Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-05-20

handsomely GIad and deposlted IN
fat topped colin Just gbelow the ,sut.
face Of the ground A eoroner's in.
quest was held over ne body. Yer
dict Of the Jury. death from some
cause unknoWu.'
CONGRESS, The present session
Of this body terminates on Mosday
next. +.
Tho Providence. 'lh,atrs ~ y op.
ened for the season. on 3dsnd the
29th inst. -, ~
A Jews-harp has recently been pre-
sented 10 a society in Worcester. meas :
uring 8 feet 10 length, and 1s inches
ntreadth, and weighing los pounds.
No mouth has vet beeri fouud large e.
nough totest its quality.
A thousand acres of wood land, 10
Douglass, have been overrsn by fire.
supposed to have becn,pnrPossly COM
municated. .t
We are pleased to hear that Capt
Partrilge,s institution. at Middletown,
Con. is 10 a very flourishing condit-
ion: there are now upwards Of 500
members, and applications are daily
made for admission.
y. Capt. Symes having ascertained, by
actual experiment. that the good peo-
pie Of this ancient anC wise city OF
Gotham. consider themselves 40 com
fortably located ON the exterior. that
they ,hd not care about migrating TO
the interior of the earth, has left us in
quiet possession of the nassions Of
our fathers, and Departed towards tile
verge, where we trust he will find the
people more civilized. and disposed Ia
encourage his original genius; Prev
iously to leaving, he. learned the nor-
tifying fact, that but one of his tickets
was sold for Friday evening. and not
one for Saturday.
llN..Y. Advo,
"A New-Yoh paper If Tuesday
morning says, +" the thermometer on
Sunday rose to eighty within our
htsses, and yesterday to eighty
three and eighty five. In the coun-
'try,wc ere told the heat is still great
er. Vegetation il generally suffer-
ing in this neighbourhood for want OF
rain. Ina district Of Lbng"lsIand'
and between Harlem and New Ro.
cieIle, there were refreshing show
Iers on Sunday. 1
The thermometer stood at uinety-
nine, in Boston, on Monday and
Taesday. . -
At Salem, % Monday. at S P. NJ.
DR.. Holyoke's thermometers stood
one nincty-eight and one at one han-
1rCf. y. A. -.
A meeting has been held at Charlie.
ton, and measures adopted tn afiort
relief to Mr.. ycf:srsoo. -,
The Influenza Is said to rage with
much violence in some ofthe western
counties Of Georgia.
Tie Alabama Salt Manufacturing
Company have announced tho cos''
plction of their works IN the Tom.
bcckbee Rive r, go far asto be ena.
bIed to furnish a constant supply
of salt of a quality equal to any
imported.
The authonr Of the Spy. is aboN
issueins another work entitled The
Prairie,
Richard ID. Harris has been ap.
Dointed Navy agent at Boston. il
nIarc Of Amos Binney. whose nom
ina ation by the late President Moh
roe. has been at length rejected a'
Fit should be.
A Nsw.York paper remarks, that tht
tonnage duty upoo canal boats by tn
General Government, we believe to bt
clearly legal and uncopstitdtional-anf
we nave no idea that twill be persisted
lin. We cannot but express our pres
ent conviction, that the officer Of tht
| customs at Buffalo has taken it upor
|himselrto act in the premises withou
instructions from Washihgo on. And W.
anticipate a prompt disayowal Of tn
act from the head Of the Treasury De
partment. If. however. fair con
struction ofthe existing law, sanctions
the onerous claim, there IS yet TIM
|for Congress to make the necessar,
lmodifcatioSs. Let it be dome,
We are grati6ed to state that th'
workmen are now busily engaged .ol
many parts Of the Blackstone Canal
The excavations at the Mill Bridge, il
Providence were commenced on Mott