The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-06-17
WHOLE NO. 1888.
NEW ENGLAND STORY.


NEW ENGLAND STORY.
There are several living humorists about
New York, who are in the habit of enter
! tanning their friends with New England
stories, which never fail of producing un-
bounded applause. The reader has no
doubt often heard of that excellent tale of
| Deacon Amaziah Bigelow, who with his
company from BarkShire county, in Massa-
chusetts, was at the taking of Burgoyne.
Arrived on the battle ground in the midst
OF peril, he refused to take hold till he had
seen Col. Warner. al shant attack no at
tack" says he, still see Col. Warner"
Solicited by an officer on horseback to
make an onset upon party of Hessans,
he asked care you Col. Warner my name
is Deacon Amaziah Bigelow, from Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, and these men are
all from Barkshire county, Massachusetts -
there ant a coward hair amongst US, not
one; we are all from Barkshire county;
but shant attack no attack till see Col.
Warner-they say he's fighting man."
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men into solid hollow square, he made
a speech and oHe-aI n lan.. nro,o -
then showing his men the enemy he Bid
them go at it; God Almighty" says he,
will 60 before and I'll go behind, and the
day shall be ours
.New York Morning Herald.
MIRACULOUS IMAGE OF THE VIRGIN Ma
RY IN POLAND. Peter the Great being
once at a town in Poland, heard much of q
wonderful image o: the Virgin Mary, which
had been seen to shed tears during the
celebration of mass, and he resolved to ex-
anime this extraordinary miracle. The
image being highly elevated, he asked for
a ladder, assembled it, and approached close
to the image. He discovered two little
holes near the eyes. He put his hand to-
the head dress and lifted up with the hair Il
portion of the skull The Monks who stood
at the foot of the ladder, quietly regarded
the Gear, for they did not imagine he could
so soon discover the fraud when he even
put his finger upon it, they shuddered to be-
hold their miraculous Virgin thus dishonor-
ed. The Emperor discovered within the
head basin whose bottom was even with
the eyes; it contained q few small fish,
the motion of which agitated the water, and
caused it to issue slowly and by small
quantities, from two apertures at the corner
of each eye. He descended the ladder
without seeking to undeceive the devoteesr
or any one hut addressing himself to the
Monks, he said cody to them, "That is q
very curious image indeed"
CURE FOR RHEUMATISM. A gentleman
who was confined to his house for months
by a severe attack of infammatory rheuma-
tism was constantly visited by his neigh
bors during his illness, and in the course of
his confinement received from them the fol-
lowing prescription, all said to be infalla-
BILE in the cure of the disease under Which
he lahored:
applied cold to the part affected beef
brine applied hot: live angle-worms, put
on crawling pulverized birthstone and tur-
pentine, mixed cider brandy and red pep
per, bathe the part, and drink plentifully:
cold shower bath: hot medicated vapour
bath raw muskrat's skin, fur next TO the
part affected : fattlesnake's oil I: tar, brim-
stone, and saltpetre, mixed to salve and
applied hot F: skunk's grease: the marrow
of horses off hind leg gin and saltpetre
to drink: camphor and alcohol /: bark Of
mountain ash, STEPPED in brandy root Of
skunk's cabbage, made poultice of: mar
row of hogs jaws, annoint with it: hops
stepped in vinegar: rattlesnake's skins,
bound around slices of fat pork, spread
with pulverized saltpetre, and applied: oils
of spike, mint, and originum, equal parts
mixed, and battle carry a certain hone OF
a certain animal in my waistcoat pocket
nine days,-I promised never to tell what
bone this was eel skins poke berries put
to Jamaica spirits, and drank ginger and
ground red peppers, mixed with hogs lards
showering, as follows--nine pals full Of
cold water, nine mornings in succession,
projected from an elevation of nine feet
above the head : old shoes burnt to char
coal, pulverized and mixed with raw whis-
key and vinegar, drink nine spoonfuls Il
day: friction Of the part affected by the
hands of a pure hlooded African: equal
parts of wild turnip, Cayenne pepper and
gunpowder, stepped in cider brandy, nine
| DAYS in succession. This is al antidote to
! Inflammation with vengeance to it; my
teeth are vet blazing like oven-wood."
albany Advertiser.
| A DANGEROUS THEORY. Phoebe WIS
rather pretty, and thought herself beautiful.
She had read romances, she had read of
heroines beautiful as the young day when
first it beams upon the mountains" with
necks like polished ivory, diamond-beaming
eyes, and lips where bees might alight,
installing them for blooming and odorifer-
GUS flowers, and she fancied herself just
such an one, with the slight exception that
the description was rather too tame. She
had read philosophy, too, and sonnets and
melo-dramas, and they told her that woman
was the empress of the world, and that man
was made to bow before her; in short, her
theory was that she was very beautiful, and
ought to be idolized, very natural theory
,, for tolerably pretty, warm-blooded, viva
cious brunette of sweet seventeen. She
therefore used none of those little arts to