The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-01


From Greece.--By the arrival of the Potomac. from
Leghorn, we have the agreeable intelligence ofthe ar.
rival at Poros, of the brig Herald, bearing portion
OF the bounty OF our countrymen to the furnishing peo
PIE ol ureece. ~ L. Com. Ado.
Methodist Church Of Upper Canada, first Annual
coaference.-We learn that the Reverend Wilbur Fisk
| CT the New England Conference, and principal of
Wllbralam Academy, is elected Bishop.
The Rev. Egerton Ryerson, is appointed delegate
to the New England Conferences which sits in June
next, and the Rev. William Case is to act as supern
tendent until MIR. Fisk's determination be known
select committee has been appointed to take into con-
SHERATON the expectancy of erecting seminary or
college Tor religious instruction to students i'm divinity
and there is another committee appointed to establish
a conference newspaper. Colonial York; Ad
BURNING OF WIDOWS.-A late East India
paper gives an account Of the escape of widow from
the funeral pile of her husband at Bagbazaar All
the preparations were made as llsual but when the
suffice assembled the pile, owing to the presence (and
probable inererence) Of some European and Arneri-
can gentlemen she would not be bound down. as the
custom IS. When the flames Of the pile rose, she
could not endure the torture, and eaped from the fire
ana escaped, with several parts of her body burnt
Her cruel tormentors would have forced the poor su
erer back, had it not been for the presence of the
Europeans and Americans, who would not permit
them to do so. This occurrence was in March Ii
was afterwards reported that she was dead but the
Sum0dd COunoody conradlcts the story and saws she
Is living at Aypoor, where she has been kindly atten-
ded to by the company's physician, and where her
father remains to prepare her food
Manufactured Edrthq@Gke.-The Messrs Boyntons.
Oh West Stockbrdge (Mass.) while recently engaged
IN working the celebrated marble quarries in that
town. found hole penetrating the rock about fifteen
iect-dlameter at the top eighteen inches and at the
bottom four, This hole charged with Q04 lbs. of
powder, and gnited in the mqnner commonly used in
blasting rocks. The explosion was tremendous; the
eartl frembed as though shaken by an earthuake and
inc trees IN the vicinity waved from side to side as If
tossed upon billow. The mass of marble raised bv
me explosion about 60 feet square upon the surface.
eight feet thick, and weighs, Judging from the common
rule OF weight by measurement, more than two thou
sand tons.
Qu0drc'pre Of the Circle discorcrcd- The imnor-
tant problem, which has agitotcd the learned world
Tor nearly four Thousand years, has at length been dis
covered by Young lad, only thirteen wears of are.
named James Graham, who resides in Mount Charles
County Donegal 1t has undergone the most rioorous
investigation by several gentlemen of DISTINGUISHED
abitcS, and IS found to he perfectly completed and
as lrmly established, the purcst PRINCIPLES of FIJI
chdan Geometry, as any problem hitherto known in
'he science. This extraordinary discovery will intro
duce new era in the science of Geometry. and brinr
fIof, oil