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of Sawyer Bros, aud commence business the
first OF March. They propose to manufacture
frames and chairs. The officers are as follows:
President, V. p. Parkhurst; Treasurer, NJ. W.
Phelps; Directors, Joel Baker, John c. Wymau,
BENZ. Ellnwood; Clerk, Marcus Whitney.
A wtitcr for the Clinton Courant gives the
following interesting facts concerning the old
houses in that town, with pardonabe digres-
sion from his subject, suggested By Josiah Car
ter's eighteen children:
Among the houses now standing, erected by
the first settlers of Leominster, is house built
by Gardner Wilder, of Lancaster, a little north
of No. school house, where be raised eleven
children; one Of his sons also brought up eleven
children; the house is lined with bricks and was
place of defence in the carly settlement, having
a stockadc surrounding the premises. Another
Old house is where Laura and Julia Robbins aow
live, one-fourth of a mile north of Leominster
common, which house was built by an ancestor
OF theirs and must have been erected l40 years
ago; it shows architecture OF by gone day, as
the low walls, the iourteeu-inch summcr-tree,
spanning the rooms overhead, and in the build
ing planted without Gnder-pinninS. Another
house in the northeast part OF the Town bears
proof Of age; for more than Il century it has
| been occupied by the Stuart family, descendants
of the builder. Last year house was tern down
on West street, built originally of two rooms by
Josiah Carter, an officer in the revolutionary
war; his services and patriotism were duly
| acknowledged by his country before he died, rs
he was in receipt of Il pension at the time of his
| decease. In these two rooms he lived and raised
eighteen children, in day and generation when
it was not regarded disgrace TO have more than
one puny, pae-faced, sickly type OF the genus
| hom0;' prenatal murder was not then the
fashion as now; French atheism and cummun-
ism, spiritualism and Victoria WoodhulpS new
gospel of marriage and divorce" had not in
that day become Il high type Of civilization. 1t
was an old house of one front room; afterwards
another was added. The house where George
| Lawrence now resides on Main street, was built
by the Richardson family; it is an old aud ven
cradle house, and is soon 10 be replaced by an
| elegant mansion.
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ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2S.-After the passage by the
legislature of the concurrent resolution recurring
the payment of maturing state bonds TO be made
in greenbacks, Governor Brown submitted the
matter TO the supreme court, and they have to-
day decided that the bonds must be paid in coin.
The decision was presented to the senate with
the governors veto.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-18

We are all familiar with the outside, at least
of those doubtless valuable, but certainly not
attractive volumes, known as public documents
although few can claim an acquaintance with
their contents. They are probably perused with
care by the prooG-readers, and to some extent by
a few unfortunate persons whose duties make it
necessary TO consult them. For the rest thew
serve to fill some shelves in public libraries and
to swell their aggregate number of volumes
We have heard OF one college library, quite re-
spectacle in point of mere numbers, about nine
ty-6ye per cent of whose books belonged to this
unapprecated class of literature. There were
but few applications to take books from that IL
brary, and its reading room was not much fire.
quented. These documents are also said to be
found available by congressman in concil-
iatiDg their rural constituents, who are
pleased to learn, by the receipt of
the volume, that they are not quite
FORGOTTEN by their Iepies entatiye at Wash
iDgton. We have heard also of congressman
making not altogether despicable additions to
thur incomes by selling some tons of these
books when paper stock was scarce and high
These more or less legitimate uses include all
for which the national public documents are
supposed TO be available 1t has never vet oc-
CURED to us to meet any one so sanguine as to
expect TO find in one Of them matter of enter
tainment or general instruction. OF course
most OF them have their use. All civilized gov
ernments fud it desirable to print more or less
OF them. But to publish the enormous number
issued annually by the order of congress for dis
tribution by its membes, is worse than waste
OF the money which they cost, and their distri
button through the mails is the chief burden m
yolved in the franking privilege.
While our opinion Of the general value of
these documents is but moderate, our national
rride is somewhat grahfed by the inlorma lion
that a critical authority no less exacting than
the Saturday Review, considers them of far
more varied value and interest than the CORES.
ponding British volumes. Perhaps it is their
admirable system of civil service, of which Mr..
