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

VULGAR ERRORS. That leases are made for
900 years, because lease for 1000 years would
create freehold
That deeds executed on Sunday are void
That in order to disnherit an heir-at. law, it
is necessary TO give him a shilling by the will,
for that otherwise he would be entitled to the
whole property.
That funeral passing over any place makes
it public highway.
That the body of debtor may be taken in
execution after his death.
That a man marrying a woman who is in
debit if lie take her from the hands of the
priest clothed only in her shift, will not be La
bic for her engagements.
That those who are born at sea belong to
Stepney parish.
That second cousins may not marry, though
first cousins may.
That husband has the power of divorcing
his wife by selling her in open market, with
halter round her neck
That womans marrying man under the
gallows will save him from execution.
That ifa criminal has been hung and revivcs
he cannot afterwards be executed.
That the owners of asses are obliged to crop
their ears, lest tho length of them should
frightsn The horses. Darrngton's Observations
on Ancient Statutes, (l775) p. 474-5 Notes
Retrospective Review, vol. 9, D. 1923
Legal 0bserser.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
AyVDERSO.N'S
COUGH DROPS.

Price reduced 10 rs and 81! cts. per bottle.
NAMES GREEN 81 co. offer for sale at
% their Store, opposite the Centre School
House, on Main street,--Anderson's Cough
Drops and Peclornl Powders, which thew can
assure the public are of genuine quality and
as prepared by James MeHsn &. Co., which cir.
cum.tance is mentioned, as there arc spurious
articles, in imitation Of the genuine ono, in mar
kst. op2meo2m Jan. IL
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
THE TOPPER REFORMED.

A few years ago, female who resides
IN village in Ayrshire, had the misfortune
to he married to scottish husband Every
night, his professional labors over, he re.
paired TO a certain tavern, where he met a
set OF companions, as droughty as himself
and spent the whole evening in drinking
and singing such outrageous catches as the
followng:-
And had the Flood been liquor good,
And Noah's sons such lads as [.
They'd drank the Deluge where it stood
And left the ark and Noah dry.
His wife saw the brink on which he was
standing, and prompted by paternal and
connubial affection, was unceasing in her
Efforts to wean him from The tavern, and
reconcile him to the comforts of his own
quiet domicile. But her labor of love was
entirely thrown away; in place of becom-
ing better he grew gradually worse sell
dom went TO bed before one or two in the
morning, rose late, neglected his business,
and, in short, was on the high road 10 ruin
HIS temper, too, became frightfully irrasci-
ble, and in place of soothing his broken
hearted wife, he found fault with eyery
thing, and rarely approached her but with
abuse on his lips, and frown on his brow.
The poor woman's looks to those who read
them, told very dismal tale, and in her
despair she hit on the following expedient,
which, we understand, has been attended
with the happiest effects One night, after
dark, she repaired to the same tavern her
husSaud habituaIly fieqsented, persuaded
knot of tradesmen to accompany her. or
dered huge bowl of toddy, compounded
the materials secundum artem, sent the
glasses round, got one man to sing, a Sec
ond to laugh, and third to joke, and in
short acted her part so well, that she looked
the very picture of female topper. Whenthe
charm was thus far wound, she sent for her
husband, and invited him to take seat AMI
taste her toddy. At first the man stared as
It he had seen ghost, and it was observed
that his color went and came when he heard
his spouse declare that, judging from the
example of some of her friends, she had
come to the conclusion that tavern must
be the happiest place in the world, and was
determined for the future to share its pleas
ures. Frequently she stirred the bowl and
the glasses, and when the YES
sci hscame dry, rang the bell, and commits
stoned materials for fresh brewst. But
here the husband, who had been silently
torecasting the shape of future evils, remon-
strated so earnestly that the lady consented
to abridge her revels, and accompany him
home. BY the way they conversed long
and seriously; certain promises were vol
UNFAIRLY made-promises which have been
kept to the very letter-and the result of
the wife's .stratagem is, that her husband
has become one of the soberest men in the
parish, and is indebted for his reformation
less to a temperance than an incorporate
society.-Dumfr1es Scotland Courier.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

