The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-05-07

WEIGHT OF CATTLE. In She Picture of Lon
don, for the present year, it is stated, that
about the year 100, the average weight OF
oxen killed for the London market was $40
pounds; of calves, so pounds; of sheen. %
pounds; and of lambs, is pounds. The aver
age weight at present is-of oxen, 500 pounds
caves l40 pounds sheep, 80 pounds and
| lambs, 80 pounds. The whole value of butch
er's meat, as sold in Smithfeld, near London. is
about eight millions sterling.
STRAW PAPER. A mill has been established
near Meadville, Penn. for the manufacture of
paper from Dat Straw. The experiment was
hrst tried in Europe, we believe. we have
seen small printed book, made of such paper.
An English gentleman of the name of Sharp.
undertook, few years ago, to manufacture pa
per from wood siiavngs few samples were
distributed among his friends, and one of them
was sent to Boston.-Salen Obserper
The expenditures of the city of Boston for
the current year are estimated at $685., 000.-
me sum appropriated for public schools is
$o3,OoO paving, repairing and widening streets
5o,0OO salaries of officers % 600 fire depart
ment l4,OO0 lamps, oil, &c. 10000; paupers
and house of industry 10000; county charges
81 500
GALvANIsM. In London, the faculty are be-
ginning to employ galvanism as a remedy
against that uncomfortable disorder, dyspepsia.
nervousness, Indigestion paralysis, St. Vitus's
dance, dropsy, lethargy, govt, asthma, are all
made to yield to this powerful remedy; and
multitude OF certificates, from ladies and rem
tlemen OF every age and constitution are piy-
en-, to attest It's efficacy. 1t is at least plausi-
bic, and probably harmless experiment.
Yesterday and the three or four days pre-
ceedIng were unusually cold. The thermome-
ter must have been very near zero, as it was %
Delow 1reezlng point, sometime after sunrise
80 severe had been the frost that the snow on
Saturday and yesterday bore the horses and
carloes the whole day, and travellers took the
shortest cut with their carriages over the fields
making the country one wide highway
Quebec paper, Aprd IA.
SHEEP. 5 w. Pomeroy, Esq of Brighton,
an experienced and intelligent agriculturist
IN letter to the editor of the American Farmer.
says, it has been estimated, by competent iudg.
es, that within the last four or five years, half
million OF native sheep and lambs have been
sold at Brighton, and that great portion of
those that came in autumn, and in the early |
part of winter, at prices little above the val
ne of their pelts. He adds, it is an unquestion-
able fact, that drover has been known to start
from Vermont for Brighton with flock of ma
tive sheep and drove of swne-and to slaugll-I
ter the sheep to fatten his hogs on the road, |
throwing their pelts into his wagon TO sell on
his arrival HampShire Gazette \
The Niagara Bank, at Buffalo has failed. and
the bills are said to be good for nothing. This
Is the third time this bank has stopped payment |
COUNTERFEIT NoTEs on the"U. S. Bank of
$50, payable at Norfolk to the order of Luke |
Wheeler, are in circulation. They are dated
Oct l9, 1924, letter S. No. 1913, and are well
executed.
The Ladies ofPawtucket have made $50 gar
ments to clothe the Greeks The Ladies at the
Valley Falls, near Pawtucket, have made two
HraA ! r
pose. More than two thousand garments have |
also recently been made by the ladies' of Provi-
dence for the Greeks
The rated Polls in Boston are 12445-which
give right to 81 Representatives. The city
council have fixed upon 40 as the number to be |
elected this year.
ANOTHER NEWSPAPER. We have received a
new paper called the Juvenile Gazette, printed
at Providence, with the request to exchange
We find upon measurement, that this paper Is (
utvut o tnUtIes fong and 3 inches wide, very de- +
cldedly the smallest newspaper IN the world. |
Ii is edited with ability, but without much la ,
Dor, and is published by O. Kindal, ir Market
square-price taoenty fire cents per annum |
payable quarterly IN Gdrance.-E. Y. Enquirer |
JOHN RANDOLPH has been attacked. with !
and having obtained leave of ad- +
sence, has left Washington for Roanoke on
gallop. He was seen on his departure, mount |
Gu on me grey, ana trottng at the rate OF III
or II miles an hour. His man Juba, followed
him in gig with the baggage.
One Benjamin Frankln-a practical Turk. by
all accounts, having married Sir aoi0eS in one
year in Ohio has been convicted in the Oyer
and Terminer of Genesee county, n Y. for pass
ing counterfeit money and attempting to burn
the jail Instead of the state prison for ten years
he should be sentenced to pass that space under
the same roof with his half-doz of wives
NathGnie! Macon, of North Carolina, has been
in Congress 81 years He is now in the senate
The cut, fashion and manner of his dress are
the same now as they were in 1871, and some
OF his present apparel has been worn ever since
that year.
% The Rev. Mr.. Whttemore of Cambridge
port, will preach at Boylston, next Sabbath, 1Ith
instant.-Three discourses Navy.