The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-09-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


Master at Webster in the place of Rev. r. Barrett,
deceased.
u Amongst the pensioners under the new
act is Mr. John Whitcomb of Swanzey, AGED
100 years and months. The old gentleman
came 10 this town 10 get his papers arranged,
and told his story, recoleclIng every material
circumstance.-Keenc Sentinel
FATAL ACCIDENT. a girl named Ann Gil
ieSp'e, died very suddenly ore day last week at
GrenVilsc Corners, Washington County, in con-
sequence of taking q solution Of corrosive sub
Innate by mistake, instead of Congress water
She lived but few hours a!ter drinking the
poison Troy Budget.
BIELt's CuMEr. This celestial visitor made
Its appearance on the 22d, agreeably to the cal.
cuiation OF astronomers, and may he seen in a
clear evening about l0s N. ~ f. of the seven
STARS Il IL al present so near the horizon that
the aud of nond glass is necessary To find il
out - Boston TrGusCriyt
Mr. villas: living in Maryland, near Ha-
gerstown, lInprudently left l1aded gun in his
room-a young girl took it up in pa yful man
ncr, ana snapped 1t at Il little child the grand
daughter OF Mr.. W., and, horrid to relate, dis
charged the whole load into the neck of the lit
TIC innocent, oil course causing It's instant death
The brig American sailed from Norfolk n few
Gays since, with l27 emigrants for Liberia. Or
rom Frederick County, Ia. manumitted by
M!s. Ann H. Page, II from Washington CITY,
and the remainder from Norfolk The Socieiv
OF Friends in Philadelphia have coutributed
most literally TO this xpediton-.probably about
$1,000 The Board of Colonization at Wash
ingtom, intend to despatch three or four more
expeditions before winter, should the necessary
funds be realized
We learn from the African Repository tina,
Henry Sheldon, Esq of New York has made n
donation OF ttco thousand dollars to the Amcri.
can Colonization Snciety for the establishment
ct high School at Liberia in Africa.
10 TUE lNTEMPERATE. At a recent meeting
OF the Directors of the Middlescx Mutual Fire
Insurance Company the following iudieious
vote was passed, and which we trust will be
strictly observed That the Secretary and
the several Agents Of the Company be espe
claily directed not to receive any application for
Insurance from any person who is habiluallv
tatemPerntc. "-Coacord Gazette
REMEDY FOR PoisoH. An old soldier of Tho
revolution, residing in Hudson, .tates that the
apphcation oil toasted onions, under the hollow
VI eacr arm, TO be repeated every quarter of an
i"nf Tor three or four hours, will remove MOI
sons from the system, whether introduced crter.
naIly or internally. He saws itvns found nf.
iectual on board of the Prison ship at New Ter.
sey, when number came on board who wore,
poisoned. "'''
large number Of hammers saws the North.
ampton Courier have been imported from Eng
iand with the name of Mr.. Kellogg, an indus.
trions manufacturer of Northampton. slammed
upon them. ''P0"
FREE TRADE. The Lowell Journal soys-
Upon an examination Of the real ,nenn;nr y,
the term Free Trade, as it is used in This conn.
tty' we hnd It contemplates free opening Of
our ports to British goods, while British ports
are JFcetg smut to American goods Free Trade
WIN vengeance. few years practice of
such trade, would free this country of every
thing but its poverty"
EXECUTION. The Charleston Patriot mon.
tions that Stare named William, the hus5ond
and property of Mary Douglass, a free eolored
woman, was tried on the 4th, and executed on
the 18th ut, for having wounded two white
men.
A circular has been addressed by $50 respect.
a6le citizens of the State of New York to the
froprletors and Captains of steam boats, sole.
ting them to discontinue placing ardent spiriis
upon the tables, or allowing the sale of it on
board
A notice was published in the Eagle on
the 18th ult., OF the mysterious disappear
ance OF two little boys, one nine and the
other five years old, children of Jeremiah
and Phehe Clark. 1t appears the children
had wandered down to the steamboat. and
had got on board, and were taken to New
York, where they were afterwards found
ny their anxious mother, who went there in
search OF them. Soon after Mrs. Clark re-
turned with her children to this place, she
was attacked with cholera on the Goth nit.
and died the same day. Her husband wa.
attacked with the same disease, and died
on the following day. Two DAYS after
their little orphan daughter, aged two and
nall years, was seized with cholera and
died; and the next day after her funeral
one of the boys who had been lost, was at.
tackled with the same epidemic, and is also
dead.-Ns,cark Eagle.
QUAINTNEss. The Rev. Lorenzo Dow adver
tlses for sale in Richmend few copies of the
" Chain of Reason" consisting of six link two
hooks, and one swivel Price 25 cents This
almost carries us back to the good old DAVIS nj
purtanism, when the press teemed with
Crumbs of Comfort for the Chickens of the
Church, lieuks and cen to baud UP Green.
led Christians Breeks," ard the like
AMERICAN VuLrUREs Two of these birds, q
male and female, arrived in town on Mondav
last in the ship Pactelus, Capt Wilson. They
are n great curiosity: the largest, the male
measuring with tho wings extended, 10 feet
and weighs Az pounds. They prey when in
their native mountains upon birds, lambs kids
or even children.-.farbtehead Gazette.
AT Springfield, $50 soldiers of the Revolution
lately assembled to apply for pensions under
the new act A tent was pitched in front O
the Court House for their accommedation-anc
while they were gathering to it, the RepMs.
was beat and played by ffer of &c.
REWRITING To FIRST PRIscIrLEs. Genern
cay IF h,,
born TO command"
Extract from the Constitution of Old Massa
chusetts: Part LIST, Act. 9th. "The idea of O
man born magistrate, law giver, or Judge, i,
absurd and unnatural"
A WINDY DAY. A. Day advertises, that he
has large quantity of below for sale
A lady IN Lowell had in her household two
lasses recently from the Emerald Isle On go
ing into the kitchen, early one washing-day
morning, she found the one holding Lighted
lamp that the other might seq to strike FIRE.