The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-04-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

nam w. farrott, John Merrill, Amos Spauld-
ing, Joseph E. Sprague, James Fl. Duncan, and
William Thorndike observation-disclosures John
w. Lincoln, Edmund Cushing, Joseph Davis,
and Joseph Estabrook-one vacancy. Middle
se1-Probably, Messrs Reyes, Varnum, Lewis,
fiske, and Jarvis. ampShire-Lewis Strong
one vacancy. Hampden-Messrs. Samuel
Lathrop, and James Fowler. Plymouth
Messrs. Seth Sprague, and Josiah Robbins.
.Norfolk-Mr Webb--two vacancies, probably.
BarnstaJlc-Elisha Pope, Esq.
County COMMISSIONERS Jared Weed. Aaron
Tufts, William Eaton, and Edmund Cushing.
have been appointed County Commissioners
for the County of Worcester.
The publishers of the Stage Register. Boston.
request the proprietors and agents of Steam
Boats, Stages and Canal Packets. to transmit
to them Immediately any information relating
to their several lines not contained in the last
number AS the number for May is in course
OF speedy preparation, any notice intended for
ITS pages must be received by Monday, 28th
INST As no charge is made for inserting No.
tees, 1t IS expected that all communications
will be Postpaid.
young lady i'll England lately poisoned
herself because a certain gentleman did not in
yite her to dance with him at an evening party.
INCREASE OF Books. The great number of
books, now extant, renders it difficult for us to
believe that at the commencement of the wear
800, the whole library of the University of OK
ford consisted OF few tracts, which were chain
ed or kept in chests. That in I47l, Louis the
eleventh, king of France, having an occasion to
consult medical work, belonging to the Facul-
ty OF Medicine at Paris, was required, not only
to pledge valuable service of plate, but to give
bond with a nobleman, as surety, for the safe
return of the book .-SaIem Observer
Mimic GoLD. A gentleman has invented a
new metallic compound, which he calls Artilno-
nance, resembling gold in color and weight,
as gold OF ~ carats, can be made like that Of "a
At mandatory of it established at Bologna
buttons are made of it at very cheap rate, and
when new they resemble the most highly gilt
buttons The Artimomanco is soft, and bends,
and has great superiority to other gold color
ed metals in not furnishing.
A salmon trout weighing IS lbs. was caught
in Schoodic Lake, near Bangor, Me- few
weeks since.
COMMERCE OF BosToN. We understand the
revenue on foreign merchandise, imported into
this place. during the last twenty days, is more
than one half q million Of dollars; the duties
on the ship Ciematis, Capt Low, from Havre,
were $50, 000-BOston paper.
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE A bill is before
the Senate to facilitate the construction Of
Kan Road from Boston TO the Hudson river. II
provides for the appointment of Commissioners
to explore and make surveys of the Counties,
and to confer with the Commissioners of Massu-
chusetts, and report to the next Legislature.
The ladies of Boston have lately collected
sum OF money exceeding two thousand dollars
for the benefit of the Greeks.
The ladiesof Norwich, Con have forwarded
to the Greek Committee in New York upwards
OF 1000 garments for the suffering Greeks.
The Albany Greek Committee has made re-
turn of money and goods collected in that city,
and various parts of the State, of $4,000!
BETTING. A case has recently been tried in
Providence, and decided in favor of the plaintiff
who claimed the payment of wager, $50,
which had been refused by defendant on the
ground of the illegality of the considerations
The parties in the case were Martin Stoddard
and Hon. Wheeler Martin.
A farmer in Solebury township, Bucks county,
Penn. raised the last season on twelve acres OF
land-forty-s51 and ha!f bushels Of good clean
Ct0Uer seed.
INSTALLED, in Boston, on Thursday last, as
pastor of Pine Street, Church, in that city, the
Rev. Thomas I'll. Skinner, ID. d. Sermon by
Rev. Edward Beecher, of Boston
The Church in Philadelphia, lately under the
pastoral care of Dr. Skinner above named, has
unanimously invited the Rev d. Beecher to be-
come their pastor
Richard Varick, Esq Of New York, has been
elected President of the American Bible Soce-
ty, vice John Jay, Esq resigned.
George r. Lee has been sentenced to hard
labor in the Pennsylvania state prison, for five
years and fined $500 for keeping bad house
in Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Gazette, published at Phil
adelphia, on the 9Th inst says, " that within the
ten last days, domestic goods have fallen from
10 to 10 per cent. and yarn has been reduced in
cost, cents per pound"
GAMBLING A magnificent roulette table
was brought into the police on Wednesday,
having been taken from low gambling and tip
ping house in Spring street, near the North
River The maker of the table was brought in
to the Office, and after much cross questioning.
stated that he had made at least dozen similar
tables within the last two years, and that they
were so constructed that the chances in favor
of the keepers were at least twenty-five or thir-
ty-three per cent.--NeW York Gazette
A letter from general Lafayette, dated Janua-
ry 10, to his friend Morgan Neville, Esq of
Ohio, mentions the intention of NJ. Perier, and
his wife, "a grand daughter of the generaD a
grandson, and the two boys of G.. w Lafayette
to visit the United States
FATAL ImpRuDENcE. A teamster, by the
name of Brant, of Parkman, (Ohio,) lately un-
dertook to load several barrels of salt into his
wagon, at Fairport, in order to exhibit his
strength. The consequence was that he died
in about thirty hours afterwards.
Lately, at Philadelphia. man who was in
poor health, was so affected at discovering a
boy committing robbery in his shop, that he
swooned, and expired
"A merchant in Boston advertises for sale, five
thousand tons OF ice, which he viii sell in large
quantities.
The London Quarterly Review, referring to
the present contest in the United States for the
office of President, says" There is no doubt
that the sober and richt- thinking part Of the