The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

By the revised statutes of New York, it is
enacted that any person who shall confne, in
veIgle, or kidnap another with intent to impris-
on MN In the State, or carry him out contrary
to his will without lawful authority, shall be
sentenced to the State prison at hard labor for
term not less than three nor more than four
teen years
1t is stated in the New York Evening Post,
that there are now 10000 children in that city,
between the age of 5 and Is years, who attend
no school whatever!
The editor of the Elizabeth City Star, North
Carolina, records the remarkable fact that he
had sleigh ride on the Goth of March, a very
rare thing in that quarter. The Spring was
never so backward since his remembrance
MISTAKES REcTIFIED. Under the head of
Mistakes rectifed, the Alabama Journal men,
tons that the Legislature of that State, having
been satisfied that sundry of it's female inhab-
ltants had committed mistakes, and married
men who were not originally intended for them,"
have passed acts annulng eleven such mar
rlages, and giving the parties an opportunity
OF correcting the errors Of their youth"
David Ridden, a young man in the neiqh-
borhood of Tuscaloosa, (Ala) persisted aoith
cold, while hunting deer in the woods, Feb. 90.
His dogs were found lying by his side.
The Nantucket Inquirer says it is the opinion
OF many that one fourth part Ofthe sheep on the
island have persisted during the past severe
winter. Ia the furions storm on the 22d ult.
PIany of them were driven to the southern part
OF the island, and there remained buried in large
numbers in the snow, some with their heads
out, and the crows actually picking out their
eyes before they were dead
Philadelphia is said to have paid more than
half H. d..
the past year.
lady advertises in the London Herald that
she lives in a pleasant and healthy situation,
near town, and is DESTROYS of receiving as an
inmate, lady laboring under nervous or mental
arrangement"
At the Court of Common Pleas held at
Springfield, week before last, two young men
were sentenced to three months imprisonment
in the county jail for an attack made upon the
teacher of school, of which they were mem
bers.
A Shad, weighing 5 pounds was caught at
New York on Monday week, and sold for one
dollar and half.
fine Virginia hooking bird was sold in
New York, on Friday last, for $45 When
Franklin enumerated the whistles, for which
mankind were prone to pay dear, he said moth
ing of the whistle Of the hooking bird.
SHARP SHOOTING. In our paper of the 18th
ult. we stated that son of Mr. Daniel Morse
killed eight crows at one shot. A friend in
whose word we can place implicit confidence,
states that Mr.. Calvin Lamb of Charlton, kill
ed in day last week, AZ in the following or
der: First shot, SD, 4-3d, 7-4th, 6-5th,
8-6th, l2-averag;ng 7 to a shot.
Southbridgc Register.
A SAD ACCIDENT took place at the tavern at
Dunks Ferry, on the Delaware, on Thursday
week, A man intoxicated by strong drink was
handling double barreed gun, when sudden
ly it was discharged, and the contents of it,
even to the wadding, were driven through both
the thighs Of Mr.. Samuel SCOTS. who happen
ed to be passing near the muzzle of the gun at
the time it was discharged He was not dead
two days ago, but was languishing with but
slender hopes of his recovery. He has wife
and large family depending for support on his
industry.
One citizen of New York, having sued another
citizen of the same state for an old debt, and
brought the action before the Court Of Kings
Bench in Canadd-the defendant pleaded that
he had taken the benefit of the New York In
solvent laws. The Judge decided that the plea
was good on the principle, that discharge from
debt in the country where that debt was con-
tracted, is discharge every where"
In Ireland, poor fellow was lately indicted
for stealing gelding; the jury considering the
offence was capital, and being willing to show
mercy TO their unfortunate countryman, brought
in their verdict-manSlaughter.
At town meeting held in Charlestown on
Friday last, the project for uniting that town TO
Boston was indefinitely postponed by large
majority.
The fall of snow this winter seems to have
been general over a great extent; in Halifax
it has been more continued than for seven pre-
ceding winters. In New Brunswick it has
drifted to ten and twelve feet.
They have to pay four dollars for liberty to
get married in Maryland. In the city of Bal
timorc alone, last year, this tax amounted to
1896.