The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-10-19

ABLY give some lurther particulars ~ our next
Adam Johnsor,s WW-The trial his case
took place at Northampton week before last.
By the will the sum of S9l2 was given TO the
heirs at law, brother. sister, and the heirs
of deceased sister, all in low circumstances.
The rest of lis property $4,000 was given
TO the AMI. College Institution. The 1st
question was whether Johnson was of a sound
mind and memory. The Cd, whether the will.
was obtained, when in weak state OF mind,
by importantly, or undue influence. On the
first question, eight Jurors were of opinion
that the testator was not of sound and dis
posing mind, and the same number, on the
second question, believed that improper influ-
ence had been used. As the jury could not
agree, the action was Of course continued.
A somewhat singular freak of dame fortune
is mentioned in the Commercial Advertiser.
poor man who had fallen into $ durance
vile," besought the officer in whose hands he
was, to take three tickets in the last Litera-
ture Lottery (Which was all he had in the
world to offer him, though not equal to the
demand,) and let him go. The officer took
the tickets, handed them over to the creditor,
and the prisoner was released from his con-
dnement. In few days after, one of these
tickets came out Pfize of twenty-five thou
| sand dollars. This identical ticket had been
| offered TO the officer by the creditor, as a gra-
! tulty for his services, who declined taking it
as he did not like the number, but chose ano-
ther which drew blank. 1t is to be hoped
the holder of the ticket will at least divide
his good fortune with the poor man who was
ITS owner, and who gave up bis claim to the
whole upon the compulson of the law.
Bost. Pat.
Race HOrses.-The New-York race horse
Eclipse has lately been purchased of his
former owners by Messrs Stevens and Livino-
ston, at the enormous price of $4,000. to
prevent his being sent from New-York to Vir-
gnla.-fiis competitor, Henry, of Virginia,
has also been purchased by the same gentle
men, at $4,000
The Missouri Advocate states, that copper
is found from Ouisconsin and the Falls of ST.
Anthony to the shores of Lake SUPERIOR in
such abundance and purity that the Indians
make hatchets and ornaments Of it, and that
it is easily worked into any form without any
! other instrument. than the hammer. The
whole region Of the upper Mississippi is mineral,
Astounding in lead and copper. The lead
mines are in the hands of the United States.
but the copper are still retained by the In
| dians.
Isaac B. Desha has again been conviated of
the murder OF Baker, but another trial has
been granted by the Judge, on the ground OF
iniormalIty IN the indictment, which did not
| specify the county In which the crime was
committed.
The value Of exports from New Orleans TO
foreign countries, for six months ending the
10Th OF June last, was S8,055,717. and ex-
ports coastwise $6,836, 798, making total OF
$14,892,515.
Il good eranspis.-A boy at Portsmouth
has been convicted of writing AN obscene
word on fence, and sentenced to pay fine
OF ten dollars. The same boy was likewise
lined dollars for pTofane swearing
u"y' '''~ $500 -a'v, sss,,o., trus ueen
appointed as a day of Thanksgiving in Tho
STATES OF New-iiampshire and Connecticut.
late census of the cities of Montreal ,nd
Suenec shews their population to be ncarl1,
equai' 'hat OF the former being nearly %. OO0
ana 'hat OF Quebec about 500 less.
The rich Girard, of Philadelphia i, about
10 erect buildings on his vacant lot on Market
ana Cnesnut-streets, and has already made
contracts to the amount of 100000.
Albany Albany is said to contain population of
l4'oUO. len steamboats, ply between that
cry and n. York, and it is visited weekly by
200 canal boats. -
A mushroom or puf.balI grew tb;s
year on the farm of David Hudson
Esq. in the.township of Hudson, weigh.
ing II pounds. Its horizontal circum-
terence feet 4 l-2 inches; its perpen-
dicuiar circumference 8 #. 8 I-2in.
ETpedaiOn 10 afr icG.--Captains Clapperton
and Pearce, and Doctors Morrison and VII
son, OF the Royal Navy, sailed from Plymouth
on the 27th of August, on their expedition in
10 Africa, to discover the sources of the Nj
ger. They will debsrk at,the Blight of Benin.
and Captain P. and DR.. NJ. will pursue the
shortest course for Timbuctoo. CAPTAIN c.
ana IL. w. are bound to the city of Soudap
TO open friendly communications with the in,
terror nations.
| Travels an .4frica.-A young man of for
tune, lately of Trinity College, Mr.. Bland
returned to Cairo with his friend Mr., Cromn,
ION, on the 18th of last May, after a Journey
across the desert, which was attended with =
good deal OF hardship, from the want of wa
ter and from the excessive heat They had
pursued the route of Moses and the Jsraelites
and, travelling with the Book of Exodus in
their hands, had reached Mount Sinai. They
drank their coffee ON the spot where Moses
received the Decalogue, visited the cave in
which Elijah had taken refuge at Horeb and
placed themselves on the stone wherein Mo- .
ses sat when his hands were lifted up whilst
Israel fought against Amslek. They discov-
cred also several caves containing curious OBJ
lects Of antiquity not hitherto known nor Wis
tied by any traveller. On their return to Cal
70 they were preparing to start for Jerusalem
and Damascus.
money lender in Paris had been convicted of
habltual usury, and fined 600O francs
new farce was in rehearsal at the English
Opera House, founded upon one of Washington
lrving's popular tales. Mathews is to be the
hero of it.
The Colombian cruisers continued to annoy