The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MANUFACTURE OF CHARCOAL. new pro-
cess. recommended in the Journal des Forets,
.nr this purpose, is to fill the interstices in the
heap of wood to be charred with powdered char
coal The product obtained is equal in every
respect to cylinder charcoal and independent
OF Its quality, the quantity obtained is very
much greater than that obtained by the ordi.
nary method The charcoal used to fill the in.
terstices is that left on the earth after previous
burning. The effect is produced by preventing
much OF the access of air which occurs in the
ordinary method. The volume of charcoal is
increased tenth, and its weight fifth.
The guillotine at Paris, now proposed to have
its operation suspended, from the new law
about to be introduced to abolish the punish
ment OF death, is said to be the same which was
used at the decaptat:on of the unfortunate
King, Queen, and Madame, and, by an express
order Of Robespierre. the number of pounds
weight OF lead attached to the fatal knife are
equal to tho number of the departments in
France.
PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. A double execution
having lately taken place at Lynchburg, Va > the
Virginian, in deprecating public executions,
says: g. The recklessness of order and decency;
the profanity and ntemperance; the indiscrm-
mate mingling together of men, women and
children, Of every color and age, each exertng
a degeReratlng influence, exhibited on such
occasions, may lead to a vitiated state of public
feeling painful indeed to reflect upon. All this,
with even more, was witnessed in this city on
Friday last. Many thefts were committed on
our merchants, while their stores were crowd
ed with buyers; counterfeiters seized upon it
as favorable time to pass their counterfeit
money and our streets at night presented
scene of disorder and drunkenness at once
shocking to the feelings of humanity, and dis
q I'm IN
Levi ode, who was lately killed at " husk.
ing bee" in Burns, N. Y, was drunk He fell
on his knees and was making a mock PRAYER,
when the others ntreated him to stop; he be
came enraged and attacked one or two. MIR.
Graham interfered, and ode struck and kick
ed him. G. gave him one blow, which felled
him 10 the earth, a dead man. The coroner's
verdict was that the blow was given in self de-
fence.
man has been arrested in Moreau, Sarato-
ga County, ~ Y. and pursuit is made for 9th
ers, in consequence of the bones of person
having been found who is supposed to hava
been murdered Is years ago.
A correspondent of the Nashville Republican
states that in Franklin county, Tennessee, there
are nine Revolutionary soldiers, with all whom
he is acquainted, and of whom the Youngest is
sixty nine years old. The ages of the three
eldest are, one hundred and four, one hundred
and three, and ninety-fve. All are extre mely
poor.
The typhus fever RACES with considerable
violence in Vernon and Gilead, Conn. The
deaths in the latter place, have commonly
averaged four in year; but during the last
months, l8 have died,-6 be longing to one
family within The space Of months.
A national CONVENTION A County Con.
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Delegates friendly to the Union and Henry
Clay, to attend State Convention on the 9th
of Dec to recommend some suitable person for
President of the United States, and to appoint
Delegates to attend National Convention to
be held at Washington City-such Delegates to
be friendly to Mr.. Clay.
At the Court held in the City of Camden,
n j., recently, Andrew Mosgrove was convict
ed Of offering to pass counterfeit note on the
Commercial Bank of PENNSYLVANIA, knowing it
to be such. and was sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment in the State Prison at Trenton.
The public in general are not sufficiently
aware of the danger which is incurred by pass
ing a counterfeit bill, knowing it to be such,
ho'ccUer they may haUs come byit]
The brig Danube. cleared at Boston for Val.
paraiso and market, has as part of her cargo
SD packages Domestic Cottons, containing
IL ,239 yards-300 casks American manufac-
tnred Nails, and Is cases Domestic striped
Drills These three articles of her cargo amount
tn $37 1853, being more than one half the value
Of her whole cargo.
DIsTREsslNG ACCIDENT. On Sunday morn
| ing. Nov. Z, a little daughter of Mr.. BENJAMIN
Sherred, Of Upper. Merton township aged about
| five years, was burnt to death in most shock
ing manner, 1t appears the little girl had been
left with young child by her parents, sitting
BY the fire-the father had been absent about
half an hour, when he heard the screams of his
children, and when he entered his house he
found his daughter roasted almost TO death-the
fat from her body running on the foor-the
I flesh from some of the bones burnt off, and the
sinews twisted out of their places The child
died in very short time after, in the most dis
tressing agony.-.Norristoton Penny Herald.
/ MASSACHUSETTS STATE PRIsoN. The Bunk
er Hill Aurora mentions that the new State
| Prison contains 300 cells, and 300 convicts.
The cost oi the Prison, including the labor, be-
slowed by the prisoners, has been $50, 600
The former Prison cost $4,000.
FIRE. On the 23d of October, building
was destroyed by fire at Nashville, and female
| slave, who had recently arrived from Louisville
with the small pox, and had been carried to the
above house. was burnt TO death. The fire, aid
loss Of life, are said to have been tho result Of
design.
The WAsHISGToN MARKET. A neighbor
showed us yesterday fine Turkey weighing
nineteen pounds, which he bought in the
Centre Market, out Of a large lot all equally
cheap, for rs cents, being only cents pound
NatiOnsL IntslligeNesr.