The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Counting MILLION There is more diff
Guilty IN this than meets the eye. MIR. Coopcr.
lragedian, is said to have bet with friend.
that he could go to New York and return. be-
tore he could count million Done. said his
friend, but, upon calculation, he was convinced
ne should lose-and was let off for a dozen of
vine. II has been calculated it would take
or days-l0 hours per day, steady counting.
or more--Paitadiua
There is coachman> on the Oxeord and
Bath mail, (Eng) who has driven for thirty.
i've years from Oxford to Cirencester every
morning, and returned to Oxford every even
ing, daily journey of seventv-four miles He
has altogether travelled 942 go miles The
yearly Journey exceeds the circumference Of
the globe and therefore he is now performing.
IN distance, more than the 30th circuit of the
earth
Jackson paper, referring to the late cleo
ton tor Representative in Congress, in which
Mr. Stanberry, Jackson man, was elected in
consequence of there being two Administra-
ton candidates, excaims, :" Hurrah for Old
! Hickory; one jackson man outran two Admin
lstratlon mem" This is like the rest of the
Jackson logrc.-Nat Journal.
ANCIENT CANNoN. A fisherman of Calais
has drawn from the bottom of the sea with his
nets, a cannon of very ancient make. NJ. de
Rheims has since freed it from the rust. with
which 1t was covered, and, on drawing it, was
surprised to find it still loaded Specimens of
| the powder drawn from it have been examin-
ed the saltpetre was of course decomposed
after an immersion of about three centuries
The ball was of lead, and was not oxidized
more than the hundfedth part of an inch
Journal du Pas de Calais
DEATH FROM FEAR. Joel Mitchell, free
man OF color IN Warrenton, N. C. aged about
40, was seized with such violent fear while the
officers were conducting him across the Court
House yard to take his trial for the murder of
another man of color, that he expired before
he reached the Court House. He had been
slightly indisposed for a day or two.
DoEL. A Duel was fought on The 5th inst
in S Carolina between-Samuel P. Carson. ESQ.
Member of Congress from Morgan District.
North Carolina, and Dir r.. B Vance, his op
ponent at the late election, in which the latter
was killed.
1t has been Calculated, that, since the an
nouncement of war, Brazil has lost 81 vessels
of war; and 233 merchantmen, without count
ing the prizes made by the privateers armed in
the United States. The Republic has lost 3
vessels of war, 3 gun-boats, privateer, and
or sloops laden with wood.-Bah Gaz
New DISCOVERIES Capt james ]. Coffin,
of Nantucket lately discovered in the Pacific
ocean, group of islands, six IN number, the
four largest of which ne named Fisher, Kidd,
South, aud Pigeon islands. They lie in lat. %
! 30 N. long. i4l E. about south of Sandown
point, on the coast of Japan. The largast af4Le
group is four leagues in length. No animals
of any kind were seen on these islands, not even
an ant. The islands covered with large
and beautiful forest trees, but not a single
mark, even of knife could be traced upon one
of them; nor did it appear that the footsteps of
man had ever before been impressed upon any
of these islands Bcichcrtoqom Sentinel
I A large, two story dwelling house, be-
longing to the Rev. Mr.. Mott, of Nashua
Village, located on the banks ofthe Nashua
River, which lately became unsafe in con-
sequence of the caving in of the same by
the recent freshets--is now removing with
the stacks of chimnies standing, to a more
safe and eligible spot about 90 feet from its
original foundation-and what is remarka-
BILE, the family continue in the house, which
aton--pursuing their domestic affairs
without interruptlon-and Mr.. Motifs writ
ing his sermon as usual in his study.
| INSECTS IN THE STOMACH. A man
named Robert Edmonds, Of Hinton St.
George, England, who had suffered great
pain on the left side of his stomach for Is
months, was relieved by young physician,
Mr. May. This gentleman ON examining
his side perceived slight motion or rising
from within; and having adopted differ
ent mode of treatment,succeeded in dislodg-
ing tao insects from his stomach resembling
Holsters, one of which was nearly two
4 inches in length, and having great many
J feet, like a eentipede.