The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-11-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LARGE PEAR Capt Noah Allen, of Shrews-
bury, lately picked Pear from one of his trees.
which measured 151 inches in circumference.
and weighed % ounces.
APPLES. A gentleman sent us Yesterday
specimen OF apples from the farm of Gen Per
ley OF Brdgton, Me which he informs us are
part OF lot of which it took only one hundred
and tOrtyofiCe to fill barrel.-Boston Courier.
A child in Wiliamstown, Mass. who had ac
cidentally got pin lodged in her throat, was
relieved by an ingenious operation The phy.
stefan passed down wire with small niece
OF dry sponge at the end and after letting it
remain until the moisture of the throat had en-
iiarged the sponge, drew it out and the pin with
The exports from Boston during the third
quarter of the present year show an excess over
the exports for the same quarter Of 1926 Of
more than half miItionof dollars
The Supreme Court of Maine has sentenced
Thomas Reed, Esq. of Bowdonham, to four
years Imprisonment, for forging notes in the
name Of Israel Millet, who died two or three
years ago, without heirs, leaving an estate
worth $4,000 dollars.
TwENTY-FIFTH STATE. 1t is considered
that the territory of Arkansas has the popula
ton necessary to authorize its admission as
State, into the Union.
LIKE TO BE FIT" A meeting of Jackso-
mans at Lexington, Ken. say, in one of their
resolutions, they rejoice that Andrew Jackson
as like to be fit for the Presidential Office, at the
expiration of its present term The inference
is obvious that these friends of the General do
not think him yet fit for the office for which
he is in training .-Procidenc american
The Rev. Luther Baker, of Swanzey, has
united in marriage, nine daughters of one gem
tleman, at whose wedding he was present
Coon EXAMPLE. The citizens of Hagers-
town, in Maryland, held meeting on the Sd
inst. for the purpose of making arrangements
for planting trees on the sides of the turnpike
road from that place to Funkstown This is
proof of good taste, as well as attention to the
comfort OF travellers, that deserves imitation
According to the late census, there are more
than $4,000 alien Inhabitants in the CITY of
New York.
On an acre and half ground, person in
Norwich, Conn. has raised one hundred and
nifty bushels of Shetied corn and five wagon
loads of aointer squashes.
Mr.. MADISON, in his farewell Message to
Congress, Feb. Is, l5l5,on the subject of Amer
lean Manufactures, says - There is no OBJ
ject that can enter with greater force and mer-
it into the deliberations of Congress. than
promote the manufactures which have sprung
INTO existence, and attained an unparalleled
maturity throughout the United States, during
the period of European wars. This source of
national Independence and wealth, anxiously
recommend to the prompt and constant guard
ianship of Congress"
GREAT CRoP OF Hay. Charles Gidden,
Esq. of Mortified, N. II this year cut four tons
ofgood English hay from one hundred and one
square rods of ground. Three tons were pro-
duced at the first crop cut the second week in
July and one ton at the second cutting the
last week in August. This shows how much
little land, if well cultivated, will produce
On the 28th of October, ice made on mill
pond at Charleston, S. c. the thickness of an
inch.
THAMES Tunnel On Tuesday, Mr. Brun-
mel reported, that on the preceding day he had
commenced forward movement with the
shield, and that having overcome the late seri-
Gus difficulties, and the bed of the river having
been re-examined by new borngs, the expecta-
items Of a s,lnnassfnl completion of tins great
undertaking are higher than before the rrup-
ton ofthe river-LOnd0n paper.
A Mr.. John Miller, of Paris, Kentucky, has
been murdered by runaway negro whom he
had apprehendco, and was taking back to his
master. The negro had no business to COM
INIT IuuIueT, anu INC man was IN very poor
business, who was carrying him back into sla-
very ~ Y. Com
On Wednesday of last week, lady, on her
way from st. Andrews to Montreal, having an
infant child in her arms, which in order to
guard against the nclemency of the weather,
she wrapped up so closely that its respiration
was INSTRUCTED. On alighting at Grand Brule,
she found her infant lifeless.-.fontreal paper.
ERRoRs OF THE Pass. When it is known
that from fifty to hundred thousand types are
picked up SiRgiya and put in their proper places
for each days paper, it will not appear extraor-
binary that occasionally one OF two of them
will get into the wrong place, or that in max
ing up body containing so many small parts,
errors should sometimes occur.
There are forty-one gentlemen now living
who were graduated at Yale College more than
sixty years ago, and ninety-four who were
graduated at the same college before the revo-
luton.
An immense flock of BLAcKBIRps PASSED
over Mdddletown, Conn. on the 30th ult. to-
wards the south. There appeared to be some
tens of thousands of them.Sand the noise OF
their wings was almost deafening. They an
peared TO be conducted BY leader, and some
of their numbcr appeared TO aet as flank guards