Hughes and MIR. Mundella spoke with such JUS
uhable pride during their recent visit TO this
country, which enables the English bureau
Official TO construct reports SO fearfuIIv and
wonderfully dun that even one of our ppblic
documents is light and pleasant reading in COM
parlson. The Saturday Review, we presume, is
Lot more easily entertained than the majority
OF his countrymen, who win be surprised To
learn what an inexhaustlble mine of amusement
the issues of our congressional printing office
would afford if only they were accessible. 1t is
sad to think, however that a nation with such
an enYable readiness to be interested aud
amused, should not have the opportunity to
combine pleasure and instruction by drawing
their Information about public affairs from doc.
nments at least as entertaining us ours.
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the setting of the sun. This divide is so called
on account of IFS being situated between two
rivers, which are supplied with ample resources
of good timber, sufficient for great population
Certainly this part of the country offers great
inducements to settlers.
Des Mones, the capital Of this beautiful state,
is pleasantly located in the midst of a timbered
bottom, on both sides of the Des Moines river,
and connected by four bridges, which transfer
steam cars, horse cars, vehicles and passengers
respectively. The city is regularly laid out,
supplied with gas and water works, and for a
comparatively level place it has some agreeable
drives. Its streets are lined with many first
class dwelling houses and stores; the latter of
which receive local patronage from popula-
ton of about fifteen thousand inhabitants.
FREDRo.
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woRCE sTER
THURSDAY. JANUARY Is. 1879.

The senate Investigating committee, at New
York, is getting some light on the conduct of
Mr.. Murphy as leader of faction in the repub-
lican party. 1t has been proved that he allowed
no man to be connected with the custom house,
who would not do his will as a factionist. 1t is
now proved that he could effect removals at the
navy yard, to punish refusal to serve his factious
proceedings. He secured the removal of George
Ii. Van Cleft, engineer, against Capt. Ammen's
efforts to retain him, solely because Van Cleft
was not submissive to Murphy's dictaton in the
matter of voting for delegates to a county con-
Yention. 1t is manifest already that Mr.. Muir
phys chief occupation was management OF the
affairs of his faction, and that he carried his
points at Washington by means OF false repre-
sentations His method was TO describe his OPP
ponents as "Tammany republicans, and "ene-
mics of the administration" The present state
of faction in the republican party of New York
city is due almost wholly to him and Senator
COnklinT
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"Aev. MIR. HepwOrth's Change of Huse. .,
This was the subject Of a discourse delivered
by Rev. Mr. Hatch in the Unitarian church at
Westboro last Sunday morning, from the text,
mo man can serve two masters"
The same truth, be said, was conveyed in tbe
common proverb concerning the attempt TO
ride two horses, which, especially if the horses
were very different in size and gait must be a
dhhcnlt feat. If the horses were not only i'll.
matched but headed in diverse or opposite dlrec.
Tons, the attempt became foolhardy and ridicu.
lous.
Yet this Is what seems TO have been ATTEMPTED.
III one Of the largest churches Of our denomina-
ton' by one Of our most popular preachers for
twelve months past.
He Is satisfied at last, we hope, that il cannot
De done, any more than two railway trains can
be run successfully 10 opposite directions on the
same track. Only what a pity that il should
take him so long to find IL outi He Is NOT nat.
uraily slow-witted, and we conclude that il bas
been, perhaps, excessive self-confdenee and In.
ordinate ambition which has caused this delusion
rather than dullness of comprehension
we are Old that bis sympathies or a full year
have Deen WITH the 1Tinitarians more than the
Unitauans. Yet all this time he has been a
protested Unitarian, settled pastor OF an ayow
eoN Unitarian society, and receiving very
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Deficient health does net commonly consist in any
special functional arrangement, and still less in any
special organic arrangement, but is Simply this-want
OF sufficient nourshment. There is it may be, abund-
ance OF foods hut then the complicated apparatus which
ought to convert this food into nutritious blood Is not
working arsllt,=and, in This way, mutluainOus myri-
ads actually starved slowly and miserably starved
in the very presence OF plenty and find eif only asylum
from wretched lie in premature gravel But it is
the property of certain substances when received into
the system, to repair this complicated apparatus-to
urge forward, that is, the work of nutrition Under the
of DR.. Gotteb Fisch's Bitters, have prepar
alton which thus urges Iorward-aiid that permanently
tool winegassfu taken before after eating, gives
both Increased general appetite, and increase capacity
to digest the food received. Experiment will verify
this. This subject continued next week under "The
Importance Ofhealth," deOpl&wlw jal5
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is THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH SOLID OR
LIQUID.-Although the doctrine That the earth
is molten sphere, surrounded by a thin crust
OF solid matter was once almost universally
taught by biologists, there have of late years
been brought forward several arguments 10 the
contrary, which apparently, are more in favor
of its being solid, or nearly solid mass through
out; and these arguments are fully entitled to
orr consideration, as our object is not to defend
any particular theory but TO arrive, as nearly rs
we can, at the truth. | will, therefore, in the
hist place, proceed TO scrutinlze all which has
been brought forward in opposition to the older
hypothesis and then to consider whether any
other explanation yet advanced is more in &C.
