Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-05-27
INTEREsTlNa no MECHANICS.
From the n. York Evening Post.

INTEREsTING no MECHANICS.
From the N. York Evening Post
Turn out.-This forenoon the Jour
neymeD carpenters threw down their
jack planes, and turned out in a body
for higher wages, and marchc d through
Broadway and the principal streets IN
the city. The great number OF build
ings that have been commenced this
spring and are now going on, has in.
creased the demand for carpenters, and
indeed every thing else connected
with house building, and affords an OPP
portnnity to ask for higher wages
Such is the demand Tor b.ick, that we
understand the price now given is 81
"a thousand Journeymen carpenters
IN the neighborlng towns and states.
will hnd immediate employ by coming
to The city, and those having bricks to
dispose of, will embrace The present
moment to bring them TO market
We think it proper (says the Baltl-
more Federal Gazette to add to the
above hint by way of caution, which
may be useful at future day when
times change BY law lately made
by the judges of our Court of Appeals
(for they often iegislate) such a turn
out as the above in this state is decla-
red to be a conspiracy, and persons
convicted of agreeing to effect such
Il purpose would be punishable ny fine
and imprisonment; or. if the judges
should think proper nigh, be put into
the stocks or pillory!!.
Neutrality-suspicious. are in Worces-
ter Co. Mass 81 cotton factories em-
ploying 1880 persons, % woollen fac
| tories, employing 1860 persons, and 40
machine shops employing more than
500 workmen. The business Of MAX
ing cards and maehienry EMPLOYS al
m ost the whole town Of Leichester.
Gard making gives good living to
1900 women and children.
A most unfortunate and distressing
circumstance occurred in Winsted,
(Conl on Friday the ID instant, among
the children at school, some of whom,
at the intermission, dug and ate of the
root OF the Cicuta Macula Ia or Amerl-
eau hemlock, commonly called Muskrat
root or water fenne!. The teacher, on
calling the school together, found that
two boys were taken suddenly i'll; they
were removed to house, and the ply
stefan fortunately being home, was CALI
ed Immediately to their aid; upon in
curry, it was found that thcY and seven
others had eaten Of the aforementioned
root. BY the promp exertion Of Doct.
Wakefield, they are all restored to
health, except the two first taken, who
expired in less than two hours from the
time they ate it. Their systoms were
vomiting, >tupor, great paleness, and
universal distress; blood s iroth issued
from their mouths, their eyes were fixed,
the eye-lids in rapid motion; convul-
sion and death ensued. This plant
grows in wet meadows to the height OF
three or four feet; it flowers in July
and August; the root is perennial; it
has strong smell, somewhat resem-
bling parsnlp; 1t has large number
OF dubious prongs projecting from the
stem, when broken, yellow juice will
proceed from it,
A gentleman has suggested, that all
possibility of danger from the use of the
steam, and. of one cause of apprehen-
sion, would be removed by placing the
steam apparatus in separate boat, to
which mightbe attached light and con-
venient vessel for the passengers. We
mention this suggestion for the consi-
4 tin.,, e thnsn txhn ere more CONNIE