Drunk, if you believe this yarn

Brookville Franklin-Democrat, December 1827

INTOXICATED

A Coroner's inquest was held over the body of Samuel Davies, who formerly lived in the neighborhood of McCormick's Mill, in this county on Saturday last, about 7 miles east of this place on the Brookville Road.

His body was found on Friday by some travelers by the roadside. He is supposed to have died on Monday evening during the snow, as he was seen on that day, in a state of intoxication.

He was returning from Ohio, where he has left a wife. 

The above is another awful warning to the intemperate, to beware of the intoxicating bowl. It is not strange indeed that while this hideous monster is destroying its thousands, or blasting forever their prospect in life, men will be so infatuated as to cling to this damning vice with such eagerness that nothing short of the judgments of offended Heaven can stop them in their mad career.

Long Yarn

Mrs. ---, upwards of 60 years old, and two young women in the same family, not two furlongs from our office, on the 10th inst., spun 28 skeins of woolen yarn, each skein containing 15 knots.

Of this respectable day's work, Mrs. ---- did 8 skeins, and the young women 10 skeins apiece.

In performing her task, (as a man of arithmetic assures me) the aged matron had to walk 43,200 steps which on calculations are found to about twelve and a half miles.

Here, then we have no small degree of industry in the fingers -- especially if it's considered that in spinning a step, is to be made at every third step, and that half the steps are to be taken backwards.

Where, we ask, is the young man who would undertake to travel 12 and a half miles in a day, one half the distance backwards, and stop on the way 14,400 times?

The young women, of course had to travel a greater distance but they are doubtless some 40 years younger and find it a mere pastime.