o babe:
Your betters have endur'd me say my mind;
And if you cannot, best you stop your ears."

The Grand Jury of Burke have presented Mary Cammell as a common
scold and disturber of the peaceable inhabitants of that
county.[1] We do not know the _penalty_, or if there be any
attached to the offence of _scolding:_ but for the information of
our Burke neighbours, we would inform them that the late lamented
and distinguished Judge Early decided, some years since, when a
modern _Xantippe_ was brought before him, that she should undergo
the _punishment_ of _lustration_, by immersion three several
times in the _Oconee_. Accordingly she was confined to the tail
of a cart, and, accompanied by the hooting of the mob, conducted
to the river, where she was publickly ducked, in conformity with
the sentence of the court. Should this punishment be awarded Mary
Cammell, we hope, however, it may be attended with a more
salutary effect than in the case we have just alluded to--the
unruly subject of which, each time as she arose from the watery
element, impiously exclaimed, with a ludicrous gravity of
countenance, "glory to G--d."

_Boston Palladium_, 1819.

[1] She must have been an extraordinary scold to have disturbed
a large county, where the houses are perhaps a half mile
apart.

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Criminals after a whipping sent to the Castle to make nails. From
"Salem Mercury," Nov. 25, 1786.

Four convicts, doomed by the Superiour Court, at their late
session here, to the useful branch of nail making at the Castle,
yesterday morning took their departure hence, to enter on their
new employment, having, with others, previously received the
discipline of the post.

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A REVEREND FORGER.

The "Providence Gazette" is our authority for the following obituary
notice:--

Died in March, 1805, in Wayne County, N.C., Rev. Thomas Hines, an
itinerant preacher. A Newbern paper says: "In the saddle-bags of
this servant of God and Mammon were found his Bible and a
complete apparatus for the stamping and milling of Dollars."

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_THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT_

Was held at Ipswich on Tuesday last. At this Court the noted
Josiah Abbot was found guilty of knowingly passing a forged and
alter