The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-05-23
Massarttrsetts App.
WEDNESDAY, MAY %, 1927.


GENERAL CoURT In Boston another unsus
cessful attempt has been made to elect twenty
two Representatives in addition to the eigb
already chosen. The whole number of vote
was $500; necessary for choice, 1855
-Four tickets were voted for. The highest yot
for the Union ticket, was 1921; the AVERAGE
1855. Average for the Federal ticket, ,182
Tor the Democratic, 533 for the free bridge
$50. None of the names on the Union tickle
were placed on either of the others 1t being
too late for another trial, Boston will have bu
eight Representatives this year.
In Salem two meetings have been held. Al
the first, five of the Union ticket were elected
and, at the last, the remaining six on the sam,
ticket were chosen.
1t is supposed the whole number of Repre-
sentatives, this year, will be about $50, great
or number than on any former year since the
separation of Maine. They cannot all be seat
cd on the floor of the House. A part will
have to take the members gallery.
REPRESENTATIVES, TO CoNGREss In Bris-
toll District JAMES L. HoDGEs is elected to
Congress by handsome majority.
In Hampden District the votes in 10 towns
are for Bates, ,G25; Lathrop, $50; Fowler
1853; and few scattering. Nine towns re-
main to be heard from. Isaac c. BATES is
undoubtedly elected.
In Virginia, fifteen members of the last Con-
cd Tha
PIP Barbour, Isaac Letter, Alexander Smythe,
ofProclamation and Apocalypse memory, John
Roane, Robert Allen, Joseph C. Lowell and
John Randolph, two Of whom are Administra-
ton men in the place of Jackson men, and two
jackson men in the place of Administration
men; leaving the relative state of parties the
same as It was before.
CoSTAGIoN. Many persons who were at the
lnterment of the Duke of York have since been
attacked with sore throat and inflamed lunrs.
OF which one, the Bishop of Lincoln, has de-
ceased. This has led to inquiry respecting
contaglon, and the propriety of burying in
vaults under churches. Objections to burying
IN vaults had previously been made in medi-
cal treatise, and occurrences, il is said, have
taken place in the south of France fully PROV
ing the correctness of the theory therein main
tanned The treatise asserts, that heat, aris-
ing from large assemblagc of persons over
vault, by producing rapid evaporation of the
stagnant air beneath, draws forth the poison
from bodies that have died of modification or
malignant fevers and that, as soon as these
civilizations arrive at certain degree of heat,
embryo animalculae, therein sometimes con-
tanned, receive animation, and may, therefore,
communicate to the throat or lungs the nature
Of the substance from which they emanate"
We believe that burying under churches is sell
dom practised in this country, except in some
instances in our large towns and cities.
INTEMPERANcE. The remedy for intcmpcr-
. ancc, recently published, continues to be ap-
Piled with uniform and complete success. We
learn that, In number of cases in which it
has been administered by Drs. Green & Hey-
wood, it has not failed in single instance !;
and similar accounts are received from various
parts of the country. The excellence of this
remedy does not consist merely in making the
stomach reject spirits, but restores it to its nat
ural and healthy tone, SO that the patient has
no inclination for such liquor, any more than
The had been habitually temperate man.
We notice by Boston paper that large
quantity of the medicine has been procured for
the house of industry in that city, with the in
tention of having it administered to all who
are committed for intemperance. This is an
excellent plan, If the Selectmen of towns
throughout the State would commit all intem-
perate persons to the houses of correction in
the several counties, and the taking of this
medicine should be the condition of their dis
charge, it would have very salutary effect.
We know not the proportion of the several
ingredients as administered in this vicinity,
but find the following remarks and directions
given in the National Advocate by the physi-
clan who published the 6rst prescription, and
who says he has used it successfully for many
years: -
The success of my remedy is founded
on that immutable principle in our nature,
that we loathe whatever produces q disa-
greeable or unpleasant impression. 1t is
obvious that such impressions may be OBJ
liberated by time: hence a repetition of
the remedy sometimes becomes necessary.
The prescription which have gener-
ally employed is the following Antimoni-
al wine, half an ounce ; wine of ipecac,
two drachms; tincture of assafDtida, one
drachm. A portion of this, and, in cases of
long standing, the whole of tits to be mix
ed with the liquor to which the person is
addicted, and, in many cases, unless the
person is told, he will swallow the dose
without suspicion. 1t is not always neces-
sary that all of the ingredients should be
administered, and the dose can be gradu-
ated according to the constitution, age and
inveteracy Of habit. The relish for liquor
will be instantly and entirely destroyed ;