The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-11-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
AMERICAN HISTORY.

passed an act prohibiting alt trade be.
tween that Province and Canada for three
years. This year tea began to be used
in New England.
The small hor made great havoc in
Boston and its vicinity in the year 1871.
Of $3.50 persons who took in Boston S44
died. incubation was this year intro
duced into New England land also into
Old England. All the physicians OF
Boston were afraid to venture upon ino-
culation except DR.. ZabdieI Boyls,on who
began with his own family. He sue.
eeeded happily and amidst violent oppo.
sition continued the practice. The popu-
lace were SO enraged that his family were
hardly safe in his house, and he was often
insuited in the streets. Many people
we're of opinion that if any Of his patients
died he ought to be treated as murder
err. Pious people and clergymen de-
claimed, even from the pulpit, against
the practice both in Old and New Eng.
land, for many years.
In 17s2 the colony of Massachusetts,
contained upwards of $4,000 inhabitants.
Its militia consisted of sixteen regiments
of foot and fifteen troops of horse. In
1918 the militia amountee to 5000 men.
l725. This year is memorable as the
one in which Pennsylvania made its frs,
experiment OF haher currency. This
province was one of the last, if not the
very last, which emitted paper curren.
~.
The legislature of Massachusetts, in
l7S4 passed an act 10 retrench the extra.
ordinary expense at funerals and prohibi-
ting the giving of scarves on the penalty
Of twenty pounds. The sect of Dunkers
were this year first known in Pennsylva-
MIA.
I726 the yeliow Jever broke out in
Charleston. The planters refused to
permit supplies TO be carried to The city,
lest the disease should be brought into
the country. The ignorance Of the physi-
clans and the fears of the people occa-
stoned great mortality. This year i,
was ascertained that in three years only
$4,000 negroes had been imported into
Barbados, Jamaica and Antigua.
The legislature of Connecticut, in 1923,
passed an act to exempt Quakers and
Baptists from minist erial ty,hes.
The negroes in South Carolina we're
estimated in 1880, at $4,000: their su-
periority of numbers over the whites en-
boldened them TO lay plot for gene
raj massacre, which was discovered and
suppressed.
In 1871 the rate Of exchange had III
sen TO seven hundred per cent. That is
ZOO ofSouth Carolina money were gil
ven for bill ofllo0 sterling ON England.
II continued at this rate, with little varia.
ton, for forty years. at this time the
colonisss of Pennsylvania built about
1000 tons Of shifting year for sale, a
bove what they employed in their own
trade, which is supposed to have been "a
bout 5000 tons.
Tie Manof the World's Dicnonayy.
Age.-The only secret that women
keep inviolably.
.Atforncy.-A cat that settles differen.
ces between mice.
.Adversity.--The crucibie Of man, in |
which he either eyspotates or is purified.
.dmbassador.--A titled parsonage, sent
by one court 10 another, for the laudable
purpose Of acting as spy.
Hmia6lc man.--One eager to please
every company, and ready to sacrifice
each individual. He loves no one, is
loved by no one, pleases all, and is often
despised by every body.
acknowledgements which the
ministers of religion hurl upon the head
of those who offend them, dcyotipp
them TO eternal torments when they have
not the power to inllict upon them tempo |
raj ones.