The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-02-10
About sixteen wears

stone blind. To person who had always
led an active life the affection was heavy
the privations most severe but still he was
cheerful and resigned, and though he sell
dom moved far from the fre-side, his gener-
al health had suffered but little, when the
| sense of seeing was restored in manner
which is truly wonderful, if not miraculous.
On Thursday, the 26th ult., he was seized
with violent pain in his head and temples,
accompanied with copious discharge from
| his eyes; but at the end of two days the
pain and running both ceased, and then the
film was gradually removed, that had so
long shut out the external world. While
seated in his dwelling on Saturday, the 26th
of November, he, to his utter astonishment,
perceived the cheerful light of day, and in
[ few moments, distinctly observed I" a tall
dark man" passing the window. This indi-
vldual was his own son, who, during the
long and dreary blank in his fathers exis-
| tence, had been transformed from a white
headed Gallant to brawny and black-a-
vised man." The feelings of the parties
were pleasurable in the extreme; the father
knew his son by his voice, and perused and
| re-perused his features with an anxiety
which beggars all description. His wife
|
member of the family, from a daughter in
! law, whose appearance he had fancied
rather than known, to her healthy offspring
that ran ramping about, fit emblems of their
father when he had seen him before. For
some DAYS the old was actually half
delirin,,y WITH joy, and even yet his wife
complains that it is totally impossible to
! keep him in the house. His great delight
| is to wander about the streets and lanes of
| Langholm, read the signs, and threading
his way without the aid of either spectacles
or a guide. The lapse of sixteen years
produces "divers strange mutations" even
in quiet country village, and many early
! friends and neighbors have gone down to
the grave since Thomas Wilson became
unable to distinguish day from night, or
even one season from another, excepting as
grees of heat and cold. Still he meets with
a few old acquaintance, and with these he
takes every opportunity of comparing notes
and talking over the days of lang syne."
But, amidst all his enjoynments, feeling of
melancholy occasionally steals over him, and
/ he finds it difficult to subdue the conviction
that his latter end is near at hand, seeing
that Providence has worked out for him so
merclful Observation-Disclosures Courier.
STATISTICS OF PARIS. There were born at
Paris during the year 1926, 1880 persons, of
which 1868 alone, little less than two thirds
were of legitimate marriages, and this same
year over 25 $40 deaths, ,647 more than three.
| fitths, have taken place in the hospitals
The mania of suicide seems also to make
alarming progress. In 1924, there were twenty
eight suicdes-during 1925 and &c this number
was raised in succession to 40 and 40.
! Among the natural deaths, the year 1926 is
singularly remarkable by the ravages of the
small pox. The number of victims 10 this dis
order having amounted to 1928, instead of from
$50 to 260, the common number. The popula-
ton of Paris is now 800, 43I souls
! We count in Paris, ST. priests, and this is
not enough, it is said 764 are wanted-8O
schools of charity which daily freqnentad by
! $4,000 children of both sexes-403 elementary
schools, some gratuitous, to the number of ll2,
others not gratuitous, making in all 25582
scholars colleges, 118 boarding schools, in
which 1869 pupils receive instruction in the
second degree-329 houses for education, where
they number 10, 24O pupils of the female sex.
| Then for instruction of higher degree:
| 20 public establishments mostly at the expense
| of the State; these are under the direction of
3l7 professors, whose lessons are attended by
! 1888 students.
| Thus instruction of different degrees is dis
tributed daily to 1922 children or young peo-
| pie, that is about twelfth of the population
But on the other hand, we are obliged to
! maintain in order to the security ofthis popula-
! ton eleven prisons, where are constantly de-
tanned for longer or shorter time about $40
malefactors or criminals.
! Then we are obliged to have hospitals for
succession of 55 to 10000 sick per year,
and h., AL
founding children receive the first cares till
they can be sent to nurse and where from 90
to $4,000 poor, feeble old men, or infrm
young people, have food, clothing, and home
| for the remainder of life. There are also re-
eeived insane persons to the number of about
! 800 year, men and women, in the proportion
nearly of $50 to $50.
Statistical researches inform us also that
there were consumed at Paris, during the wear
1926, 81 $50 oxen, 1868 cows, II ,533 calves,
400, III sheep, and go, $50 hogs; all this amounts
to los, 100000 pounds of meat.
| FATAL QUAcKERY. On Tuesday, the 10Th
ult., the Mayor of Philadelphia issued his war
rant for the apprehension Of black man call
ing himself Cesar Gunsoun, and practising in
that city as Z" Steam Doctor"-the charge
being that of having caused the death Of a
black female child, about eight wears old
Gimsoun was brought to the Office, and, after
examination, the Mayor committed the accns.
ed to answer for murder. The principal wit.
ness was the mother of the girl, who sroro
that her child, by the doctors directions had
been wrapped in flannel, placed over a .ub Of
boiling water, and kept there for considera-
bic time; the water being kept constantly hot,
\ by heated bricks thrown in at frequent inter-
walls. The child, who, it should be remarked,
was seriously i'll, screamed during the opera
ton, and repeatedly begged that she mil ht be
released and laid on the bed. Soon after the
steaming, she died ; and two highly respecta-