The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-10-08

30 licensed smelters in the mines at Fever Riy-
er, one of whom has made, within the last
year, two millions pounds of lead. The mines
are very productive, new veins are constantly
opening, and the miners, generally, make
their settlements permanent The price cur
rent of Aug. 16, sets down the price OF lead at
the mines at 1926 per 10Olbs
| An elegant race-boat of extraordinary swift
/ ness, has recently been built in Boston 1t is
70 feet long, and weighs only 40 lbs. Four
pilots on Friday rowed her two miles in seven
minutes. She is to be sent to Canton for the
! amusement of the Americans resident there.
Mr.. Samuel Cole of Westport, IN Y } while
driving his team, the week before last, fell from
it and was crushed to death under the wheels
The unfortunate was habitually ntemper-
ate, and is believed to have been intoxicated
when he was suddenly summoned into eter-
nifty: lie has lett large and dependent family.
The London papers give account of a
grand fancy ball lately given in London, by the
Warehouses of Londonderry. The cost of the
ornaments which decorated her ladyships per-
son, is said to have exceeded 100000! And
the dresses of many other ladies of the party
were proportionably rich. The ball was attend
ed by about 600 of the nobility of London, and
( the dancing was kept up till near o'clock in
| the morning.
| Connecticut law imposes fine or penalty
! OF hive dollars upon any person who refuses to
be vaclnated, without excepting those who have
previously had the kline or small pox
.NOracick Courier.
! WITcHcRAFT. few days since an old ne
gress was solemnly examined before magis-
| trate in Baltimore, on a charge of Wi.chcraft.
She was charged by another old woman of
having blighted her fruit and vegetables, and
of laying salt in her road to market The
magistrate seemed to credit the charge, but
was not so much of an old woman as TO commit
! her.
! George E. Manson has been appointed Post
master at Feltonsvie, Marlborough, vice Sias
FELTON,, Esq, deceased.
The interesting geographical fact is stated
in the Ravenna (Oho) Courier that of the wa
ter which falls on the village plot, part runs
into the Ohio river by the Mahoninp and
thence into the Gulf of Mexico, while the 9TH
er part is conveyed into Lake Erie by the Cay
ahoga, and thence into the Gulf of ST Law
renee; and that this extraordinary circum-
stance makes the belfIey of the Court House
dividing point of altitude between the great
CULTS of Mexico and St Lawrence
The Bellows Falls (Vt.) Intelligencer saws,
the season for reviews and squashes-knap-
sacks and ragged breeches-bayonets and tod
dy sticks-has arrived"
tits said that lady of Philadelphia, lately de-
! ceased, has left legacy to the American Sun
At the late show of Manufacturers at West
Newbury, Mr.. Moses Little of West Newbury,
exhibited the produce of one potato, planted in
May last, viz: 760 in number weighing 24I lbs,
and measureng l bushel: 10 of them weighed
II pounds.
| FARMERS TRAININGS. An Eastern paper
calls cattle shows and fairs, Farmers Trainings.
Attended, as they have already been, with many
benefits to the agricultural interest, these peri
odical assemblages might well be substituted
! for the useless and injurious militia musters,
which now hold out so many temptations TO ir-
! regularity and vice.
! BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. The work upon
this structure is now suspended The appara-
tus for hosting has been taken down, the work
! shops closed, and the monumen: covered with
a roof so it is probable nothing further will be
done upon it until next spring, at least.
UNRIvALLED TRIP. The steam boat North
America, Capt. Cochrane, arrived in Albany
! Thursday afternoon at 30 minutes past 5, hav-
| ing made the passage from New York in ten
hours and 80 minutes Distance $50 miles.
CIDER. We learn that very small quantity
ofcider will be made in this vicinity the present
season, Fruit of every description is scarce,
nearly in the proportion that the other common
products of the climate, are abundant
| Taunton Reporter.
! The ship Demo of Nantucket, whose fate has
| long been involved in uncertainty, was lost on
reef, near the Feege Islands, the 18th of
/ April, 1925 The crew landed, and were we'll
! treated by the natives for two weeks, when ma
/ tives from other islands arrived and murdered
all the crew except one individual, WIN. S. Ca
! ry, who escaped.
! The AFRICAN PRINCE, whose case has excit-
ed so much interest, is now in Hartford, pro-
curing donations to enable him to purchase his
| children out of bondage. He has five children
! who are slaves, besides his wife. The price
agreed on beforehand for their liberation, will
amount for the whole to about $4,000, of which
sum he has raised about $1,000 While in this
| town he collected $l56 from the charities of
many of our most respectable citizens. In New
Bedford the sum of 1852 was given by beneyo-
! lent ndividuals-Pr0oidence .4meriCaR.
! Providence. At town meeting in Provi-
dence on Wednesday last, the draft of city
charter reported by committee, appointed at
a former meeting, was discussed at considerable
length. The subject was finally postponed for
further consideration at the April meeting, and
the draft was recommitted to the same commit
tee. This vote was supported by the friends of
the charter, and was carried by a majority of
| 100 votes-l47 to AZ.
! The Palladium states, that " the patriarch of
J physicians, DR.. Holyoke of Salem, now in the
! l0lst year of his age, visited the Boston Athe-
neum on Wednesday last, walked through the
numerous apartments, examined, with interest,
the books, drawing, casts, models &c, and was
scarcely seated a moment during long at
tendance"
CuRIoUs WILL. A gentleman in Yorkshire
who died some time, ago, left the whole of his
property to such of his descendants only as
should reach the height of sir feet four inches
GLoRIous DEsPorIsM. In Egypt, in the
| month of May, FIVE hundred men, OF town in
the interior, destroyed, each, an eye, in order
to be exempt from marching with the new mil
itary leves. The Viceroy caused them to be
dscimated, and those who were not executed
were sent to the galleys in the port of Alexan-
| dria.