The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-07-25
MISCELLANEOUS H,EJHs.

ScHooIs IN BosToN. The Daily Advertiser
says Sc The expenditure in Boston the last
year for the compensation of instructors, and
the cost of fuel for public schools, was 1854, ALI,
being something less than dollar for each in
hbitant of the town. The expenditure for the
private schools, according to the elaborate and
v;lrqble report of Mr.. H. ]. Oliver, was $97,-
3f5, making the whole expenditure $15l, 722,
being about $2z to each inhabitant. The num-
Der of public schools was "a, containing 7O44
pupils, and of private schools al, containing
1892. The whole number of schools was 2l5,
ard of pupils l0,436."
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES. We were in
formed few days ago, that our factories fire.
qriently received from the English factories,
patterns of the goods, which were to be manu-
featured there for the American market, so
that they were enabled to initiate them, and
have them ready for sale by the time the i'm
ported fabrics were in our market. "A late
London paper states, that clerk and some
workmen in one of the print shops, connected
with factory had been setenced to be trans
ported for several years, for stealing patterns
from their employers, which they intended to
send to America.-SaleGs Observer.
CH1cKopEE FACTORIES. We are informed
that the manufacturing village en- the Chicko-
nee river, in Springfield, contains about 1900
inhabitants and that upwards of 900 females
are employed in the cotton factories. These
rirls earn about one dollar week, and some of
| them more Most of the buildings in the viii
lage are occupied as boarding houses, and the
price of board is 81 II per week for females,
and 81 so for men. The population gathered
round these factories consume great quantities
/ of the produce of the farmer, and give employ
mont to many mechanics-Ha'nP. Gaz.
The Legislature Of Connecticut have passed
law that hereafter 100 lbs. shall constitute q
cwt. and 1000 lbs. a ton.
II is scarcely, within the memory of man
| when more abundant harvest has occurred in
this part of the country, than the present
The crops of wheat, rye, grass, and oats, are
uncommonly heavy, and scarcely ever did the
Indian corn present so favorable prospect OF
nm abundant harvest of that important article
in husbandry-.Neso Jersey paper
Gov. Lincoln applied to the Secretary OF
War Tor part of the u S. Corps OF Engin..
GERS to assist in survey for the proposed Ran
Road in this State but Mr. Barbour informs
him, that the present appropriations VIII no'
allow It,
The .Warrcn, r. I, paper states, that IN tne
compact part of the town OF warren, there
ore one hundred and seventy dwelling houses,
among tho tenants of which are Seusnty-St1
aridecs, and upwards of two hundred and forty
Esrtherless children. Nearly all of these arc
the wives and children of sea-faring men anc
mechanics who have died beyond seas, princi
pally at Cuba.
Between Feb. % and June 90, 1927, 1851 raft
containing about &C, IT'S 900 feet OF lumber, AM
1870 arhs with about II 900 tons OF anthracite
coal, and 46S, 900 barrels Of flour and whlskey
| deccnded the Susquehannah past Harrisburg
, Pa, besides 800 keel-bottomed boats with apou
r 244,000 bushels Of wheat.
MILITIA IN NEW HAMPsHlRE. infantry an
Gronadiers, 2l,749; Cavalry, l7l7 ARTILLERY
l6A6; Riflemen, 1067--Total, 90, l79