some
times directed systematically, by prophetic
dreams and presentiments. The murder was
done, last week, in Wilkes county, N. O., near
the Virginia line. The story is told as follows.
A few days previous 10 the murder, gentleman
residing in that county sold a neighbor tract
of land, for which he received $1,000 in cash.
Business calling him away from home soon
after, be left the money with his wife. On re-
turning he stopped over night with friend liv-
lug some ten or twelve miles distant from home
In the night he dreamed that some men had en-
tered his house, murdered his wife and two
children, stolen his money, and destroyed his
property. He became uneasy and requested
pedler who was stopping at the house with him,
to accompany him at once TO his home, for he
feared there was reality in the dream. On
reaching home, he saw indications that some
thing unusual was going on in his house. Fur
ther examination brought the discovery that his
wife and children had been murdered, and that
two men were sitting at a table, in the room
where they lay, counting out the money he had
left. He and the pedler being armed, immedi-
ately fired upon the men and killed them. The
assassins turned out to be the neighbor who had
bought the land, and the neighbours son.
Probably this gentleman had been more or
less disturbed by anxiety about his wife and
children, all the time after he left home. They
were on his mind, and the character of his
dream was determined bv his anxiety Men
are frequently exercised in this way by anxieties
and dreams, which events show are not prophe-
cies. AS Lord Bacon says, special mention is
made of them only "when they hit" All the
other cases pass without notice. But there are
still few people who will accept but one ex-
PLANTATION, namely, that the dream was a super
natural warning, sent directly from above.
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Correspondence Of the Worcester Spy. ]
College Matters.
One Hundred and Third Annual Com
mencemenI of brown University.

PROVIDENCE, June %.
The exercises attendant upon the one hundred
and third commencement at Brown began with
the annual address before the society of mission
airy enquiry, at the First Baptist meeting house,
on Sunday evening. The address was delivered
by Rev. DIR. James p Boyce, professor in the
southern Baptist theological seminary, at Green
vile, 5. G. He announced as the subject "Ihe
missionary cause capable of producing the very
deepest enthusiasm" The audience, as usual
was composed of a most appreeiative class of
listeners, and the address gave evidence of deem
thought and earnest desire for the spread of mis-.
sioDary labor.
The annual business meeting of the Phi Beta
Kappa society took place in Manning hall. ON
Tuesday morning, the president, Professor Di-
man in the chair. The following officers were
elected for the coming year: President, PROBES
sor A. Hardness; vice president, Professor S
s. Greene; secretary, Professor b. F. Clarke
treasurer, Merrick Lyon; committee of arrange
ments, DIR. J. C. Stockbrldge, Emery Lyon
Professor J. H. Appleton; auditing committee
Rueben A. Guild, William @. Dearth. Tn,
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A CLASSICAL RELIC.-Some years ago a most
interesting historical relic was deposited in the
white house. This was present to the govern
ment by the freedom loving citizens OF Rome of
slab Of sandstone from the tomb of Servius
Julius, and dedicated to the memory of Abra-
ham Lincoln. 1t is one and half feet wide,
two feet long and nine inches thick three sides
being rough and dapple brown with the moldy
lichens OF twenty-lour centuries. The fourth
side is hewn to smoothness, and on This face is
chiseled neat Latin inscription suggesting its
history and expressing the sentiment of the
donors. They wish the memories of "two brave
defenders of liberty" Lincoln and Tullius,
blended and perpetuated. This memento of an
tiquity came from people whose language, hab-
its and government are foreign to our own, but
whose annals are interviewer with the earliest
traditions and mustiest legendary romance of
our race. No more touching tribute was paid
the memory Of Lincoln. BY order of congress
this slab was removed from the white house to
the capitol. There, not long ago, saw it,
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white men sometimes 1attcry sometimes threats,
and sometimes extravagant promises, and have
received all kinds of treatment, except justice
wisely mingled with charity and mercy. The
effect of all this cannot be done away in two
years; but, Notwithstanding all discourage
ments we believe that the present policy, if pa
tiently PERSISTED in, will put our Indian relations
on a better footing than they have ever before
occupied
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Monday evening President Hopkins, whose son
is member of the graduating class, met a
large number Of friends and students of the
college at tea at his own mansion In the even
ing, after the concert, there was the usual num-
Der of serenades, and all the morning the ac-
customed stream of incomers. The exercises of
class day had charming day on which to be
tracted an audience which filled the Congrega-
tional church to overlooking. The clark pur-
ple' of Williams shone everywhere; the band
dscoursed most eloquent music; Gen. Garfield
was among the distinguished guests, and all
was merry as usual.