cordance with the facts of the case.
First OF all we are TO answer the question as
to whether 1t is possible for such thin crust 10
remain solid, and not at once to become melted
up and absorbed into the greater mass of molten
matter beneath it2 This latter wonld doubtless
be the case, If the fluid mass had any means of
keeping up its high temperature, independently
of the amount of heat II actually possessed
when it originally assumed the form Of an ig-
neous globe. The question, however, in reality
answers itself in The negative since II is evident
that no crust could even commence to form on
the surface unless the sphere itself was at the
nom Mt actually giving off more heat from its
outer surface to the surrounding atmosphere
than i could supply from its more central parts
IN order to keep the whole in perfectly fluid
cohdltion; so that, when once such crust,
however thin, had formed upon its surface, Il is
sell evident that 1t could not again become
melted or feabsorbed INTO the flud mass below
Tue external process of solidihcauou due TO
the refrigeration, would then continue going on
from t1e outside inward. until thickness of
crust mad been attained sufficient to arrest, or
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Special Aotttes.


The Citadel of Life in state of siege all through the
year, but is closely invested than in mid
winter. The liver is usually somewhat torpid, and the
bowels or less cOnspated at this season. and dys
pepsia often its aggravated form in cold
and wet weather In short, the sluggish system seems
inclined to interm shirk of ITS most important
duties under the influence OF a low temperature, and
requires wholesome stimulation. The spur required
is Hosteters Stomach Bitters the only medicine which
qucken3 the action the secretiye organs, and brings
out the latent vitality of the system without creating
any febrile symptoms, the slightest nervous excite
ment.
The great Vegetable Tonic Is not recommended
specific for coughs, colds and consuInpionthat field
being left open the concoctors of preparations which
cannot by any possibility reach the lungs! but as
specific for the constitutional and physical weakness
which invite pulmonary disease 1t is literally inallbe
Tie sidious and terrible enemy Of human life is
not disease ITSELF but the weakness which affords it
opportunity to gain firm hold Of the vital system.
Remember that Stamina, Vital Energy-the life-prhci-
pie whatever you may choose to call the resistant
power which battles against the of disease and
DEATH ia the grand safeguard Of hedh 1t the garr
son of the human fortress and when weak the
true policy is TO throw In reinfor ements. In other
words, when such an emergency occurs commence
course OF Hosletter's Bitters. d&wlw JalS
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LAE HIST MARK ETS.
NEW YORK STOCY NARKr FIT

NEW YORK, Jan. II Money was easy at a I per
cent, closing at a. per cent. Currency is pouring
from all points, and the banks offering lend
ional bank NOTES for five days free OF interest," provided
the borrowers return legal tenders. Sterling duh lO9h
a 1894. Gold steady at 1857 "a 1903 Carrying rates 5
"a per cent Clearngs S23000000 Governments strong
strong ant higher. State securities strong ana higher
The stock market has shown speculative buoyancy
than any me for months past and prices advanced on
large Transactions irrespective of the intrinsic merits
Of respective stocks. Since the O'Clock ca about
10000 shares of Union actc stock have changed hands,
The features Of the day Pacinc Mail Union PACING
Northwestern, WABASH, st. Paul, Western Union, nd
st Joseph. The advance ranged Il to A per cent,
Which as followed by a reaction late in the day when
some spectators sold their stocks and accepted the nyt
Ial IArnHl Is uEL he nLlNl
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WORTHY OF Moran exchange says tneIe is scarce
y day passes that do not hear either from persons
coming into our office or other way, Of the sue
cess of JobRson's AROdyRe LihimeHt in the cure Of
coughs and colds. SO prevalent about town just now
five can benefit the readers the Worcester Daily
Spy any by recommending Parsons Pargdtire Pills to
be the anti-blious medicine the country we are
willing to do so. We have had about good chance to
know as any one deop3t&wlw ja5
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Artificial milk has been prepared by a French
chemist from sugar, dried whites of eggs, car
Donate oil soda, olive oil and water. BY substi-
tuting gclatine for the whites of eggs and with
less admiXture Of water, cream is Obtained
Another chemist, Gaudin, id discussing the pre-
ceding suggestion, gives his testimony as TO deDr-
wing fat of all unpleasant Odor by mere subsection
to an appropriate temperature He also states
that very good artificial milk eau tie prepared
from bones rich in fat, by purifying this fat by
means of superheated steam, and combining the
fat thus obtained with gelatine. This milk is,
he says, almost like that of the cow and, when
kept, acquires first the odor of sour milk, then
that of cheese. The gelatine in it represents the
clseine; the fat, the bdtteri the sugar, the SUI
car of milk. 1t serves for the preparation of
coffee and chocolate, of soups, and creams OF
excellent favor, and its cost is but trihing.
