The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-12-26
Grand Total 1880 1906 10 16,32
Wv Department, Pension Office,
October 81, 1927.
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airy Pensioners, was NAB. OfInvalid Pen
sioners, 49, OF the Revolutionary Pen
sioners ~ died in Maine, 81 in New Hamp-
shire, Al in Connecticut, 8 in Rhode Island,
81 in Vermont, 81 in New York, 81 in New
Jersey, 90 in Pennsylvania, IL in Mary
land in North Carolina, in South Caro-
lima, in Georgia, 25 in Kentucky 7 in
West Tennessee, 2 in Illinois, 5 in Indiana,
2 in Missouri, 2 in Michigan, and in Pitts
burg Agency; and there were no returns
from Delaware, Virginia, East Tennessee,
Ohio, Louisiana, Alabama, and District OF
Columbia. Boston Centsnet.
*There were added to the list during the last
year 258. Added to this list last year, the
same number 4S.
THE ANNUAL TREASURY Report, con-
tains many points, reflection on which must
be productive of the most gratifying con-
victlons.
1t appears that our annual expenditures
are about % millions, including 10 millions
annually applied to the extinguishment of
the public debt. The aggregate of that
debt will be on the LIST OF January next,
about sixty millions. We do not include
the seven millions bank stock, for we know
of no principle on which that can be con-
sidered as debt, which is productive of rev.
enue, and is always marketable. Should
our relations with foreign governments re-
main tranquil, and no extravaganza Admins
tration succeed the present, we may antic-
ipate, that in eight years more, the whole
of our public debt will be extinguished-
We shall then have an annual expenditure
not exceeding thirteen millions and of this
aggregate, as now, some millions will be
applied to the purchase of real estate, the
making of good roads, the clearing of har-
bors and rivers, and the other disburse-
ments referred to by the Secretary Of the
Treasury, as those g for which equivalents
remain, that, for the most part, are OF per-
manent value to the nation" 1t is not
probable that there will be any diminuton
or our revenue. Our income, therefore,
supposing it to be, as now, about % mil
lions, will exceed our annual expenditures,
by about ten millions. The application of
this excess of revenue will then become a
subject of discussion, and serious difficulty.
nation comprising so vast, almost il
limitable territory, and so numerous a
population, after surmounting the dangers
and expenditures of two wars at the age of
little more than half a century, out of debt,
pursuing its rapid progress to power, and
embarrassed bYa surplusage of revenue,
will present political phenomenon, which
the history of modern times cannot paral-
lei. While we see the most wealthy and
powerful nations of Europe bending under
the burden of public debt, and struggling
in vain to extricate themselves from its
pressure, we alone shall march onward
with light and elastic tread the envy and
admiration of the old aristocracy of Eu-
rope.
Yet with all this brightness Of prospect
before us, we find men, calling themselves
statesmen, circulating gloomy ideas of our
situation, talking Of corruption and profit
gate expenditures, prophesying poverty
and ruin, and suggesting parsilnony and
niggardness as the only preventatives a.
gainst premature destruction.
National Journal
CHURCHES IN MASSACHUSETTS,. tap
pears from sketch of the history of North
ampton, published in the Hampshire Gazette
that the second meeting house built in this
state, west OF Lancaster, was erected at
Northampton, in the year 1865. The first
was built at Springfield. BY the contract
for building it, still on record, the house at
Northampton was to be % feet long, Is
feet wide, and feet high. The price to
be paid for the frame ana covering was GA
sterling, in work or corn. The roof was
matched The number of families at that
time probably did not exceed twenty. A
larger house was built between 1861 and
1865, and the present house, standing on
the same spot, is the fourth. In 1877, '78,
and 70, Jedediah Strong was paid 19 shil-
lings sterling year for " blowing the
trumpet" In the record of this fact, the
purpose for which the trumpet is sounded,
is not mentioned, hut is supposed to have
been for the purpose of announcing the
hour of divine service on the Sabbath,
there being no bell, and time pieces being
very uncommon. 1t is mentioned in the
article above quoted, from which these
facts are taken, that there was not time
piece in the village, during Mr.. Mather's
ministry, except his watch.
Boston advertiser.
Elizabeth Payne, forty years Of age, and
having five children died on Sunday week, at
Bethuel Green, from taking tobacco water as
a cure for worms. A quack doctor named
Gabriel Ore, recommended the {" specific %
Verdict manslaughter," and the doctor com,
mitted to Newgate. London paper.