The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-05-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MORE OPERATIONS OF TIE STEAM Doc
ToRs.-By the Peoples Press of the 18th inst.
we learn that William Terry, OF Pembroke,
aged 90 years, died on the 9th inst. bv
steaming. Terry is represented as worthy
young man; he had been laboring under a
slight RENTING fever; a notorious quack and
impostor,by the name Of Bingham, was called,
and instead of using the lancet, applied
steam bath of high temperature, prescribing
tircture of cayenne and myrrh, which increas-
cd the feverto what might be termed high
pressure, and produced delirium, which con-
tinued several days till death closed the
scene.
A grand ErploSion.-To answer double
purpose Of celebrating the next anniversary of
our Independence and making improvements,
some of the citizens of Ulster County IN. W
intend 10 charge large rock with iwo thou
sand pounds Of gun-powder, and it is expect
ed that the report of the explosion will be
heard over great part of the New England
States.
american Tract Society.--The first annual
report of this Society states, tina: the publish
ing Committee had already approved one hun
drcd and eighty five Tracts. The whole
number printed by the Society is 697, 900,
comprising 8,053,5O0 pages. About 337, PIT
tracts have been distributed. The receipts,
during the past year for publishing Of tracts,
amount to $40, 1853: rs.
U1liied Domestic Missionary Sociefy.-Dur-
ing the last year, this Society has aided one
hundred and forty eight churches, at an ex-
pense Of Sl0,156. The receipts last year
amounted 10 S11, 804, and the amount now in
the Treasury, is ST. CAT.
Ur,ited Foreign Missionary Socieiy.-The
report of this Society gives a favorable &C
count of the different Missionary stations "a
mong the Indians. Six heather youth have
been supported at the Cornwall School blythe
Society during the last year. The receipts
were $l4, 1893: 10; expenditures, $23, 428: "a.
Presbyterian Education Socteiy.-Thc OBJ.
ject of this Society is to afort. assistance in the
education Of young men of piety and talents.
The number Of Students, now under its pat
ronage, is estimated at about one hundred
and twenty-five. The amount expended last
year was Si,400: 90. Balance now in the
Treasury, S196:76 The whole amount Of
income Of this Society is estimated at eight
thousand dollars.
american Society for n,eliordiing HE condi-
ffono Of The Jeics.--This Society has made a
grant Of one thousand dollars to Mr.. Frey,
and, at his request, has released him from his
engagement as Agent. During the past year.
one hundred and three Auxiliary Societies
have been formed, and fifteen dissolved. The
expenditures last year, were $7,494:25, leav-
ing balance in the Treasury of fifteen thou
sand fifteen hundred aud eIerer dollars and
ninety-six cents.
Sunday School Union.--The meeting Of this
Society was held in Castle Garden, and at
tended by the pupils, between fire and sac
thousand in number. There are sixty school.
connected with this Society, comprising FIVE
thousand and one scholars, of whom 2,939 can
read the Scriptures. Attached to these schools.
are fifteen libraries, containing, in the whole,
3,663.
.Awfui Calamity. Monday the first inst
house in Whitehall, Vt. owned and pceu.