The Litchfield County post., 1828-05-29


 Stingey pass along with wheel-barrow. My eye followed him he ran ii up close to a house, and then cried out, Here. Old Testy. is your wheeI-barrow-take il and keep it to yourself, and be hanged to you but be care full you never get that printer to abuse me a. gain" Thinks to myself, it would per haps be as we'll for me to haul in my jib and tack about, and see how matters stand with me at home. did so. Search was made |: many things were found on my premises that did not belong to me. sent Tabitha home with the borrO,ced books :; Luna with Mrs. Purblind's spectacles that had borrowed four weeks ago,at Church,tO find the hymn {; Rosa hastened away with madam Goodlive's sausage machine; John shouldered Mir. Farmwell's plough, which had lain out all winter; carried back ParsOn HoldfOrth's bible concordance, ,and neighbor Stonecutter's crOwbar and drills.-As was going on, sweeping my premises of these borrowed ar ticles, the words, Alas, it was borrowed" more than once rose to my lips, and con science, now for the first time awakened to the subject, urged me on SD rapidly, that | did not again once think oftweaking the prin- ter's nose, or of fogging A Lender" l determined hereafter never to borrow but when absolutely necessary, and then to re- turn the article when have done using it, Such, sir, is the succinct history. and such the firm resolution of one who has heretofore been negligent in duty.
 A REFORMED BORROWER.
 NEWSPAPER LIEs.-Excellence of eve- cry kind is to be admired there is some- thing inspiring even in the perfection of wickedness and absurdity. It is thus that a thorough lie-a lie complete in all it's details-a lie full of the most monstrous and incredible circumstances such lie, |, in fact, as the newspapers chuckle at, float over, and thrust into their most crowded columns, multiply in a week all through the three kingdoms, send hot to America, and receive it back from that region of won ders, re-manufactured to be re-exported l; such lie as this delights us beyond ex- pression, and gives us vast hopes of the perfectibility of the invention of mankind. What glorious example is the following, which has travelled" up from the Maccles- field Courier to the Times and after be- ing swallowed with ak the port and porter in the city, will make itself wings to fly in- to every inn and pot-house in the country, till it becomes embalmed in the magazines, and will descend to posterity in some quiet nook in the Annual Register :-
 "We have heard of many instances wherein fright, it is said, has produced ve- ry strange effects upon the human system. The following account we give upon the authority of a highly respectable medical gentleman resident in London. At the time of the funeral of his late Royal High ness the Duke of York, gentleman well known for his antiquarian researches, whose name a0e UithhOtd, descended into the Royal Cemetery at Windsor, after the in- terment had taken place, and busily enga- ged himself in copying inscriptions from various coffins. While thus engaged, and absorbed in thought, he heard the door of the cemetary close with an appalling sound; the taper fell from his hand, and he re- mained petrifed by the knowledge of his awful situation, entombed with he dead. He had not power to pick up the taper, which was soon extnguished by the noi- some damp, and he imagined that hr can- etery would not be re-orened until anoth- CT royal interment should take place; and that thus he must soon, from the 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, placed his hands upon a mouldering 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 noon they should revisit the cemetery, ,and take away some plumes, Ec. which they had left there. This somewhat calmed his spirits. Soon after twelve o'clock he heard the doors turn upon their grating hinges ; he called for assistance ,and was soon con- veyed to the regions of day. His clothes were damp, and horrible dew hung upon his hair, which in the course of a few hours turned from dark black to gray, and soon after to white. The pain which he felt in the scapula during the period of his incar- ceration, he described to our informant to be dreadful. This is, perhaps, the best authenticated account there is upon rec- ord, of mans hair turning gray from fright"
 What pity it is to spoil this most inge- nious and really awful fiction, by mention ing few stupid facts. The Royal Gem etery is never opened but in the presence of the Lord Chamberlain and the Dean oi Windsor, who each have keys;-the body,