Talking with Capt.

Blakeslee a few days since, he related an incident which happened when he was a boy, sixty years ago, and lived on a farm in Litchfield.

One day Mr.Terry came to the house where he lived to sell a clock.

The man with whom young Blakeslee lived, left him to plow in the field and went to the house to make a bargain for it, which he did, paying Mr.Terry in salt pork, a part of which he carried home in his saddle-bags where he had carried the clock.

He was at that time very poor, but twenty-five years after was worth $200,000, all of which he made in the clock business.
Mr.Terry sold out his business to Seth Thomas and Silas Hoadley, two of his leading workmen, in 1810.