The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-08-23
From the Boston Courier.

CON3lcCElCUt JOUTHuts
From the Boston Courier.
Sea Serpent Wownded.-Capt. David Thur
10, Jun. of schr. Lydia, Of Deer Isle, when a
bout six leagues E. S. E. from Mount Desert
Rock, left his vessel on the cath ult. in his
boat to try for Mackerel, VIII en- monster OF
the serpent kind appeared and came along
side of his boat he having a harpoon in his
boat, threw it at him, which took effect and
he ran off with the boat in tow after run
ming short distance he stopped and he rose
his head out of water or feet: he started
again. the warp parted, and the serpent made
off with the harpoon in his body. Captain
Thurlo then resumed his fishing, when all at
once the serpent came up again very near
them; Capt. Thurlo then rowed for his YES
sci, which was about three miles distance, the
serpent then rose his head out of water as
before land Continued following them at about
the same distance from the boat till they
reached the vessel. Capt. Thurlo thinks
there were two of them, and that the one he
harpooned was not the one that followed him
to the vessel. They were 10 or 90 feet long,
dark coloured, and had large scales. Capt
Thurlo had the most perfect view of his head
when he rose up out of the water, and states
that it exactly resembled that Of a shark.
Deaths IN the principal Cities.-The
twenty-second number of the New York
Medical and Physical Journal, published
recently, contains under the domestic head
a series of statistical tables by Doctors
Niles and Russ, which are extremely val
liable and interesting.-They exhibit the
number of deaths for given periods Of time
in each of the cities of Newly York, Phila-
delphia. Baltimore and Boston their pro-
portion in different years and months to
the population the proportion of the
number of deaths by each disease to the
whole number, &c. Owing to the care
ofthe inspector, the returns from New York
are more regular than those from Balti-
more and Boston. The average proper
ton of deaths, including still born, is in
Boston one in 41.26, in New York one in
1888, in Baltimore one in 1914, and in
Philadelphia one in 31.48. This average
is obtained from the bills of mortality for
II years past. The proportion Of deaths
by consumption to the whole number of
deaths is-in New York as one in sos, in
Baltimore one in Gao, in Boston one in
7.1O. Of deaths by intemperance the pro-
portions are as follows-in New York, as
one in 1880, in Baltimore one in $40,
in Boston one in 59.46, in Philadelphia
one in CLOG. 1t thus appears that our
city ranks first for sobriety ,and second for
general health but that more cases of
consumption occur than in other cities
Com. Ado. ...,
Highway Robbery-Most Ungrateful.
"A robbery of the most daring kind was
perpetrated on the Providence Turnpike,
on Tuesday last.-A young man from the
eastward, travelling towards Providence,
had been in company on that morning with
three emigrants from Liverpool, recently
landed at this city, and breakfasted with
them at Summers Tavern, between Ded-
ham and Walpole. In compassion to their
poverty he paid the reconing, and purchase
ed Of one of them watch. Two of them
went on before, and hid themselves by the
road side, and the third, watching his OPP
portunity, struck the young man with
cane. He warded off the blow, and got
possession of the cane, when the others
sprang from the bushes, knocked him down
and beat him until he counterfeited death,
when they robbed him of $3.50 in bills, the
watch, and bis clothing, and rolled him in
to the bushes. His screams were heard by
persons in the neighbourhood, and pur-
suit was Immediately begun with horses.
One of the villains, who was seen in Wal
pole village, has probably been taken |;
the others went towards Providence, as is
supposed. The young man soon recover
ed sufficient strength to walk TO the near
esth ouse although on his arrival he was ev-
identity deranged from the blows on the
head.--BOstoN nepey, August 6.