The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-07-11


, lacerated the breast and arms of the nm
: fortunate man with his talons, that his bare
!, pones were laid open. The lion fell at
last from loss of blood, and Cert fell along
WIN him>, The cowardly companion who
had witnessed this fearful struggle from
the rock, now, however, took courage to
+ advance, and succeeded in carrying his
mangled friend to the nearest house
where such surgical aid as the neirhbors
could give, was Immediately but vainly APP
piled. Poor Cert expired on the third day
after, of lockedzjaw.
From the Hartford Mirror.
/ HE LOST CHILD. Last week, a rnarri-'
ed woman in the neighboring town of -,
who had been working in cotton factory,
missed, some hour or so after sunset, her
little boy of about four years old. Hoy
long he had been gone, could not be told,
Tor the woman had been hard at work all
the afternoon. Her first search was silent
and alone-hoping to find him, and dislik-
ing to communicate a mothers apprehen-
slons to the other males and females of the
cotton factory. The night grew very dark
and the search very hopeless, and resort
was finally had to all the men, women and
children Of the establishment to help find
her bov.
| The Buildings, with all their stories and
cellars, their slucies, wheels, bands, buck
les, were searched with an awful appre-
hension on the part of the mother, and her
assistants, yet more horrible though I'M
detinable hope, tive viii out with the word,
though 1T shame human nature,) of finding
leg or an arm among some part of the
machinery. Nothing, not even curl of
his hair was to be found on the well exam
ined cogs. Lanterns were in vain carrf-
; ed in minute search round all the premises.
Some one, when all other aid seemed to
fail, proposed to ring the factory BELL
The lanterns and the factory bell in the
night, aroused all the bells in the neighbor-
hood, and all the inhabitants of the CON
tiguous city. The cry of fire." and of
".where is it" was raised at once. Down
came the engines-down came the people,
and best of all, down came the Fire Ward
ems.
Joab Stark, hard working man in tie
day time, and proportionally hard sleep
ing man in the night, had heard nothing
| of all this disturbance, though he LODGED
in the factory buildings, and though thew
had been ransacked from ridgepole to
foundation, until he was aroused by tic
voice of an energetic Fire Warden, who
for once, did not exactly know what he
was about, with the plain and inteHigible
AcommaHd. e form line" At which he
awoke and inquired what was the matter
The warden couldn't tell him, but the moth
er could-s She had lost her chiad," she
said, " her little Jim, that he used to rlsv
with, and she ce".ild'nt find him, and the
Engines hadn't any thing to do with it,
|" All fiIeloch," said Joab, 81 went, out on
an arrand this afternoon TO the,paper mill,
and / see Jim at Squire Tim Hancock's-
he'd run away and was too tired to walk
back, and l tho't he'd better stay there, and
I'd come back and tell the folks where he
was-and then when come back, for
got all about It,
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. OF all
things, deliver us from the man who attends
to his neighbor's business, and leaves his
own at loose ends. A meddlmg body is a
torment to his neighherhood, and not much
comfort to himself; for, continually inter
| feling in that which is none of his business, :
he subjects himself to the just reproof Of
those he would thrust his gratuitous SER
vices upon. 1t matters not whether it be
in religion, politics, or the common
concerns of domestic life, let every man
attend to his own business, and then
every mans business viii be attended to.
4 Advice comes soon enough when asked,
and no man likes to have his neighbours
nose gratuitously poked into his family coi;-
Germs, his out-of-door business, or his man
ner of thinking upon any subject; all be-
lieve it is their privilege to do what tbey
think fit in their own premises, and to do It
! in their own wev. The man who inter
| feres with the business of others, almost
always neglects his own, and while doing
that which no one thanks him for, not un
| frequently permits his family to come To
want. No man who strictly attends to
what interests him, will have time or incli-
nation to manage the concerns of his neigh
bors, he will pursue his own course, suffer
others to do the same he will be generous
enough to believe other folks know some
| thing as we'll as himself 1t is intolerablt.
to be continually bored in this way, in the
most trivial everyday business of life
What is it to me, if my neighbor permits
his cucumber vines to run on the ground,
instead of furnishing them with bushes, as
door fubs his razor on an old book Gov
er, instead of the metalick strap-or prunes
his fruit trees with a coarse or fine saw p
What right have | to find fault with the
dress or education of his family? with the
color of his hat or the cut of his coat r.
And if he build house, does it concern
me whether it front north or south-or
whether it be large or small, convenient or.
inconvenient? 1t does motif it be my
neighbours right to consult his own taste in
these matters, let US yield him this right
. And when in dipping our fingers into other
peoples porridge-dishes, VIC chance to gel
: them scalded, let it teach us to mind no.
! body's business'but our own.--Harrea Star,
.
|. BLAcKBERRY SIRuP. The present be-
e inc not only a seasonable time to prepare