Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-01-20

cent improvements which have removed
from our city the stigma that used formerly
to be attached to it, of narrow streets and
crooked passages, we have seen no publick
notice OF a new and beautiful court which
has just been completed, in the rear Of the
large fremont House. One side of this
court is partly formed by projection from
the main body of the Hotel itself, and on the
other, there are six very elegant dwelling
houses of uniform appearance which have
just been completed. As this court is open
Tor the admission of light and air at both
ends looking into Beacon-street and the
Granary Burying Ground -yet communicate
ing with publick passage only at one ex
tremlty, we think it will be considered one
OF the most desirable situations for a resi-
dence, In the neighbourhood of Cornhill and
4 che business part of the town.
/ Boston Daily advertiser.
On the Sd inst. the dwelling house of
Mr. Conrad, in Cooperstown, N. Y. was
destroyed by fire, with all the furniture.
A young man, TO save two of his sisters,
rushed through the flames to the second
story, where they were in their midnight
slumbers, took the bed from under them,
land throwing it out of the window to the
ground, threw them upon it, and made
bus escape by jumping from the window
on the same. lie was most shockingly
burnt in making his way TO the chamber.
Mr.. Conrad, fingered about the fire SO
long, and was so badly frozen, that it is
feared he will loose his legs to the knee
Joint. The loss of property is estimated
at between two and three thousand dol
lars.
/ There are now in operation--to say Moth
ing OF those in the progress Of erection
thirteen -four mills in Rochester, N. Y. with
in the compass of two miles, containing in
all ffy-seven runs Of stome-each stone ca
) pable of making six thousand barrels offlour
per annum--in all three hundred and forty
two thousand barrels: for which, at five and
a half bushels to the barrel-the usual guam
tity-are required one million eight hundred
andNeighty one thousand bushels of wheat.
i Ado. and Tel.
4 The legislature of Maine convened on
Wednesday last and proceeded to the or
ganization of the government for the cur
rent year. In the Senate Nathan Cutler
was chosen President, and Ebenezer Hutch
inson, Secretary. In the House of Repre-
sentatives, George Evans was chosen Speak
er. Obadiah Hill was chosen, in the con-
: vention Of both branches, to fill the vacancy
of Senator from the county of Washington.
SPEED OF PIGEoNs. In the neighbour
hood of New York, pigeons have been killed
with their crops filled with rice, collected by
them in the fields of Georgia and Carolina,
the nearest points at which this supply
could possibly have been obtained; and it
is well assertained, that owing to their great
tpower of digestion, they will decomposc
food entirely in twelve hours; they must
have travelled between 300 and 400 miles
in six hours; making their speed at an aver
y age of about one mile a minute.
!. ANEcDoTE. We might doubt the truth
of the anecdote we are about to relate had
: we not received it from an English gentle
; man who is not particularly fond of laugh
at the expense of his countrymen. The
packet Algonquin, of this port, was visited,
at Liverpool, not long since, by Mr.. Secreta-
ry Peel, attended by the chief municipal Off
, Ger of the borough, who had volunteered to
, show the lions. 1t need not be said that
these gentlemen were received with all pos
; sible civility; in return for which. his wor-
!, ship the Mayor, when about leave, offered
, the captain sovereign. He declined it
, with the utmost politeness, observing that
an American could not accept SOVEREIGN
! under any circumstances.-PhI Chron.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. At the late
f meeting of the Board of Overseers of Har-
ward University in the Senate Chamber,
: YESTERDAY, the Hon. Josiah Quincy, late
) Mayor of this city, was nominated President
: of the Institution. According to the exist
ing laws of the College, some little delay,
we understand, must take place before the
]; nomination can be confrmed.-.9m. IraU.
The Silk Factory, in Lisbon, Connecticut
owned and occupied by Messrs. z. P. and
]. Bottum, took fire on the nrght of the LIST
inst. and was entirely consumed. A small
part only was insured, and the loss to the
owners will greatly retard, if not entirely
break up, their labours in this new and inter-
: esting branch of manufactures. This was
the only silk factory in New England,
\ We understand that the Merrimack Man
ufacturing Company have determined to
erect another mill on the site occupied by
1.-THE one that was destroyed by fire last
week. The mill will be erected as early in
the Spring as possible. The requisite ma
chiusFy is already contracted for, and the
intention is to have the whole in operation
as early as next October.-Lo,ceH Journal
A hog weighing So pounds was put upon
the table at the Jackson Dinner in New
York. No one being disposed to " go the
whole hog !, :" it was sent the next day, UNI
touched, to the inmates of the Debtors pris-
on and gratefully received.
The editor of the " American Farmer"
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