The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-08-18

BEAUTIES OF REFORM. The New Lisbon
Palladium of the 24th ult., saws that the Hon
John Thompson, who represents the twelfth
district OF Ohio in the present Congress, hav.
i'g RECEIVED orders to repair TO 4 certain
post ONCE IN Stark County, and inquire into
the quaiIhcations OF lately appointed post.
master, ascertained that the incumbent had M,
been long out Of the Penitentiory" Upon be.
ing convinced of this fact, Mr. r. very properly
gave the worthy deputy of Major Barry an on
portunIty of resigning, of which he promntIv
avalied himself. His employer, it is believed
VIII be allowed the same chance for having down
the cares and responsibilities of Office, on the
4th of March, 1888.
HUMAN Horns. An English paper saws that
AT recent sitting fthe ROYAL Academy Of
Medicine of Paris, paper was read relative 10
two human horns, which were submitted TO in.
spection One Of them, resembling, in every
respect, rams horn, had grown from man :
thigh, Immediately over the great trochanter
The second, which is exactly like the other.
grew from the posterior part of the leg of The
same individual. The horns were removed in
January last by a surgeon and the wounds
being cauterized, healed speedily. They gave
no pain or uneasiness.
Stephen q. Simmons was lately tried at De.
troit for the murder Of his " ife while both ,uara
intoxicated. The Detroit Journal savs-Tha
evidence made the hearers acquainted with the
conoiuon OF the family for some years past. !,
represented husband sometimes forcing al.
ways encouraging his wife TO drink in his mo.
ments OF inioxication beating her with the hand
or instruments of wood or iron, and driving he,
ioFth at night to seek shelter in the woods. fol
'"i"g her ana stamping upon her 1t repre
SeN,eu .hoiher IN drunken carousal with hei
husband in the presence of their chiIdran-
raving like fury. and grasping chairs or bosrds
to beat them, and drive them from the bouse
APrRorMATE NAMES The Record of the
Times has an article on the appropriate name
by which tipplers call their idol,-such as. :. a
slug OF blue fish hooks" g horn of gun pow.
der, essence of lock Jaw" &C., all Of which
are Immediately understood by the landlord
We are enabled to add to this catalogue Of
names, having just heard person call on a
trader for quantity of "hedge hsg's quilts. y
meaning cider brandy. No name could be more
appropriate.-PermOnt Chronicle.
Perhaps it is not so generally known as i,
ought to be, that there is great danger in hay.
ing the scuttles of houses glazed with what i:
generally termed butts eye glass. One of nv
neighbours houses lately very narrowly escaped
conhagratiOn, owing TO the scuttle being turn
cd back, and the glass, with which it was slaz
cd, being so convex as to form burning gIas.
OF every light-each of sufficient power 70 fir,
the roof-Salem Observer.
BY the revised law Of Connecticut. the nun
ishment of death is hereafter to be inflicted il
private, either in Jail, or in an enclosed ward
II the community will have an eye for an eve
and tooth for tooth, we think this provision
OF the law furnishes an easy method of taking
them. What was formerly the business of /
day. can now be done in few moments, ant
without disturbance to the public
JUNIus's LETTERS Lord Temple is now said
in some of the English papers, TO have beel
the author of the Letters of Junus, and tina
the proof is derived from documents in the LII
brary at Stowe. We wonder who is 10 taxi
his turn next, as the author Of these famous let
tiers. They have had already more than thir
ty-six fathers"
| The following interesting question is aske,
a correspondent of the Newbern Sentinel: ]
lady were lame in the right arm and left le
1t she had but one eye and squinted with tina
--if she had but two teeth in front and the
we're black--if she had hump behind-and
she had a sPitfre temper, aud forty-nine ne
groes with seventy.fve thousand dollars CASH
How many suitors would she havoc
At Shuster, city at the foot of the Buck
har range of mountains in Persia, there is
| bridge eighty feet above the waters Of the rive
|
| Persians throw themselves in sport and wit
impunity into the river below.
! 'rasso being told that he had fair opportu
nifty Of taking advantage of a very bitter enem
-" wish not to plumber him." said he, "bu
there are things / wish to take away from him
not his honor, his wealth, or his lifa, but his i
will"
Il Is said that frouEy, or rancid buttor ma
| be effcctuallv purifed by churning II once q
twice successfully in sweet milk, and after
wards working il so as to separate it ontirel
| from the milk.
| Willard Curtis, on complaint Of John Punch
ard, has been sentenced, by the Police Cour
to ten days Imprisonment for stealing the Boi
ton Courier from door.
The County Commissioners Of Plymout
have decided not to license any retailers q
sPirltnoos liquoTd in that County for the ensu
ing year