Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-06-09

Lloyd, the celebrated pedestrian. start
ed yesterday morning at six o'clock, to
perform 10 miles fair heel and toe, 10
three successive hours he did six miles
in SIS minutes, and at the end of the Sec
ond hour had done IL miles and three
quarters, when it began to be perceiva-
BILE he lost ground which he could not
regain, and he lost the match by upwards
of a quarter of a mile; it was for TWEEN
ty-fve sovereigns. The pedestrian is
backed for SO sovereigns to stand twelve
hours on one leg next Monday, on which
large sum is depending.
Extraordinary Trstting Match.--On
Saturday, Mr.. Giles trotted his mare on
Sudbury Common, in harness, twenty
eight miles in the short space of one
hour and fifty-seven minutes and fifty
seconds. Mr.. Giles accomplished this
unparalleled achievement with the ut
most ease. Two hours was the time al
lowed He had two minutes and ten sec
onds to spare. This match was f100
to ESQ against the performance, yet
strange to say, the odds were FIVE and
six to four on the mare.--There is moth
ing like it on record.
The Bath paper says, "a cat, belong
ing to a person in the neighborhood of
Larkhall, has, during the past week, pro-
duced a most extraordinary progeny, a
kitten with one head and two bodies from
the shoulder, one male and the other
a female, with legs and every other part
Of the lower extremities perfect.
An eccentric old dame, who lately
died atthe west end of Dundee, and who
had been receiving benefit from char
table fund, left behind her the follow
ing strange assortment of articles 400
wOrk-bags, full of ribbons, sc. so pock-
cts, 500 thimbles, 100 snuG-boxes, a
great quantity of pins, 300 china and
chrystal articles, 100 pincushions and
needle-books, several pecks of buttons,
90 pairs of silk stockings and gloves, 400
matches, 100 penknives and scissors, "a
black silk bonnets, and a great number
of gowns.
On Sunday week, as a hen with her
brood of chickens, were cleaning round
the yard of a labouring man, named Hoy,
in the village of Stannington, sparrow
hawk suddenly descended, and, when in
the act of darting on the young, the cour-
ageous mother seized and held the plum
derer until the nephew of Hoy made him
prisoner.
Died, at ScotIand-wells, in Kinross-
shire, on the Goth ult. Janet Barclay, a
we'll known character for gaTrulous hon.
esty and hospitality, who had kept pub
lie house of some note, in her native viii
lage, for upwards of half a century, long
the general resort of the quid nuncs and
country politicians, where many knot
ty point both in church and state was dis
cussed. Her ambition was to render her
customers comfortable, and save as much
from the profits of one year as would pay
the Kings licence for the next. In this,
however, towards her 45th year in trade,
poor Janet failed--no licence for that
year was taken. She was called before
the Justices and fined in the sum of five
pounds. When the sentence was pro-
nounced, Janet cast significant glance
to the upper end of the table" All haze
We really fined me, Trufie ?''--' Deed
hae we Janet''-" how muckIe ?''--five
pounds, replied the venerable Justice,
Five pounds ?' vociferated Janet. look
ing towards their honours with sardon-
ic grin on her countenance that spoke
more than she could UTTER" All weel.
gentlemen, | Gamma but thank ye--l am
really much obliged to ye.-Had ye fin.
ed me olive shillings, wad haze made
a sair struggle TO hae paid it but for five
pounds, deed I'll ne'er fash my thumb
about it; sac fare ye a. weel, yes nc
soon see Jenny Barclays face in wor.
ry-cow court again." Dropping low
courtesy, Janet walked of, rejoicing al
the extent fher fine. She never obey
ed another summons, and still continued
to keep an open door for friends and ia
Vourites.
Fashionable FOllies.--Three indispen
sable requisites to the creation of fash
ionable party in London during the pres
ent Spring, with the price of each arti
Gle annexed "A dish of green pease
dressed plain, 10 guiueas Rossini dres
sed y Ordinaire, so guineas ! NapoIe
on's Mameluke full dressed, 100 gum
eas!!!
Great equestrian performance.--Mr. Alb
bot, of Bridgtown, Huntingdonshire
started on his match TO gallop 60 mile'
in three hours yesterday morning, a
daybrake, fof 200 soVereigns, on sil
horses. The rider weighed 9st. Glib
mounted, and betting was 5 to 4 on time
Tho anaaotrson o1.rIa1 $500 70 C..