The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-11-28

| lays, commencing the 18th October last
y1:-Stages and hacks, at Is 1877; chaises.
az y, 90; lo4I teams. at Cd. 1863 CARRIAGES AT
"a. 2J33 horses, at cts 3lI bandcarts, AT
CTS 70; foot passengers at ct. % ,293
day, $II0,8I. ''"so PEI
he water power in the vicinity of Roches-
Ter is computed at 3S400 horses, or 600
steam engines of twenty horse power. These
Engines would cost above seventeen millions of
| oaoIiiars, and the expense of working would be
o nlilllons year. The last, with the interest
On 'iie hrst' would be nearly ten millions.
;, AMERICAN MANUFACTURES PREFERRED IN
EUROPE The Philadelphia Gazette of Satur-
Jay iasi, states the following remarkable fact
:; We have seen this rnorning at Mr. o@le,s
factory, IN this city, Coach that has been
oulit for gentleman in Edia6urg The gem
tieman thinks SO highly of the Philadel pha
styie OF building Carriages, that he is quite
willing to pay an import duty of thirty per cent.
on the value of the article''
An Eagle was shot at Bakers Island on
Monday last, by Elbridge Gerry Martin. 10
years oil age; son Of the keeper Of the T,igl,t
house; His wings expanded six feet EIGHT in
ciieS' the largest talon measured q inches, the
shortest ia-and he measured three feet from
t lne elia OF his beak to the tip of his tail He
haa nothing whatever in his stomach. When
~ A44 pursuit OI some IOWiS the
Light House.-saLem Register.
The first iousc that was fnIlabited in Peters
burg, by Peter the Great has only three small
rooms, one OF which was his bedchamber. and
~" contains an Image, censor, and cloak
lor priest VINO stately performs religious GER
ehlory there, ID honor of its former occupant.
IL IS not two years since the bill authorizing
the commencement of the Pennsylvania Canal
was introduced into the Legislature of that
STATE; ana now, more than tlcO hundred miles
OF canal are under contract
Otis w Chaplin, from Worcester. Mass. was
drowned IN the Canal. at Caughnawaga. N. Y
lie was halter by trade.-.T Y paper.
Poor DEBTORS. From January 1926, to No
vember 1877, being twenty three months. nine
teen handfcd and secenty-taeo persons have
been received into the debtors gaol..! In
some instances men have been i1nmured for so
small sum as two three dolars.-with
neither food or bed, except what the benevo-
lence OF the humane Society bestows, viz "a
quart ofsouP for "A hours whereas, the GRIM
iaai in BrideaosH receives three meals ner
day, bed, and often clothing!!
NJ. 7. Joarnat of Commerce.
On Thursday, an Irishnan, newly arrived.
made his first ascent as bricklayer's laborer,
to the top of house iii Queen street, when on
looking down he became SO giddy, that all the
rhetoric OF his fellow workInen was insufficient
10 make him descend. The poor fellow laid
himself down IN the gutter, and declared he
would rather starVe than venture down. As
there was no entrance from the roof into the
house, rope and pulley were procured, and
handkerchief being tied over his eyes poor Pat,
to his nexpressible joy, once more reached ter
TG biHaa IN safety, where he expressed his de-
serihinatloh 10 seek less aspiring situation.
Gtasgoao Chreniete
A church has been commenced at Moscow.
on scale OF stupendous magnitude, it is said
that its height when completed will be seven
hundred and seventy feet
On the 18th of July two mon, and several
head of cattle, persisted of cold in the snow.
at Sarendal, in Norway. Such an occurrence
In the midst OF summer is unexampled.
Peeping into letters-looking over another
when he is writing, and officiously reading
what he has written, &c. are vulgar breaches
OF oecorum, OF which very many are guilty
lhese habits will soil the farest reputation.
and shew prying, meddling curiosity, derog
atory to the character of gentleman. and
SUBJECT him to the lmputation of being pos
sessed OF more impudence than honor and
good breeding. written paper carries with
1t privacy and sanctity which no one of cor
rect principles VIII violate, even though chance
N "A-@ NiAS
Kenaebec Journal
On Monday last, the Anniversary MEETING of
the Society of Independent Odd Fellows. took
place at Gisburn: when an appropriate Ser
mon was preached TO them by the Rev. MIR.
Bray, minister of the Independent Chapel,
from the 18th chapter of Proverbs and 9th
verse; man that hath friends must show
himself friendly; and there is friend that
sticketh closer than a brother"
Leeds (Eng) Mercury.
At the Farmers Cattle Show and Exhibition
of Domestic Manufactures, at Turkey Hills.
CRANKY, Connecticut, @ Ct 24th, the commit
tee state that they deem it worthy of particu-
lar notice, that an apple was presented them
by Isaac P Owen, the one half of which was
sweet, the other sour, both of an excellent fla
vor, maintaining their distinct characters to
an exact line of division. perceivable only by
taste,
The navigation of the Erie canal had become
much INSTRUCTED by ice on the 18th inst. and it
will soon close. Two hundred boats were de-
tanned between Albany and Utica
RArrLEsNAKEs. A Mr. Abiiah Colburn, of
this town, on splitting open a maple log last
week which had been felled about year, dis
covered, in cavity t,oenty-one young rattle
snakes They were in torpid state and from
nine to ten inches in length,-Dedham Register
INroxIcArIoN A man named Jacob Cooper
persisted in Conquest, Cayuga county, N Y a
few days since, from being exposed to the cold
while intoxicated, He had been at husking
frolc, and was not able to reach his home
His family did not 90 to seek him until the
riior ming when tney FOUND MIN nreless.
CANAL Toll. The amount of toll collected
at the office in Rochester during the month of
October, was $l7,76l &C. The Rochester
Daily Advertiser states that the total receipts
of the season thus far, ($110,000 and some
odds) exceed the lchoie amount received dur
ing the last season by about $4,000
FIREs. On Sunday week. the barn of He
man Root, of Westfeld was consumed by fire,
with large quantity of grain and hay, On the
same evening, the barn connected with the
poor-house establishment in Springfield, was
destroyed by fire, with 10 or IL tons of hay
II is estimated that alb out two million orang-
how hoo ~, l,a l..