Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-21

The authorities of the Germantown, Pa, poor
house have named the last founding brought
| thither "DOlly Warden.
All round London yiolets are grown by acres,
the sort being an improved form OF the single
Russian violet
At San Diego, Cal, there is now to be seen
sheato barley, $50 stalks, which all sprang from
single seed. Each stalk has regular head
of grain upon it.
California papers are boastng of a tomato
vine which was set out last year, and is now
three inches in diameter, eight feet across the
branches, and eighteen feet in height, being
trained against support.
The local Kentucky mind is thus argued into
reconciliation to Greeley by the Louisville Cour-
ierJournal Nobody should object to Greeley
because he is a teetotaler. His abstinence leaves
all the more whiskey for the rest of us.
A Yankee boy has made the fortune of Ber-
lin confectioner by letting him into the secret of
making molasses candy, which heretofore mas
been an unknown luxury in Germany.
Dunlop says that in all European literature
there are not more than 300 distinct plots, and
80 of these are earlier than Christianity. Al
most all the newspaper jokes have reached
venerable old age, and all the Irish bulls are
Greek.
The editor of the Philadelphia Press has re-
ceived call from one John Won Rott, the sur
vivor of ten brothers, all of whom enlisted for
the war in that city, and eight of whom persisted
in BATTLE the ninth dying in the prison pen at
Salisbury by the side of john, whose twin broth
err he was. His father, then in his S9th year,
also entered the service with his sons, succeed
ing in passing the mastering officer by dyeing
his hair black. AT the close of the second battle
of Bull Run he returned home, then over ninety,
and died five days afterward. President Lincoln
was so much impressed by the venerable mans
patriotism and by the yalor and determination
of his sons, that he ordered a present of $500 in
gold to be made to him. John, the survivor,
told the editor of the Press that he was a
Staunch Grant man, land would not vote the
democratic ticket for the whole city of Phila-
delphia."
Gen. Devens in his address to the society of
the army of the Potomac at Cleveland, applied to
Gen. Grant Millions estimate of Cromwell, as
follows Wherefore you speak contemptibly
of his parts | know not, but | suspect you are
not free from the error common to studious and
speculative men. Because Oliver was an un-
graceful orator, aud never said either in
public or private anything memorable, you will
have it that he was of mean capacity. Sure
this is unjust. Many men have been ignorant
of letters, without wit, without eloquence, who
yet had the wisdom to devise and the courage
to per form that which they lacked language
to explain. Such men, often in troubled times,
have worked out the tlcliverance of nations and
their own greatness not by logic, but by wari-
ness in success, by calmness in danger, by firm
and stubborn resolution in all adversely. The
hearts of men are their books, events are their
tutors, great actions their eloquence, and such
an one, in my Judgment was his late highness.
His own deeds shall aYOuch him
for a great statesman, a great soldier
a true lover of his country, Il merciful
and generous conqueror"