CAUSE AND CURE OF COINS. Corns are
pretty generally known to he an affection
OF the skin, arising from Inflammation of
portion of the toes or feet, in consequence
of pressure by the covering of those parts,
this Inflammation being attended with an
unnatural secretion of cuticle in the part
The continuance of the irritation thus pro-
duced occasions growth Of an unnatural
appearance SO that ultimately q very hard
horny substance is produced and that hard
horny substance, by IFS pressure, increases
the inflammation of the skin. In some indi-
viduals all the prominent portions of the
toes are occupied by this disease; and when
those persons persist in wearing boots or
shoes which press upon the affection, they
suffer great pain, particularly at those sea-
sons of the year when the feet naturally be-
come heated by the temperature of the Mt
mosphere usually taken atsuch times. The
palliative cure for corns, consists in soaking
the feet In warm water, so as to mosten the
lndurated cuticle, and then to cut or pare
away the morbid parts till we come to the
point denomlnated the root of the corn. In
some cases this may be extracted by means
of sharp pointed pen-knife, but this is a
dangerous operation. fit be covered with
soap plaster, spread on leather, and large
and soft shoes be worn, great reliefwill be
experienced, and the cuticle will recover its
natural texture. IT. after shaving away all
the dead parts about the surface, it be rub
bed with lunar caustic, perhaps there will
he no reformation, if external and exciting
causes be avoided. At all events, this SIM
pie process will afford great alienation of
suffering. II has been stated, that the bark
of the willow tree, burnt to ashes, mixed
with strong vinegar, and applied TO the parts,
will remove all warts, corns, or excrescen-
ces, on any part Of the body.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
Girl Wanted Inan1edinteIv.

"ANTED, to do the work in n family
w consisting of four persons, in Worces.
ter street, a steady, neat, and capable Girl. who
can be well recommended 20 whom rood wages
will be paid Inquire at this Office
Worcester, Jan. 49, #
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
WANTED.

a I the Central Cotton Manufacturing Els.
IA Enlistment, in Grafton, one half mile
west from the centre of the town, one GIRL,
who understands tending Dressers, and few
gooI WEAVERS. Apply to SAM'L WOOD,
at the Post Office, or to the subscriber.
OTIS w. POTTER.
Grafton Jan 10
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
BOY WANTED

"A an Apprentice in a Book Store, an In
1A telligent, active, and industrious Boy
about 10 years old. One who can bring good
recommendations will meet with encourage
ment, by application to CLARENDON HAIR.
RIS. Worcester Ian -
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

A TRIAL OF MEMORY. A person was
Boosting, in Foote'S presence, of the extraor-
binary facility with which he could commit
any thing to memory, when the modern
Aristophanes said he would write down a
dozen lines in prose which he could not be
able to repeat, from memory, in as many
minutes. A wager was instantly laid, and
Foote produced the following :" So she
went into the garden to cut cabbage-le leaf
to make an apple pie; and at the same lime
great she bear coming up the street. pops
its head into the shop. What, no soap? SO
he died, and she very imprudently married
the barber; and there were present the
Pirnines, and the Jobilles, and the Gary
ulles, and the grand Panjandrum himself,
with the little round button at the top; and
they all fell to playing the game of catch as
catch can, till the gun-powder ran out of
the heels of their boots" Such a mass of
unconnected nonsense defed memory, and
the wit won his wager.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
Petersham and BeaUer Cloths,

A NEW and superior article for outside
-EA Garments; Blue 81 Brown C.9MBLETS,
and a good assortment of BROOD. CLOTHS,
C.ASSIMERES, and YESTLNGS, with a varie.
ty Of other articles, just received and for sale
at the very lowest prices, by
BROWN & BRIGHAM,
Diapers and Tailors.
Worcester, Dec. % If
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
MORE NEW BOOKS

