Again, by varying the number of
men upon the wheel, or the work inside the mill, so as to
increase or diminish its velocity, the degree of hard labor or
exercise for the prisoners may also be regulated. At Brixton, the
diameter of the wheel being five feet, and revolving twice in a
minute, the space stepped over by each man is 2193 feet.
From the _Salem Register_.
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TRAVELLING ON SUNDAY. At the session of the U. States Circuit
Court at New-Haven (Conn.) last week came on the trial of _Foster
vs. Huntington_. This was a prosecution instituted by _Dr.
Foster_, of New-York, against _Deacon Eliphalet Huntington_, a
Constable of Lebanon (Conn.), for arresting plaintiff's wife on
Sunday, the 10th of July, 1831, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
and detained her at an inn until sun-down, and then released
her on condition of appearing the next morning to answer for
violating the Sabbath. Mrs. Foster was travelling from New York
City to her father's in Lebanon for her health, and had arrived
at East Haddam on the morning of Sunday, and took the regular
conveyance connected with the steamboat, and had arrived near the
meeting-house in Lebanon at the time she was stopped, and was in
sight of her father's (Dr.
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