The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26


| ington's contemporaries held him in the
same esteem in which he is held today.
| But the editor of the Gazette was not
content with prose tributes. The faith
err of his country was not to be spared
the customary obituary poem. 1t APP
pears there lived in Kingston a poet,
and this was too great an event for the
muse of the local poet laureate to pass
by. The poet modestly refrains from
signing her name, but the editor indi-
| Gated that the ode on the death of
| Washington is "by a youny lady" Here
are a few StanZas of the ode written in
the classic pentameter couplets brought
into vogue by Pope:
What means that solemn dirge that
! strikes the ear?
4 What means those mournful sounds
| why shines the tear?
Why tolls the bell, the awful Enell of
fate?
All! why those signs that do my fancy
safe?
Where'er turn the general gloom APP
pears,
Those mourning badges fill my soul
with fears;
Hark! Yonder rueful noise! It's done!
tbs done!
The silent tomb invades our Washing
ton.
Weep kindred mortals, weep! no more
you'll find,
A man so just, so pure, so firm in
| mind;
Rejoicing angels hail the heavenly
sage!
Celestial spirits greet the wonder of-1he
age"
While the greater part of the papers
space is devoted to the funeral of
! Washington, there is still room for a
large amount of foreign news received
| in the British packet Princess Charlotte
| from Falmouth" Most of the news is
! four months late but that was before
the days of the Associated Press.
| There are long accounts of the Ma
| poleonic wars, then in progress
! throughout Europe There is a story oil
the evacuation of Holland by the Eng
lish at the battle of Zurich. Spain was
no more fortunate on the sea than al
| the present day, for we have this
Item
Two Spanish fIfgates. bound from
| the Havana, having on board upwards
of three millions and q half of dollars
| besides merchandise. were taken on the
18th of October by four British fri
gates and safely carried into Ply
| mouth"
| The advertisements are not the least
| interesting feature of the Gazette. Here
| Is one which shows that the slave trade
| still fiourished in New York state: For
sale. the one half of saw mill with a
convenient place for building. lying in
! the town of Rochester. BY the mill is
! an inexhaustible quantity Of pine wood.
( and also a stout, healthy negro wench.
Any person inclined to purchase may
know particulars by applying to John
| Shoemaker Jun. at Rochester"
Another valued subscriber advertises
| for a strayed red bull. The finder, it is
promise. will be suitably thanked"
Luther Andreas. a man apparently
of enterprise and ideas, advertises his
new cash business as follows;
He has received near every kind
That you in any store will find
And as 7 purchase by the bale,
] am determined to retail
For ready pay a little lower
Than ever have been had before.
I with my brethren mean to live
But this for credit will not give
would not live to rouse your passions.
For credit here is out of fashion,
My friends and buyers one and all.
1t will pay you well to give a call
You always may find me by my sign,
A few rods from the house divine
Cash, as Mr.. Andres understands
consists of wheat, rye, buckwheat, oats
corn, butter, flax, ashes and rawhides
NTauaxr In yc will M he