At DORR & HOWL.4ND'.S Book Store.
NEOGRAPHY * Map of Worcester Coun.
M ty, second edition, with the Census for
1920 and l830-Vllage Plans and Sketches. 9
Vols-Elemenis of Astronomy, by Hervey Viii.
bur-History of the New Testament, with IA
colored sngravings, gilt edge.
Worcester Jan -
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
q LIES idle throbbings cease,
And pain is lulPd to rest"

Why" says Ossan, "shouldst thou
build thy hall, son of the winged days
Thou lookest from the towers to-day; yot a
few years and the blast of the desert comes ;
1t bowls in the empty court and it whistles
around thy half worn shield" Then why
should man look forth, as he fonIly hopes,
upon the sunny future, with the eye of fancy
and lay up the golden visions, which have
passed like the sunbeam in his pilgrimage
in the hope of brighter ones yet 10 come,
when tomorrow may roll on his coffin, and
above his quiet rest the sephulchral yew
tremble in the wind? Alas! if there is
ought on earth which should subdue pride ;
which should make men feel that the rich
and the poor meet together, and the Lord
is the maker of them ALL" it is the grave !
1t is there resentment dies; revenge and
ambition are satiated: 1t is there, above
their urn Of sorrow, men must learn, that
" Life is torrid day,
Parch'd by the wind and sun;
And death the calm, cool night,
When the weary day is done !"
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

The following sign may be seen in Salisbury,
Eng. liable bear sole here" A wag asked
if tho bear was the mal's ava Srutn,
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

Beauty. Socrates called beauty a short liv-
ed tyranny; Plato, privilege of nature; Theo.
phrastus, silent cheat Theocritus, delight
full prejudice; Carneades, solitary kingdom /;
Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful /;
Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than
all letters Of recommendation in the world
Homer, that twas glorious gift of nature
and Ovid, abiding 10 him, calls it favor be-
slowed by tho gods.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
From the Camden IS. CT Journal.

WhIle we are laughing at the Yankees
Tor some OF their gueerities, most of which,
by the way, are either old Anglicisms, or
VulgarltIes which are common to the uned-
ucated classes as well in England as in this
country, we hadn't ought to overlook some
OF our own. While we are sneering be-
cause Mr.. Jonathan Raw guesses, let us try
10 correct, now and then, a vulgarism of
our own. Whoever heard Yankee say
done wrong, done right done the act !?
No man ever heard him say so. He says
In good English-I did SO and so. Do we
ever hear him use the adverb "once" in any
thing like the heather oncef, which is SO
common among ourselves? Has he ever
oeen caught in the phrases" feel like I
should die"-" 1t looks like it would rain"
Tor the legitimate English "as though ?"
The Yankees never abuse the vernacuIar
adyerbs IN this unchristian form; nor have
we ever caught them calling "a bag a poke;
or Saying, they mought have done a thing
they might. Indeed, they generally say, in
accordance with the grammatical canon of
their language, 81 shalt be glad to hear
from you, instead of the pagan. expression,
. iciN be glad" &c. We merely make
these notes for the benefit of an Editor or
two, who seem not to have sufficiently at
tended to the subject. Besides this, we
ook upon it as an act of philanthropy to Get
ain wiseacres. who take it upon themselves
o be very wise and learned in language
winch they do not seem to understand, -riz |
heir 0lCn.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
To Nlers and TtsYnerS,,,

"ANTED, Immediately, four Filers and
w Turner's. None but men Of steady hab.
its arc wanted. Apply to
WHEELOCK & PRENTICE.
Worcester, Dee s. If
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
GROUND PLASTER.