The number in the graduating class this year
is forty-six. Among the number are: Mark
Hopkins, Jr.; Henry Latham and C. L. Smith,
of AthOl; and W. Mynderse, Groton Centre.
The neurology of the college shows that twenty
five deaths have occurred since last commence
ment
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The Quaker Indian policy, even when admin
istered by Quakers, is not always and at once
successful The inbred depravity and perverse-
ness of the Indian character sometimes proves
TOO much for even Quaker's patience The fol-
lowing extract from the diary of Inspector Cen
eral Marcy, while accompanying General Sher-
man on bis recent tour through the Indian coun-
try, relates the rather discouraginge experience of
one Quaker agent;
"The agent of the Comanches and Kiowas at
this post, Tatem, most benevolent and consci-
entious Quaker gentleman, has his agency near
the fort. He called on the general soon after
our arrival and the first remark he made was
that he had been able TO accomplish nothing in
clvlllAng the Indians. They paid no attention
10 his injunctions, and continued going to Texas.
where they committed murders and lawless dep
relations upon the whites of that section. while
at the same time they were being fed from week
TO week by the United States. A school had
Deeh established for these Indians, but he had
been unable 10 persuade them to send single
child to il. One Comanche had been In school
few days, but his entire family had encamped
near the sehOOl-hOuse all the time and they soon
took him away, for fear, probably, that he
would be contaminated by contact with our peo.
PIE. Ihe agent does not presume to 20 to the
camp Of these sayages without a strong guard
and he begins to realize the necessity of a more
rigorous policy toward them. They must, he
thinks, be made to feel the strong arm of the
government, and be punished whenever thev
perpetrate atrocities. II is considered unsafe "a
go five miles from the fort without an escort
Last summer the merciless miscreants murdered
four men in one day within three miles of the
fort. 1atem has had two years experience al
this post"
Friend Tatem may be excused for some de
spondency. 1t is rare that strong, Just ant
benevolent man, having the advantage of repre-
senting the government, welding its authority
distributing its bounty, and supported by 10
arms, can make absolutely no impression on til,
Indians by eonciiiatory treatment continued fol
two years. II is true that the tribes with which
hef had.to deal are among the most sayag,
and unIameable Of all who range the western
prairies, and, living in a country where the win
tiers are not severe aud the game is abundant
are less dependent upon government aid thar
most others. Il must be remembered, too, tina
two years Of kindness and justice are to be Sc
on against long period Of alternate cruelt
and concession, during which they have lee
harried by raids Of soldiers and squatters, cheat
ed by agents and traders, encouraged 70 murde
and rob when they felt strong, and invited /
make foolish treaties when they could fight n
longer at an advantage, have heard from th
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Princeton College.

NEW YORK, June %.
Secretary of War Belknap's grafton at Prince
ton college, yesterday, was largely occupied by
illusions to the tender ties formed in college
life, and the duties of young men to respect the
opportunities afforded them. His argument
was that the advantages offered in America for
success in life of educated men commend them
selves constantly to the rejecting mind, and the
debt that college graduates owe to the institu-
ton wherein that education was acquired, can
be computed by no easy reckoning. On the
platform from which the secretary spoke were
President Grant, DR.. McCosh, Secretary Robe
son, Gen. Meade, Senator Frelinghuysen, Sena-
tor Blair, Gov. Randolph of New Jersey, Geo.
A. McCoOk, the democratic nominee for govern
or of Ohio, ex-Gov, Haines and ex-G0v. Olden
of New Jersey, and others. The trustees din
ner was held in the gymnasium hall. DR.. Nc
Gosh sat at the head of the table, with President
Grant at his right and Gov. Randolph at his left.
Responses to toasts were made by Gen. Meade,
Gen. MeCook, Senator Frelinghuysen, Court
landt Parker, Rev. DIR. Hall and Chancellor Will
hanson. Chancellor Zabriskie referred with
pride to the fact that thu five who had immedi-
ately preceded him in once had been graduates
of Nassau hall.
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Williams College.

WILLIAMsTowN, June 2S.