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NoTTcE.-The annual clearing out sale of our
fancy dry goods, hosiery, gloves, under garments
laces small wares, &C.. will commence Thursday
Jan. IS, and to continue for fifteen days Prices of
all our goods greatly reduced! Now is the time to
buy nice goods at low prices. We want our Gus
toners TO understand when we advertise to sell
cheap, we do so, and we shall be glad to show our
goods and prices, if they will please call at C. B.
Eaton's, $50 Main street, Worcester Mass.
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y The most rigid OF strict constructionists is
judge in California who decided that grocer
had committed no offence against the revenue
laws in selling unstamped packages OF matches,
because, having been kept under the counter
they were not 'exposed for sale" within the
meaning OF the law. This is said to have been
test case, on which other prosecutions de-
pended, and through its failure were abandoned.
The decision deserves a place among the curios-
tiles of jurisprudence.
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Reissues. Extensions and Foreign Patents procured;
IntcreTCnces ConductCd all kinds OF business with the
PATENT OFFICE,
Transfers of Rights and Patent Gases attended to, by
JAMES G. ARNOLD, Worcester, Mass.
OFFICE No. 1903 MAIN ST.
al
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nos GsTTo MARK Ers

Jew YORK. Jan. II. Cotton steady: sales lam b,ios.
mddhng uplands 2lac. Flour Sigh ~ lower; sales 7O
Dds slate s5,9J a. I20 Ohio SG15 "a 745, western
s59O "a $3.50; southern S6sl "a $50 Wheat 1nct anJ
less imi 70 ring sl,57 O. lbs In store No 4 ST s.
~ 9o III store winter red western S60 "a 1854: white
Michigan S6S "a l,73 Corn her easer sales nj an
hushi new mix q western n "a 75c aoat; old IA in
store Oats less firm; sales 81 900 bush at 81 "a c Ranf
stety POrk nrmeri new mess Sl4 So; old $3.50 Lard
easier az "a 9hc. utter rrn. Whiskey nominnliv
wc Rtc hrn * a. sac SUGAR IRA; SuscoyaIo q
W 9aei refining 80 q 94c. Coffee rin; Rio In Id 1l
MOlas'es urn New Orleans As 20 5sc Spirits turpentne
very m AZ o. 09 Oc; rosn seay at for strnined
petroleum dull crude l34ci refined 239 IA 2Lc raiiow
sseldV at ~ % 95.c Wool firm pulled is ID SIC
CHICAGO, Jan II Flour unchanged Wbent anil and
lover NO ! spring Sl21A NO2 Sl22h; No9 Si "a a.
~ toln dull and lower; No2 mixed 40k; rejected N
@ @Ac oats dull ana lower No Z, 323sc reeefed 27M
@ 29Ac. rye dull and unclaimed Barley dni and a
&c, Pork du and lower, at STATS. Hams In n cks
Yvc Green meas quiet and lower; hams &c sbou.
ders 4ei rough sides sac; rho rios 5hc short clear
9Ac Bulk meats av,rage We lower. Live hogs dun and
urogpg AZ 81 % Si,i5; dressed hogs weak and lower
~ S4.io ~ 80 Recopts-iJ00 bbls four " 600 hush
w1ea, 1900 b1sh corn 2iOOO bush oats 1000 bush I'VE
u IVY 69s, barley 1000 hogs Shipments 5000 bbls
700 bush rye 1000 bush barley, 1000 hoss Y-'''
CINCINNATI, Jan l1-Pork dropping at Sl3l2N Lard
quiet; steam sNc; kettle &c. Bulk meats droopng.
