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

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| ted. Indeed we have Just heard of sudden death,
which was occasiOned by taking some poisonous drugs
in the shape of remedy for intemperance But that
which prepared by the above successorsto Dr. Cham
bers we believe to be perfectly harmess.-Chr. AdU
I & Journal.
| From the Fail River luasS.j Monitor.
Novcl application of Electricity, or a ne,C sCay
to pay old debtS.--A certain Physician, who
possessed powerful Electrical Machine, dis
covered the sheriff making rapid strides to-
wards his house, and suspecting, from circum-
stances, that he had some design on his per-
sOnal liberty, the worthy NJ. D. made pre-
parations accordingly, to ward off the antici-
pated attack. Attaching conductor from
his electrical apparatus) 20 the knocker on the
! front door. he then charged the machine to
very high degree, and waited the result.
! The steps which assembled to the front door
had an elevation of IA feet. Clothed in all
the importance of the law, the sheriff ascen-
ded, and with firm grasp. seized the fatal
knocker. Instantly he found himself at the
bottom Of the steps. After having recovered,
| in some measure, from blow given by an
invisible power, and having collected his scat
| tered writs and executions, together with his
! scattered senses. he made a second attempt.
| wondering at this strange method of paying
debts. Meanwhile the Doctor had again char
ged his faithful conductor. No sooner had
( the sheriff again dared to touch the fatal
knocker, than he found himself twelve feet
| nearer the centre of the earth second time.
Remembering the old adage, " beware Of the
| third time," he Immediately quit the premi-
, ses, leaving the Doctor in full possession Of
the g castle" he had so well defended.
c.oo1 ole xuaoEc cSnco ny, old
Jack tar in this village, who had been about
began to grow sick of his cups. and actually
meditated reformation. He accordingly
applied to physician for something to cure
drunkenness and was supplied with a dose
of DIR. Chambers medicine, nicely prepared
in Jug of rum, with directions to use freely
of the liquor. Jack carried the jug to his
boarding house, resolving strictly to follow
the directions, to drink up the rum, and be-
come sober man. He soon found howev-
er, that
There's many slip
"Twixt the cup and the lip"
He had taken only two or three swigs, when
his landlady happening to find the jug while
Jack was out, kindly volunteered her servi-
ces, and with the assistance Of another fe-
male, drank off the liquor. And then, ''such
puking and purging!" 1t seemed as if they
had emptied an apothacary's shop Of its
whole store of ipicac. We have not heard
that the women have drank any thing since
though Jacks sober resolutions appear to have
evaporated with his Stonington Tel.
SINGULAR c;rcumstdnce.-The London Star
mentions, that when the Kent Indiaman was
on fire in the bay of Biscay, Col Macgregor,
of the S1st regiment, hastily wrote memo
randum of the circumstances, and threw it O.
yerboard in well corked bottle, previously
to the fortunate rescue by the Cambria brig,)
addressed to his father in Scotland, The of
ficer now belongs to the esd regiment, sta
toned at Barbados and, while on a visit to
the seaside of that Island, in October last,
the identical bottle, with the paper in it, was
washed ashore there, having inSnineteen
months, crossed the Atlantic in s. w. d.
rection.
Curious tact.--It has been justly affirmed
by some writer's on natural philosophy, that
a certain quantity of water however small,
may be rendered capable Of exerting force
equal to any assgnable one, by increasing the
heighth of the column and diminishing the
base on which it presses. DR.. Goldsmith OBJ
serves that he has seen strong hogshead
split in this manner. A small but strong tube
of tin, twenty feet high, was inserted in the
bunghole of the hOgshead. Water was
then poured into the tube till the hogshead
was filed, and the water had reached within
foot of the top of the tin tube. BY the
pressure of this column If water, the hogs
head burst with incredible force, and the wa
ter was scattered in every direction.
Hild Hemlock.-This noxous weed, the CT
cuta maculatG of Bigelow, grows in all parts
of New England, and is remarkably abund-
ant in our vicinity. II is found chiefly in
runs and wet grounds, but it is sometimes
seen by the road side, or by bitches and fen
ces in dry places. The stalk is purple. except
when it grows in shade, then it is green
the plant is from two to five feet high. The
blossoms are straw colored only nearly white,
are set in tufts or clusters at the ends of the
branches, like the blossom of the earG,cay,
carrot, and parsnip. The seeds are virulent
poison; they very much resemble cdra,cay
seeds. and it requires close inspection to dis
tinguished one from the other. It is very
common and beautifuIweed it may be seen
in our meadows and other wet moving lands
growing in luxuriant abundance, oyertoping
the uncut grass by nearly two feet, branching
forth into quite a tree. Its blossoms begin
to appear 10 june and are found through July
and August.
Of this plant Mr.. Bigelow says in his bota-
ny, " this is probably the most dangerous of