The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-30

islature, have authorized the agents of the
Eagle Bank to give notice to all persons holding
bills, post notes, or other evidences of debt to
present the same previous to the first Monday
\ IN November next, and secure certificate of
the same, that they may hereafter receive such
dividends as may be declared from. the effects of
the Bank All persons who do not present
! their claims previously to that date will be de-
barreda recovery.
Nova SCOTIA. BY census of this province
taken in 1917, the population was found to be
S2,053 souls. Another census was taken the
last year, which shows the present popu-
latlon to be l23948, making an increase of al :
20, or more than 90 per cent. Of the present
population, 63,769 are males, and 60,079 fe-
males. According to the late census, there
were 1868 births in the year ending on the
SOth of September last, 1908 deaths, and s45
marriages.
Thief DETECTED. A gentleman yesterday,
at the auctionroom of Messrs. Coolidge, Poor
! d Head, during a sale missed his pocket book
He gave notice of the fact, and the gentlemen
in the room proposed search. While this was
going on, one person made some pretence for
withdrawing, and was retiring, at a quick step,
when he was called back. His pockets were
examined, and during the process, the missing
pocket book, which he was endeavoring to con-
ceal dropped on the floor. He was conveyed to
! bA1S lOiiSS Goul uhu lot ITldf. I46
proved to be man named Lewis, lately dis
charged from the State Prison, for the second
| time.-BOstOn adUertiser,
A barn in, Norristown, N. J. was set on fire
| by cat on the 18th inst A coal of fire had be-
come attached to her hair, anG she Immediately
ran from the house to the barn with it. A horse,
a carriage, quantity of hay and some farming
utensils were consumed in it.
new Post Office has been established at
I Watt fnrd in Had ,a 40
torford Office, and James Wilson, Jun Esq. APP
pointed Post Master.
| Dry Dock AT CHARLEsTowN. Considerable
progress has been made in this very useful ap-
pendage to large naval station and depot
The length of the dock is to be 335 feet inch
es; the chamber in which the vessel is to be re-
ceived, 201 feet in length by Sc feet wide the
depth from Is to 20 feet. When completed it
viii receive the largest ships with perfect ease
aud security The vessel is to be taken into
the chamber at high tide the gates are then
shut and the water pumped out, by a steam en-
I CINE, and so remains until the repairs are com
! pleted. 1t is expected that the whole work will
cost about $500,0O0 Ii is built ofhewn granite.
ILLUMINATED CLOCK. The committee for
rebuilding the steeple of the State House in
! Philadelphia, intend that the new clock to be
placed there shall have an Illuminated dial, sim
/ liar to that placed in st Mary's, and in several
other churches, near London. The time can
be distinctly told three quarters of a mile dis
tant from ST. Mary's church on the darkest
night, if free from fog
A woman named Mary White, recently hung
herself in the watch house in Baltimore She
had been taken up in the night by the watch
men in an intoxicated state, and in the morning
was found suspended from the bars of window
! by her carriers. She was the mother of large
/ family ofrespectable children.
| EARTHQUAKE. A very severe earthquake
was felt at Tobasco, Mexico, on the 4th of Feb.
ruary. The roofs of the church and Jail both
fell in, and also part of house and about 30
feet of the bank of the river disappeared A
A small town about 30 miles from Tobasco,
containing about SEQ inhabitants, situated at the
! foot of a mountain, was nearly destroyed. At
the city of Tappa, several buildings were de-
! stroyed and number of inhabitants killed
! Many counterfeit l2a and 6 ct. pieces have
/ lately been detected at N York.
| GREECE. The interest excited among the
! ladies of Boston, concerning the women and
children of that afflicted country, we are happy
] to learn suffers no abatement. The collections
| are proceeding with great spirit and activity.
Even ladies, who do not ordinarily work for
| themselves, are willing to :oil for the Greeks
In alluslon to their being employed with their
needles, and haply some of them pricking their
/
all the ladies had armed themselves with spears,
and not few of them bled in the cause of the
| Greeks.-Eoe. Bulletin.
! The Ladies of Baltimore, have obtained about
six hundred barrels of bread, -four &c which
they are ready to forward to the New York
Greek Committee.
I DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. The extensive factory of
Messrs. Van Allen 81 Co. at Millville, ~ Y. near
Undertook, was burnt down on Thursday eve
ming week, and all its contents, valued at up
wards of $4,000, totally destroyed about
| $4,000 were insured on this property.
J A large portion of the inhabitants of the Dis
| trict of Columbia, have petitioned that all the
children of slaves, born in that District after the
4th of July, 1923, may be free at the age of %.
LITERARY. The great literary Proteus of
| Scotland is about to appear altogether in new
character. The London Literary Gazette, of
the 10th of February, observes that Sir Walter
| Scott, as if to shew US how many and how vari-
Gus are the subjects which have occupied his
nquirmg mind, has also volume of Practical
Essays on Gardening and Planting in prepara-
( ton, which will be published next winter
J The Asiatic Journal announces that Mr.
Richmond, an army surgeon in India, has, with
in eight months, restored to sight nearly 800
blind persons He calculates that there are in
the British East India possessions upwards of
half million of people with cataracts &c. who
may be restored to sight by an operation as
simple as that of blood letting.
LABOR SAVING MACHINE. The Automaton
whist player, which is now exhibited at Albany,
is represented as very ingenious and surprising
piece Of mechanism, 1t will make very great
saving of labor, time, and skill, which may be
devoted to more profitable employment, if the
machine can be introduced into general use, so
as to supercede the whist playing now performed
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The Steamboat Merrimack, which is to ply
between Haverhill and Newburyport, made her
first trip ON the 9Th inst. She is said to be a
very neat boat, and is the first in which g Wads-
worth's safety engine" has been used The
engine is of2O horse power, and consumes less