The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Seymour Cutting, aged l9, and two brothers,
heodoslus and Henry Harwood, aged l6 and
-, were drowned at Sturbridge, on Sunday, the
18th ult
PRoDucTIvE HIVE. A swarm of bees which
was hised on the 9th of June last, was taken ND
by Ephraim Babcock of Berlin, on the 18th ult..
| and 200 pounds of honey taken from the hive.
A singular circumstance recently occurred
in Bucks county, PENN which may be inter
esting To ornilhologists An old king bird hav-
| ing attacked large hawk in the usual manner
OF that species of bird, by darting upon his back,
and taking care to keep above the hawk, so as
not to permit him TO make swoop, the latter
suddenly TUNED upon his back, when the king
bird darted upon him clutched him in his talons
and bore him in triumph to a neighboring wood
WALK IN THE WATER DR.. Charles Won Nav
erly, in Germany, has lately invented pair Of
boots, made of block lin and surrounded with
hollow body, with the assistance of which he can
pass over the most rapid river. He has lately
exhibited his continuance at Post. at which place
he walked for upwards of 500 fathoms in the
river Danube, where it is very rapid and deep,
IN the presence of great number of persons
AGRICULTURAL SEMIEARY An individual
has offered to appropriate $4,000 to the estab.
lishment of practical Seminary for the cultiva-
ton OF the various branches of agricultural and
mechanical science to be located in the CEN
trail part of Massachusetts, and placed under the
supervision of the American Lyceum 1t is
expected that this institution, which is to en-
brace extensive workshops, gardens, &c will
go into operation early in the ensuing spring.
Boston Bulletin.
$4,000 damages have been given in England,
by law, TO an individual injured by bag of wool
falling upon him, which was thrown from an
upper room of warehouse
The Raehelnris Iournal ,yaaru IF lca "A.
gle blessedness, has formed connection with
the Yankee of Portland
A machine has been invented by Mr. Robert
E. Hobart of Montgomery county, PENN by
which ton weight of horse shoes may be made
in day.
On Saturday, Sept. 20, Charles Carroll of
Carrolton, entered his ninety second year. He
still enjoys health and vivacity to a remarka-
BILE degree. This sound mind in sound body
lit is well observed in the Baltimore Americana
is the fruit of long habits of temperance and
moderation, and of the serenity which belongs
to life of integrity and virtue.
PRopUCT OF THE SEASON. A correspondent
informs us, that few days since he saw grow
ing one vine or the land of Jacob Gale, Jr.
in Waltham, two acater-me!onS, which weighed.
81 lbs.-one weighing 46, the other as lbs. that
they are still in growth, and will be exhibited at
the Cattle Shows of Concord and Brighton.
The same vine, we also learn, has others on it
of smaller sze.-CentineL.
SOUTHERN LITERATURE. Another literary
periodical, the " Southern Literary Gazette"
has made its APPEARANCE in the city of Charles
ton. The Charleston papers speak favorably of
the contents of the first number
LIE Courier des Etats Unls of New York,
States that an experiment had been made at
Vincennes, with the steam cannon, purchased
by the French government of Mr.. Perkins, and
that the machine, though very ingenious, did
not in any respect answer the purpose. Its
great weight 100000 lbs.) renders the use Of it
very difficult, and besides, it carries ball only
half the distance which it would go if impelled
by gunpowder.
TRAINING ACCIDENT. Some young men in
| Huntingdon, Conn. repaired to the house of
their captain, early on the morning OF the LIST OF
September, to wake himby firing salute. One
of them, VIM. tline, % years OF age, received
the wad of one of the guns, which was heavily
loaded, in his slde which caused his death three
days after.
The innholders of New Bedford have deter
mined to close their bar-rooms on Sundays
The example was set by Col. Nelson
| The Theatre in Cincinnati, OHIO, has been
purchased Tor, and workmen are now employed
| to convert into, Presbyterian church.
| Lusus NATURAE. The New Bedford Courier
| of the 23d ult. on the authority OF credltabe
eye witness says, " two duck s eggs were broken
| open in tins town the other day, III one OF which
was found small 6Uing eet and IN the other a
dead one. How they found their way INTO the
eggs we leave tor shrewder naturalists than our
! selves to determine"
| The Belchertown Sentinel states that apples
are so plenty IN that vicinity, and the price OF
cider SO low, that they will not pay the farmer
! Tor the labor of gathering the apples and. making
the cider.
The annual Cattle Show and Exhibition of
Manufactures OF MIddlesex County, takes place
! on the Sth of October, at Concord. Rev. ber-
nard Whitman of Waltham, is to deliver an
address on the occasion
! CHARACTERISTIC EXIT. A veteran Drunhard,
named Samuel Wager, was found dead at Ches
ter, N. Jersey, sitting with his back against the
fence, holding in one hand rum bottle, and in
! the other cork
! IMPORTANT. A couple of Esquires, lately
fought duel near Liverpool, because one vi
the parties said the ladies' Of ireland drank
whskey TO excess one of the gentlemen was
| left dead on the field with bullet IN his aldo.
men--and has thus, for little CALAMITY, lost
I the privilege of drinking any more whiskey
hmself
! The TARIFF A few days since, tailor in
Baltimore, was expiatng very loudly against
the Tariff and the friends of the American Sys.
TEN He commended, that we had better import
cloths, because, as he said, they could be had
cheaper /! by stander asked him if i; would
moi be still better to take oft the duty, and i'm.
port clothes already made--because they could
be had cheaper--for in England journeymen
work for shifting sterling per day. The tai.
Tor reflected fcw moments, when he declared
himself satisfied, and that for the future he
would not only justify the general principles oil
| the arm, but support the true fr lends OF the