The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

JAIL DELIVERY. Four prisoners committed
for criminal offences, broke Jail in Amherst,
n II, on the evening Of Saturday, the 29th ult
Their names are Caleb Stiles, about So years
of age, light complexion, sandy hair and wills
kers, bald in the fore part of the head stout
built, and dressed in dark clothes and blue sur
tout Sargent L. Kimbal 35 years of age,
dark complexioned black hair, about 6 feet
high, dark clothes, with camblet cloak or coat
John Fisher, 80 years of age, dark hair, wore
dark clothes and seal skin cap Robert Aims
worth, Is years old, dark complexion-dark
clothes and seal skin cap. Stiles and Kimbal
are old convcts, and have served apprentice
ships at the States Prison. A reward of ten
dollars each, and all necessary charges, is offer
ed for their apprehension.
A PRovLDENTIAL BEqUEsT gentleman
lately deceased, has left, by will, sum of five
hundred guineas to his wife adding clause,
that she was not to have the benefit of it till az
ter her death, in order that she might have
wherewithal to be buried in a comfortable man.
ner.
There are in the human body no less than 500
muscles, for the purpose of performing its vari-
GUS functions but these are few compared to
the number assigned to some minute animals !;
particular species of caterpillar was ascertain
ed by the naturalist Lyonet, to possess 1900
muscles in the different parts of its minute body.
New Corn was s or inches high in Alaba-
ma on the 25th of Feb.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Gazette,
anxious to reduce the price of aoOol, recon-
mends that Congress pass law obliging every
body to eat Mutton on Wednesdays
A Punch Bowl, Ito contain IA gallcns) cut
out of stone, and richly ornamented, was lately
LII
Scotch Society at Pittsburg, Penn.
| The Rev DR.. kirkland has resigned the Of
| fee of President OF Harvard College. He took
an affectionate leave of the students on Tues
! day-BoSton Gazette.
| There are now in England upwards of 1000
convcts on board the hulks, employed in the
dock yards and ON other public works, at an
annual expense of at least 100000, the whole
of whom must be turned loose on society with
in the period of seven years.
! A Chain Bridge, in Pennsylvania, has lately
been partially damaged by fire, imputed to an
incendary. What is safe The river may be
burnt next !-Potiadium.
( man died of intoxcation, lately, inn Car
DINA, and within an hour of his lnterment three
persons were discovered raising him from the
grave, for the purpose of extracting his teeth.
lhey mad opened the CONN, ana got chlsel IN
to the mouth of the deceased.
On THE FENCE This phrase is a very com
mon one, and originated as follows General
Washington once asked negro man belonging
to Judge Inlay, of n. Jersey, whether his mas
ter was Wing or Tory the reply was Mas
sa on de fence--him want to know which de
strongest party. - Hampshire Gazette. "a
1t may be expected, before long, that mo-
ton will be made, in Congress, to instruct a
Committee to ascertain how much it would
have cost ADAM to have lived till this time, at
board at $3 62a per week.-BOSt. Palladium.