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workhouse without assistance, and 
was there, in less than an hour, de- 
live ed of a fine boy, immediately 
after which, notwithstanding every 
persuasion, she walked to her 
lodgings in English-street, a quarter 
of amile distant, ‘This is her 6th 
birth. 
In consequence of a butcher of 
Stretford, near Manchester, having 
‘disappeared from the period of the 
late flood, a report prevailed that an 
apparition had been frequently seen 
at midnight, near Cross Bridge, be- 
tween Stretford and Cross-street, 
where there is generally a standing 
pool of water ; a town-meeting was 
convened, which came to a resolu- 
tion of having the place pumped 
dry. The business was accordingly 
undertaken, and, after several day’s 
labour, completed on Thursday, 
when the body of the butcher was 
found. He was generally supposed 
to have been robbed and mardered ; 
but on examining the body, money 
and other valuables were fouod in 
his pockets; a circumstance which 
evidently proves his death to have 
been accidental. ‘The most ridicu- 
lous and unaccountable reports have 
been circnlated on this subject. ‘The 
cattle are said to have refused to 
drink the water, and horses, passing 
that way, to have shook and trem- 
bled under their riders. The ghost, 
it was said, was seen in the form of 
a dog, and at other times in that of 
aman, uttering dreadful yells of dis- 
tress. 
7th. A large fossil skeleton, of an 
animal similar to a crocodile, was 
lately found at Daddridge, Gloces- 
ter, in a solid stratum of lime-stone, 
twenty fect thick, and imbedded 
fifteen feet below the surface. The 
skeleton is ten feet and a half in 
Jength, and all parts are perfeét, 
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The jaws are in high preservation, 
and the teeth even covered with 
their enamel ; one of them, on being 
broken, appeared so much like the 
fracture of petrified wood, that an 
idea has been started, that many fos- 
sils, hitherto supposed to be of ve- 
getable, are of animal origin. 
This day, about one, a fire broke 
out at the house of an organ- builder, 
in Southampton-court, ‘lottenham- 
court Road, which was occasioned 
by leaving a fire in the workshop 
when the men went to dinner, ‘The 
engines did not arrive till some time 
after the fire began, but by five the 
flames were extinguished. 
8th. A fire broke out about ten 
this night, at the house of Mr. Field, 
corn-chandler, in Shoreditch, and 
communicated to a neighbouring 
house, occupied by a dyer. About 
twelve the flames were got under. 
9th. The thunder storm of this 
night burst on the kitchen chimney 
of Walter Grey, esq. at Southgate, 
and did considerable damage to it. 
10th. The frost in the neighbour- 
hood of Kelso, ia Scotland, was par- 
ticularly severe. A hurricane, ac- 
companied by a cousiderable fall of 
snow and hail, occurred on this day, 
and destroyed the famous elm tree, 
which had existed for ages, on the 
banks of the Teviot, and was known 
by the name of the 7'rysting Tree. — 
On the succeeding ‘{hursday, Fah- 
renheit’s thermometer in that town 
was as low as nine degrees. 
Cure ror Dearness.—Mr. Sitni- 
koff, a merchant at Moscow, was 
deprived for half a year of the fa- 
culty of hearing, and submitted to 
various applications without success, 
At last he filled his mouth with the 
smoke of tobacco, closed it firmly 
as well as his nostrils, and thus com. 
pelled the smoke to find a passage 
Ce through 
