The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-11-18
NoRrH ApAMs, lMass.l Nov. II.

4NOhId ADAMS, knAoSS'J WV II.
LAST OF THE BRUIN FAMILY. Wew were
told of an adventure, few days since,
though perhaps last, not the least of the
perilous adventures among the bears on the
mountains this season. A man in Stamford
CHANGING to be in the woods with his rife,
espied a Cub perched among the branches
OF tree, quietly masticating chestnuts; not
disposed to let the little black fellow enjoy
his repast undisturbed, he discharged his
rifle, and brought down part of one Of his
paws, while young bruin still retained his
seat on the branches aloft. The man not
suspecting any reinforcement near, was
about to charge his piece again, when he
discovered huge old bear making at him
with all convenient speed, and a savage
look that bespoke revenge; the time had
now come for him to act on the defensive,
and the rifle being unloaded, he sought
safety by eXerting the muscles of his trot-
tiers, but as old bruins speed was discovered
to be the greatest, the man fled to the tree
on which the cub was lodged, and immedi-
ately assembled it, the old following suit
close upon his heels what his reflections
were, when he saw an antagonist at each
extremity, we forbear to conjecture, but
certain it is, he acted dscreetly; he seized
the cub by the leg, and hurled him from
the tree, when the old one discovering he
was down, with the solicitude and instinct
which human parents do not always possess,
forsook his prey descended the tree, and
seizing the disabled little one, bore him off
in triumph to the neighboriDg forest.
| EXTRAORDINARY STROKE OF LIGHTNING.
The town of New Hartford, Comm was
visited by severe thunder storm, on the
afternoon of Tuesday, the Sd inst. The
! lightning struck the steeple of the meeting
! house, and descended the rod, until it reach
ed the end of the rod, when it tore up the
ground round it, throwing some o. the dirt
one hundred feet high. Here the fluid sep
arated into two streams, one of them enter
ing the house below the under-pinnlng
stone, rose towards one of the stoves, tear
| ing the floor and one of the sleepers. 1t
then passed up the stove pipe, to its first
bend, when it left the pipe and entered into
/ the breastwork in front of the orchestra,
and from this it passed up one of the iron
standards of the curtain rod, and following
the rod, till it came opposite to the other
stove pipe, it entered that, and came down
through the floor, which it tore up, to one
of the stills and thence to the outer wall
which was brick, and which it burst open.
Thence it proceeded along the highway
about eighty PAGES, passing within four feet
of barn, when it turned in another direc-
ton, and about thirty PAGES further, struck
a pent-stock, breaking it off eighteen inches
below the sarface, and threw the watering
trough, standing before it, several feet from
its bed. The other branch, which left the
rod at the meeting house, passed about six
yards to a barn-yard, where it killed a COW,
then turning in another direction, about six
rods further, it dashed through the under
pinning of house, and through a green
sheepskin, entered a water cistern, tearing
up plank and breaking a pump. Here it
was attracted by leadeh pipe, which it
followed for twenty rods till it came to a
pent-stock, thence it was led by another
pipe fifteen rods further, to large tub set
in the ground, and which was torn in pieces
The rod down which the fluid passed, en-
tiers the ground only two feet, and its end
is about three feet from the under pinning
1t is probable that the lightning would
have been safely conducted off, had the rod
extended a sufficient depth in an opposite
direction to the building, and terminated, as
rods always should, in a bed of cinders
: charcoal, or some other conducting sub
stance.-Saiem Observer.
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