The standard of scholarship has been so
much raised at Williams college, that many of
the applicants last year were unable TO pass the
necessary examination. This fact, in part, ac-
counts for the excellent scholarship of the pres
ent senior class. The exercises, thus far, this
week, have been most interesting. The bac-
calaureate sermon on Sunday brought out in
strong relief the venerable presidents in
credulity as.Jo muscular Christianity. On
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WORK DURING SLEEP,-Those cases in which
the brain is hard at work during sleep, instead
of being totally oblvouS of everything, NAV he
called either dreaming or somnambuiism. ac-
cordlng to the mode in which the activity dis
plays Itself, Many of them are full of interest.
Some men have done really hard mental work
while asleep. Condorcet finished a train of calcu
lations in his sleep which had much puzzled him
during the day. In 1856 q collegian noticed the
pecunarlhes OF fellow student, who was rather
stupid than otherwise during his waking honrs
but who got through some excellent work in
geometry and algebra during sleep, CoDdillack
ana FRANKLIN both worked correctly during some
of their sleeping hours,
Inc WORK zone partakes In many cases more
OF the nature of imaginative composition than
of scientific calculation. Thus, stanza of ex-
celent verse is in print, which Sir John Herscbel
Is salu 70 nave composed while asleep, and to
have recollected while he awoke Goethe ofte n
set down on paper, during the day, thoughts
and ideas which had presented themselves 70
MN during sleep on the preceding night, A
gentleman one night dreamed that he was nlay.
ing an entirely new game of cards with three
lriendSi when he awoke the structure and rules
ol the new game as created In the dream came
out one by one in his memory, and he found
them SO ingenious that he afterward frequently
played the game. Coleridgeis said TO have com.
posed his fragment of "Kubla Khan" during
sleep he had one evening been reading Pur,
Nito OI the romantic Incl
dents struck his fancy; he went to sleen. and
his busy brain composed "Kubla Kahn, .
When he awoke in the morning, he wrote
out what his mind had invented in sleep. mill
interrupted by visitor with whom he conyersed
TOR an hour ON business matters; but, alas
he could never again recall the thread of the
story, and thus "Kubla Khan" remains frac.
ment. DR.. Good mentions the case of gentle,
man who in his sleep composed an ode in six
stcdzas, and set y to music Iartini, the cele
brated Italian violinist one night dreamed tha,
| tue devil appeared to him, challenged him to 4
trial of Skill on the fiddle, and PLAYED a niece
wonderful for its beauty and difficulty; when
| Tartini awolle he could not remember the exact
notes, but he could reproduce the general eharac
| ter Of the music, which he did in composition
| ever since known as the Devils Sonata" LORD
| Thurlow, when youth at college, found him
| self, one evening, unable to finish a piece o.
| Latin composition which he had undertaken
he went to bed full of the subject, fell asleep
finished his Latin in his sleep, remembered i
| next morning, and was complimented on tn,
ielicitous form which it presented.-Au tie Yea
| Round
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MUSCULAR CHRIsrIANITY.-Short before
twelve O'Clock on Wednesday night the resi-
dence of Rev. Thomas X. Harris, pastor of St.
Paul's (EpiseopaD church at fremont, West.
chester county, was entered by burglar whose
plundering operations, fortunately, awoke the
slumberng head of the family Having hastily
slipped on pair of pantaloons, the minister
bounded to an adjoining room, where he
saw, and at once event for" the auda-
cious robber, who was then in the act
of riding dressing case. The telonious in
truder-a fellow of lusty proportions-offere a
determined resistance, and in the hand to hand
encounter which Immediately ensued the parson
displayed laudable amount of muscular Chris
tianity by putting ga head" adorned with let
black eye and numerous severe contusions, on
the sorely bothered apex of his antagonist.
During the struggle the fellow fought his way
10 the street door, and would, perhaps, have es-
capped had not the parson called loudly for assiS-
lance, which was soon forthcoming from the
startled neighbors who quickly secured the des-
perado. On searching his person some eight or
nine dollars were found, which the ruffian had
secured by breaking open missionary contri-
button box and Il chid's Savings bank" The
accused Was arraigned before Justice Lent yes
terday, when he gave his name as William
Fischer, and stated that he had only arrived
from Germany about two months ago. He was
fully committed for the action of the grand jury,
now sitting at White Plains.
