The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-03-12

Over which was infcribed,
"7bs fatai .9Sa 9H Randing army psaed
ia free city"
On the right, was the figure of America
fitting in mourning poaure, and looking
down on the fpedators, with this label, Be-
bald my SONS"
On the left fide monument infcribed,
" To The msmary Of
MtDrJ. Samuel Gray,
SamHrl Mdvryiek,
jams ColdpkR,
Patrick Carr, and,
CrJfns AttHrts, sVbO scve barbaropRy
murdered ~ a Parry sftbs 2otb regiment,
on The stb Of Ma,eb 1870"
AT quarter after nine the painting was
taken in, and the bells mufled tolIed un-
till ten.
The whole was conducted with the great :
cit regularity ard the fpeeia,ors. though A.
mounting in the courfe of the evening to
fome thouiands, behaved with that gravity
as well as decency, which evidently thewed,
that their hearts were deeply affected with
the retroipeef of 70 horrid tranfa6tion.
We hear the Honorable James Bowdoin,
Efq; has generoufy offered to the committee
ofDr. Cooper's congregation, the donation
OF large lot of land in fremont -Rreet, to-
gefher with fome materials on it, for the ur-
poie of building new meeting houfe. -
The value of both is moderately computed
at ieven hundred pounds fterling.
At general council held at the council
chamber in Bottom, by adjournment the 18th
of March, his Excellency the Governor was
pleaied to nominate and appoint, Jonathan
Bowman, Efq; to be Judge of Probate of
Wills, &c. for the county of Lincoln. Mr.
Thomas Boyd, Coroner for faid county.
MIR. David Haven, Coroner for Middle(ex
County. To which nominations bis Ma
jefy's council did advi(e and content.
We hear from Hollis, that on Saturday
evening laR, the dwelling houEe of Samuel
Hobart, Efq; together with mott of the fur
niture and family cloathing, was coniyxsS5
by FIRE. ~
We are informed, that great impfoye-
ment hath lately been made in the methc1
of illuminating iieht-houfes, by an i.iven-
ton of the hon. Henry Newton, Eta. of
Halifax, NoVa-Scotia. In the former me-
thod the oil decreafing left the wick dry,
which of courfe occaioned a faint light /;
the imoke alfo darkened the glafles, and
obicured the light: To remedy which
fountain lamps are contributed that burn
10 hours without any forming dccreafe of
oil; by which means the wick has the oil
floating conffantly to it, and wants no
inufhng lat mof but once in night and
IS 10 contrivej, that the waite oil falls
back into the fountain. And TO keep the
g afirs clean, tin tunnels, fomewhat in the
thape Of fpeaking trumpets, hang over each
lamp, and pa(s through the roof of the
lanthorn, with RATED caps of tin upon
them, to prevent rain or fnow falling
down. BY this means the attendant at
the light-houfe has only to light the lamps
IN the evening, and they burn bright all
right; whereas formerly the lamps want
ed to be fuppli.d two or three times in a
night, and fnuffed every hour and the
glals could not Pofibly b. kept clean from
fmoke.-Each lamp has three fpouts which
run into blfon at the bottom of the
fountain, and thereby keep the oil 70
warm, that it never chills while they are
burning.-Another advantage is. that they
burn lefs quantity of oil than the others.
The Halifax Light Houie is lately alter
cd upon the above plan, and is now ac-
knowledged by all matters of wGels to ex-
hibit a remarkable bright and conffant
light.
We have the following remarkable &C
count from Deerfield, viz. that on the 9Th
of laft month one Cephas Holt, lad
between twelve and thirteen years of age
fon of Mr.. Jonathan Holt of that town,