The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-12-01
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DIED:
In Millbury, Nov Q, Mrs Cynthia wife of Mr..
Oliver Rice, aged 80.
In Leicester, Oct. 49, Almira Harwood, daughter
! of James Harw0od, aged %.
In Monson, Mr. Emory Hyde of Sturbrdge, aged
% This young man was respectable and enter
prlsng mechanic, and apparently possessed of a
vigorous constitution and good health. Uncon-
scious of indications of Illness he was occupied in
his usual employment till Saturday, Oct 5Oth, and
though he complained some that day of pain in the
head, yet he did not leave his work. On Sabbath
| morning following he was found dead. His sudden
summons to eternity from the fullness of health
and strength, while it prostrates promising source
of parental hopes be regarded as one of those
mournful mysteries of Providence, that gives an
emphatic force to the solemn moniton, % Be We
also ready, for the Son of Man cometh at such an
hour as we think not" The grave of young man.
cut down as he was, probably, without warning
symptom of dissolution, echoes the sentiment of
Holy Writ, Boast not thyself of Tomorrow
Let the youthful friend and associate, as they pass
by where their companion sleeps in his narrow
bed-a bed of werms-pause and receive instruc-
ton, and hasten thence to obey Heavens CON-
mand, Prepare to meet thy God."-Comm.
In Oxford, Nov. 90, Samuel, son of Jonas Ward
aged IL.
In Boston Nov %, the Hon. William Wetmore
aged 81. He is thus added to the long list of Rev.
olutionary Patriots, who have departed ripe and
full of years. He was educated at Harvard Uni
yersity, and was graduated in ITO. He success
lively held the Offices of Judge of Probate of Asso-
siSte Justice and of Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas; the latter in the County Of Suffolk.
Nov. u, Hon. Aaron Hill, the former Post-Mas-
ter OF Boston. He has been member of the Sen
ate, and Counselor in the Legislature of this
Commonwealth.
In Portland, Hon. Daniel Noble of Williams
town Mass, aged "a.
In Elliot, (Me.) Sarah Ann, daughter of William
Dixon, aged 10 years. In the act of turning water
from kettle, which stood upon the hearth. her
clothes took fire she out of the house few
steps from which she caught in the arms of her
father, who instantly tore off her clothes but she
was burnt in manner so shocking as to occasion
her death in a few hours
In Westmoreland, IN. H. Nehemiah Brown.
aged IS, soldier of the Revolution.
In New Fame, wy Elizabeth, consort of Samuel
Bailey, formerly of Marlboro, aged n.
In Cummington, Mr. Ebenezer Campbell, aged
46. He was thrown out of his wagon, and found
dead in the highway, the horse lying upon him
the wagon was overturned.
In Buckingham Pa, Sarah WorstalI, aged Is lin
drawing bucket of water, she precip:taled
head foremost down a we'll 65 feet.
In Charleston, S. c., Elijah HI. Mills, son of the
late Hon. E. H. Mills of Northampton, aged 90.
He went to Carolina, hoping to regain his lost
health, and expired in few days after his arrival
In Chester township, PENN Oct. 3, Fanny.
daughter of James Haynes, in the 23d year of her
age. The circumstances attending the death of
this amiabie young woman, are lamentable indeed
She died the victim of the most abominable uuack-
cry. She had been for some weeks afflicted with
violent paroxysmal pain in the head, called by
the physician who attended her, nervous rheuma-
tism, or to speak las he expressed hmsef,) tech
nically correct neuralgia if my recollection of
the term he used be correct. A quack from Balt-
more, arriving in Chester assuming too, the sacred
garb of preacher of the everlasting gospel of
truth, learns that she is i'll calls to see her. as
sures her nothing ails her head; )" but that tits
" her stomach that is affected that his wife had
been held exactly similar for fre years and that
after many doctors" had failed in curing her, he
had cured her himself; and assured Fanny that he
would cure her Shy next Saturday night" this
was on Wednesday, BY harrangues OF this kind
he inspired her with confidence, and she was anx-
ous that he should undertake her cure. He did
undertake it, railing against every thing that had
been done, he commenced his pukng and sweating
operations washing her all over with cold todter,
Immediately on taking her out of the steam bath
with the intention, as he said, of driving all the
heal ont Of The skim by sweating and then tuashing
u % with cold water. This method was pursued
until her strength was so far exhausted, that she
could not sit up without fainting. He now rather
in despair probably said "his Dye trGs as good
doctor as he tcas," and he would bring her from
Baltimore; she came, and their joint efforts failed
10 bring relief.
announcer quack is now sent Tor 10 Phladel pha
on his arrival he condemned all that had been
done says +" the other doctors" have poisoned
her, but that he could work it out of her saws she
must be steamed 'ttwice more = although at this
time she was continually drenched with cold
sweat; owing, very probably, to the skin having
already been 80 long and so frequently subjected
to the excessive stimulation of great heat and
moisture as TO have lost its power of contracting
so as to close the pores. But she was steamed
twice more; the quack says she is too eold.v
and must be heated" to effect this he commences
giving her cayenne pepper, alone or in combina-
ton, continuing too, the emetcs till the throat
and no doubt, the stomach, became SO nAamed
thstshe died in few days. During all this time,
too, the affection of the head, instead of Welding
as her strength declined, was tenfold worse than
i ever had been for length of time before she
died. But they pursued the one headlong course,
unheeding all unfavorable changes and probably
considering them as evidences Of "the doctor'sb
poison coming out of her as one of them with an
air Of great selfcongratulation exutingly ohserv-
ed, lat time when there was every reason to fear
that she would not live from one day to another, \
the the doctors poison is nearly all out of her
Thus was cut off, in tho spring time of life, this
amiable young woman, and at a time, when her
parents and herself were fattered with the pleasing
prospect ola speedy recovery.
Upland (PenH.) Union.