The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

dy appointed Post Master
l. EMIGRANTs The number of entrants to
tnls country from Europe, this year, will prob
ahy exceed that of any former season. About
4oVO have arrived in New York within a few
weeks past, and it is stated that abont 5000 from
single district in Switzerland are preparing to
embark for this country. Cargoes of Irish peo-
pie are arriving at the different sea ports almost
every day; it is to be feared too many of them
VIII become tenants of prisons and aims
/, houses.
Col. King, the person accused of being i'm
plicated in the Morgan affair, is said to have ar
rived in Niagara county, IN. W from Fort
Towsen, in Arkansas, and surrendered himself
up for trial.
FoUNpLINe. AN infant, apparently few
hours old, was found in Mr. Wheeler's black
smith shop in Boxborough, early on Saturday
morning last, where it appeared to have been
only short time. Two ten dollar bank bills
were found with the child, and a brief note,
which piously TOLD the finders, they should be
rewarded in the neat 1coYld, if not in the pres
ent, tor whatever kindness they bestowed on
the unfortunate founding Concord Gazette.
Upwards of $145,OOO have been expended.
in the las: four years, for widening streets in
Boston.
MELANCHOLY A son of Dr. Levi Warner, of
New Haven, VT, 13 years of age, while WALKING
with some of his associates, ate small quantity
OF the root ctrcutG, commonly called aoGter pGrS-
mp, and died in about two hours after in con-
vulslons, although every effort was made to
check the force of the poison.
| GEOGRAPHY. The geographical society of
Paris, offers gold medal, value 1000 francs,
to the traveller who shall make the most imuor-
tant geographical discovery in 1928 and, in ad-
dition to this, he will, if a foreigner be receiv-
ed as correspondent of the society, and, if
trenchman, as a member.
On the 9th inst Mr. Hathaway, of Sharon,
aged %, endeavoring to stop yoke of oxen
| running down bill with the cart attached to
them, was killed in the attempt, the cart pass
| ing violently over his body.
! We learn by the Albany papers that the pro-
perty OF De Witt Clinton is to be sold by the
Sheriff on the 28th inst.-Neao York paper
Achille Murat, the elder son of the late King
of Naples, has taken his license as Counsellor.
and advertlses in the Florida Advocate, that he
will practice in all the courts of the Territory
He Is gentleman of sound sense and excellent
character.
A student of medicine from Boston, while at
! tending lectures in London, observed that the
| Kings EUit had been little known in the United
States since the Revolution.
| The import of British goods into New York
[ for eight months, ending LIST April, amounted to
48,902 packages. In the same period the pre-
ceding year, the import was only 1888.
Stevens who was convicted of breaking into
the store of the Messrs Howlands in New York,
and forging various checks, has been sentenced
to the state prison in that state for fourteen
years.
A girl, in mems attire, was taken from the
Bowery Theatre, on Saturday evening last On
I hnra rod hat ba had hoo
driven from her home by the cruelty of step
father, and the better to make her way through
life, changed her dress. She has lived out in
the capacity of a servant boy, had been clerk,
followed boating ON the Canal, driving team,
sc. She states, that situated as she is, with
out friends, she prefers her present dress, as
she is far more healthy than she formerly was,
and is enabled the better to gain her livelihood
N. Y. .AdgertiSer.
! An elegant steam packet of 800 tons, has re.
Gently been built in New York for Company
in Havana. Her boilers were made of copper,
and weigh 60, 900 pounds and the engine, which
is 100 horse power, is said to be the most pow
erful ever manufactured in this country.
CURE FOR STAMMERING Those who suffer
under the distressing affection of an impedi.
ment in their speech, may be effectually cured
where there is no malformation of the organs
of Internationally perseverance, for three or
four months in the simple remedy of reading
aloud with the teeth closed, for at least two
hours in the course of each day. The recon-
mender of this simple process adds, 4" l can
speak with certainty OF the remedy"
London paper.
Some enterprising English coachmasters
have been endeayoring to establish a coach be-
tween Calais and Paris, to perform the journey in
twenty four hours, which would be at the rate of
seven miles an hour; but the restrictions i'm
posed by the French government as to the
breadth of wheels, weight of carriage, L2v. will
prevent tho prosecution of the undertaking.
With view to ensure safety, the French gov
: eminent requires that public carriages should
: b, of weight, and have their wheels of
beadth, which put rapidity Of travelling quite
, oft of the question
School DISCIPLINE. writer, who has pro-
p,sed the introduction of ridicule, as substi-
= tIte for chastisement in the discipline Of
! schools, refers to the practice pursued by Dr.
Newcomb, who had charge of the school at
Hackney, about seventy years ago. When
any mistake happened in the pronunciation of
Latin word, the Doctor required the faulty
lad to repeat, after him, in presence of the
, whole school, a latin phrase, in which every
syllable was wrongly accented. This penalty
was more dreaded by the boys, than the ferue
o. the rod-SGlem Observer.
AWFUL WARNING TO SNUFF TAKERS. Mrs
French, of Button, was on Friday last seized
S With violent fit of sneezng in consequence of
having taken a handful of Macaboy at once, by
which she dislocated the vertebre Of the neck
On dissection, b pounds of snuff was found
slowed away in the place where the brains
} ought to be.-LOndOn paper.
FORGERY. A forgery was detected in Lon
don on the 10th April, which occasioned much
excitement A Mr.. Ferhman, confidential
cerk of the house of Ward, committed it. It
appears that he enjoyed in right of his wife, an
income Of $4,000, and received large salary
besides. His gambling propensities, however,
involved him in endorsements, which led him
to commit crimes, one of which he will undoubt-
edly be compelled to expiate by an ignominious