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THE BUILDERS TREE OF MADAGASCAR
There grows on the island of Madagascar, says
the Manufacturer and Builder, remarkable
tree, called by botansts Urdnid SDeciOsa From
a solid trunk, varying in height from ten feet
upward, and similar in appearance, though not
in nature, to that Of the southern palmetto,
springs up bunch of stems, each about six or
eight feet long, and each supporting leaf of
the same length and some ten or twenty inches
wide. The leaves, when dried, form the thatch
of all the houses on the eastern side of the
island, making perfectly waterproof covering,
while the stems are used for partitions and sides
The bark of the tree is very hard, and, unlike
that of the palmetto, is stripped off from the in
terror soft parts. For large houses this bark is
cut in pieces of twenty or thirty feet long, and
twelve to eighteen inches wide, and the entire
floor covered with the same, as well Joined as
ordinary timber, The ben fits derived from this
tree are not limited to builders only. The green
leaves are used by traders in place of water
proof wrapping paper for packages; by the
women for table cloths, and the heavy pieces cut
out of them for plates at meals, while certain
portions are even formed into drinking vessels
and spoons. But the chief popularity of this
remarkable tree is, that while standing in the
forest the stems always contain a large quanti-
ty OF pure fresh water, of which travellers and
natives make use in the arid seasons, when the
wells and streams are dry. To obtain it a spear
is driven few inches deep in the thick end of
the stalk, at its junction with the trunk, and
then withdrawn, when the water flows out
abundantly. As every one of the twenty
thirty, forty or more stalks can give from pint
to quart of water, large amount is contained
in each tree, For this reason it is called BY
some the travellers tree"
These details have been verified by Rev. W
Ellis, who has recently published an account of
his travels in Madagascar in 1857.
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moldy and cobwebbed, hidden away in one of
the bleakest corners of the gloomy crypt, neg
lected, unknown, over which you stumble while
cropping through the darkest of the subterrane-
an outlets of that architectural nile.
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Ibeg leave call the attention of the reader to test.
monials in favor of the schnapps:
feel bound say that regard your Schnapps as being
medical patronage At all events il is the purest pSssi
BILE article of Holland gin, heretofore unobtaInable and
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. b.
Pharmaceutical Chemist New York
LOUISVILLE, KY. Sept III feel that we have now an
article Of gin suitable for such remedy
adapted to- DR. j. W. BRIGHT,
"Schnapps" Is remedy in chronic catarrhal com
take great pleasure bearing highly creditable test-
mony to Its efficacy remedial agent in the diseases
for which you recommend 1t. Having natural tendency
to the mucous surfaces with slight degree stimula
ton regard 1t as one OF the most important remedies
genitournary apparatus With much resDee o
obedent servant, CIIAS. A. LEAS, NJ. D., New York.
26 PINE ST., NEW YORK, Nov. 81, ls6T-UDoLPHo
WOLFE. ESQ. Present Dear Sir: have made a chem
with the intent Of determining Ii any foreign injurious
substances had been added to the simple distilled spirits
The examination has resulted in the conclusion that
the sample contained poisonous or harmful adnix
ture. have been unable to discover any trace of the
the aduteratlon OF liquors. would hesitate to use
myself nor to recommend to Others, for medicinal pur
(signed CHAs. A. SEEtY, Chemist.
CHEMICAL AND TECHNICAL LABORATORY, IS EXCHANGE
PLACE, NEW YORK, Nov. rs, lS67-UDoLPHO WOLFE,
Esq Dear Sir; The undersigned have carefully and
thoroughly analysed sample of your Aromatic Schie
dam Schnapps, selected by ourselves, and have found
less injurious to health From the result Of our
examination we consider the article one of superior
medicinal qualities. Respectfully yours,
(Signed) ALEX. TRIPPEL, Chemist
FRANCIS Z. ENGLEHARD, MD.
For sale by all respectable Grocers and Druggists.
UDoLPHo woLFE's EST,
mills d&wam % Beaver st., NY
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SCHENECTADY, N. Y, June 2S.-The trustees
of Union college last evening unanimously
elected Rev. E. N. Potter, D. D., of Troy, N. Y,
president, vice DR.. Aiken, resigned.
Northwestern University.
CHICAGO, June 2S-The Northwestern uni
versity yesterday conferred the degree of LII. d.
on Gen. Phil. H. Sheridan.
Columbia College.
NEW YORK, June 2S-The degree of S. t. D.
has been conferred on Rev. Pelham Williams of
Boston, by the Columbia college.
Bates College.
LEWISTON, Me-, June 2S.-The exercises of the
graduating class Of Bates college occurred to-day.
The honorary degree Of A. M. was conferred on
Sidney Perham, governor Of this state.
~. Johns College.
New YORK, June 2S.-St. Johns college, Ford
ham, graduated thirteen students to-day, and
conferred the honorary degree of Ii. d. upon
Francis Herman, Utica, and John McKeon, this
city.