The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1833-11-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AMERICANISM.--A very ingenious friend of Mine, and, cuTimis enough, of the same name as myself, a native of Boston, and a splendid shut, frequently astonished me with the exploits of American archers. He said, that once when he went into Kentucky to witness a trial of skill, he stayed by the way at a public-house, and observing in the room such an amount of broken ware, and equivocal marks, he was quite convinced, knowing the savage nature of Kentuckian fighting, that a desperate and murderous affray had taken place there. Ile remarked the servant sweeping the floor, and putting the contents carefully into a basket. Rather surprised, he asked her what she was preserving with such care ? "Oh !" said the girl. "nothing particular, only a few eyes." " Eyes !" inquired my friend. " You see," she said, " about fourteen gentlemen went home blind last night, so I was just picking up their eyes, 'cause the gentlemen, when they get sober, may be calling for 'em, I guess." SINGL LAE CiacusisraNCE.—ln the course of last summer, a strange circumstance happened to a shepherd, in the service of a farmer at Lochearnsiue, Perthshire. Having., one morning, made his usual round to inspect his flock, he laid himself down in a sleeping posture, to ease his weary limbs. Whilst lying in this position, with his eyes shut, he was surprised to feel something alight on his thigh, and opening his eyes, saw, to his no small astonishment, a carrion crow walking along his body towards his head, fully determined, as he conceived, to peck out and feast on his eyes. Our shepherd, more cautious than gentle, moved his hand so slowly forward, that he succeeded in catching the crow by the foot, and instantly killed it against a stone which happened to be near him. Although some of his acquaintances will have it that the visit of the crow was nothing more than an act of retributive jus'ice, for having, as they allege, robbed its nest a few days previously, yet there can be little doubt, that the bird looked upon him as dead, and had actually perched upon him for the purpose of peckingout his eyes, before it proceeded to feast on any other part of the body—a peculiarity 1 belonging to all the feathered tribe that feed on carrion.—Stifling paper. A Pious Sus sit.—ln the reign of Frederick the Great, a soldier in garrison at Breslaw, entered the cathedral of the town and robbed the image of the holy virgin of her jewels and garments. The thief was soon discovered, and taken before a court-martial. In his defence he declared that the holy Mary had appeared to him when asleep, and offered the ornaments and clothes, which he was accused of having stolen, as a remuneration for his fervent faith in herrniraculous powers, to which offer he could not refuse acceding. Notwithstanding, however, this seemingly plausible excuse, the pious sinner was sentenced to be shot, and the verdict was laid Ibefore Frederick for confirmation. The King, on such an extraordinary occasion, summoned the bishop and chapter of Bresiaw to give their advice and opinion—whether the holy virgin could have appeared tc the prisoner and made him such an offer? The high clergy, in answer, declared themselves in favour of the possibility of the mother of Christ appearing in such a manner to one of the faithful of the holy church. lipou this opiuiou the King pardoned the prisoner, but forbade him ever again to accept of any present which either the holy virgin or any other saint by a miracle might offer him, else he should undergo the penalty which he had then escaped suffering.—Court Journal.