The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-01-03
SIMULTANEOUS ITEMS.


Small Por.-The Taunton Reporter re.
marks that about a thousand persons have
been yacoin ted in that town within the last
teu.or twelve days.
Small Por.--It is announced that great
humber of patients are in the New ork Aims
house, who have the small pox, and many
have dird There nave occurred three cas-
es in Brooklyn. Every person should lie
W cinated-.T Two deaths have occurred in
Brooklyn Of children whose parents would
not permit them to b. vaccinated.
Effects Of LOHeries!!!-An old man, well
dressed, vas recently brought before the Pol.
ice al Philadelphia. charged with picking the
pocket OF poor man, a workman in a fur.
race. la answer to the questions put by the
Mayor, the prisoner declared, that he was
nearly sixty years OF age--that he was reduc-
cd TO poverty and desperation by gambling in
iotteri Shat he had within the last 40 wears
spent twenty-three thousand dollars, or more
than 500 dollars year-aad that he had
asver drawn prize OF any Importance" He
YVES committed Tor trial at the approaching
Mayors court.
mposiiOn.-A One dollar bill of the Cam
bridge Bank, altered to ten, was presented at
the New England Museum on Monday eve
mig last.
.nicRignm.-ln the Legislature Of this State,
OH the 23d Nov. last, Mr.. Lawrence offered a
resolution to this effect,-that it is expedient
hat the legal terms used in the laws Of the
territory should be SO expressed in the En-.
glh language, that their meaning may be
generally ineligible
Look al his, ye Drunkards A Mr.. Stafford
was ;ound fosen to death on Tuesday morning,
in shop ct Southland, in this city, in conse
4Hsnte OF IaloTlcaf'on. Boston pa.
Gluaony--In Herkimer, N. Y. a man ate
78round CLAIMS, weighing nearly ten pounds.
atAsitting. He had bet that he would eat
oue hundred.
another. In England, wager was deter
nia.d, for a considerable amount, between n
young butcher and bulldog nine months old.
The contest was, which would eat the most
koftnpe The odds were for some time in
favor OF the butcher; hut when the tribe he
gan to cool little, the dog gained upon him,
and was finally declared the victor.
Men like these are called "hogs," but such
comparisons are unjust-they are libel on
the character OF swine.
Ice was formed at Mobile, on the 18th No
vemher, of the thickness of dollar.
Cure for The 2O0th-ache.-At a recent meet
ing Of the London Medical Society, Dr. Blake
stated that the extraction or excelsior of teeth
was unnecessary. He was enabled, he said,
to cure the most desperate case OF tooth ache,
(uuess the disease was connected with rheu-
nlatism,) by the application of the following
RENE y to the diseased tooth -" Alum, re,
duced to an ilnpslpabie powder, two drachms;
nitrous snirit Of ether, seven drschms mix,
and apply them to the tooth"
Provisions for the Greeks are rapidly collect
ing in Philadelphia; a cargo of 1900 barrels
a: flour is expected 10 be contributed for this
suffefiug.peopie
Safety CGrriage.-A Mail Stage was public
Is eNh bited on the 18th inst. at Baltimore,
having an apparatus for detsching the horses
and locking the wheels in cases of danger.
The King Of Saxony has issued decree
'orhidding men under II years of age to mar
~, under rain Of fine or imprisonment.
There is now living in the town Of Yves.
tern, On. Y } a farmer who measures seven
ieet icur inches and three quarters in height.
Speedy Jusiice.-.Qn Wednesday last, a
young man stole piece of dry goods from a
store 10 n. Fourh-street, Philadelphia; he was
pursued by the owner to Tnird-s,reet aud tax
en- into custody. The Mayors Court being
then sitting, he was brought forward immedi
ately, tried, found guilty and sentenced &c
three years. hard labor in the penitentiary.-
NJ was done in the selt-same hour.
Over 100 Deer have been killed this season
in the Plymouth aud Sandwich woods. The,
are unusually plenty aud very fine,