Weekly Messenger, Volume 5, Number 259, Vevay, Switzerland County, 17 December 1836 — Page 1
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iran he were In voice, in proportion to hie . persons uoon whnm'-im;r;,i;., i,..,.
weight, as loud as lhat of n locust! A locustl tie empire." Miss Gleason ir.r,f
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can ue nrard at trie distance oi I -Iuth of a
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I A di radiul cohliai ari-.n broke out in J.hn?ti, Moiituotnerv county, New "oik, at 1
Vclork on Situitl .y m. inui last, r.irn i"jmile. 'flie colden wren is ?ale to weirh but
.iSeslrou-il liie l.iirt-M portion of Vl'lf,?' half an ounce; so that a middle sized man . t'hr- lire oii-matcd in luc Urge wooden bull- j .m,j(, ,vcig., d()Wn not f,)ort pf m) of (hem. idinz owned by the heirs ol the late Ur. Orm iand -t mns, brfctrange if a qoldon wren would
Joi.usoiu Miuateu on me noi m ?iu.. not outweigli four of our locusts. Sunno-in
therefore, that a common man weighs as tr.uch
as 16,000 of our locusts, and that the note of
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) I'. t'J pr ).!-icf, deliverrd al this of-
:u :nay be agreed :;-
fir or s j;!t oili :r ;! ic tnkn in paymon'.
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w!i it it n i:n -i in hc iic
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in larihT i ie ani
m et, and occupied below as grocery stoic
, !bv Mrs. ReaJ and Sciuivor. the upper pail i-r n:sp..-rs y .. ylfm A Whitney as a chair factory and a jcaiiinet shop. The tire immediately commu-:i"ren-.-fs -jiit..iU.j Jw,e adjoining buildings on the cast, sent to I lie ol !ow,cli i,v .Mr. Jiallantine, and occupied by him !., . .. r.w"..i v -t..i-f. the. uooer part contained
, ..i; .i jiuinj -rr tu tan usua; :ih( j,, ,,. g , .nice of the Montgomery Repubisinu' vl'ip'ni,,. ... f ti sc buildings with most of
will bo lo;n.tnJeJ f..r j,j.ir t.OJl!elt3 werc destroyed. The fire -; I i r .1 L...:M;..o t ikn V.
cont:iiinicaieu nom uiwu ounuina iu im- upiscopal church, which was consumed, with its line bell and the old organ, presented to the Chuch before the revolution, by Sir William Johnson the walls of this venerated edifice are still standidg. The devouring clement has consumed every thin in its progress. East from where it originated, it was checked in its progress in the width of Market street; hut the liames extending consumed a great number of houses, including all the buildings on the south side of Main street, and many in the rear. The loss must be very heavy, and is estimated to be over .$30,005; about one half may be insuivd. The insurance on the Episcopal church was 5000. We have not time in the night of so heavy a calamity, to give all the particulars of this dreadful disaster, nor to Mate, accumlely all the individuals who have been sufferers.
Tae subscriber will p-.iblish in the city of Cia;"ir,!V'i, a work with toe above title. It
The Fami-
Jli . -.'(","' a-id will c:;nta'm, knowledge ii"t ie in-i v.i! l ib!e aa 1 practic.il kind, a
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Geometry, Trigonoaie-
a locust can be heard 1-lCth of a mile a man
of common dimensions, pretty sound in mind andjimb. ought to he able to make himself distinctly heard at the distance of 1609 miles: and when he sneezed, "his house ought to fall about his cars!"
fyle, to the youthful
a as to the adult.
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iiulassry and integrily; and to such, liberal w s and eoiwUnt employ wifl e given. 'The Practical Printer's Assistant: containing numeroas schemes' of imposition; dehnite directioni-f.il naking oj::ij isilion rollers, and many a-efal tables. liy Theodore Gazlay. I'iiirliiiciti: nalilished bv J. A. James, & co.
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ihe reader unlearned it) lite technicalities ,f
LATE FROM CALCUTTA. Dreadful Disaster. An arrival at Boston has brought Calcutta papers to the 10th June. The following is the most important intelligence: During a severe storm on Sunday evening, the lightning struck the magazine at Dum Dam, exploding sixty barrels of gunpowder, and causing infinite damage and loss of life. When the lightning fell on the magazine, it took up the building from the foundation to n depth of ten feet. The bricks were crushed into koali, and thrown about a quarter of a mile on all four sides. The houses in the vicinily aw llLicd j fculr , omc licid tiielr roofs taken oir, ond others had their doors and windows shattered. The guns near (he spot were overturned and their carriages broken
to nieces. A sentry box with the sentry was
taken up in the air, about two hundred feet,
atiil when it descended the man was hlelcss.
