The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-05-16


/ In the county of Middlesex, fifteen more
Representatives have been chosen than were
sent the last year.
ALBANY MINERAL WATER. The Albany
Daily Advertiser says, that Messrs Boyd s.
M'Cuiloch, of Albany, when boring to procure
a supply of water for their extensive Brewery
ON their premises in that city, after penetrating
slate rock to the depth of .fve hundred feet,
struck by the chissel vein of mineral water
which proves to be equal to the far-famed wat
ers OF Saratoga, and that hundreds now daily
continue to partake and experience its bene6-
cial effects.
| Messrs. Van Buren, and Cambreleng, politi-
cal missionaries from New York, were at the
last dates, says the Palladium, in Oglethrope,
Geo. probably ogling Mr.. Crawford
The receipts of the American Bible Society
during the year ending May /, were 1864 G2i-|
1l,774 more than those of the preceding year
amount of expenditures, $66,522 Number of
bibles printed, Al, 50O-testaments 80, 700: be-
sides these several hundred German and Dutch
bibles were purchased and distributed. The
number of bibles and testaments issued from
the depository in New York, during the year,
to auxiliary and other societies and individuals,
was II ,62l.
From Saturday the 9Th inst to Wednesday
the 9th. there were Us arrivals at New York,
viz:-23 ships, IL briggs, SO schooners, and 81
sloops These vessels brought about 1900
passengers, chiefly emigrants from Great Brit
ain.
A GOOD EXAMPLE. The ROYAL Court of Par
is recently condemned young man to hard la
Dor for life, for the crime Of killing his adver-
sary In duel
Sir w. Scott is affirmed to have asked his
daughter, Mrs Lockhart, previous to her mar
rage, whether she preferred G5, 900 in ready
money, or Iyanhoe, (then unpublished.) In
choosing that beautiful and successful romance,
it is to be presumed, that the lady did not re-
pent, since the first edition brought her $4,000
and some say more.
In Paris, there were in 1922, 600 physicians
being, in population of 100000, one physi-
clan to every 1888 inhabitants or five times
more than in London.
LoNGErITY IN RUSSIA. From the lists of
the births and deaths published by the Synod
IN st. Petersburg, it appears that in 1925, there
died 048 persons above 100 years of age, 80
above 1904 between l25 and $50, and A be-
tween 13O and 135 years of age.
At the late term Of the Warren County, N.
z. superior Court, cause was tried against
one Forkner, for whipping his wife. The
Judge, as is reported by the Warrenton paper,
explained the law in the following manner.
Although in civilized society it was considered
disgtaceful for persons in elevated situations
to lift their hands against their wives, vet the
lao acaS for the great bulk of mankind, who
were obliged to labor for their bread, and
clearly is, that a husband has a right to infict
moderate punishment on his wife, He inform
ed the jury that the only question for them
would be, whether the whipping was barbarous
and cruel; whereupon the man was acquitted
Mary Morse lately brought an action against
Henry Tomlinson, in the Baltimore County
Court, for breach of promise of marriage.
and recovered $4,000, the whole amount laid in
the declaration
gentleman the other day accosted a fish
erwoman thus Sc Those haddocks of yours
! are week old" else warrant YOU" she re-
plies, g they're month auld, or they wad ma
be sac big
The small pox is making great ravages in
Bavaria and Sweden; the government have
IN consequence resorted to vigorous measures
to arrest its progress.
A paragraph in late number of fIiles's
Register states that an elegant broad cloth
| power loom, OF New York manufacture, was
shipped last month for England for one of the
Leeds factories. Some machinery made bv
MIR. Gilbert Brewster, which had been sent,
by. order, to Prussia, has been so much APPROX
ed of, that he has received fresh orders for the
supply of a number of his own machines and
other machinery for the manufacture of cotton
and wool. These (remarks the Register) are
new things and pleasant"
MATRIMONIAL. Mr.. M'Kenny was lately
married to Mrs Mary Jackson, both of Har-
per's Ferry, he being the lady's fifth husband,
and she only in her t'oeaty-cighth year.
VALUE OF A RACE MARE. Urged by curios-
ity, we were, on Tuesday last, present at per-
haps as extraordinary sale of an animal as ev-
er took place in the world 1t was the interest
of the late William Wynn, Esq in the cele-
brated Race Mare Ariel, which expires with
the Spring of 1929, offered to the highest bid
der at New Market Course-and actually sold.
(the mere use Of said Mare for two years,
when she is to be delivered to her owner in
! fee,) for the incredible sum of taro Thousand
| four hundred dollars! An excellent comment
this on the scarcity of money and hard times.
Richmond paper,
Mr.. Carter, the senior editor of the New
York Statesman, arrived at New York on the
9th inst after an absence of two years in
Great Britain aud on the continent of Europe.
ADVANTAGES OF INTEMPERANcE. A pris-
oner in the Fleet, London, lately descending
the centre stair case, iii state of intoxcation,
fell over the ballustrade, and made fair illus
tration of the doctrine of gravitation, to the
utter astonshment of the basement He fell
from height OF forty feet, and sustained no
injury. If he had been sober, he would have
broken his neck. We have heard of a man
who drove his horses off bridge, in Duchess
county, down a fearful precipice The horses
were killed, the wagon smashed to peices, and
the man was unhurt. The man was drunk.
the horses and wagon were sober.
NJ T. Courier.
Charles v. repented of having prosecuted
the Lutherans. He said to himself, have