The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
/ Rich MINES. 1t is given in the papers of
the day, as matter worthy of notice, that gold
to the value of ten thousand dollars, has been
| taken out of the mines in one county, in North
| Carolina, since September last. During the
same period, there was taken out of the mines
in one county, in Pennsylvania, gold (or what
is the same thing, that which produced gold)
to the value of upwards of hundred thousand
dollars. We allude to the coal taken out of the
Schuylkill coal PHILADELPHIA aurora.
The FARmINGToN CANAL. On Friday, the
2Oth ult. the first canal boat, named James Hill
house, was launched at Farming ton, Comm
on the canal at that place, under a salute of ar.
tillery, with band of music, &c. party of
two hundred ladies and gentlemen embarked on
board, and were drawn by team of four dec
GRATED greys few miles on the new channel
opened to commerce in that direction
The Paris West Tennessean advertses the
lands ordered to be sold for taxes. Attached to
the description Of the respective tracts are re-
marks similar to the following Z" TareS, eigh-
| ty-seoen and half cents; clerks fee, four dol
lars twenty-five cents; sheriff's fee, three dol
lars; printers fee, four dollars" Here are
eleven dollars and twenty cents to be paid for
the collection of 871 cents
has had occasion to sink through the snbstra-
tum on the shore at Liverpool, in several pac-
es, where ne has not only met with the clearest
evidence of ploughed fields, forests, boys, &C.
beneath the surface of the water, but that the
sea has also invaded the territories of the dead
as we'll as the living. A graveyard, if not
church yard, has been discovered about $50 or
200 yards below the flow of the tide, nearly op-
poslte the Mockbeggar Lighthouse
| Cool THRoAT-cUTTING. On the representa-
ton of the Marriage de Figaro at the Cassel
Theatre, on the I'd of March, NJ Piston, who
had assumed the part of Hartolo, varied the ac-
customed action of the piece by cutting his
throat with razor, while standing before
glass, without evincing any extraordinary pre-
vious emotion to lead to a suspicion of his in
tentlon. The performance suffered not the
| slightest interruption, as another actor imme-
dately took the part and at the end of the
piece apoogzed for M. Pistor's absence, he
having killed himself Foreign paper.
The suicides in Paris, France, during the last
year are stated 1865, of which 9l3 were occa-
stoned by gaming
Notes Of the Eagle Bank, with the word
eagle" extracted, so as to read Bank of
New Haven, are in circulation
The Hon. Albion K Paris, Senator in Con-
gress, has been appointed Judge of the Su-
preme Judicial Court of Maine, in the place of
Judge Preble, who is appointeda Commissioner
for settling the northeastern boundary.
We find an advertisement in Paris paper,
seeking husband for a maiden of 10, with an
agreeable face and 1000 francs and one in
a New York Journal calling for competent
person to deliver a fourth of July grafton, at
one of the most respectable establishments in
that city. Applicants it may be presumed, have
not been scarce in either case.-PhI ChroR
BUTTER IN WEEK. Mr.. James Smith, of
Whately, made from the milk given by one COW,
in week, LII pounds of butter, after using
what milk was wanted in his family Pow
ell, a celebrated agrculturst, in Pennsylvania,
will beat us all in New England 1t is stated
that he makes from small COW upwards of 90
pounds of butter week. The celebrated
Cakes COW owned in Danvers, in this state,
produced from 16 to 10 pounds of butter per
week though the months of June and July and
in months 484 pounds.-Hamp. Gaz.
TwENTY-sxTH OF JUNE. Among many peo-
pie in Saco, Maine, a supersttious Eotion pre-
walls that the waters of the ocean possess some
mysterious virtue on the 26th Of June, and the
Saco Palladium states that on that day the
beach becomes like the pool of Bethesda
thronged with invalids Of all ages and complex.
ions. The custom is said to have its origin
from the circumstance of an Indian woman hay
ing directed mother to dip her sick child into
the water on that day, which effected its recov-
cry. A superstition of this character may be
harmless but it would be better that these peo-
pie should look upon sudden plunge into the
! salt water as beneficial to them, than to sup.
pose that any particular day exertcd an uncom.
mon influence.
FROG VOMITING. Ellen Aston, aged eigh-
teen years, residing in the neighborhood oil
Chorley, after being much convulsed vomited
on the 23d Of February last (having previous.
ly said she had something alive in her stom-
ach,) large sized frog, which lived about three
hours. In three or four days afterwards, she
threw up second, which, from its appearance
must have been dead several hours, as the body
had partly bcen decomposed, by the action Of
the gastric juice. The girl had been in the
habit OF drinking from rivulets, pools, &c, and
sleeping on the ground. A few years since
she threw from her stomach living animal
with four legs. She now enjoys good health
Orator Emmons proposes delivering an Ora
ton and Poem at the Masonic Hall in New
York, on the 4th of July, at 8 o'clock in the
morning. The price of tickets of admission
with copy of the GRAFTON and poem, will be %
cents.
I Gen. Porter took tho oath Of Office and enter
ed upon his duties as Secretary Of War, on Sat
urday, the 2lst inst
EXETER BANK RoBBERs. Two Of the fam
lily of Briggs were apprehended in Newport or
Wednesday last, or suspicion of being con
cerncd in the robbery of the Exeter Bank. Or
examination a large number Of the Exeter Bills
were found upon them. A messenger was des
patched for further information, and the Briggs't
Vwn IL.