Mr. Scott the steward, while in his palkee
carriage, about two hundred yards from the
place, had both his horses struck dead, the
coachman was not to be heard of, and himself,
while in the act of running away was badly wounded on the check bone and arm. A la
in" on
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. A Paris paper relates the following extraordinary scene as having taken place at the court of assizes, the tiulli of which, however, we do not take upon ourselves to vouch for. A youth of about nineteen years, was brought to trial for having breken the window of a
oaker s shop and st den a two pound loaf. President i Why did you steal the luaff Prisoner 'I was driven by hunger.' President 4 Why did you not buy it?'
rrisoner Jiecause J had no money.' President 4 But you have a gold rii
your tmger, why did you not sell it
t'risoner'-l am a foundling When I wa
taken from the hank ofa ditch, this rii.tr was
suspended from my neck with a silken cord,
and l keep it in the hop of thereby discovering at last who were my parents. 1 cannot
lispose of it.' The Procureurdu Rio made a violent sdcccIi
against the prisoner, who was fiamd "iiillv
and sentenced to imprisonment for live years. i-. i . . i -
imiii -uiaieiy upon mis, a woimh more worn down by poverty than age came forward and made the following declaration:
"Gentlemen of the Jury twenty years a-
go, a young woman wassaducul bv a ycu.i"
man oi me same town, who alter deceiving her, abandoned her. Poor and digressed
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....iiu ty, ii..!, i mi muu io u.e care ol i ; ' ""ui u, uu icceivcci their unnProvidence. The child has since grown up;! pprobatioo, 1 concluded to acc ept and the woman ai d her seducer have grown 1 UleaWi proposal. TI. intended t x-
oiuer. l lie cniid in imverlv. tho wnmnn
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uiisnij, i ic i fi-uuuti iii prosreuiy. i nev
are now all turee in court. i he
unfortunate prisoner wuom ycu hav
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t.. u,.,i sue naa not much faith iii animal magnetism, and that she would "defy any nc lopul htr lr, sle,p in this manner:' I observed to her that I did not think mvelf that I could put her to sleep at the first trial, as I mtended fo magnetise her ordv 15 or 20 minutes, with the view of csfablishfng a mere communication between us. Her pulse taker, hy Dr. Manchester, gave 81 pulsations rer minute before the operation. 1 commenctd and it, the course of 5 minutes, we. perceived that her eyes grew din, SUl(j , ,r j;d fi.,j h vi y downin 0 minutes she w:is prcfoundlv asleep pulse gave 91 pulsations. We trjed her senses in every possible manner; noihincould disturb her; the sleep lasted half an kour; I caused it to cease by a few ge-tures wila my hand at several inches distance from her iace. The nest day, I resorted again (o the p.icnt s house, al a quarter before four in the a icn.oon together with Dr. Gardner and E. ll- Miss Gleason told us Hint she had slept very well all the night, and felt better than usual, the operation commenced at dftk exactly, and although the patient, according to her own avowal, fried to keep awake, she was fast asleep in fen minute-. On the next day the number of her attendants as still greater. Sleep was pro lueed m seven and a half minutes ; on Wed;-.e,dy in 0 minutes the desired etlecl was obtained. As the pat if Bt had already experienced some benefits by these- operations, she manifested to us (he desire of being magnetised once in public, in cider, said she to" convince the uiilulievers, acd establish a fruth mporlant to religion and the heallh of manfcind. I must also state, as another proof of the qualities of her heart, that she tok this resolution for w.y repulalion's sake, viz: ( prove that J was not an i:r.Fcstor, nnd that mv laaors realiy deserve more encouragement Ihan I have hitherto obtained. J hen-fore Lav iur rjievioiml rf.ncnlt.d nil
penment took plac on Thursday at the Paw-
uiciici iloteJ, be re an audience of 107 per-
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child is the j"'nSCro.ripj.,pi'!C. medical faculty and apart n o iiwt nro. ' 'e clerirv of ti e villas.
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nounccd guilty; the mother, ii mys If; and! . ,r,,il( M 1 (J ''petalirie at quai tei beror theresits'the laiher," poiuie to tue Procu-i8 't,ct!" it(: f f"r-'f fair rt.inutrs tl
rear du Roi.
ore
dv who was in the carriage was not hurt
The following are some of the casualties ' lymph for a much longer period
patient ,hut her t us; then I Kot r.v ard sudd ldyfhlU-( i:h mv Inut a'rriirisl ll.i- finer.
