The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-12-09

SEDUCTION. An action brought by
Samuel De Mott for the seduction of his
daughter Jane, against Oliver s. Denton,
was tried on Monday week last, in the
Circuit Court in New York. A case of an
aggravated nature was made out against the
defendant. 1t appeared that the daughter,
now in her twentieth year, was of respect
able family in the county of Queens, on
Long Island, that she had always lived
with her father, who was now very aged,
and had sustained an irreproachable char
acter. The defendant resided in the same
neighborhood, they were nearly of the
same age and had known each other from
childhood. For two years he had paid her
his addresses in the character of sutton
for her hand, and having accomplished her
seduction deserted her. Several witnesses
testified to the excellence of the Young
woman's previous character, and it appeared
that the defendants father was a man of
substance, worth from thirty to forty thou
sand dollars. 1t appeared also that the
defendant had told the brother of Jane that
they might go on with their scrape, as he
had money enough for them. He also told
one of the witnesses that he had treated the
girl i'll and ought to have had her. The
Jury returned a verdict of $500 damages.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. A
trial took place last week, in Rhode Island,
for breach of promise of marriage. Mary
Cook plaintiff, vs.. Joseph Whipple defend
ant. The disconsolate Ariadne was So
years of age, and her gay deceiver 81; a
respectable man, possessing considerable
property, who has held sundry political
offices, and is widower with family, the
eldest of whom is q years of age The
lady was unfortunate in her youth, having
fallen into the snares of young Lothario,
from whom she had recovered, by way of
damages, $500 She was afterwards mar
ried to Mr.. Cook, with whom she lived
III years, when an application for divorce
was made by him to the Supreme Court,
and granted, the Court decreeing TO the
wife $3.50. This event happened about
two years ago, soon after which the defen-
dant commenced his addresses, which ter
minated IN the prosecution for damages.
The plaintiff possessed considerable prop
erty in her own right. After being together
all night, the jury returned verdict of $50
damages.
PETRIFIED TREE. A letter dated Port
land Island, Oct. %, states that petrifed
tree, supposed to be an oak, had been
found in one of the quarres there, ten feet
below the surface, and enclosed IN regu-
lar bed of stone in horizontal position, into
which there is every reason to imagine it
may have been cast at the time of the
great conVulson of the earth by the food.
Its dimensions are-height "a feet; diane
! ter, foot inches; circumference, feet
IL inches. There are two branches near
the top, and these, with the root, are IN a
most perfect state. 1t is so exceedingly
hard that scarcely any of the workmen's
tools could be made TO penetrate it. Roots
and other parts of trees have frequently
been hewn out Of the stone beds but this
IS the most complete and largest specimen
OF the kind ever discovered here, or, as We
believe, in any other place; and it is pre-
sumed At may DO truly called "the Oldest
tree in the ,Corid."-London paper.
A Coroner's Inquest was held here on
Tuesday last, by w. Taylor, ESQ, on view
of the body of James Docherty, son of Eli
abeth Arnold. The child was found living
on the floor beside its mother, but SO dread.
fully burnt that it only survived few min
utes after being discovered 1t is not
known by what means the child came into
this condition, but it is painful to state, that
I the wretched mother was under the un-
happy effects of ardent spirits; utterly in
sensible of what had happened. 1t is
strongly suspected that she had made the
child partake of her deadly draught. Yer
dict, that James Docherty was found in
the state above described. The mother
has since been committed to jail.
81. John ~ b. paper.
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! THE MONSTER. We have looked with
establishment upon the enormous bones now
exhibiting in Market street (Cornhill which
were disinterred few years since in the
vicinity of New Orleans. The creature of
which these relics were once a part must
have been organized in manner quite diff
ierent from any animal now known to natu-
ralists. What idea must we form Of a mon
ster, whose neither jaw, after having been
buried for ages beneath the clods of the
valley, and undergone the ordinary corro-
sion incident to so protracted an interment,
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