The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

them to the Teller, who immediately OBJ
served that the checks were drawn in rath-
er different manner from that in which
Mr. Mccarthy usually signed his name =
that his signature was I'D. Mccarthy" and
not 'sDenis Mccarthy - as signed in the
checks. SIS it 2" quickly replied the Gen
eral, upon whose mind the truth at once
flashed, then have been swindled:" and
fastened out to the Merchants Bank, hop
ING TO get there in time to prevent Inc pay
ment of his own check. When he arrived
he found it had not been offered; Int sub
seouentlv learned that Mr.. Livingston had
succeeded in getting il cashed at the office
of Jacob Little s. Co, Brokers, in Wall
street; upon n representation that he wish
ed TO procure foreign gold, as he was about
leaving for Europe.
An Efforts to trace the steps Of the sup
posed Mr.. Livingston proved fruitless Tor
some time, although the General had lnfor-
nation that he was lurking hheut the city.
One morning, about fortnight ago, young
man came running to the Generals office,
and told him that he had just seen the
swindler walking leisurely up the Bowery.
The General sailed out, accompanied by
the boy, and while standing on the corner
of Division street and the Bowery, the boy
said that he thought the person then coming
down Division-street towards them was the
man. They advanced tlwards him, and as
he was walking with his head down, he did
not notice the General until he was within
about 10 feet of him. The moment their
eyes met, he gave sudden start, but was
seized by the General who addressed him
very politely with,-"Mr Livingston, am
very happy to see you" He made ne reply,
hut suffered himself to be conducted down
Chatham-street, where, as the General en-
deavored to change sides, he slipped from
his grasp, took to the middle of the street,
and went off like an arrow. The General
followed, and after a race Of about 100
yards, overlook and secured the fugitive.
He was carried to the Police Office. where,
when asked if he knew Mr.. Judd, he laugh
ed very heartily, and seemed highly anus
ed at his own retrospect of the circumstan-
ces attending that negotiation.
The three Indictments on whichthe pris-
oner has been convicted, will enable the
Court to send him to the State Prison at
Sing-Sing, and protect the community
against his depradauons for a period of
fifteen years. We learn that he was con-
victed i'll Sept 1924, of seven similar often
ces, and was then aGjudged to he imprison-
ed, on each conviction, in the State Prison,
for the term of six years. Having served
faithfully six years, he was considered, from
his uniform good behavior, as a suitable
candidate for the tender mercies of the Ex-
ecutive, and accordingly the remainder of
his sentence was RENTED.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. An in
stance of spontaneous combustion occurred
IN DuXbury last week, which should he a
caution to those who may he similarly en-
gagged. A quantity Of cotton clothing,
about 20 suits, for seamen, had been made
and oiled, and hung up for fortnight to
dry. At the expiration of that time they
were taken down by lad without the
knowledge of the owner, and being ROLL
ed together3 were placed in n shed adj
joining a dwelling house. This WAS on
Tuesday. About midnight on the Wednes-
day following, some members Of the family
! IN the house were awakened by strong
smell of oil, attended with smoke. On ex-
aiming the out buildings it was discovered
that the oiled clothes had taken fire. The
owner of the house was fortunate enough to
seize the basket containing the clothes at
the moment it was bursting into a blaze.
/ lie threw it out Of the building upon the
ground, and thereby saved his dwelling
house, which in few minutes more must
have been IN flames, as it was then mid
night and there was "a high wind.
Boston Traveller.
| U. S. BANK BILLS. A new and most
striking Illustration of the benefits Of the
! .. S. Bank, to the commercial community
/ is presented in the recent examination OF
/ Mr.. Bates, of the Banking House of Earrings
g. Bates Of London, before a committee of
the British House of Commons, in relation
to the China trade. 1t appears that the
| bills of the U. S. Bank are now taken by
our merchant vessels to Canton instead of
specie, and that these bills are sold IN China
at an adUrncc, being considered as good
remittance to England This has never
been done until l630.-Bo8ton Patriot.
SOLEMN WARNINGS. The Springfield
Republican states that Young man recent
ly died at Thompsonville, Conn, under cir
cnmstances of most shocking character.
lie went into tavern, where proposition
was made bin to pay fol as much llqnor as
he would drink. The bar keeper mixed for
him, and he continued to drink, glass after
glass, in immediate succession. till the
eleventh glass, in drinking which he fell
senseless! He was taken to the barn and
suffered to remain there during the night,
which was very cold. In the morning he
was found nearly dead-was brought in and
laid by the fire, when he soon expred
An Englishman, named Fosdirk, aged
about so, tumbled drunk into u we'll so feet
deep, annexed to the Post Office at Hartford,
on Monday night of last week, and was
drowned.
A colored man named Anthony Moore died
near Baltimore on the 23th ult., from having
oeen exposed to tho weather while in state
OF lntOxIcation.
DISTRESSING DEATH. Several inmates of the
Poor House, escaped Yesterday, came into the
Guy ana got intoxicated. One Of them, named
Eliza NJ Kay, got into the creek near Beaver
st. last night, from which she was unable to
extricate herself She was found this morning.
up to her waist in water, alive but SO chilled
and exhausted, as to survive lint n shor, t;,.o