Johnson Green was executed, on Thursday last, at Worcester, for
    burglary.  A greater thief and burglar was perhaps never hanged in
    this country.

From “Massachusetts Centinel,” Oct. 6, 1786.

BACKS “DRESS’D.”

    HARTFORD, October 2.

On Wednesday last, David Stillman, John Hawley and Thomas Gibbs were committed to jail in this city, for counterfeiting and passing publick securities; and on Thursday last, Jonathan Densmore, of East-Hartford, was committed for stealing a horse.  Stillman and Hawley belong to the county of Hampshire, state of Massachusetts.  They are now in a fair way to have their grievances (and backs) dress’d and re-dress’d.

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From “Massachusetts Gazette,” May 15, 1786.

    NEW-YORK, May 6.

    Extract of a letter from Washington (North-Carolina), March
    27.

“On Thursday last made his appearance in this town, a certain John Hamlen, who, in the late war, left the state of Maryland, and joined the enemies of America.  After joining them, he fitted out a galley, and cruised in the Delaware and Chesapeak, where he was very successful in capturing a number of American vessels.  He was very fond of exercising every species of cruelty on those unhappy people who fell into his hands; among other things, he took great delight in cutting off the ears of some, and noses of others.  Unluckily for him he was known by some honest Jack Tars, belonging to vessels in this harbour, who, in the time of the war, had been made prisoners by him; these honest fellows very kindly furnished him with a coat of Tar and Feathers; and that he might not in a short time forget them, they took off one of his ears; they then kindly shewed him the way out of town, without doing him any further injury.—­It is supposed he will bend his course for Newbern, and endeavour to take a passage in some vessel bound to the northern states.”

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FROM THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE.

    A GEORGIA SHREW.

      “Why, sirs, I trust I may have leave to speak,
      And speak I will; I am no child, no 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