The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-10-14
m1scELLANEous ITEMS.

prosecuting an elm tree, SIX feet IN cir
conference, one of the men perceived some
blood follow the track of the saw, when
they had got about half way through it.
Not being able to account for so singular
an occurrence, they hesitated some time
before they proceeded to work again. On
again placing the saw in the same Cut, they
resumed their labor, the blood flowing as
before; when, on cutting through the tree,
they found an enormous toad imbedded in
the heart of the solid wood. It was quite
dead, the saw having tFansversed lis body.
How the reptile obtained ingTess to this
place of solitary and close confinement, or
how it existed therein without food or air,
we leave for naturalists to determine, as
not the smallest aperture appeared in the
timber through which it could have crept.
English paper.
MICE. A lady at the west end of the
city recently visited her store closet, where
in were deposited sundry pies and other
good things. One pie was covered with
plate, which was pushed off little ways,
and hole in the top exciting the lady's
curiosity, she raised the crust, and there,
all snug and cosey, lay fve living mice, but
day or two old. The poor things lived
only about IL hours after their separation
from their mother, whose too great kind
ness, often happens among another order
of beings, proved their destruction.
Boston Patriot.
A few nights since, a young woman was
picked up by boat in Boston harbor, nearly
exhausted She appeared to have been kept
from sinking By the buoyancy of her dress.
On her recovery, she stated that she had been
robbed in the street, of sum of money, and
then thrown from the wharf into the water.
Doubts being entertained of the truth of her
story, it was ascertaned, on further inquiry,
that she had been seen, that evening, badly in
toxicated, and it is supposed that, in that state
she fell into the water without assistance from
any Other person.
CASALs. There are more tiisa $50 miles of
Canal in complete operation at this time in
Pennsylvania, and in less than year we shall
have more than 500 miles Canal completed
in Pennsylvania. We take this occasion to
state fact, to show the wonderful rise of
property, in Pennsylvania, consequent on the
canal system. A piece of land, lying between
Reading and Mount Carbon, saw 20 miles from
Philadelphia was purchased within five years
for flee hundred dollars; the same piece of
land could now be sold for forty thousand dol
lars the proprietors viii net sell it.
Philadelphia Democratic Press.
Straw PAPER. Such is the demand for
straw paper, that the manufacturers in Penn
sylvania, have been compelled 10 increase the
number of their watts and other appliances of
the mills. Mr.. Shreyer of ChambeIsburg, ad-
vertses for one thousand tons of oat, rye. bar
ley, and wheat straw and the Crawford Mes
senger says, " our farmers in the neghborhood
will consequently have a constant demand and
good price for all the straw they can pro-
duce."
The Philadelphia Chronicle states that
gentleman, fishing lately In the Schuglk
river, saw on the bank long snake with two
tails. Being something of a naturalist, and
having in his collection real .4nPhisbGaa, he
cut forked stick, and approached cautiously.
Before he could pin him down, however, one
half of the monster dashed like Lightning into
the river. The gentleman, whose veracty is
warranted, proceeded to examine the remain
ing moie:y. He found it to be an eel, which
The glutton had attempted to swallow head
foremost.
ACCIDENT. The Providence Patriot states
that on Wednesday week last, Mr. Thomas
Greene, employed in z. Allen, Esqr's, woollen
factory, n. Providence, was arranging some
thing about the picker when his arm was sud.
denly drawn in and lacerated in such a manner
rs to require amputation near the shoulder he
is now doing well. Mr. G.. is a poor but wor-
thy and industrious man, with family of ten
children.
We learn from the N Y. Post, that Wash.
ington Irving has accepted the place offered
him by this government, of Secretary of LIE.
CATION at the Court Of ST. James.
The Dunstable IN. H. Gazette states that
William and Ezra Graves, from Groton. Mass.
were taken up in that village, last week, for
passing counterfeit: quarters of dollars One
0f had
wrapped in cotton cloth to prevent their rub
bing each other. He had passed several One
acknowledged his guilt. They we're committed
to the Jail In Amherst.
VIM. Prince, proprietor of the Linnnan bot.
anic garden and nurseries, near New York
will forward catalogues of his establishment
gratis to any person who desires them. A line
per mail will suffice.
The editor of the Canadian Freeman after a
sojourn Of ten months in prison, for a libel on
the Attorney General Of Upper Canada. has
been liberated by an order of the king. The
release was una lditonal. He saws he has
come out a richer man, in better health. and
twenty-eight pounds heavier than when he went
in"
An action has been brought, at Albany,
against eight persons, for the abduction of a
mummy, from the exhibitor. Verdict for plain.
TIN, Sl2OO The arguments for the defendants
were that the mummy might have been man.
uiactured one-or that it might have been
wrongfully taken from the catacombs of Egypt
and that it was not property. These were
all satisfactorily answered.
In an action, tried at Albany, for the recovery
OF bet on the Presidential Election, judge
Duer decided that it was not recoverabIe-bnt
the plaintiff means to offer his case in some 9th.
or form. The suit remotely involved the sum Of
$4,000 to the defendant-but was brought for
check Of $3.50
Three of the Legislatures Of Mexico peti.
toned the General Congress for the expulsion
Of Mr.. Ponsett, the U. S. Ambassador. which
was negatiyed-yeas 10, nays 90 Mr.. P. has
published an answer 70 the petition.