The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

UNCOMMON AND SHOCKING CASUALTY. On
Saturday, June II, Can't. Alexander Stewart,
I OF Wilcox county, Alabama, stepped out with
his gun for the purpose of killing squirrel,
when at the distance Of about one hundred
yards from his house, in attempting to kill
snake with the but of his gun, it went off and
lodged the whole load of squirrel shot in his
left breast: he threw down the gun and made
towards the house, when at about half the dis
lance he fell Just as his wife met him, who had
been alarmed by his cries. He was carried to
the house, where he expired in about four
hours.
Gold has been discovered in Virginia, about
fourteen miles from Fredericksburg. It is found
in grey pebbly soil, and soil approaching red,
having a good deal of iron pyrites, quartz slick
and celated rocks, of different kinds. 1t is found
on the surface and mixed with the earth to the
depth of five feet, which is as far any expert
ment has been made.-Boston Patriot.;
UNNATURAL DEPRAvITY. A poor and sngu-
larly unfortunate man, who had been deprived
of the use of his limbs, and crawled on his knees
from place to place, was robbed near Stamford,
(Conn) day or two since, by couple of fit
candidates for the State Prison, who were soon
apprehended and conducted to Fairfield to
await their trial. The man was from the west
ern extremity of Maine, and had few dollars
in his possession; the villains said they were
last from New York.
Chill. Chill is fine, salubrious, Furnishing
republic. After war of seventeen years, they
are beginning to enjoy repose. Last year,
about six new political and literary journals
have started into existence. A Yankee has es-
tablished paper in that country. They have
line of coast of 900 leagues, from Alcama to
Cape Horn. As an indication of the heathiness
of the climate, the following anecdote is given
g In the Canton of Colina, man ll6 years old,
and of107, died in June 1927. There
remain in the same place a peasant Of 108, who
suhssts on his daily labor another of 104 still
more hardy, who mounts his horse with ease,
and woman supposed to be older than either,
because nobody in the country remembers to
have seen her other than an old a00maR. She
has forgotten her own age"
James Allen, Esq. of Boston, has made spir-
tied effort and experiment, on the quantity of
matter which can be committed to memory, in
strict perfection, in a given time; and is now
able to repeat the contents, in prose and poetry,
of 1900 octave pages, without the slightest va
riations from the text.
Some German journalists predict the ap-
proach of a comet which will destroy the world
in the year 1882. A like catastrophe, it may
be remembered, was threatened in a communi-
cation to the French Academy of Sciences, in
May 1888, by NJ. Delaande, when people died
Oh rear, anu tle energy SUI eA@00S IA III duAse
at large profit
At tie house of Mrs. Furnell, in Limerick,
| (Ireand) her three daughters had their ac-
condiments on the same day, and almost with
in the same hour. This coincidence blessed
the grandmother with three grandsons nearly
at the same moment.
The unwearied exertions which are made by
the political factionists of the day, to lessen the
| popularity of the President of the United States
and of Mr.. Clay, for party purposes, by means
of calumny and detraction, remind US of the
story of the maniac who attempted to overturn
a meeting house by throwing mud at the stee-
ple.-Dedham Register.
| A FAMILY OF GREAT MEN. In Denton, near
Manchester, (Eng) resides family of the name
of Howard, hatters by trade, of whom the faith
er and two sons together weigh 1890 pounds
the mother is only five feet two inches in
height, and weighs not more than ITO pounds.
The names, ages, height, and weight of the ia.
Their and two sons are as follows