The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-09-17

ana IN some places nine or ten feet. Most
OF the crops remained Under water from "a
to AZ hours, some of them three days, and
some are still covered, TUESDAY morning.)
1t is calculated that from 10 to 1900 acres
of corn and potatoes were flooded, and about
half as many acres of rowen. 1t is gener-
ally believed that nine tenths of the potatoes,
perhaps $4,000 bushels, are enti,e ely spoiled.
All the Indian corn, perhaps 10000 bushels,
is more or less injured, and we shall not be
surprised, if the value of the whole is re-
duced more than one half by this calamity.
! The grass is of no value except as manure
for another crop.
In South Hadley, bridge on Bachelors
brook, and another south of the meeting
house were carried off. At the canal 20 or
30 tierces of salt were swept from the bank
into the river.
In Amherst, according to the opinion of
judicious men, $4,000 would not repair the
bridges and roads. Lcverett has also suf-
fered severely.
The Hartford Courant says, the river con-
tlnued to rise until Sunday noon, when it
came to stand at % feet above low water
mark. 1t has not been so high since the
great spring freshet in 1901, when it was
70 feet above low water mark. So great
! flood occasloned by a rain is not recollected
by our oldest inhabitants. The surface of
the river opposite this place, OH Saturday
morning, was, for several hours, literally
covered with fragments of bridges, lumber.
&C., which came down from above. Nine
head of cattle also passed down in the cur
/ rent. Pennington canal has also sustained
a considerable injury. The culvert at Gran
by, which was carried off last summer and
rebuilt, IS again swept away, and the en-
bankments in different sections have not
escaped without some damage.
The .Ne,g HaUen Herald saws, small
bridge between Watertown and Waterbury
was carried away-also the sluiceway to
the button factory at Salem bridge, where
a thousand loads of earth were removed.
Mr.. A. Goodyear of Waterbury, lost about
30 fine Merino sheep, Mr.. ]. Buckingham,
between 20 ands30, and several other gen
tlemen more or less. All the intervale on
the Housatonic was overfowed, to the great
injury of the grass and late crops.
The rain guage at Yale College indicat-
ed that eight inches of rain fell from Mon
day night to Thursday night; the greatest
quantity ever known to have fallen there in
so short time.
I SINGULAR. A circumstance occurred in
this village during the late freshet which
may be worth mentioning. A family living
on the lower street, near the brook, have
been in the practice of suffering little
chill to lodge iii cradle, near the bed of
I its parents. On Friday morning, when the
father awoke from his sleep, the first object
that caught his eye, and the first notice that
ne had of the fearful deluge which sur
rounded him, was this child unconsciouslv
circumnavigating the room, upborne by the
swelling waters, which during the night
had entered his tenement and transformed
it into mimic ocean. We are happy to
add that the health of the infant navigator
is not at all impaired by the voyage.
BrGttLe5oro' Messenger.
! BowDorN COLLEGE. The Commence
ment of Bowdoin College was on the Sd
inst. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was
conferred in course on nineteen gentlemen,
and one out of course that of Master of
Arts on seventeen. Twenty-three gentle
men received the degree of M. D. The
honorary degree of A. NJ. was conferred on
DIR. Henry B. c. Greene of Saco that of
ID. D. on the Rev. Nathan Lord of Amherst,
| IN. H. and that of LII. d. on Hon. Ste
phen Longfellow of Portland.
Bowdoin College is said to be in very
prosperous condition, and it promises to be-
come still more so.
BRowN UNIVERSITY. The Providence
papers announce the following changes in
the Government of Brown Universitv:-
Rev. Alexis Caswel, formerly Professor in
the Columbian College, Washington, to be
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Phi
losophy, vice Alva Woods, appointed Presi-
dent of Pennsylvania University-Messrs.
John Wayland and John HI. Weeden, Tu-
tors, vice Messrs. Clare and Keely, resign
ed. Messrs. Wayland and Weeden are re-
cent graduates, the former of Union, the
latter of the Institution, of which we doubt
not he will become an efficient and popular
ofIicer.-JNe,c Bedford Mercury.
| CAPT. CLAPPERToN's JOURNALS. 1t is
said in the London Quarterly Review, for
! July, that the whole of this enterprising and
unfortunate travellers journals were saved
and brought back by his servant, and that
| they are now in the course of publication.
! They contain a minute and interesting ac-
count of his journey from Badagry to Soc
catoo, by the route across the Kong noun
| tains, through Katunga, Wawa, Berghoo,
Boossa,--wherePark was wrecked or drown
ed,-Nyfe, or Noofe, YOUR, and Kano, in
the course of which the geographical posi-
ton of several hundred cities, towns and viii
lagos, has been ascertained by observations
of their latitude and longitude thus COM
pleting the geography of the central pant of
Africa, from Trpoii to the hight of Benin.
.Ne,c York EUening Post.
| CUMBERLAND AND OXFORD CANAL
The whole of this canal is now under con-
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