Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-05-27

effects of famine, be numbered with the dead He
swooned, and remained insensible for some time.
At length recovering himself he rose upon his knees,
laid his hands upon Wondering coffin, and, to use
his own words, !" felt strength to pray" A recol-
lection then darted across his mind, that he had
heard the workmen say, that about they should
revisit the cemetry, and take away some pumes &c.
which they left there. This somewhat Gained his
spirits Soon after IL O'Clock, he heard the doors
turn upon their grating hinges, he called for assist
ance, and was conveyed to the regions Of day.
His clothes were damp, and a horrible dew hung
upon his hair which, in the course of half an hour,
turned from black to grey, and soon after to white.
The pain which he felt in the scapula during the Pc
Rod of his incarceration he described to inform
ant to be dreadful This is, perhaps, the best an
thenticated account upon record Of mans hair
turning grey from fright"
BosToN PuDD1Nes. From the New
England Farmer of Friday last we copy the
following receipt for making a Boston
Pudding" 1t is well known that the inha-
bitants ofthat city have long been celebrated
for their notions, and natural consequence
is that they are regarded with little atten-
ton and obtain but a small degree ofrespect:
it is no more than fair, however, to conclude
that they may now and then have good
one, and we hope this notion for pudding
may be of the number. But as "the proof
of a pudding is in the eating," we advise all
interested to take the first opportunity to
prove it by this infallible rule.
''Make good common paste with pound and
half Of -four and three quarters ofa pound of butter
When you roll it out the last time, cut off the edges
till you get the sheet of paste of an even square
shape
"Have ready some fruit sweetened to your TASTE
If cranberrieS goosberries, dried peaches, dam
sons; they should be stewed, and made very sweet.
If apples, they should be stewed in very little
ter, drained and seasoned with nutmeg, rose-water
and lemon. If currants, raspberries, or backberries
they should be mashed with sugar. and put into the
pudding raw
"Spread the fruit very thick all over the sheet of
paste, (which must not be rolled out too thin.) When
it is covered all with the fruit roll it up and
close the dough both ends and down the last side
Tie the pudding in cloth and boil it.
" Eat it with sugar. It must not be taken out of
| the pot till just before it is brought to table,"
The following, from an English paper,
is striking illustration of the power of art
(although not exhibited in one of its highest
branches) to deceive the mind by converting
a senseless block of wood into an appearance
of real flesh and blood -
THE MANGLED LIMB. One evening last week, as
two men were walking the beach at Port Loe,
(St. Mary's Scilly,) their attention painfully
excited by the appearance of human drnn-seem-
! ingly that of female-which the recedng tide had
just deposited the sand, where it lay, extended
and bleaching, beneath the silvery influence of the
moonbeam. On examination, recent wound and
the vestiges of stream of blood appeared perfectly
visible near the shoulder The parties by whom
this was seen, not liking to make the
| "Fatal vision sensible
| To feeling as to sight,"
hastily covered the lacerated member with some ore
weed and left it on the beach, thousand wild
ence of superstition-were soon afoat on the SUBJ
ject, and the coming of the next day-for more mi
mute aa4 Jss St eS5o Th hs
reconveyed the mangled limb to the main =
Singular to say, on the following evening the arm
washed again in near the same place; and on being
handled, proved to be part of the figure head beau-
tifuly carved and painted) of some ship or vessel
unknown The appearance of blood, &c. was occa-
stoned by the emulation of rust from large nail by
which the arm had been fastened to its original
trunk
1t is source of pleasure to perceive that
although the good people of York, or
their rulers, take but little pains to disturb
the heaps which are slumbering in their
streets, and apparently regard the cleanli-
ness of their ways as matter of little mo-
ment, they yet do not neglect the duties of
humanity, nor allow those who are guilty of
cruelty to their animals, to pass off with i'm
punity.
John Kane was lately tried, convicted, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for six months,
at hard labour, in that city, for numerically
beating his horse. He is represented as a
gray headed man, 60 years old.
ITEMS. Francis Perkins and Isaiah Putnam are
chosen Representatives of Fitchburg.
Mr.. Otway Crump was recently killed in duel !;
in Virginia, by DIR. T. B. Archer. The duel was
fought the Court House where the Supreme
court was in session! This in the ancient domin-
ion 2" The reader requested to notice paragraph
under the foreign head and compare the measure of
justice which is melted to duelists in Prussia with
the manner in which such assassns ale treated in
our own land.
The fire in Northampton, of which mention was
made in our last, destroyed two-story building
owned by Mrs. Brock, and occupied by several me-
chanics, with the most of its contents, and small
shop near it belonging to Mrs. Abigail Pease. Loss
estimated at about 5000 dollars nearly all of which
was insured.
Maj. Noah of the N. Y. Enquirer, computes the
cost of investigating the affair, at S7O36 90.
A machine has been invented in Columbia s. C.