The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-08-03

QLEANINGs.

A rival to the Sea Serpent has mado :.
appearance in Canada. Seven persons h. us
made declaration of having seen a may nave
strous reptile, which resembles thar sa;Ia a,'''
be found in the island of Ceylon, termed wv W.
Anaconda. "'
The citizens Of Lebanon have offcrea
reward of two hundred dollars for tho -.
prehension of the persons who murd.raps p,
Mr.. Swineford on the 5th ult. The Covs.u
nor has offered reward of the same amonr,
A death by hydrophobia occurred !,
Charleston, S. C.. on Thursday week. II waa ~
lad about nine years of age, who had bssn
bitten by dog about two months preyions
| A lady suddenly fell dead in one of ,ho
streets of New York, on Monday week. Il s
supposed she was overcome with the tatign.
Of walking and the warm weather.
Mr.. Oliver Putnam, who died lately =,
Hampstead has left $50. 900 for the endow.
ment of Seminary at Newburyport.
Respectable Histories of sixteen of the II.
nited States are now cxtant by American
authors. Another is to be engaged upons
history of North Carolina.
Siegnor Ange Giribaldy has been recop.
tnizcd by the President as vice consul and
chancellor in the Office of the consul general
of the King of Sardinia, at philadelphia,
The Editors of the n. York Enquirer saw
that some one at Savannah, has sent them
wooden gun ten feet long to present to Co,
Stone.
A watchman in New York, has been an.
| pretended by a brother watchman, for riot
Gus conduct during his watch; he was taken
before the police, who with watchful eve
towards public peace, deprived the offend.
ing watchman of his watchship.
The ship Panthea, which fell over the
railway at Salem, short time since, and
received great injury, has been rightcd by
means of screws and tackels, got off, and ar.
rived into dock.
General Gaines and General Bissell, Of
the United States army arrived at ST. Louis,
| |(Missour) on the 22d June.
The Sheriff Of Richmond county, MY.
has been imprisoned in New Jersey, for con.
fning a captain of vessel for landing Irish
passengers, contrary to the laws of N. York
The American Missionary press at Malta
has printed about 2,048,000 pages of tracts
in modern Greek, and AZ 900 in Italian
1t is calculated that the annual harvest Of
grain OF all description in the state of Ohio,
is moro than fifty millions of bushels.
Canada squash vine. somewhere in
Maine) grew thirteen inches in twenty-five
hours.
A French Physician has published long
dissertation in favour of groaning and cry.
ing. He states that it is a very favourable
symptom, when an amputation takes place,
to hear the patient roar Justify. His theory
is this-that by these processes of nature the
superabundance of the nervous power be-
comes exhausted, and the patient becomes
more calm. 10 persons of Hysterical affec-
tions he prescribes groaning all night and
crying all day.
The death of Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Jeffer-
son is referred to, in the Montreal papers,
with good deal of feeling and in very res
pectful manner.
Isaac b. Dcsha was alive at the last ac-
counts from Cynthana. He persisted in de-
claring himself innocent of the murder Of
Baker, but had communicated no facts to
acquit him in public opinion.
Lettera.-From the 1st of April to the Isl
July. ga, 495 shih letters, were received at
the n. York Post Office.
| The Vice President left his residence in
Georgetown, on Thursday morning, for S,
Carolina.--Jonr.
A verdict of S400 was obtained at the late
circuit in Otscgo county, New York, against
Calhoun ard others, of Bowman's creek, for
riding the plaintiff in crate.
| 1t is calculated that thirty Thousand per.
sons were assembled in Howard's Park, at
Baltimore, OIL this day two weeks, at the de-
livery Of the Grafton ON Thomas jefferson
and John Adams.
The Mobile Register, of the 4th ultimo
states that the cotton crops were never more
tfattering than at the present time.
A letter to the Editors from Abbeville
District, S. C. dated July 10, says that, sin
consequence of the excessive drought, there
will not be made in this State, this year, as
much cotton by one half. as was raised the
last year. The Oat crop has entirely failed
INTEL
! Mediterranean Squadron.-A letter dat
ed May 18th, 1926, to the editors, from an
officer in the squadron, says "our squadron
sails tomorrow for Algiers, Tunis Trlpoh,
and perhaps Alexandria, and thence to the
Archipelago"
A volume, entitled The Forest Sanctua-
~, and other poems, by Mrs. Hemans, has
lately been published in London 1t is to DC
printed uniformly with the League OF the
Alps, which is shortly to be put to press az
Cambridge.
Il Cork Catter.-A very simple machine,
which is attended by child only, and cuts
from to Ave hundred bottle corks per hour
has lately been invented in France. Another
machine cuts and prepares the sheets INTO
ribs, which are made round by the finishing