SA BARRELS Ground Plaster, con.
low tanning from to 400 pounds to each
Barrel, put up for the convenience of purchas-
ers' Also, 50 tons unground Plastcr,-fo sale
ut the Store of the Worcester Boat Company,
on the Canal. SUMNER SMITH, agent.
Jan. 10. I0w
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

Tux VALUE OF Sons A short limo since
a man was hoard lamenting the death of his
two sons--" Two stout, hearty byoes," said he,
and died iist afore having tinlo--it seneymost
ondid ms
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
QUESTIONS oy Wa Arc Tho n,;n,;

QUESTIONS ON WAR. Are the prinri
pies from whence wars and fightings come.
good IN themselves? Are the principles of
war the source of any real good? Is not
var an Indictment TO crime? Does not
the spirit and practice Of War cherish some
OF the worst nclinations of our deprayed
nature; as anger, malice, revenge, fraud.
cruelty, &C.? May not Wars usually be
traced to one or more of the following caus-
es The ambition of princes or governments.
lhstlgallng them to increase their domnions.
ana bring other nations under their SWAY !:
at the prosperity and increasing
lqeluence of another nation; love of mill
tMy glory desire of retaliation or re-
venge Tor some zeal or imaginary affiont !;
the anticipation of injury from another pow
er Can any or the whole of the above
causes justify Government in plunging
nalpn into all the miseries of War; or will
the object proposed to be attained compen-
safe for the loss of millions of money and
thousands of lives, and the consequent pri-
vatlons endured by the nation? Ii War en-
riches few, does it not inpoverish the
many? Are not many wounded and MAIN
ed by War, and rendered unable to earn
their bread? Has not War wantopv and
she'd human blood, and deprived
millions OF our fellow-creatures of life? Has
not war made parents childless, wives wild !
ows, and children orphans? Has not War
Drematurely precipitated thousands into an J
awful eternity, unprepared to meet their |
Judge? Does not War, in it's causes and
Effects, crafty him who was a murderer |
rom the beginning? Are you prepared to
'ay that you conscentiously believe that
War accords, in its spirit and practice, with
he benevoence of the Deity, with the mis-
sion of Christ into the world, and with the |
'pIrt, the promises, and the precepts of
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

A FAD STATE. An lrishman in New Jersey,
was on Sunday driving horse with wagon
towards Easlon, when he was met by cier
gyman who going to church, and took the
opportunity to chide the traveller for breach
of tho Sabbath MY friend" said he, " this
is bad way you are in" "Och honey"
said the lrishman, and is mt it the turnpike 81
Yes, replied the minister, but what mean
is, that you are in a bad stale" " BY me sowl,
returned tho freshman, II" and that's true enough
too, your worship-its a very bad State this,
and I'll get into Pennsylvania as soon as can.
Gee up honey r'-N Y. Constellation.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

CoNJUGAL AFFECTION. After the heat Of
the late contestin the streets oil Paris had sub
sided, woman was seen running about and
eagerly examining every dead body in her way
she was looking for her husband. gentle.
man who had watched her progress for some
time, and endeavored TO console her with the
hope of his being yet alive. No, he must be
killed; have not set eyes on him since the
morning; | hope in God shall find his body
for he has got the key Of the street door ia lis
pocket"
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26
" Sleeps where all must sleep"

His memory is not in the bosom of the
guide who conducts the traveller along the
shadowy magnifcence of other ages, and he
is forgotten Should not these things, the
mutability of earthly grandeur, pour into
the soul deep and fastening preparations
for the great and last change, when long
and dreamless slumber falls upon man !?
When the nauseous earthworm preys alike
upon the hero and the cottager, in that mar
row house, where
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

