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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 261, 3 November 1877, Page 4

Down in Pang Yang, that delectuble region of lower Ulster that represents the lowest stratum of her humanity lives Blind Tom, one of tha most remarkable blind men in the country. Tom is totally blind, yet he do?s a full day's work in every kind of farming labor, hoeing core, digging potatoes, laying etone walls, threshing, Btoring hay in the mow— in fact almost anything a farmer has to do. He is a favorite hand with employing farmers aa ha is a vary faithful and intelligent worker, neeJiog uo supervision, and always turning out as full a day's work aa aay laborer on the farm. He walks the highway with do more hesitation than a man in full possession of bis eight, mak-JS his way to any of the neighbor's houses without the least trouble, and goes to Centreville, a distance of four miles, with no inconvenience. He chops all the wood for j family uae, gettiug it in the forest near by, iuto which he goes alone. He cau also distinguish the different qualities of wood, and also goes into these woods, finds the cows and bring3 them homa Tho whII near by has no curb, bat Tom goes to it every day alone and draws tha water far the family. Blind Tom is about 60 years old, aud ha3 lived in his cabin at Pang Yang nearly all his life. He is a colored man, and b^s a smart wife and eight children. — Eondout Courier.