The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-03-26
Npm Rnrnsw1ck. IN. L.l March 10.

New BRuNsw1cK, IN. j. March 10.
LOST CHILD. At the Court of Quarter |
Sessions held in this city during the last
week, woman styling herself Mary Mel
son was convicted of an atrocious assault :
, and battery upon female infant child,
whose name is unknown. The facts elicit
ed upon trial, together with the appearance !
of the woman produced general conVic- !
ton That the child was stolen.
Somewhere about the commencement of
the last week, this woman was observed
! begoin0 from door to door, attended by this |
child, with the view doubtless, OF enforcing
her appeals. She stated that she had come
FROM Philadelphia and was going to New
York Having favored US with her pres /
( ence for day or so-she crossed the bridge
on her way, perhaps, to New York and hav- |
ing doubtless imagined, the river between
herself and observation, her treatment of
the infant became violent and even brutal. !
Disporting herself after this fashion, she
wended her way until about the close ofthe |
day when being in the vicinity of dwelling
house, her inhuman proPensities got the
better other discretion, and she perpetrated
the crime, which was the subject of the in
dictment. When the gasping of the infant
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hand, she was discovered in the act of sflok
ing it; upon their interference, she drew a
fe-threatened them with violence, and
(avowed her intention of despatching the
4 child. They escorted her back again, and
she was examined, committed, tried, con-
victed and sentenced for the improvement
of her manners and morals to the state pris
on for one year.
The child is apparently three years of,
age-intelligent, and interesting, and clad
in style altogether superior to that OF her
pretended mother-whose age and appear
ance almost precluded the possibility of her
, being the mother of ite which was further
confirmed, if confirmation were necessary,
by her cruel and unnatural conduct, and by
the panic and terror of the child when near
her. The above statement has been made
with the hope of thereby facilitating the
restoration of the infant, to its rightful pa
rents. 1t may be well'to mention also, that
some weeks since, the woman was seen in
an adjacent part of the country with two
Q children-ohe has disappeared, how and
d when is left TO conjecture.
SUPREME CoURT, U. S. March Z. The
n opinion Of the court was delivered in the
: case of Comegys and Petit VS.. Vase, and
e also in the case of Fullerton vs.. the Bank of
: the United States.
p In the case of fullerton VS.. Bank of the
: United States, the following points were de-
- aiAqA 1 That lsntirn of the dishonor of a
: TO the post office on the day after the last
:. day of grace, so that it may go by the mail,
which leaves the Office on that day for the
t place, where the endorser lives. 2. That
q where note is payable at a bank, and is
discounted by the bank, 1t is not necessary
for the bank to prove negatively, that the
S maker at its maturity had no funds there :
but the parties interested in the note ought
: to prove afirmatiyely that the maker had
funds there, in order to disapprove the non
: payment. 3. That where a note IS dis
: counted by bank as a renewal of note
now due or becoming due, the bank have
: right to apply the amount as discharge
ofsuch prior note without any check or cypress
authority given by the holder for this pur-
, pose. There were other points of less pub
lie mportance.-Bos Courier.
PENsYLvAyIA HUNTING. The Greens
burgh Gazette contains the following ac-
count OF aclrcular hunt, held on the 9TH
lnstant-these are, for the sake of safety,
conducted without the use of fire arms.
1.-The bells rang their merry peals-a
thousand horns sounded ten thousand dis
cordant notes-rattles, boys, men, women
and children, were in motion-and at eipht
i O'Clock on Friday last the hunt commenced.
Every thing proceeded WE'LL and about one
O'Clock the inner line was formed, on the
farm of Isaac Shustef, five miles north of
town. Many foxes were enclosed, and the
business of death and destruction was
soon begun and ended. Ten foxes were
taken IN the ring-12 were taken las we are
( Intormed,) from under the barn on the
/ ground, after the multitude had retired
were caught under hay stack. and three
IN an old log-and 6 or 8 concealed them
selves in log pile. With those that were
killed previous to the formation of the outer
circle, it is supposed that the number killed
I and taken prisoners in the ranks of poor
reynard, was little short of 40. There was
much fun, more grog, and some bloody
noses"
Two young Americans were pursu;po
their studies in London at the Commence.
ment OF our late war with England. Some
months after that event, thoy learnt that n
motion was to be made in the, Honse ri
Lords, Which would probably elicit a de-
pate on the prosecution of hostilities with
h America. They determined to attend. and
ignorant that any introduction was necesso-
| ry, went at an early hour to the House and
by some lucky accident fairly got on the
floor without any interruption. They look.
ed around with great ,cpmposure for a cood
place, and at length, finding one to fheir
minds. seated fhemselvac xuit bout oo~
Not long after the Peers began to assemIle
and all eyes were steadily directed TO The
young strangers. Presently a very resnect.