The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-05-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

most surprising and dreadful occurrence
lately took place in one of the provinces of
France A counterfeiter. who had been con-
demned to be hung, made his escape on the
way to the gallows, and took refuge in an hos
piial. After some search he was found. as
was thought, disgused.-He was carried off
uttering not syllable, but gesticulatinq yehe-
mently; and executed 1t was shortly after
wards discovered that the officers had hung a
deaf and dumb brother of the convict, who
had resided long in the hospital. The real
criminal was recommended to the royal elem
ency.
In letter of Col Johnson published in the
U. 5. Telegraph, he states that q he did not
| recoilect single vote of his in which he found
1t his duty to vote against what NAV be called
an administration measure"
Lorenzo Dow was at Tuscumbie at the last
accounts. He was preaching, selling tracts
and disposing of BOWS family medicine
BRiTIsH EMIGRATIoN. 1t appears that con-
siderable efforts are making in England to
send out several thousand emigrants of the
manufacturing classes TO the Canadas We do
not suppose that this policy will be of any det-
riment to the United States. These artisans
will soon find their way to New England and
| the middle States
An experiment was made in England, not
hog -;--~e, b5- .uro flrriers on a Young cow
which had become quite i'll, insensibIe and mo.
tionless. Her head was opened, and bladder,
containing nearly pint of water, was taken
from the brain. The animal immediately dis.
covered signs of returning strength, and is
now, to all appearance, perfectly well
REMARKABLE. AS late as the 4th inst. a Sc
we're frost was experienced in the vicinity Of
Cheraw, S. C. which destroyed the garden
vegetables. 1t is stated that ice of considera-
bic thickness was SEEN.
The Supreme Court. sitting in New York.
have unanimously granted Mr. Barker and 9th
ers, a new trial, on the ground that all the iu-
ry which convicted them, were not impartial.
At recent term of the S. j. Court, held in
Springfield, Calvin Spelman, of Granville, a
widower, with three children, and GeorGe
Lamb, of Palmer, were convicted of feonious
assault upon young females, and severallv
sentenced to the state prison for ten years.
These cases, it Is stated, disclosed degree of
brutal ferocity almost unexamplcd Daniel
House, convicted of pillaging the mail, in
South Wilbraham post-office, was sentenced
to 10 years confinement in the common Jail.
The Greek fund in Philadelphia amounts to
upwards of $2l 900, and will probably increase
to 5000.
The Quincy Rail Road is now much used in
conveying the stone blocks from the quarry in
that town, to the Neponset river, about three
miles distant. Great quantities are taken
down to the landing every day, to be carried by
Lighters to Charlestown for the monument on
Breeds Hill. Some small vessels are also i'm
ployed in taking the stone to Boston, for build
ing. 1t is visited by many people, and is said
to be equal to the best hopes of its proprietors
Count De Lillers, only son of MARQUIS De
I 60 oHC 7
came passenger in the Packet ship Bayard, at
New York from Havre. He intends to make
tour of the United States.
The number of stages which arrive and de-
part from the city of Boston. amount to one
thousand flee hundred and Gfty per week
STATISTICS. BY the last population re-
turns liust made,) it appears that London
collCaIhS one LilIlloA Two nundr o ! a nd twen-
ty-tive thousand six hundred and ninety
four resident inhabitants, besides fifty thou
sand visitors and seamen. The females
exceed the males by eighty-fve thousand.
The inhabited houses were l64,681, and
the number of families, 1877, 101. Houses
building, 1920. Houses moccupied, S24O.
Within q radius of three milos of st.
Paul's Cathedral, 1.-THE surface over which
the population is taken,) the numbers doub-
lie those of Paris, and amounted to 1884
500.
In eight-ninths of the population of G
Britain there are 34,964 males and 49,
094 females between 80 and 100; and l9l
females above 100.
In Great Britain there 2,429, 500 houses
inhabited; S4,464 houses unoccupied, and
$40 building.
The families employed in agriculture are
07S,656. The families employed in trade
handicraft and manufactures, are 1,6GO,-
7S9. The number of other families, are
6l2,49s. The total population is l3,29l,-
66l.