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us-jul invhtiin. A gold pointed lancet;1"1 c,,air upon luch i was sittii g no sonsihas been inreiitcil by a suriceon of it ,e Rial " ''Jo t f?. cl v. as prou'uet ' liy lids i.ise. FinalNavy; the ad-atitages of wLicli arc tl.us d'os-lb''1 '' mii.ulcs the laWy appearing procribed by the inventor: faindly asleep, I h-ft her and commerced rny I have invented a lancet with a jf.dd point,' 'fct:(un'' wLih Lelcd t!;rce quarter's efa'n and its advantages are, 1st. it can at all limes! J;"r' a,;d s listened t with much iuterrst. be introduced under the cuticle without x-1' I';','r'1 " as sleeping during tat length trading blood, a circumstance iiU ays cah ula-jtini Lcn the- lecture was over, w result d to defeatji he success of (he operation. 2dlv,: n,Ci' ourrxHriir.eu(s. We proceeded to ascer-
jit cannot nisi, and 't can be chare d w itii UiM w 'i.j(hi-r ll,e l;:dy was really in the mag-
Ithiv. the "-tlc pinched her prick
;cd
ltr
and accident as far as we have been able tojidea of operating uiih a "IJ instruincnt will a pm led la r lips, nosti ils and cyascerlain. Nearly all the men were sentries be always more aivcallo to mother and !l'-'s w '(-' a '!t ' ; p r: ua se;isntion vras man-
nostcd ii. the ma-ranine and its vicinity. Po-'child.
ree, private, struck dead by lightning. Bow-
;iiiric;i Sin-. wounded bv linhtniii'T on his right 1 Ir.m th? Pvei.!rr i?rmil.
knee and arm. Shaik ilussam Box, wounded
the right leg by the falling of some bricks,
llested. A ?( Ill iVi::.ni i.ol his ir.ni'.i i l-iJ n
her ear, and ar-e" l er in a vcrv loud voice if
khewasnot liiedof sleeping, and wished lo
soucd of thisloed voii a: another man whistled
SURPRISING PIIEMKMEXV OF ANI- gH "F1 r Jlte. r m.siiic-d pc-r-ctly deaf to Urn
M AL .MAGNETISM.
iu a ni'.st shri!! maimer and darned res hands;
hut all the disturbance x. as tvithnul ciiect up-
l.nt nrt linncs broken. llinirhan Khan, pri-
v Mte- struck bv a hi irk on the mouth, and lost! Mr. IMilor Allow me to communicate (o
tin 1,, t.w.ti, K.i:.t.rr Sinz. niivate. sta- l'e publiic thioiigh your columns, some oar- cn tier.
tinned near the church, was struck on the : Oculars ofa wonderful case o magneticall Hartshorn wa held suddenly under nose, knee by a b-ick. Punchou Il.ivil lar, rlight- isomnambuiisin, which has occurred in tiie vil-, for some monicnts, and though she must have Iv wounded on the head by a brick. A Gar- 'S of i'awtuckct, under my own operation. 'inspired the strong tfluuia, no s'mn of miusudiner wounded on the rii;ht arm and l"rehead. 1 1 a,n goit)g in the first place to relate bare, sensation was manifested. Several persons
A Ghnrramie struck dead by lightning. One i iic8 as tllcJ could besen by every one pit- spoke to her in ucc sion. a--d she look no noEuropean, (Mr. Scott, the hospital Steward)!"1; 1 sliaU afterwards make a few remarks, ticc of what they said. Then 1 tood at the on the mouth and ridt arm. Two horses!10 sll'jW the grcnt philosophical importance of distance of a few f, et from her, and mentally
killed by lightning.
those facts. requested her, ithoa( foudi'm:; lor, to irive
The subject of (hesc experiment? is a young' rne her hand, and she immediately, held out lady wcjl known in this place, where she has, lie hand toward mine. 1 aithed hor to leave been residing for over ten years. There is' my hand and she id immediately. Some
but one opinion concerning her character: other individuals tin d the sRmc experiment,
handken t.iei was
ITEMS.
We mentioned the'other day the explosion I
rf the Powder Mill at Acton. The Yeoman's
Gazette informs us that there was supposed that she is surpassed by no one in puritv of . but without success.
to be between 1200 and 1500 lbs. of powder j mind, disinterestedness, laborious habits, ar.d'pnt over her eyes; I stretched again mv hand which exploded. There were four men al i religious disposition. Put alas! in this "Talley ! and she gave me hers without hiViiat'nm.
