The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-08-15

~ STAGE OwEERs The fourteenth num-
pG VI ahe Stage Register is in preparation, and
WIN pe Issued on dhe first Tuesday in next
faohtn. Proprietors or agents of stages and
s.eanh boats are requested to transmit 10 the
4 P9oiisheFs, Badger q Porter, Boston, before
nonaay' 18th inst. any information hitherto
omitted ~, or not correctly given in its pages.
:, ne U. 5. ship of the line, North Caro-
ma commodore Rodgers, arrived in Nor
ioH' from the Mediterranean, on the 28th
uit' She has been absent % months. and
me- ner ohlcers and crew are in good health.
Inc navy OF the United States, when all
the vessels authorized to be built are afoat.
as nearly every one of them may speedily
De II requlred-will consist of IL ships Of
the Inc, ~ frigates, Is sloops of war, and
seven other vessels, exclusive of those on
the lakes. To man these will require more
than 2O,O0O men, one half of whom must
be seamen.
"o men IN Baton Rouge, Miss. lately made
a pet as to which could drink the most whiskev
lhey drank gallon, and one of them went
aile[ more. When he came staggering back
ne FOUND his competitor so completely dead
aru'iiS that he never breathed afterwards.
SNOW. 1t is said that, in the cold rain storm
with which this section of the country was Wis
lted on the goth July, in the town of New
gloucester, Me. the atmosphere presented the
singular appearance of being filed with snow ;
out before reaching the ground, however, it
was dissoiVed into water.-Saco Palladium
In Virginia, 10 or IL miles from the Ohio riv-
er, is grove OF the lofty magnolia, which in
the season of Towering fills the wilderness with
fragrance for miles around. The leaves er-
coed feet i'll length and are of proportiona.
Bile width There are no other trees Of the
Kind within 5U0 miles. In Florida the flowers
are said to have been smclt at the distance of
so miles
Sir Jonah harrington remarks in his sketch
es-" In truth, the only three kinds of death
the Irish peasant thinks natural, are, dyinp
quietly III their own cabins being hanred
about the assize time, or starving when the
potato crop is deficient"
The editor of the Nantucket Journal states
that while he has resided on that island. he has
never seen one person even partially intoxi-
Gated with ardent spirits. He also SAYS we
have no knowledge of any death having occnr-
red in this town for the last two weeks
CoMBrsTIBLE FOUNTAIN In the " Journal
folytype" OF France the following fact is stat
cd winch Is certainly very curious, if it be
true; In Monroe or flncastle county, Virgin
Ia, there is small fountain, the water of Which
~ I'M WHICH spark Is aDnilau
to it. 1t will then burn like spirituons lidnors
until wholly consumed after which the earth
presents all the appearance of bed of ashes.
As soon as the water which nourished the
flame disappears, it spouts out afresh from the
crevices at the bottom, and in half an hour its
customary abundance is restored.
National Journal
HYDRoPHoBIA. A traveller from Greece
mas communicated to the French Academy. a
mode of treatment employed in Thrace in cas-.
es of the bite of mad animals 1t consists in
making missions under the tongue, at any pc.
rod OF the disease, and without any regard tc
the appearance of the ordinary pustules there
This remedy is regarded in Thrace as so in.
faliiabie, that no apPrehensions of hydrophobia
are entertained in that country.
The body of a young lady who died of a
supposed consumption, being dissectcd, a tumor
was found in the breast, occasioned by tight
lacing.