The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Carpeting of excellent quality is made near
Hartford; and Portsmouth paper states, that
there are Tor sale, in that town, specimens of
Carpets manufactured at the Great Falls Fac
tory in SonlersWorth, of so firm and even
texture, and with figures and colors SO varied
and beautiful, that the merchants could hardly
believe they were of home manufacture.
Joseph Lancaster, author of the Lancaster
ian system, having failed ina measure to intro
duce it in South America has returned to this
country
WcoL. A wool-grower Of this town sold
his wool (grade and full blood in Worcester
county last week, at 81 cents per pound, cash.
Large quantities of wool are brought from the
state of New York. and sold at the factories in
this etats--Niorthampto Gazette.
Com. Thomas Tngey, has been appointed
Commissioner of the Navy, in the place of
Com. Morris, resigned.
Snow. 1t is fourteen years since the last
snow fell in Lisbon. DR.. II. was in his chaise
when it began the driver leaped Off" you
may get home how you can" said he, " as for
my part must make the best use can of the
little time this world will last" and away he
run into the next church
MAMMOTH STRAWBERRY. 4 gentleman
handed to US a few days a strawberry of the
hdutboy or coxcomb species, measuring ST
inches In circumference, and Il inches in d.
amcter. 1t was taken from bed in the gar
den OF Charles Tappan, Esq. in Brooklyn,
Mass.-PortSmouth journal
The labor Of the conyicts in the New Hamp-
shire State Prison during the last year exceed
ed the expenditures of the prison by the sum
OF S324l. The sales Of hammered stone dur
ing the same time amounted to $12,221.
An article has been " going the rounds" re-
specting certain Mrs. Hamilton, who is said
never to have displeased her husband during
forty-seven years of married life. A cores
pondent of the Charleston Mercury explains
the wondrcus event by saying-Nlai. Gen. II
was ordered off On duty before the expiration
of the honeymoon and did not return until his
wife was dead.-S9o. PGper
CAUTION TO PARENTS. A few days since,
little child OF Ir. Hicks, Of Orange county, N
Carolina, while running about with an open
knife in its hands, fell down, and the blade
passing through the skull, Immediately above
the eye-bail, into the brain, killed the child al
most instantly.
Virginia paper calculates that there are
$4,000 useless dogs in that state which con-
sumo provisions sufficient to support as many
hogs, which would be worth at SIS each $780,
OJ0.-Eaeh useless dog, he adds, would proba-
bly, XIII one sheep per year, on an average,
which at $3 each would be $564000. Thus
making the maintenance of useless dogs in
that state amount to S. ,50i,0 900; more than
three times the amount of the tax of that
state. The estimate may be exaggerated but
| there Is doubtless much truth in it,
ALARMING. We learn from the Boston
Statesman, that there arc only two 'repuJti-
can" newspapers now printed in Massachusetts,
viz :-itse!f, which is for Jackson, and the only
one in his favor, and the Pittsfeld Sun, which
is in favor of nobody IN particular" the rest
are all " iedcralists, according to the States
man.-Kennebeck Journal.
The Supreme Court of the United States,
has decided in the case of Alexander Brown, rs.
the State of Maryland that an act of the Leg
! islature of that State, which imposed tax OF
fifty dollars per annum on importers of foreign
merchandise, is void, as being contrary to the
constitution of the United States.
VERY ;rIsHY." Seventeen large Sharks,
from seven to ten feet in length, were taken in
tins harbor, east end of Tomlinsons bridge,
yesterday morning, at one haul in a seine for
taxing whitefish, and are now lying on the
shore. Twenty-Five thousand whitehsh, and
large quantity of blue and weakfish Sucker
mogs) were taken at the same haul II is sun
posed that the net contained at least 100000
whitefsh, most of which were lost in conso-
quence OF the injury done to the net by the
sharks.-Noao Haoen Herald.
az SledVeianu, ONO, on tho 4th inst. was
celebrated the completion of the canal commu-
nication between the summit level in Ohio and
Lake Erie.
A valuable bed Of Iron ore has been discoy
cred in Chester county, Penn. u few miles from
the Schuyikill Canal, in the immediate vicinity
of Warwick Furnace, of quality superior to
any heretofore used by the Iron Works of our
country: The vein lies upon the surface of
the grounds about eleven feet thick, and of
oxtent not yet ascertained.