The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

EFFECTS OF FKIGHT. An extraordinary case
of the effects of fright upon the human system,
is related in late English paper. AT the funer-
al of the late Duke Of York, gentleman de-
scended into the royal cemetery, near London,
for the purpose of copying inscriptions from the
collins. While busiy engaged in copying the
inscriptions, he heard the door of the cemetery
close with an appalling sound, and the knowl-
edge of his awful situation caused him to fall
senseless upon the ground, where he remained
for some time. When he came to himself and
found the light which he brought with him ex-
tinguished, he was seized with the most horri-
BILE sensations, and imagined that he should
soon be numbered with the dead around him,
for the cemetery is rarely opened, except upon
the decease Of some of the royal family But
fortunately some of the workmen returned
shortly after, for the purpose of taking away
some things which had been left in the cemete-
ry, and released the gentleman from his con-
fnement. His clothes and hair were covered
with horrible dew, and, in the course of a
few hours, his hair turned from black to grey,
and soon after changed to white. The pain
in his head, during his confinement, he states,
was dreadful.
APPOINTMENTS. james Barbour, now Sec
rotary of War, late u S. Senator, and Goven-
Or OF Virginia, has been appointed by the Presi-
dent, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
to be Minister to Great Britain VIM. III. Hay-
rtsoa, Of Ohio, at present Senator in CONGRESS-
to be Minister Plenpotentiary to Columbia.
alexander Macomb, of New York, now Chief
OF the Engineer Department, to he Major Gen
erai, commanding the army of the United States.
Gen Peter B. Porter, to be Secretary of War.
Essex FARMERS Tho amount of Enolish
Hay, carried into Boston by the farmers of ms.
witch, Essex and Hamilton, durinp the six
months ending on the Sd of March last, was sin
hundred and sirty tons and a half Tie great
est load carried at any one time was 6,S53 lbs.
The smallest load was 3,203 lbs.
The amount of bullion and specie imported
into the United States in the year ending the
Both of September last, was SIS, ISL 100, and the
export $6,971 ,306. In the preceding wear the
import was $6,SSO, 1856, and the export S4,-
0SS,67S
The Virginia Advocate has announced the
publication Of q prospectus of the Life and Writ
ngs Of Thomas Jefferson, by his executor in a
octave Volumes Of 500 pages each, at $40 in
boards Tho work will be considered an inval-
liable treasure, if we'll executed, and sourht af.
ter with the greatest avidity II is to contain a
likeness and fac smils of the first draught of the
Declaration of Independence.
STINGs OF VASES OR BEES. A cure is eff.
fected by applying sweet oil, or by rubbing the
place with raw onion A solution of any al
kali, as potash, pearlash, sc. may be applied.
BosToE. Upon the petition of about fourteen
hundred citizens, the Board of Aldermen have
passed an order prohibiting the sale of spiritu-
GUS liquors on tho Common or in any of the
streets contiguous thereto, on public holidays.