The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-11-11
From the Buffalo Journal of Oct. 20.

ABOUT do years Oh age, calling nerseH Ste-
phensOn, was arrested here a few weeks
since, for plundering house in which she
had been employed as q servant. She
brought to town with her girl about
years of age, whom she called her daughter.
After her arrest, the child was placed in the
poor-house, She manifested much fear and
dread of her reputed mother, and to wo-
man in the poor house, who has gained her
confidence, she states that she is five years
OF age; that she gave her name as Mary
.fnn Stephenson, by order of the woman who
brought her here, as she had threatened her
with some dire calamity if she gave any
other name. She says, when at home, she
! lived near great lake, where there were
many houses her fathers name was Hook,
and her mother was Mrs. Hook and that
her father sometimes laid up bricks, and
sometimes plastered walls. The child has
| light hair, and rather deep blue eyes; looks
cautiously from under her eyebrows, as if in
fear, and seems 10th to speak of herself from
an apprehension of punishment.
In trunk taken from the woman, were
( found the papers and articles mentioned be-
| low, viz -
A knight templar's apron and sash; a
letter directed to Mr.. James Israel, Cincin-
natl, Ohio, dated city Of St. Louis, Mo. 10Th
May, 1928, and signed Phinehas Herbert;
an agreement, dated 4th May, 1920, between
David Gilmore, of Franklin, county of Nor
! folk, Commonwealth of Massachusetts,, and
James Campbell, and Hollis Bond, of Brew
er, In the county of Penobscot; promsso-
ry note to James L. Prother, or order, made
by Thomas I. Spear, for $3.50; certificate
that Mrs. Graves and child had their bill
paid at the City Hotel and small sum COL
! Ippfnd from tho G H.
! Lodge, No. SO, and others of the fraternity,
dated Fredericktown, Md. and signed N. S.
Turhutt, S. W., with this line at the bottom,
81 hope the widow and orphan will not be
neglected.-N. t." paper, dated Balti-
more, 18th March, 1899, "Cassa Lodge,
No. As, granted Mrs. Graves, believed to be
the widow of brother mason, five dollars,
and procured passage for her and child to
New Castle, on her way to the eastward"
signed Samuel Koerl, Treasurer a paper,
purporting that Mrs. Graves had received
some relief under a belief that she was
worthy, dated Washington. Feb. IL, 1929,
and signed Truman Brady, S. D.; paper,
dated Washington, March 3, 1929, directed
at top to Mr.. Valentine Gezey, that Mrs.
Graves, the bearer, states that she is the
widow OF brother mason, and that in con-
sequence of that statement, they have given
their mite, and hope he will aid her home
ward, signed John B. Griffith, John Dagg {;
paper, dated Lewiston, Nov. 9, 1923, sign
ed T. B. Moore, and directed to William
Hughes, Lockport several linen sheets,
: marked Nazareth Hail." with indelible
ink several sheets and pillow cases marked
in like manner, M. w. Wilson, No. 13, Wal
ter Willis, No. Al, d. Saint, Nos s and IL !;
some marked H. H., &c.
/. 0}TPrinters, throughoutthe country, may
snbserve the cause of humanity, by giving
the above an insertion.
: REFRIGERATION. We inserted, some
: months sinra a paragraph. in which we gave
al account OF an eccentric being from this
nelghborhood, who had sailed for America,
provided with the wherewithal to pay charg-
es' IN the shape Of a stone and a halt ri lbs.
ofsorereigns! This adventurer has returned
10 Old England" within these few DAYS.
and is at present soourning at Beverly. if
not much wiser than when he left Yorkshire,
at least better reconciled to his native coun-
try. The reason oc his Temperance in
this quarter will be found in the following
anecdote. On his arrival at New York, he
walked through the streets of that opulent
city, scanning every novelty with a curious
eye with the intention Of devising the means
OF employing most profitably his talents and
MS soVerelgns. After viewing many rari-
ties, ne was struck by the sight of large
building which professed to be a "cofin
warehouse" 1t seems that the Americans,
I VINO are large dealers in ready-made goods
OF all sorts, are accustomed to keep supply
even of such lugubrious articles on handy
The Yorkshireman went in, and Observing
a very large quantity of those narrow tene-
ments of the dead, of shapes and sizes to
SUIT all customers, heaped up on every side.
waiting for tenants, he shrewdly remarked,
that "people must die great deal faster
there than in England, or there could be no
occasion for such numbers of coffins." He
immediately returned to his inn, inquired for
the next vessel for his native land, took his
passage, and actually sailed on his return
home, after having remained in America
only four days Hull Packet.
SINGULARSAGAcITY OF RAT. During
the dreadful storm which happened on the
4th August, singular instance of the sa-
gaclty OF rat occurred in the vicinity of
Haddlngton, (Scotland.) About the time
the river Tyne was at its height num-
Der OF people were assembled on its mar
GIN, gazing on the quantities of hay and
huge masses it was sweeping along in its
irresistible course. A swan at last hove
IN sight," struggling sometimes for the
land, and at others sailing maestically
along with the torrent. When it drew
near. it was observed that there was a
black spot on its snowy plumage, and the
spectators were nightly surprized when
they discovered that this black spot was
large live rat. 1t is probable that it had
been flooded from its domicile in some hay-
rick, and observing the swan, had made for
1t an ark of safety, in the hope, no doubt, of
prolonging its life. When the swan reach
ed the land, the rat leaped from his back