The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-22

TIE UNREASONABLE RESURRECTION.
The following narrative is contained IN an
old French work, entitled the " Travels OF
AIaximilion Mission through Germany and
Italy, in the year 1857"
In the year 1871, at Cologne, in Germany,
the wife of consul having been buried with
a valuable ring on her finger, the grave
digger opened the tomb the following night,
to possess himself of the jewel. Imagine
his CONSERVATION at finding the hand which
he had taken hold of press his own; but
when the good lady grasped it hard, and
endeavored TO raise herself from the collin,
without any ceremony he disengaged HIM
self in an instant, and fed precipltately,
with more fear than gallantry. The revlv-
lived lady, whose rance the roguish sexton
had disturbed, having extricated herself
from her earthly tenement, and enveloped
her person with all becoming decency in
the cerements of the grave, proceeded and
knocked loudly at the door. She address
ed the servant by name, who thrust his
head out of window to know who disturb
ed the family at such an unreasonable hour.
and briefly told him how she escaped, re-
questing him to be quick, for she shivered
in the night air. But the increduious SER
want considered her phantom, and flea IN
the utmost alarm, to tell his master that the
spirit of his mistress was knocking at the
door for admittance. His master treated
him as a fool, and ordered him instantly TO
open the door, and enquire the persons
business, which he at length did; but no
sooner did he distinguish the features of
his lately inferred mistress, than the light
fell from his hand, and he swooned at her
feet. The good lady, trembling with cold
passed over the unfortunate man and enter
ing, encountered her husband in the pas
sage, whom with difficulty she persuaded,
or rather held, from flying also, till other
senses than that Of sight, had convinced
him of the corporeal presence of his dear
taken due care of, resumed her place in
society, and for seven years after she had
been buried, performed the duties of good
mother and mistress of family.
SEED Corn. 1t is of the utmost impor-
lance to the farmer to secure the first blades
of corn that shoot forth, in order to obtain
stalks whose fruit shall come to maturity.
The experiment has been tried with success
Of soaking the corn, before planting it, in
solution Of Gtauber Suits. Seed that had
been thus prepared was planted by the side
of some of the same quality which had not
been soaked. The result was that the
soaked seed came up three or four days
before the other, and remained uniniured
by worms or birds, while one half of the
other was destroyed. The expense Of thus
teaching the seed is n mere trifie, and we
wish that some of our agricultural friends
would make the experiment, that its utility
may be further tested.-Lo,oeH Journal.
SWEET POTATOES. 1t is not generally
known that this delicious vegetable can ne
raised to considerable advantage in New
England. The sprouts or slips as they are
called, should be started in hot bed-then
transplanted III warm, soft, and somewhat
sandy soil, IN rows OF four feet apart, then
plant one foot apart in the rows. They
should be placed on the top of the ground,
and the hills made by hoeing the earth up
and over them. If the ground is too rich,
they will not have the peculiarly fine flavor
of those brought from Carolina. They are
very productive. The slips from which they
are raised are always kept for sale at ]. B.
Russel's Seed Store No. So North Market
Street, Boston. A half peck of these slips
produce from to IL bushels of potatoes.
In Lynn town meeting last week, the fol-
lowing vote was unanimously passed:
Voted, That whereas we do regard the
Institution of speculative Freemasonry as a
great moral evil, and whereas we do most
sincerely deprecate its existence as being
dangerous to all free Governments, and es-
peclally calculated to subvert the Republi-
can Institutions of our Country, and more
over, being fully impressed with the belief
that the dangerous tendency of the Masonic
Institution may be counteracted by enlight-
ening the public mind on the subject, and
by exposing its vices ard its foliies, Resolv-
ed, therefore, that Jacob Allen of Braintree,
be invited to repeat his exhibition of Mason
ry in this town, and that the gratuitous use
of the Town Hall be rendered to him on the
occasion.-Lynn yuirror.
Mr.. Benjamin Titcomb, Jr., preacher of
the Gospel, man of extraordinary talents
and worth, is just dead-aged forty-two ;
leaving behind him one fact in his biography
of so much value at this particular time,
that every paper of our country should as
sist in giving it circulation. 1t is this
for six or eight years of his life, he ,Oqs a
helpless and hopeless drunkard. But he
grew ashamed Of wallowing with the beasts
that perish-got up-shook off the indurated
filth OF eight long years-returned to life as
it were-became a preacher of the Gospel,
and 10 the last hour was an example Of per-
feet and severe temperance. Let no man
be discouraged therefore. At one time,
while he was studying law with the present
Chief Justice of Maine, he was regarded, as
beyond all comparison, the cleverest young
man here. Yet he was a drunkaid After
this, he studied law with somebody at the
Eastward--he continued to rise in reputa-
tion-but he was still drunkard. 1t was
about this time that knew him: and
never knew a more hopeless case. There
anneared To be no Wav of reaahinr him