Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-10-14
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health Of HAT place; and also states " that
the planters never had more favorable sea-
son for getting in crops, as scarcely drop
Of rain has fallen since the commencement OF
| harvest time
The Norfolk Theatre opened on the 29th
ul'. with The comedy of the Will, and the
farce OF the Poor Soldier.
Its mentioned in the Rutland Herald, that
$4,000 dollars in specie were lost in the
steam boat Phoenix, latel y burnt on lake
Champlain This is not correct. Nothing
like that sum was on board the boat when the
accident took place-and little or none OF
what was on board was lost, or even defa-
ced.--It was mostly in the company's iron
chest, and which was taken out OF tn. wreck
moi materially injured. Albany GaE.
pEcUNIARY EMBARRAssMENTs.
4 county meeting is to be held IN the vii.
lage OF Buffalo. on the 18th inst. to take into
consideration the pecuniary embarrassment
OF the county, and to recommend such mea-
sures as may be thought best calculated 10
afford relief, and to prevent sacrifices pro
perry. !io'a.
Monies received by the treasurer Of the
American Bible Society, during the month
of September, 1919, amounted to twenty
nine hundred and five dollars and forty five
cts. Bibles and ,estaments disposed at the so.
cie,y's depository in New York during the
same month--Bibles l765--testam. nts 1910.
Total 3075-Value 1906 dois. IA cts. Ibid.
EPISCOPAL CONSIDERATION.
The Connecticut Herald says" The
Rev. Thoma' G. Brownell, l.. L. ID. will be
consecrated bishop of this diocese, in Trinity
church, New-Haven, on Wednesday, 9Th
| October"
TIL. anniversary Of the American Educa-
ton Society, instituted tor the purpose of
preparing, graluitously. pious young men for
the Gospel Ministry, was celebrated at Bos
ton, on Thursday last. The exercises Oil
the occasion were truly solemn and interest
| ing. The receipts OF the treasury during
the past year, were about 10000 dollars,
ard the Society has underts patronage about
tuo hundred young men preparing for the
Ministry. proc. inner.
! Buffalo paper mentions, tina. about 1870
fine looking L. 5. recruits, under command
orcaptain Perry, who arrived in that village
sho,t lime since from Boston, embarked on
board the steamboat W ak inthe- alter.
on Inc 9th u!t. on their way to ST. Louis
An officer of t.,e Government at Wd,h!ng-
ton, beng told the King OF Spain wou,' not
ra,rf, the late treaty, replied. "then we
shall get better one"
Tie fact, thai during the unfavorable wea-
thera few days since, near 800 vessels put
into one harhor (Porlland) near one extremi-
~ ct the L. States, for safety, may assist u
forming an estimate ef The immense coastng
trade OF The nation.
GREAT YIELD.
Was harvested on III, 18TH inst by Messrs.
Abel,s, of the village of Chatauque, n T..
from one acre OF ground, one hundred and
fourteen bushels OF corn.
Mr.. Timothy Jones. of the town of Milo,
in New-Y ork, this season raised, from two
eills Of white b. ans, two bushels and eigi.
teen quarts.
/ LARGE EELs.
A few days since were caught at John Law
renee. mill, in the same town, l3 eels which
weighed 60 pounds.
In Rhode Island, Stephen Wilmsrth has
been indicted for keeping and maintaining
an ill governed and tsorderly house, the
same being the State jail!
/ One Newman, of Portsmouth, has been
sentenced TO the State Prison, n. II. tor AZ
assault with an intent to kill his father
; A white male child, about months old
with IFS linen marked NJ. S. was picked up
in The yard of house in Old Town. Balti-
more its unnatural mother has not been dis
!, covered.
In consequence of the many arrivals at Ha-
vana lately, the price of -four bad fallen from
80 to Is dollars.
II appears from the Edinburgh papers,
that the marchioness Of Stafford, designing
to turn her estate into sheep cote, has dr'
ven off legally, near 5000 tenants, and burnt
near 800 cottages.