SELWYN, George, seldom absent from an execution, 50.
SENECA, quotation from, 48.
SEXTONS, their office, its origin, and duties, of old:--their extortion,
occasionally, in the hour of affliction, 16
--their business much benefited by steam, 2.
SCIENCE, some curious mistakes of, 154.
SHAYS, his insurrection, 29.
SHAVING, suggestions concerning, 140.
SHELLEY, the poet, cremation of, 20.
SHIPWRECKS, their number, 102.
SLAVERY, 34:
--in Boston, 43, 47:
--early attempts to abolish, in Massachusetts, 44:
--how and when abolished there, 47:
--Slave trade, in Boston, 47.
SLAVES, example of their ingenuity, 34.
SMITH, Martin, sexton of King's Chapel, his apparition to the sexton of
the old school, 76, 77, 78.
SOLDIERS, their sufferings, as statesmen, 100.
SONS OF LIBERTY, some account of the, 41.
SOUTHERN STATES, liberality to Boston, in 1774, 44.
SPARTANS, their mode of selecting wives, 115.
SPIDER and chambermaid, 29.
SPIRITUAL KNOCKINGS, sometimes resulting in madness, and self-murder,
157, 158:
--remedy for, 158.
STAMP ACT, resolutions in Faneuil Hall, 58.
STEAM, of great benefit to sextons, 27.
STERNHOLD AND HOPKINS, their version of the Psalms gave place to that of
Tate and Brady:--motive of Sternhold little suspected, 100.
STONECUTTER, anecdote of a, 6.
STYLE, old and new, some account of, 117.
SUCCESSION, Apostolic, 78.
SUMNER, Governor, funeral of, 39.
SUMPTUARY LAWS, some account of, 88.
SURGEONS, the earliest:--limited nature of their functions, 107:
--among the Israelites, 108.
SUTTEES, description of, 74.
SWANS, their musical power fabulous, 105.
SWEATING SICKNESS, some account of, 27.
SWEDENBORG, his notions of Heaven:--of the soul, 96.