work in the mill. Henry l... Hodge, a native ,ot tears and hard trials, happiness is not l nere coaM be no collusion here, t)eciuc t!ie
V.lt c"aft,sigests a vag-M idea oi some swmd-l.-:"s Yad. M-'i o-nr Imi we can assure all
fudi, that air. (Jaztay's sciieoics are perfectly honKst and well inte::deJ. Tbev show e-
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very twial tnoluou of imposing lurnv, anu ol concora, was meraiiy oiov, n iu ir-n , u i .ijucnu; 10 piop jiuon wuu vnaue: itiijsj"'uirtj;c- uvuiji uvoi n.-t-i nn i.t i ,-.--, i-
are accoaitiaaied bv eKoiaivitioUf, which ado the mangled limns, tattered tlcsti, ana pans cyntnia Uleason lias been lor eight or nine , n-ctuaiiy srmt op every avenue to M r mir.u,
o their valu. Upon the wh:-le, we commend (if his body was found in the neighboring field, years laboring under a compl'caU d nervous. except that by w hieh the mysieiious magnet his book lo the oroft-ision. as Ue of the. best I tweiitv or thirty rods distant. On a hill at ;and functioiial disease, which bafiled all the sympathy is imparted. This lat perime
:;u procure ;uvJ heline, that i cat 12 ft y feet higher than the rnilUeven l!iorcjkill of physicians. It would he too long audwasso fairly mailt, and o sucri-?ful, that
to
til
guides they
.,'hey will lind it -a very usefil 4 a?-iiaii1.'
Coi. Gazelle.
-,Containintr numerous schcir;C for the. imposition of Jurm--, iscc. zr. J -fi iile (iii ectuyis for making and using co.vipos itson iiai,i v.n, together with many useful la'iles. liy Theadore Gazlay. This day pu'd i'.:e!. aad
tic
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the miserable fragments ol numaniiy were j pernaps insigmiicani, io aescrme here tlie va-e-ittered ami1 pieces found like ratrs on the rious sy inptoms of Ibis complaint. I will say
bushes and tree.s, showing how ofTociual was only that, in consequence of it, the sleep of
the work of destruction. Lyman Usborn, a , the patient had become dithcult short, very native of Nelson, N. IE and" Reuben Osborn,' much troubled by pains, and always followed a native of Acton were killed instantly, and; with a dullness of mind, and heaviness of the their bodies were found a few iods distant system, for several hours after awaking, from the ito of the mill. Addison Osbom,! 1 need not say that I was a perfect stran-
brother to Lyman 'was picked up alive, his jrr to Miss Gleason, and that she was entirely
Ui..ii.oc -.11 ii blare, both of his leirs broken, ignorant even ol the words animal masnetisin
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tor sab , by J. A. JA.1ES, it Cj.
i:icj;'!:;., ::.,;(,!.; r v,. , , burned and gashed in When she heard of it for the first time, by In r Daily I'iVi'.wiig i!o-t. an I C'i- 1' irna'i (w eek-1' , .... tm,i lrt ,-iVo nn sii'..il,hit,l t,bvirinn. tlu rpencrfnhle Dr. Man-
i ui: .1 . ... . main iiac. 11c ; r;v ' : .
.. iiMm..,H.u, win pieasc i. i-c i i ue m iHve ..f ... . died in about Ihrce Vbesler. of Pawtucket
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three
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f.'rs.bby - i. si -1 i-s 4c Co
This gentleman pro-
is swept to its foundation;: posed to her lo try an experiment with the
some of ihe timbers were lound on the hill, hope that she might receive a nenctit irom it. - land fhousarids of fragments great and small, She very cheerfully agreed; and in conse-
andicritfered all over the meadow, like leaves. quence 1 was brought to her lodging, on eun
Pr..f.-or It.iiiinson has calculated that fhe,day, .r)ih iusl', at half past 1 o'clock in the af-
Vey-iy S.-ptem'-p, 10 ii i:r . quantity ef water power which may he procu-j ternoon. 1 must stale here that I was very A Gf :t,7T m red at the outlet of the Gauandaigaa lake, ismucii pl'ased to find her perfect lp calm and AvlluLlCr Vu' H "1 ?IC huivalent to 31 run of stone .or 100,000. ' sober, i have acquired, since the htst v,i !01uVr0X. 1 Sounds. What a noisy creature would a the full conviction lhat she a one ol thoe
of the medical gentlemen present, who had been inc red-ilou-i until tbi moment, atknowledircd that he was cc.av mood. Then, after telling iu a lo-. voi e fo the ladies and gentlemen who were standiog an und her, that I was go'n. to r.m-r her, by will to open her lid-, without awakening In r. I made a motion upward with my fore ringer, at the
distance of threi inches from her fare, and im
mediately we saw her open her lids lo (he utmost width. There she at still pel fectly motionless, and gazing at me in the most intent manner. She looked exactly like a waxlie. With a view of afcoi lairg whether she vva fill in a state of magnetic insci.s;V:!:ty. L darted suddenly my fingers near lo her eyeball-' in rapid succession; yet she winked nofr and appeared a? irisen-ilde as a blind person, 'lev. Kir. T.'fi having m th ird thai her pt;yilwere exit c:i"-i" dihtcd, s:igg s'ed Ihe idea' 'f placing two hajiig lamps beftre hcrcyesj a