TYRANNY OF FAsnloN. Ages of utter
misery would be too little for the punish
ment of him vino made the fashionable
world believe that small waist is essential
to beauty. That belief introduced mode
Of dress which the voice of ten thousand
thunders would not repel. That dress alb
solutely prevents all useful exercise and
the victim of high life, is practsed upon hy
the mantua-maker, till she is deserted by
her own vital power, and having communi-
Gated disease to her offspring, and rendered
all her friends uncomfortable by her con-
slant allings, repinings, and uselessness,
she sinks TO an untimely grave. We shud-
der while we write the melancholy truth
but we do not use the language of eXagger-
alton. Our aim is to tell The plainest facts
IN the simplest language, being anxious to
be ntelllgIble rather than pleasing.
Consumption is sometimes caused by he
reditary communication, but more often BY
inactive habits, and the consequent pressure
wlheh Is adopted by all fashionables, to re-
deem the body from bent POSTURE; and it
can be avoided in almost all cases by q
careful adjustment of exercise and diet, Civ
ing fair play to all parts. Some consump-
tives are formed with contracted chests,
peculiar conformation, hereditarily derived,
and the only course 10 save them from the
destroyer, is to institute such habits in early
life, as will tend to expand the box, if NE
may so say, in which the vital organs are
deposited.
Our opinion is, that if people die of the
consumption, it is in most cases by foul play
either the person commits suicide, or is
the victim of murderous management Oil the
part Of others.-Ladies' Magazine.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

Honors are like crown heavy with Jewels !;
they are apt to Cypress the head they were in,
tended to ornament
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

HARD CIDER away, dear me, Mr. Long.
swallow" said good lady, " how can you
drink down a whole quart Of that ere hard
cider at a single draught." AS soon as the
man could breath again, he replied, 81 beg
pardon, madam, hut upon my soul il was SO
hard couldn't biLs L of"
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

Many who imagine all things may be bought
by their riches forget they have sod themselves
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

GENERosITY. short time since, in Paris,
British officer was paying his addresses to q
young lady, with her fathers appreciation.
The officer discovered that she loved French.
man, Mons. NJ, whose disqualification in
the estimation of the girls father, was want of
fortune The officer, Capt. D, ascertain
ing that the possession Of 100, 900 francs would
remove all objections to the favored lover, with
rarc generosity, advanced the money, thus
proving that the happiness of the object of his
affections was dearer to him than his own.
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Remember that it makes fault worse to
ondeavor TO conceal il,
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A Wire. " No sensible man ever thought
beautiful vito was worth as much as one that
could make good pudding. wish the girls
all knew this, for feel great interest in their
welfare"
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

DESPERATE DRuNKARD. drunkard In
Ohio lately suffered dentist to pull sound
tooth, and sold it to him for 60 cents, with
which he bought rum, and got drunk
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-26

A VERMONT Horse. was lately jour
neying in Vermont. The inhabitants raise
many horses, and worry excellent ones too.
l had frequent occasion TO admire them in
a stage team, and field. The Vermonteese
are not insensihle to this advantage, and
they sometimes set forth the praise of their
animals in terms which may seem hyper
bole, to people at distance.
While was journeying as aforesaid, l
heard from a sociable gentleman some
where on White river, little equestrian
feat, which it is proper to record.
A Vermontese owned very fine trotter
whose extraordinary speed heillustrated by
the following anecdote. 81 WAS driving
him one day in a dearborn" said he, and
| overlook ii stranger who was walking the
same way, and asked him to get in and
ride with me; so he got in, and ] just spoke
to my horse, and he started off at middlng
good trot. Presently the stranger asked
what graveyard it was we were passing
through. Oh, said l, its nothing but mile
stones. "-.Nassdchusctts Journal.
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The following is an instance of the de-
gree of folly to which the love of titles has
been carried in Germany. We do not say
that it was often carried to this extent, but
the instance is too good to be omitted. a
certain man of the name of Seeger, in the
18th century, had his likeness taken, and
according to the fashion of the period, was
represented standing under a crucilix.-
Fromhis mouth proceeded the words, Dom
inc Jesu Christie amas me 2" and from the
mouth of the Savior the following answer,
Cidrissime, noJihSSimc, ntque doctiSSine DOM
inc mag, Seeger rector SchOIG Hittenbergen-
sis, meritissime atque GigniSsime omnino
amO te." That is, Lord Jesus, lowest thou
me ?" "Most illustrous, most noble, mos,
learned master Seeger, rector Of the Wit.
temberg school, most deserving and mos
worthy, love thee exceedingly"
Conversations Lericon.