The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-07-25

e At the celebration of the Atb &c I'll, :. w
y mington, NJ c. Mr.. Andrew Patr;s s ." sa;, H.
!, belonging to Roxbury, Mass. was draadf,,I
4 4hangied by the bursting of gun. The WI
inHiSton paper says" His face and neck xua,
4 covered with the splnters of the sunnge an
Iammer; gu or go at least were takep ont :
ms neck and breast. His hands and one ur;s
were much wounded, and his arm broke
Two OF ms shattered fingers were cut off. h,
vi RfeoeficK Moore. The amputation of hi
Janus was considered essential to his recovery
Out ne hrniy refused to submit to the operation
preierring death to it. Under the most ax
eruclatlng pains, the poor fellow has never ut
'ered groan or a complaint"
vermont papers announce, that on the 9th
June laere was an acekanche from the noun
| IAN In Lincoln, Addison county, which, to thu
Instance nf 200 rods, overturned trees and re
moved rocks judged to weigh from is to q
sons' leaving channel of from two to ter
rus WIDE, and burying many of the trees, &c
several ieet IN sand and mud The whole dis.
su NE ravaged was estimated to be mile and
half The late abundant rain is said TO have
oeea the cause.
Nashville, (Tenn) contained. in 1890. three
or Tour thousand inhabitants the Dopn,afion
has increased to six thousand. and rand adj.
are making in Improvement Twen-
y ssean-boats ply to New Orleans, Pittsburr,
s siiu -oSher towns on the Ohio and Mississippi
annually. O'OO0 '|'''
In the city of New York, there are "a en-
g1n c D hook and ladder trucks, upwards of
il'Uoo feet OF hose, and l34S firemen.-In Bos-
70 ION there are ~ engines, % hose carriages,
oi49 feet of hose, and 1871 fremen
The New Bedford Mercury has good story
VI TWO friends who attended a public dinner
N. told ID. the excellent toast he intended to
give, but d. contrived to be called on first. and
gave Ms only toast and then had him refer
red to tor sentiment, when he knew he was
man OF only one idea, and he had stolen that
There's situation Boston Palladium.
SILK. A correspondent in the New England
farner, Is OF opinion that the United States
VIII become silk growing country in few
years, that the South will produce the most.
but the North the best, the most clean and per- |
fect; that the produce of silk alone will be a |
sure means of national aceaIth.
Ten or twelve persons are known to have /
lost their lives or limbs, on the 4th instant, for
want OF cannon being properly swabbed and
having the vent secured, before a new car. !.
fridge was rammed down.
porcelain mandatory is about TO be es-
tablished at Pittsburg, Pa. where number of
English workmen have recently arrived, skilled
in Shat branch of business Great quantities.
OF clay, tit for the purpose, are found in the
vicinity. An abundance of fine white Porce-
lain clay, is said to be found in Vermont
LARGE FRUITs. The Editor of the Ameri-
can Farmer, acknowledges present of straw
berries from South America measuring nearly
four inches in circumference, and of an april
cot which grew in Baltimore measuring seven
inches in circumference.
The new Baptist Church in Federal-street
Boston, was opened on Wednesday last Ser
mon by Rev. MIR. Sharp.
Nearly one million of dollars of the late
War Loan has been paid at the U. S. Branch
Bank at Boston, since the 1st inst
A singular incident is related in Poulson's
Philadelphia Daily Advertiser, which is said to
have occurred on board sloop struck by light
ming on the 4th inst. A dog which lay on the
deck after the shock, apparently killed, was
thrown overheard, when it Immediately recov-
cred, swan to the vessel, and was taken on
board. There it soon became again torpid,
was again thrown into the river, resuscitated,
swan to the shore, and was seen to run briskly
up the street. If the application of cold water
is a specific against the effects of lightning, it
is a fact that should be generally promulgated.
Salem Ga@ette.
MONEY 1t is fact that two men from
Eermont, are now, DULY 1ith,} working by
the side of one the wliarvcs in Aeao London,
for buried money, by the advice and recon-
mendation of an old woman of that state, who
assured them that she could distinctly see q
box of dollars packed edge-wise. The locality
was pointed out to an inch, and her only way
of discovering the treasure was by looking
through stone, which, to ordinary optics, was
hardly translucent For the story of the
Spanish Galleon that left so much bullion in
and about New London, sec Trumbulls Risto-
ny of Connecticut, and for Kidd, inquire of the
oldest lady you can fnd.-Coan. Mirror.