The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-03-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

John Monro, the old man in Glenary. Areyll.
shire, famed for his singular predictions for
immersing himself in cold water breathed his
last on the 18Th of December, at the advanced
age of So. Our readers may reccollect. that
on former occasion we took notice of The
extraordinary habits of this venerable noun
taineer For many years it was his daily
practice to plunge, with his clothes on. into
the river Area and so far did habit become
nature, that if compelled TO remain for any
length of time with dry skin, he felt all the
uneasiness OF fish out Of water.-He ALWAYS
enjoyed excellent health and, till his last i'll
ness, had never been twice seriously indispos
ed, and on these occasions, as an antidote.
his aged helpmate had to souse him over head
and ears at his bed side, a remedy that never
failed to restore his health. A few DAYS be-
fore his death, he had been prevailed upon to
leave has ancient habitation at Glenarv. 70
reside with his daughter at Furnace, near In
vernary, that he might have the advantage of
her care; but all her a1ectionate tender-
ness could not make up 10 poor John the loss
OF his native stream; sickness came-and he
who had for SO winters braved many bitter
storm, was evidently soon TO submit to the
grim king of terrors. Still he clung 10 his
specific; and a few hours before he breatbed
his last, he earnestly beseeched he might be
carried back and plunged in the stream of his
native Glenary, when he soon would be we
again. bis request came too late had his
friends been even disposed to comply with il.
He retained all his faculties to the last; and
such was the high estimation in which his
worth and infiexible honesty were held. that
his remains were attended to the place an
pointed for all living by concourse of friends
that docs not always honor the obsequies of
those in more exalted stations,
Stirling eng. } Journal.
A native of the Department Of Mavence.
in France, now resides in Paris, who is 7 feet
l-2 inches high, and is called giant. He
is of an afiable temper, and receives his nu.
nerous visitors with great politeness.
Lightning. ---On Monday evening, Goth
inst. the house of Mr.. Abraham Parker, in
Newton, was struck by lightning 1t first
struck the top of the chimney, and threw off a
number Of the bricks from which it passed
INTO room, exactly against the head of a bed
On which two children were sleeping, who
we're thrown to the farther side of the room. |
L then passed into closet in the lower room. |
entered the tube of lamp-6ller, and passed |
,ut through the bottom, ran along the shell, |
passed through crevice in the chimney, near
which an iron shovel was standing, which |
conducted the fluid 10 a crevice in the hearth, |
Trough which it passed into the earth. A |
10Y, who had his hands on the andiron, was
brown several feet, and all the fire was
brown into the room. The shovel and tongs
we're melted in several spots. The three |
hildren, though stunned, were aot otherwise
urt.
Another Gold Mine has been discovered,
bout half mile from Charlotte, N. C. on
40 plantation of Major Macomb.