The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Amasa Southwick, formerly of Mendon, was
last week convicted, at Hartford, of putting ar
senic in the pump of one Of the Shaker fami-
lies at Enfield, Comm with the intent to poi
son them. Sentence-State Prison for life:
Dcfence-insanity.
IHE BLACKSMITH WHO PREFERRED TO WORK
WITHOUT WAGES. The Lexington, (Kv) Re-
porter mentions that the keeper of the peniten-
tiary, DESTROYS ofretaining an excellent black
smith. whose term of service expired, on &C.
count OF his mechanical skill. offered him SO or
gu dollars month, which he refused. He had
been however, but short time absent (perhaps
only few days. before he stole horse, for
which he was tried and again sentenced. So
that he has resumed his station without wages.
According to a recent publication there are,
in Great Britain and Ireland, $500, 900 people
Of the Church of England, 100000 Catholics,
and 8,6OOO00 Dissenters, Presbyterians, Meth
odists, &c. So that the State Church seems
to be the minority, if this estimate is correct.
CURE FOR THE STING OF WAsps. 1t has
been found, says the London Mechanics Mag
azine, that the best remedy for the sting of the
bee and the wasp, is application of salt mois-
tened with a little water; and even in a case
where person has hecn stung in the pipe, BY
accidentally swallowing one in draught of
any kind of liquor, the alarming symptoms
that ensue may be almost instantly relieved by
swallowing repeated doses of water saturated
with salt.
A lad has been fined dollars and cost for
entering an orchard, in Salem, with the intent
TO purloin fruit therefrom.
SPONTANEOUS CoMBUsTIoS. A few days
since in removing quantity of dry coal from
a large lot in a second story in a building, on
one OF the wharves IN town, the Iaborers DIS
covered portion of it to be on fire. So large
body indeed was ignted that it had charred
several planks and joists in the floor. The sim
gularity of this instance makes it deserving of
record.-Nca0bmrypO Herald.
ARTIFICIAL EYES. Mr.. John Scudder of
New York, advertises that on application to
him, he will supply the loss of an eye, by an
artificial enc, made to initiate the real eye, and
to move with it in any direction, and so nearly
resembling life, as "to deceive the most scep-
teal" His eyes are made of the finest French
enamel, highly polished, and he says will last
twenty years if not broken, and may be worn
with ease, and without the least pain.
A mammoth Peach, from the garden of
Col William Blodget, in this town, was yes
terday shown us. 1t is a blood peach of
the cling stone kind, weighing toocLve cum
ceS and a halt, and measuring in circumference
eleUen inches. We also have at our Office a
Edward Walcott, Esq. Of Pawtucket, which is
nine inches in circumference and weighs ten
ounces.-Proridence Journal.
The venerable survivor of venerable men,
Charles CARROLL, of Carollton, entered upon
his Goth year on the 2lst un. " His faculties
says the Baltimore Chronicle "remain unim-
paired, and his feelings and affections still
buoyant and warm
SPEEDY JUSTICE. The Stonington Conn
| Telegraph mentions that Block Islander, goi
drunk in that borough on Wednesday last
! knocked down a citizen, was himself taken up
| fined seven dollars and costs, and condemned
to thirty days imprisonment-and all this in
two hours. There is nothing like rum to facil-
itate that kind Of business; man will insure
to himself Jail or halter, with q bottle Of
rum, sooner than with any other legal means
that we know of.vU. S. Gazette
The Lion can seldom succeed in killing the
Cameleopard, owing to the thickness of the
skin. He has been known to spring upon its
back, and to have been carried distance of &C
miles His claws, however are so firmly fixed
that the terrified animal rarely succeeds in
| freeing himself from his rider, till the Lion
himself chooses to dismount.
! A French Journal has u tough account of q
Bat said to have been lately caught at Leige
which had on it gold Bracelet, inscribed with
the name of the great Emperor Galba--and the
Bat is therefore supposed to be 1900 years OLE
and to have lately escaped from some cav
ern, where it had been torpid till recently.
The Colombian dollar is singularly deficient
in standard and weight, its current and actua
value being only Is cents while the current
value of the dollar of Mexico, Central America
Peru, Chill, and La Plata, and the Brazilian
piece of 960 reas, dollars rcstampcd) is I0t
cents, and the actual value of nearly all of then
fraction more than that.--Sa cdnnGh Georgian
MANUFACTURES OF COMBS. 1t is stated tina
the manufacture of combs is carried on il
Lcominster, to greater extent than in am
other town in the United Satisfactorily Isl
persons are employed, and the value of the ar
ticle manufactured exceeds 100000.
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Capt. J. N. Rey
nolds, the pupils of Symmes, and who, it j
said, has stolen his masters trade, has announc
ed, in one of tho Baltimore papers, that finu
arrangements have been made for the com
mencement of the long talked of polar expedi
ton A contract has been made with an eS
pcronced naval architect, for the construction
of suitable vessel and the expedition is eS
pectcd to sail in the course OF tho COMM
season"
A man by the name of Tyler, was foun
: dead in a shed, in Pittstown, on the mornn
of the 9Th ult Flo died Of Snsorscction,