shoulders 6hci slices 50 "a 6Tc, Bacon aun; shoulders
Bhc; sides u % 74c Live hogs in gooi opinand al
$40 70 1905 receipts 6jVJ Whlsbey steady at ssc
Green eas quet at 4Ac for shoulders and 6Ae Tor sides
anus 10 Sac. '
srw oRLrAss, Jan II Cotton dull mlddlings sON a
FOREIGN Mnrketa.--rTv Atlantic Cable1
LONDON, Jan. T.-COnsOle closed at GIN IT, T. k.20s
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ABEAurrFuL EXTRACT is sold by druggists, called VIII
liam's Extract Jamaica Ginger.
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A STABLE ms ITUTIoY.-Just at the perod when all
stable complaining that the horse tmeuts
of the day unstable remedies the MUST ING LINZ
ma lie its Mis- oud, without any flourish
of trumpets, and, within became the iavorte
embrocaon for the external dstemDers and injuries OF
horses and cattle in all the and southern states
From that time to this it has had rival in the
estimation of accomplished horsemen nor is its house
hold reputation for rheumatism. neuralgia,
nipples and caked breasts tumOrs, mumos, sore
throat earlche toothsche bruises, burns, WOUNDS and
sprains. whit behind its celebrity horse niment.
The mothers of America know its value, and apply it
promptly the ernal injuries of the rising genera
ton and in fact there is not city township in the
United States where the MUSTANG IINIMEST Is not
garded by both and every blessing the
community. deop3t6wlw ial2
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1862 s2h; do 1865 DID, 93s do. 1861, 93i tenorties
on.
LIVERPOOL Jan. II Cotton dull and easier; middlng
uni lnds Old do Orleans load; aes 10000 bales; sales
at sea, nearly due from New orleans. 10 ll-l6d.
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The late James Fisk, Jr., had many admirers
men like Tweed, for example, to whom hon
esty and honor are words without meaning.
He had also some apologists, of whom his chap
lain, the Rev. Mr. Flagg, was perhaps the most
conspicuous; and the press also has furnished
several. But we have observed only one open
and unmistakable eulogist of the deceased, and
he is the editor of the Paterson, New Jersey,
Guardian. That paper published an obituary
of Fisk, beginning with the statement that ono
death that has occurred since Abraham Lincoln
was assassnacd, has produced so deep so uni
versal an emotion in our community" and
winds up with the following burst of sorrow:
James Fisk Is now dead. There are plenty
Of men who will talk of him with the same
envy which poisoned the lips OF people when he
was living. There are foul birds ever fitting
about in the neighborhood of a dead carcass
and those with poisoned tongues are ready to
speak lily of the dying; but despite magnancy
and hate, and the worst that can be said, the
prince of Erie will ever live in the pleasing re-
membrance of all who knew him. We look
uton James Fisk as one of the most remark
able types OF The national character as vet de.
veloped We regard his death as a private and
personal grief and a public and national ca
lumity,
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Letter from the West.

Chicago TO KeOAuk and Des MOines-
On the Way-Fxeokuk Business and
surrOundInEs-NaIi ship CanaI-
The Des MOines valIey-yisIt 10 the
State Capital.
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The quarrel of factions in Louisiana has
reached point of comparative quiet, without
producing "civil war;" One or two men have
been killed, but the danger of riotous conflict
seems to have passed away. We have not much
respect for any Of the parties to this QUARREL but
it seems to us good result thar the socalled
"cuslom house parry" has been defeated Col
lector Casey and other government officials at
New Orleans, have sought to do there what Col
lector Murphy aud his followers have sought to
do in New York; but they had different field
and allowed themselves to be more violent ard
INSCRIPTIONS. We wish louisiana had g better
legislature and better state government; but
we are sure that Collector Casey and his follow
ers ought tn he removed. He has sought to
make himself dictator of the republican party
in Louisiana, and has used infamous methods to
reach this end; that is TO say, there is method of
political intrigue and conspiracy which he had
selupled TO use. Certainly, he and his asso
ciates have misused their official position; and
they should be called to strict account for it.