The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-10-10

lnDurg twenty-three years ago, and contln-
ued to work at his trade till he was ninety
seven years of age. He was a temperate,
regular living man, and never paid a six
pence to a surgeon for himself, nor had an
hours sickness in the whole course of his
life. He used to dance regularly on New
Years day, along with some Highland
friends, to the bagpipe. On New Years
day, 1925, he danced reel with the faith
er, the son, the grandson, and great-grand-
son, and was more than in his usual spirits.
His hearing was nothing impaired, and till
within three weeks of his demise, without
glasses he could have threaded the finest
needle with facility.-London paper.
STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY.
The proprietors, who belong chiefly to the
Society of Friends, encountered good
deal of opposition in Parliament and else
where; but the work promises to remuner-
ate them in the most ample manner. The
cost of the railway, which is twenty-five
miles long, and is carried over two hills by
inclined planes, was less than G200, 900 p;
10000 tons of minerals and merchandise
have been conveyed along it in the course
of the year expired, generally at the rate
of ID. per ton per mile, including haulage,
and wagons found and the receipts for
tonnage have exceeded $4,000 per month.
The coaches that ply on it have travelled
45,400 miles, carrying passengers at the
rate of Id. per mile outside, and I'D. inside,
with a velocity of miles an hour, and
without one single accident occurring to
iniurc man, horse, coach. In oouoc-
quence of this cheap and easy conveyance,
!, 20 into hofu-nnn SHNck-
ton and Darlington has increased more
than tenfold-the coach formerly having
piled only three times week. Govern
ment, too, is not without its share of the
benefit, for the ssage-coach duty has risen
from E28 per annum to E2i0.
Liverpool .4drertiSer.
FELIcIToUs OCcURRENCE. On the Sth
Sept. family consisting of eleven broth
ers and sisters, bred and born in this coun-
ty,and the youngest of whom is 43 years OF
age, and who had been separated and re-
sided in different states and territories
after lapse of forty years or more, again
all met at the residence of one of the
brothers in Hillsborough township, and
there all united in perfect-harmony and i'll
the strongest bonds of affection and love
What wonder of mercy that so many Of
one family should be preserved through the
many difficulties and trials of this chang
ing and dying world, and then again be
permitted to meet and give each other
the hand of friendship, and all sit down at
one table to partake of the common COM
| forts oflife. The scene was truly solemn
and interesting one, as they were soor
| opponollo1 To 70 mi 04tonI %,, kba,Y
various occupations in life, and in all proba-
bility will never meet again this side the
eternal world. On this occasion very
appropriate and affecting address was de-
livered by the Rev. Mr.. Labagh, which
was very consoling to the audience.
Somerset, IN u Messenger.
A GENTLE HYENA! In one of the me.
nageries exhibited at Brighton races, was
a striped hyenG (hyGna Uulgaris,) which
to the keeper, and all around him exhibited
the usual ferocious habits which have hith-
erto been considered inherent in animals
of this kind Among the spectators, wa.
a young man who fearlessl y approached
the animals den, whilst it was snarlino
and swapping most furiously, and, putting
his hand through the wires, patted the an
imal on his head InNan instant the hyena
exhibited symptoms of the greatest de-
light, bounded about the cage in an ecstacy
of joy, and rubbed himself against the
young mans hand, appearing overioyed
with his caresses.
1t appeared that this animal had been
taken when a cub, by this young man and
brought by him to England, and sold to a
keeper of a menagerie; and, although
seven years had elapsed since the animal
and his first master had parted, vet the
recollection of the gentle treatment he had
received from the latter, was gratefully and
instantly remembered by this generally,
though now it appears erroneously, suppos-
ed untomedble Gni8a0L.--Lol,do71 paper.
POWDER MILLS. Among several inter
esting articles extracted from foreign sci
entifc publications for the American Jour
nal of Science and Arts, we find the fol-
lowing on the subject of Powder Mills
Though it is well known that the use of
iron in the machinery of these establish
ments, is attended with danger, we believe
it is generally supposed that copper may be
substituted with safety. The result of ex-
periments, however, shows that spch is not
the fact.-COn. Couront.
Although great care is taken to exclude
from these manufactures all articles of
iron, and to substitute copper and other
metals, in the metallic parts ofthe machine
ry, which will not strike fire, yet it is well
known that explosions attended with disas-
trons consequences, are very frequent.-
Excited by an occurrence of this nature,
"a. Hubert, Col. of Artillery, was induced,
IN conjunction with Capt. Tdrdy, to resume
some experiments which he had unouccoso
fully tried to ascertain, whether gunpow-
der would not explode by the shock of cop
per. The result of these renewals was
that powder would inhame by the stroke of
copper upon copper. This gave rise to
further investigation, in presence of the
committee of safety, and it was ascertained
that gunpowder could be exploded by the