Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-10-07

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VARD."-Centinel.
The annual Law term of the S. J. Court
Ior worcester County, commenced at Wor-
cester Sept. Both. Present-Chief Justice
Parker, and Justices Putnam, Wilde, and
morton. Inc business of the term will
probably be confined to the hearing and de-
cision OF law questions, and to the criminal
docket which is small.
A POLITICAL CoxcoMB. A Mr.. p A
Brown offers himself a candidate for Con
gress in the U. S. Philadelphia Gazette. and
has published letter to his competitor. Mr..
Sutherland, proposing that they meet at
some time and place to be agreed upon and
discuss before the electors their relative
qualifications &c. for seat in Congress
SECULAR Discovery. Mr.. Horton, cen.
tleman who has been engaged in boring for
water in Providence, has presented to the
publlck some remarkable results. In his
second experiment IN boring, he selected
the extreme point of wharf, many Yards
from the original land. He bored through
the artificial soil, then through a stratum of
mud, then through bog meadow, containing
good peat, then through sand, pebbles, and
quartz gravel. At this point water, impreg-
mated with copperas and arsenick, broke
forth but, determining to proceed farther,
Mr.. Horton next struck vineyard and drew
up vines, grapes, grape seeds, leaves, acorns.
hazel-nuts, pine burs and the seeds of un-
known fruits, together with pure water.
This was thirty-fve feet below the bed of
the river Pa uadium.
A lady had Cashmere shawl stolen from
her shoulders, in market in New York.
early on Saturday evening last.
PRINTED VoTEs. The Electoral law
permits the use of printed votes in the ap-
preaching choice of Presidential Electors
A meeting of the friends of Gen. Jackson,
in Boston, has recommended DR.. VIM In
gals as their candidate for Congress in Suf-
folk District.
NEw-YoRK, SEPT. 80. The whole of the
extensive stock of Groceries, of Messrs. C.
& L. Denison, supposed to be worth 60 to
10000 dollars, was destroyed by fire this
morning. 1t is said they were insured to
nearly the whole amount. There is little
doubt the fire was the work of incendiaries.
A large Tannery at Catskill, owned by
Mr.. Smedberg and others, of this city, has
been destroyed by fire. There is insurance
in the city to the amount of about $4,000.
SICKNESS. Publick prayers were offered
in some of our Churches last Sabbath, for
the sick in the towns and villages adjacent
to New-York. From the statements that
we hear, there must be great deal of dis
tress in the country at the present moment.
DR.. Spring mentioned from his pulpit, that
in large church and congregation in this
vicinity, such was the prevalence of disease
that but eighteen persons were able to at
tend church on the preceding Sabbath. The
Rev. gentleman also stated, that in many
places there are not well people enough to
take care of the sick. Last year there was
more sickness than usual in the neighbour
hood of this city; but we believe the dis
tress the present season is without paral-
lei. Meantime it should be cause of fer
want gratitude to Providence, that this city
has been blessed with an uninterrupted
measure of health. Indeed, we are inform
ed that the old order of things has so far
been reversed, that the sick from the coun-
try have been brought into town, while
many people have also made temporary re-
movals to the city, to avoid the wasting sick
ness.-M Y. Com. .4dv.
| COUNTERFEIT MONEY. Five persons are
now in Bridewell, who were recently arrest
ed for having passed forged notes of the
Massachusetts Bank. One of them named
Merritt, is an old offender. and is believed to
have been an extensive dealer in five dollar
counterfeit notes on the Mechanics Bank.
A female is implicated, and from her gener-
al conduct and department, we should con-
ceive her entitled to move in highly res
pectable sphere of society. She has hither-
to refused to give any account ofherself, but
appears very melancholy and exceedingly
reserved to the attendants of the prison.
yNe,O- York Journal Of Commerce.
Wheat sold in Rochester market at 81 50
per bushel, nearly double the average price.
1t is said that westward, on the ridge, not
more than half the usual quantity of grain
will be sown this fall. This arises from the
great sickness along the margin of the
lakes.
There were SO offences committed last
week, in Philadelphia, by 81 delinquents.
There were 81 complaints of intoXication,
10 of disorderly conduct, and % Migrants.
The Aurora Borealis, in broad, brilliant,
and extensive sheet of light, made its ap-
pearance again on Tuesday evening, and
continued till midnight.
CAPT MORGAN. We should not mention
the name of this Individual had we not been
informed yesterday, by gentleman entitled
to the most entire confidence, that Capt.
Waterman, of Duxbury, gentleman of I'M
doubted responsibility and veracity, who
commanded the brig Herald, in her last voy-
age from Boston to Smyrna, is fully convinc-
ed, in his own mind, that he carried William
MORGAN as a passenger. The gentleman