The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-05-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY. At meeting of the
board OF Overseers of the University on Thurs
day, the Corporation reported the resignation of
the PRESIDENT, and according to usage asked the
advice OF the Board. The Overseers in reply
ADVISED the Corporation to proceed to make
choice OF President, to supply the vacancy, as
soon as may be. A vote passed the board unani-
nous, expressing their high sense of the servi-
ces of the late President.-Boston DAILY .Ad0.
The dead body of Nelson Patterson has been
found on an Island in the Ohio, near the mouth
OF the Tennessee river. Gambling, trick and
forgery, brought him to the desperate act of
taking his life. He had held many responsible
stations, and among them that of Secretary to
the jackson Committee at Nashville
A suit was lately tried at New Haven, before
the circuit of the U. S. in which Grant & Town
send obtained verdict against Harrington s.
Brundage, of $3.50, single damages, which the
court by law are bound to make three-foh,
(making $lO5O damages and costs,) for the
violation OF patent for machine to make hat
bodies. The court also granted absolute and
perpetual ln]unctions against the defendants in
all the cases, prohibiting under the pain of i'm
prlsonment, all further violations of the plain
tiffs' patent.
A lady named Mrs. Fortune, lately in Lon
don, presented her husband with three female
twins las Paddy would say at birth This is
striking proof of the old adage-' Miss for
tunes seldom come SINGLE
The prisoners confined in the Connecticut
State Prison at Weathersfeld, have recently
made a donation of $25 68 cts. to the Con
necticut Bible Society. This is probably the
first offering for similar purpose ever made
from within the walls of prison.
1t is mentioned in a western paper, that
stage coach, in descending hill between Utica
and Albany, last week, upset, rolled over and
rlghted itself, without any injury to passengers
or carriage
Chief Justice Savage, of New York, has been
nominated as Treasurer ofthe U. S. in the place
OF Thomas I. Tucker deceased.
Five tons of Maple Sugar have been made
the present season in the town of Lyndon, Yer
mont, beyond what is sufficient for the con-
sumption OF the inhabitants of the town.
ENCOURAGEMENT OF DEcENcY Dr. Town
son, very old colonist, died abut six months
ago in New South Wales-he left $4,000 to
Mr.. Spark, because, as it is expressed in the
VIII, " he was decent sort of a gentleman"
A short time since, three young men at one
haul caught in the Housatonic River, in the
town of Hinsdale, with seine % feet in length,
taoo thousand four hundred and siuty- eight sack
erS!-Pitsfeld .4rguS.
SHARP SHooTINc- Maj Joshua Whitney of
this town, killed the other day 10 Crows at two
sllots.-Ibed
LONGEVITY. 1t appears from table of the
deaths in the Russian Empire, in 1927, that
among the individuals deceased of the male
sex, there were SIS of 100 years old SO above
lis; "a above 100; above 1876; and of 100.
The new Legislature of Connecticut met and
organized, at New Haven, on the 9TH inst. Gov.
Tomlinsons message is intirely too long to be
read. and we are therefore unable to give our
readers any account of its contents.
FORGERY. Daniel Bills, lately resident in
the Connecticut State Prison, has been senten-
ced on three indictments for forgery at North
ampton, to Is days solitary Imprisonment and
IL years confinement to labor in the State Pris-
on. On his trial he stood mute, and feigned
arrangement. A jury empanneled on this
point, returned a verdict that he stood mute
through obstinacy. He is about 25 years of
age.
Horace Mcfarland has been appointed Post
Master at South Leicester, oice Rev. joseph
Muenscher-A Post Office has has been estab-
lshed at the Blackstone Factory, and is called
" Blackstone" James S Warner, Esq. Post
Master.-The Post Office formerly called Black
stone, has assumed the name of g South Men
DON
FIRE. The Westport Cotton Factory, owned
by Mr. Samuel Allen, was burnt on the 5th inst
Loss estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000
Scarcely any thing was saved, and there was
no insurance. 1t took fire in the picking room
NOTICE Te THE GUARDIANS OF REVOLUTIONS
AIRY AND OTHER PENSIONERS. Such persons
are requested to call at the Pension Office, at
Boston, before the last of the present month, in
order that their certificates may be made to
conform with the regulations of the War De.
partment.
IRvIEG's LAST Work. Washington lrvinr
received from Murray, the London bookseller,
for his Life of Columbus, three thousand ruin
eas, being $4,000 of our money.
Snow fell in Worthingtor, Hampshire coun.
! ty, on the Goth and 2lst of April, to the depth
of one foot, and good sleighing continued in
the neghborhood until the gath and 25th. At
Springfield the snow was scarcely perceptible.
A Naval Court of Inquiry, consisting of Cap
tains Morris, Creighton, and Wordsworth, and
John Pickering, Esq. Judge Advocate, ordered
( to investigate the conduct of Lieut. John Per
cival, of the Navy, while at the Sandwich Is
lands, is now sitting at Charlestown. The
charges against Lieut.. Percival, are made bv
Capt. Edwards, of the ship London, which was
wrecked at Oahu, whose cargo Lieut.. Percival
assisted in saving, and by the Prudential Com.
mittee of the Board of Foreign Missions.
The son of Mungo Park, who proceeded to
the interior of Africa some time since. has been
poisoned in the Akimboo country.
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