The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-09-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITE.ITS.

GLOUCESTER CANAL. On the 9th OF
July, the ship canal leading from the city
OF Gloucester, in England, to the Severn
river at Berkley, was opened 1t is work
OF great magnitude and cost, and has been
thlrty-three years in building. 1t is six
teen miles and quarter in length, from
seventy to ninety feet wide, and eighteen
feet deep, with a spacious basin at each
end, that next the city capable of contain
ing a hundred vessels. 1t has cost more
than &45O,000.-BOSton Daily advertiser.
A new work is in the press, at New
York, entitled The Legend Of the Rock. -
1t is written by Mr.. James Heck, youth of
that city, in his seventeenth year, who is
deaf and dumb, and was instructed at the
New York Institution. 1t is pronounced
to be an extraordinary production.
The report, which was published in nearly
all the papers of the country. that Boston
Bookseller had offered 100000 for the manu-
scripts OF MIR. Jefferson, is denied in the Viz
glnla Advocate, upon the authority Thomas ]
randolph, the executor Of Mr. Jefferson.
The number of veteran disabled seamen.
pensioners in Greenwich Hospital, England,
amounts to about 1900, of which 1909 sit
down to dinner daily at one o'clock, in the
long hall. The utmost order prevails. until the
boatswain, who takes his station at the head of
the hall, says grace. Then a clattcr Of knives
and -2rks, begins. They bury on an average
one day; and, on calculation, the hospital
Is cleared of the whole Of this race of heroes
every seven ycars.-Loadon piper.
GREAT INCREASE. In a piece of clover be-
longing to Mr.. Silas Hale OF I.onrmeadow.
there grew this season from three Kernels Of
rye accidentally scattered, from l kernel 81
stalks, from another so, and from the other &c.
After being somewhat pillaged by BIRDS. the
one OF 70 stalks was carefully shelIed and
counted, and amounted to 1881 kernels. maxi
ing an aggregate of 5l0!-SPriagfeld pa.
GETTING INTO NorIcE. The best talents
IN the world must be known in order 10 he
patronized. Man is the child of opportunity-
circumstance either makes or mars hinl-but
he may sometimes make circumstance Some
years ago, a young lawyer of fine talents and
deep learning, and graceful and powerful or
ator wlthal, settled in one of our western vii
lagos. He took no letters of introduction. and
knew nobody. He waited in vain for clients.
his abilities were unknown, and of course, I'M
appreciated. At length lie devised a plan for
bringing himself into notice. He took rattan.
walked over the way to Mr. Smiths store. and
without saying a word astonished the unoffcnd-
ing Mr.. S. with terrible fogging a prose-
cution followed-our young lawyer made a
splendid speech, showed what he was, was fin
ed an hundred dollars, and was Immediately
retained in three suits of Importance He has
since made large fortune by his profession
Morning Courier.
GREAT PArRoNAeE. The Editor of the N.
Y. Christian Advocate, in closing the first year
of his labors, speaks of the unprecedented pat
ronage, which has been bestowed on that pub
lcation--No less than $4,000 copies are pub
lished. The Advocate is devoted to the inter
est of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Quick TRAVELLING. The Boston Patriot
states that passenger who arrived there on
Saturday evening in the Southern stage, left
] Baltimore the Wednesday evening preceding
having been but three days on the passage, ten
hours of which he passed in Philadelphia aud
New York, and lodged one night in New Bruins
wick. The distance nearly 500 mles.-Tht
Steam Boat North America made her last pas
sage from this city 10 Albany in II hours and
two minutes against strong north wind. she
left this place at minutes past A. NJ and
arrived at Albany at minutes past p. NJ.
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