The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-03-21
.lWHoLE No. 2sl6.

" Iedi broken limo, and, never once
imagined that he was deceived, permitted
himself to be borne home lamenting.
Ihere his family received him, as was
: concerted, with tears and wailings. Four
] weeks he continued TO be visited Inv the
, surgeon who kept his leg squeezed into a
case, so that he could not move himself
and did not doubt the reality of the allee-
ed accident. So long an imprisonment was
Intolerable he cursed wine as the curse
OF his mlstortunes, and made a solemn vow,
never to get drunk in future.
AT the expiration of a month, the snfy
geon informed him the cure was complet-
! ed lie Wept as If upon eggs to save his
Droken leg, and his first walk was to the
house OF his sweetheart, whom he anx-
iousiy entreated to forget the past, and
once more to reinstate him in her affec-
IONS. She promised both, o., condition OF
dsGmRsEat ara YsREs 5RgseaRatcp BE kent i
his Laura, and continued during the rest OF
his life, an orderly respectable man, who
never at any one time drank more than he
could carry.
Alter several years. Bonnard, for the
1lrst time, discovered the trick that had
Deen played upon him; he thanked his
friends heartily for it, and began once
more to tired firmly on his right leg. the
straining of which he had always until then
most carefully avoided.
| WINTER IN SIBERIA. Mr. Ledyard, O
| native Of Connecticut, who traversed some
OF the most dreary regions of Russia, in a
letter to DR.. Ledyard, of Leng-lsland,
wrote as follows:-
"You have no idea of the excessive cold
IN the region of Siberia. By experiments
that | made at Yakutsy, found on the
18th OF November, the mercury in my Their
( mometer froZe. In December, found by
repeated observations, that two ounces Of
OF clear quicksilver, openly exposed, froze
hard IN fifteen minutes. observed that in
these severe frosts, the air was condensed.
aS 1t is with you in thick fog the atmos-
phere is frozen; respiration is fatiguing,
&c. 1t is happy law of nature, that IN
such intense cold there is seldom any wind.
When there is, it is dangerous to be a
! broad.
There are no wells at Yakutsy for it
IS found by experiment that the water
freezes at 60 feet deep. People of these
regions are, therefore, obliged to use ice
! and snow. They have also ice windows
Glass is of no use to the few who have il.
The difference in the state of air, within
and without, is so great, that the glass is
covered on the inside with several inches
of frost and in that situation is less lumin-
Gus than ice. The timber of the houses
splits and opens with loud cracks; the riv-
i'IVute r1ru e'5 uu5 W IIg~
ter"
SINGULAR CASE. In August, 1894, a
man named Beidelman was convicted and
sentenced to nine years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary, before the Court of
Oyer and Terminer in York County, PENN
sylyania, for robbing Mr.. Sonmers, Of
Lancaster. The Commissioners of that
County have lately received an ancSsy-
nous letter, post marked at another Coun2
ty in the same State, in which the writer
avows himself guilty of the crime, and alb
solves the convicted person of being in any
way whatever concerned in the affair. He
details the circumstances of his tracking
Sommers from Baltimore into Pennsylvania
presenting himself before him in the road
with q pistol, carrying him into a wood,
!, and robbing him of about fifty dollars.
PRovIDENTIAL PRESERVATION. In the
year 1875, the memorable war with the In
! dians in New England, called King Phil
Ups lcar, began. After various adventures,
/ a party of English, who had been sent by
the Governor of Massachusetts, to reclaim
! the tribe of Nipmucks from their alliance
/ with Philip having been attacked and rout-
5 ed by this extraordinary chief, fed to Qua
baug, now Brook6eld. The Indians close
? Nv pursued them into the town, and burnt
: every house except one, In which the inhab-
itants had taken refuge. This l.ouse, they
at length surrounded. For two days they
/ I r., Of hal
upon it, and although countless numbers
pierced through the wall, only one person
was killed. With long poles they next
. thrust against it brands and rags dipped IN
birthstone; they shot arrows of FIRE! they
loaded cart with flax and tow, and with
long poles fastened together they pushed
it against the house. Destruction seemed
) inevitable. The house was fred, and the
: savages stood ready to destroy the frstthat
4 should open the door to escape. At this
: awful moment torrent Of rain descended,
4 and suddenly extinguished the kindled
t hames
From the National GGzette.
n Who would not laugh at the folly Of a
| Jockey who should rate theprice of an horse
/ according to the fineness of the stable
: where he is kept? And yet we regulate
our esteem of men by the costliness of their
|, habit, and such other circumstances as are
: not in the least any better proofs of merit.
Should man happen to err in surprising
i the christian religion to be true, he could
I be no loser by the mistake. But how ire
coverable is his loss, how inexpressible his
! danger who should err in supposing it to
be false.
Villainy that is vigilant, viii be an over
y match for virtue if she slumber on her post;