Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-05-13
DOMESTIC NEWS,

REPRESENTATIVE ELECTION. The an
nual election for the choice of Representa-
tlves to the General Court, was held in this
city yesterday when the following persons
were elected, viz.-David Sears, Jacob Hall,
Benjamin Russell, Thomas Kendall, Heman
Lincoln, Seth Knowles, Samuel Perkins,
James c. Merrill, Samuel Austin, jr. John B.
Davis, Francis jackson, David L. Child.
Daniel Baxter, jr. Henry III. Fuller, John T.
Winthrop, Prentiss Hobbs, Adam Bent,
Franklin Dexter, Samuel Appleton, William
Barry, Israel Thorndike, jr. WEinslow Lewis,
Samuel T. Armstrong, Isaac Harris, William
Foster, George Hallet, Simon Wilkinson,
William P. Mason, Joseph t. Buckingham,
John G. Gray, Benjamin 7. Pickman, John
Lowell, jr. John P. 6;gelow, Jonas B. Brown,
Edmund Wright, ,ir. Samuel Aspinwall, Ed
ward Brooks, Levi Bartlett, Edmund Kim
ball, Thomas Barnes.
Bost. Trcuejser Of Friday
A Naval Court of Inquiry, consisting of
Captains Morris, Creighton, and Wards
worth, and John Pickering, ESQ. Judge Ad-
vocate, ordered to investigate the conduct of
Lieut.. John Percival, of the Navy, while at
the Sandwich Islands, is now sitting at
Charlestown. The charges against Lieut.
Percival, are made by Capt. Edwards, Of the
ship London, which was rocked at Oahu,
whose cargo Lieut.. Percival assisted in saw
ing, and by the Prudential Committee of the
Board of Foreign Missions.
FIRES. AT Swanzey, N. H. on Monday
sennight the lightning struck building oc-
cupied by Lyman Parker and brothers, as
grist-mill and .carding machine, which was
entirely consumed, together with a large
quantity of lumber. The loss amounts to
$2000-In Portland, on Tuesday evening
last, about ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the
shoe-store Of James Kendall, No. 2, Mus
sey's row. All the stock within, consisting
Of boots and shoes, was entirely destroyed,
to the amount of $4,000, of which $4,000 was
insured.-The dwelling house and barn of
Mr.. Joseph Young, in Barnstead, N. H. were
destroyed by fire on the afternoon of the LIST
inst. together with nearly all their contents.
The steamboat Florida was lately burned
upon the Alabama river, and property a.
mounting to between ninety and hundred
thousand dollars lost.
A quarry of excellent Soap Stone has
lately been discovered in Groton.
A violent gust of wind, attended with a
very heavy rain, was experienced at Wash
ington on Saturday night last. Its duration
was about five minutes, but several china
neys were blown down, much glass broken,
&c. The brick wall round Mr.. Secretary
Rush's house was blown down.
Five tons of Maple Sugar have been made
the present season in the town of Lyndon,
Vermont, beyond what is sufficient for the
consumption of the inhabitants of the town.
The Philadelphia papers mention that
Green Peas were served up last week at the
table of the National Hotel in that city.
EXTRAORDINARY CALF. A gentleman of
RowIey, informed us yesterday, that Mr..
Fitch Weston, of that town, has Cow about
6 years old, of common size, which pro-
duced Calf few days since, which weigh
ed 2ne hundred and ticenty pounds !!
Ipsicich Journal.
A Rock Fish, alias Streaked Bass, weigh
inc one hundred and ten pounds, was caught
in the river Delaware, opposite Billingsport.
N. ], on the Goth ult