The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-06-27


which is kept as hot as possible, and yet
no damage is done to the cloth as it passes
through the ordeal. This operation, we
are told, is common in England, but it is
novel in this country, and he that has not
beheld it, cannot be easily persuaded that
its accomplishment is possible.
Providence Cadet.
WoLF HUNT-FATAL ACCIDENT. A
number of wolves had lately taken up their
quarters in the woods on the Hancock
mountain, from whence they emerged into
the neighboring pastures, and committed
great depredations, having in the course of
few weeks destroyed several hundred
sheep. To rid themselves of these pests,
the inhabitants of some Of the adjoining
towns, among which were Lanesborough
New Ashford, Hancock and Williamstown,
turned out with one consent on the 10th
instant. Lines were formed with view
to surround them. It was arranged that
the Ian esborough forces should lie in am
bush, at the south, for the purpose of giving
shots, while the others from the dlfferen.
quarters drove the enemy before them.
Two wolves and fox were enclosed.
| One of the wolves was shot dead. Fhe
| fox, attempting to escape, was fired at by
| three shots-when, awful to relate Mr..
William Hubbell, young man from
! Lanesborough, who unaccountably at that
moment had left his own line and gone
over to the opposite one, ten or twelve rods
/ distant, las our informant says at the in
slant he turned and faced in the ranks, was
struck in the head by one of the shots and
fell. He survived and gasped for about
20 minutes, and then expired. In the hor-
ror and confusion of the moment, and the
solicitude for the fate of the young man,
the lines were broken, and the other wolf
! scaped.-BerkShire american.
rr0m me Pa,pesrj5-r7o, O7sio, Telegraph.
A DIVORCE. A short time since, in an
adjoining town happy pair were regular
~ joined IN wedlock by facetious town
snip Squire, whose fees totally exhausted
the funds of the bridegroom. Not MANY
days, 1t appears, had elapsed before the
parties who had been joined "till death
should them part" become mutually dissat-
lstled with their lot and returned to the
Squire with many tales of woe, beseechino
him with all their eloquence to unn,aryv
them, which he agreed to do, provided he
was previously paid the sum of three DOL
lars, double the fee of the first ceremony.
This sum the bridegroom paid by a weeks
labor on the Squire's farm. Then came
the ceremony of parting" The Squire
placed block upon the floor, on which
was put live cat; one pulled the head
and the other the tail, while the Squire.
with an axe severed the cat in twain, at
the same time exclaiming, " Death has now
parted you "-The couple departed with
tlrm belief that the performance was strict
~ legal, and have not lived together since.
Mr. John G. Leake, who died in New
York few days since, at an advanced are.
lett property (real and personally to the
amount of nearly half million of dollars.
Having no legal heirs, this immense prop
erty has gone into the hands of the Pub
lie Administrator, Silvanus Miller, ESQ.
We understand, however, that Will was
found among his papers, in his own hand
writing, but not signed or witnessed. in
which he bequeathed the bulk of his prop
erty to gentleman who resides in the low
er part Of Broadway, or condition that he
should change his name to Leake. The
question as to the validity of the instrument
found, will, we learn, become the subject
OF legal investigation, and we have rea-
son to believe that the gentleman named
VIII succeed-at least in obtaining the per-
sonal property. r.
VIM. Hemer, of Alexandria. Penn b;s