Accidents > Awful phenomena of nature -- snow storms, third of March and twenty-third April, 1827

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|vhei’8 the sexton was digging' a grave, ami
browing up a skull, the doctor took it up and
idund a rusty headless nail sticking in the teni-
ole, which he drew out secretely, and wrapt it
ip in the corner of his handkerchief. He then
demanded of the grave-digger whether he
Knew whose skull that was. He said it was
i man’s who kept a brandy shop ; an honest,
drunken fellow ; who one night having taken
two quarts, was found dead in his bed next
morning. Had he a wife ? Yes. What character
does she bear ? A very good one : only the
neighbours reflect on her because she married
ithe day after her husband was buried. This
was enough for the doctor, who, under the pre¬
tence of visiting his parishioners, called on her :
lie asked her several questions, and among others,
what sickness her husband died of. She giving
ihim the same account he had before received, he
suddenly opened the handkerchief, and cried in
an authoritative voice, “ Woman do you know
ithis nail ?” She was struck with horror at the
(unexpected demand, instantly owned the fact,
4was tried, and executed.
Massacre of Glencoe.
This barbarous massacre, which took place in
the reign of William the Third, has, above
every other act of his reign, sullied the memory
I of that otherwise illustrious monarch. That he
signed the warrant for this shocking execution
! is indisputable ; as he himself did not deny it,
(hut pretended, in vindication of himself, that he