The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-06-04

DEFERRED ARTICLES.
The Massachusetts 4. Maine Commas

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Have made very considerable progress in the i'm
portant business Of their Commission. II has been
conducted d has progressed with unanmity and good
feeling. settlement has been made of the concerns
OF the two States with regard to the personal property
TO be divided and Maine to receive of Massachusetts
xl5,088 % In money, besides considerable amount
III notes, bonds, & other securities The Commission
ers have ordered surveys under the direction Of Hon
Lethrop Lewis and Sias Holman of part of the public
lands-vz lands north of the Bingham Lottery lands
and four ranges of townships of SIX miles wide in the
lands between Penobscot and Schoodic rivers, com
monty called the old Indian purchase.
We understand they intend to ascertain, as far as
possible the relative value of the other public lands
in Hancock, Penobscot and Washington Counties
sou tn of the north line of the ninth range of townships
extending easterly to the eastern line of Maine as
well as the reserved lands before their next meeting
which will be on the 18th Oct next, at Bangor, at
which time division is contemplated
GREAT BRITAIN.
London, April l0.--Madrid papers to the 28th
March have reached us this morning. They are
chiefly filed with details of revolutionary out
RACES committed, or attempted, in various parts
OF that distracted country. We cannot discern,
IN the actual condition of Spain, the slightest
approximation towards a state of repose on the
contrary, calm and dispassionate view of the
events that take place from day TO day, leads to
the inevitable conviction, that terrible crisis
must result. There is no stability in any of the
great component parts Of civil society
England appears to feel as deep an interest in
opposing the apparent views of Russia on the n
W. Coast of America, as the u. States has.
Singular and a'rfid Circumstance AT the War
WICK AssiZes, an action was brought to aside the
codcil OF WILL and thereby get possession of legacy
OF 2UOL and about nine acres of land. Two Of the
witnesses for the plaintiff guilty Of such gross
prevarication that the Jury, without hesitation re-
turned verdict for the defendant and the Judge af-
ter Indignantly commenting upon their criminal auda-
city, and observing that others (yhom his Lord
ship did not more particularly specify appeared to
be implicated ordered them to he committed for PERU
ry AT this moment person informed the Court that
the plaintiff. who was apparently in good health in
the morning. had died suddenly at one o'clock in the
day
UNCOMMON INCREASE.
A hen is al present IN the possession of Mr.. Hob
bins, Shottery, near Stratford upon Avon which
has Matched no fewer than nine broods Of chickens
within the last twelve months. The extraordinary
fowl attended each brood till it had laid or 8 eggs
towards the next and what is equally singular the
pulets from the three first broods have all been law
ing some time. The fourth brood at present fine
chickens fit for marketand the last (nine in number
being the smallest brood Of the whoe) are now under
the care OF their prolific parent.
REMARKABLE
A small vessel was wrecked near Tr,port. ard the
crew were drowned A person who was passing a.
long the shore thought he heard noise which pro-
ceeded from the veSsel-1e instantly called some
other persons who We're the spot and knocking
within the vessel, which was lying her side
distinctly heard An opening being made as as
possible, there appeared little hoy about years old
who had been as if by miracle, preserved safe and
sound IN the wreck, and whose first object was to
look for one OF his boots which he had lost He ela
ted that he had been shut up alone in the cabin
where he fell asleep. The child was carried into the
town. where the greatest care is taken of him.
On Monday week two labourers trenching in 6eld.
called Paper Mills, east Of Pontefract found large
stone cofin hewn out of solid piece, mea surir.
seven feet in length the outside, and six feet FIVE
inches within. Ii contained perfect skeleton of
man, who apparently had been beheaded The skull
was placed the lower part of the body and
placed where the head should be as soon the
air was admitted. the ribs fell down. The top Of the
coffin was formed like the roof of a house and e
even inches from the surface of the earth 1t is the
general opinion that these the rema ms Of Thor
a Earl OF Lancaster. who beheaded on bin to
the East OF poaiefraet, on the I'D OF March. 1922