The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-10-31
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A person has been committed to gaol in Buff
falo, charged, on his own confession. with
being one of those concerned in drowning
J Capt. Morgan. =
1t is said that the person who committed one
of the recent forgeries in New York, is arrest
ed and is in gaol at Dover, Delaware
Simon Haskell, of Dlandford, has been SEN
fenced at the September Term of the supreme
Court, at Springfield, TO six months imprison-
llent in the county jail, for an assault upon his
Wife The defence set up was insanity, and
proved TO be that kind which proceeds from
intemperance in drinking ardent spirits.
On the LIST instant. says the Norwalk Ga
zette, man named Bezaleel Brown, residing
! in Greenwich, Conn, came to a sudden death.
while attempting to split log with charge
OF powder. He is represented as having been
intoxicated.
LONGEVITY Old Arthur Wall, of Wake
Forest, n. G. completed the one hundred and
ninth year of his age on the 18th ult. A few
days ago he walked three miles, but said he
was somewhat fatigued and thought he dis
covered by it that ola age was creeping upon
him
MANGANESE. The Rutland Herald states.
That an extensive bed of pure manganese has
been discovered in the township of Chittenden.
in Rutland county, Vermont Fifty tons.have
already been dug, and the mine is probably
inexhaustible. 1t is said to be worth $50 per
ton. The treasures of the earth are daily de-
veloped, and il is impossible TO calculate the
sources of wealth contained in it. Vermont is
probably yet to become rival to Missouri in
the mining interest,
Destructive FIRE. On Monday night, 22d
inst the Barnstable County House was DESTROYED
by fire, with the valuable Records of the Pro
hafn C. =
the Clerk of the Courts. Only one book of
Probate papers was preserved No one lived
IN the building, which was of brick. The
night was stormy, and the accident may have
been occaSioned by lightning but there are
suspicious that it was the work of an incenda-
ry. We do not recollect an event of the kind
involving such an extensive loss of valuable
records as tie present. entiael
The Aurora B6.eais, which was so remark
able in our hemisphere, for several nights the
last of August, was noticed in England about
the same time, and described as unc9mmonly
extensive and bright in its appearance. = Is
SAID to have been the most remarkable ever
recollected. The corruscations were very
quick in succeeding each other. and At one
time covered the whole northern hemisphere.
THANKSGIVING Thursday, Nov. %. is an
pointed for the annual Thanksgiving in Massa-
chusetls, Maine, New Hampshire, and Con
nectcut New York, Dec II
In the village of Brihovo, county of Agram,
there Is at present young peasant pirl named
Anne Szopchich, aged 10 wears. who is not tall
Ter than child of two years. Her height is
two feet seven inches, and all the parts of her
body have the regular proportions of child of
me above age, except her face which is wrink-
led like that of an old woman She never
/ speaks except when questioned, and then slow
/ IL, and in low tone of voice Her deport-
ment is that Of young child Although she
eats very little, she enjoys perfect good health
Size has not grown single line since she was
seventeen AT her birth she was an ordinary
child-F'rench paper.
Surveys are now going on between North
aplpton and marlborough, for the location of
a canal route connected with the Hampshire
/ and Hampden Canal
The practice of taking opium has become Sd
prevalent in New York city, that it is said hum
dreds, especially females, get intoxicated upon
it every day.
The celebrated horses Eclipse and Henry
were lately sold by Auction in New York. The
former for $1,000, and the latter for 81 100.
! Both were purchased by Mr.. William B. Lud-
low of Claverack, N. Y.
Puzzle. "There is a place on the sur
face of the earth, where, if two men meet, the
one shah ma 1t so not, that he will Immediate
~ throw off his clothes through the heat and
the other shall find it so cold that he will inn
medlately put on those which the other has
thrown off What place is this ;"
/ THAMES Tunnel. 1t is observed that it will
hardly be credited that so large leak as there
was in this work could have been so promptly
remeded. 1t was at one time fifty feet wide.
There are several triling leaks in the sides.
but these are not expected to cause trouble
/ Weekly consumption Of articles apOn the soork.
Bricks, 10000 Cement, $50 casks Candles,
500 pounds. Portable gas, 500 feet $50 tons
of soil were carted in to stop the leak Before
the accident, 6 or 700 dollars day were taken
] from visitors.
/ WONDERFUL ENLARGEMENT OF THE HEAD
/ or CHILD. There is now living in Troy.
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, a child who is
one year old, whose head measures in circum-
4 ference from the chin around the most promin:
ent point on the back part of the head, two
! feet four and half inches-around the fore
and back part of its head two feet three and
three iourths inches
| The celebrated DR.. Choyne said of punch,
I it is likest opium, both in the nature and
manner of its operation, and nearest arsenic in
its deletorious qualities; and so ! leave 1t to
them who, knowing this, will yet drink on and
/ die"