The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-01-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The new Mayor of Boston, Hon. IT. G. Otis
took the oaths of office on the 5th inst. in Fan,
Gu. Gun nan The addresses on the occasion by
the Boston papers. PO"'" u ~
ne whole number Of deaths in Boston the
iast year was 1888 81 were by intemnerance
IN Newburyport the deaths last wear were
"o9 Tn lSo; population upwards of 1000
ne number of deaths in Northampton last
year 10 Population about 1000.
FIRE. fire broke out in the DRIVING ITopse
OF the Factory of Messrs w. cd d. Farnnm.
m IN waterford village, (Mendon,) about clock.
tuesday, morning, 9th inst which was entirely
consumed with about 5000 pounds of Wool
Loss estimated at $4,000.
IRE. ATRIAL River, on Wednesday evening.
We 9TH inst a-dwelling house in the centre Of
hat village, took fire and was consumed. with
nearly half of the furniture. The house was
occupied by MIR. Samuel Chase and Mr.. P. Fl
Garie' whose sister, girl about I6 years of age.
was onrnt to death in the house. The unforiu
nate girl had been subject to fits, and was proba
bly, incapable of escaping from the effects of
right. Mr.. Earle's wife, who was confined to
her bed by sickness, was saved from the flames.
Loss estimated at $1,000, and no insurance.
he waterloo, IN. Y Observer states that
two young iadieS were recently committed to
the jail IN that village for the delicate crime of
horse stealing
The skeletons of race of pigmies have been
io"ho ~ ehnessee They are not pignes who
now inhabit that state if all accounts are true.
SEA SERPENT. An animal Of uncommon size
was found at Cape Cod, short time since.
The bony portion Of the upper Jaw and skull is
now IN the city of New York, and offered for
exhibition. The weight of this section of the
enormous skeleton is 1900 ponnds-the lenoth
10 feet-and the breadth from to eve to eve Z
feet As far as can be ascertained the length of
the enormous creature was Is feet II is a mat.
ter OF curious speculation, what was the true
character OF this oceanic production when alive
The proprietor considers it as some sort of Ba-
laena, or member of the sea serpent family.
.Ne,o YORK. Enquirer.
STUPENDOUs WORK OF ART. The canal tun-
mel under Standege, between Huddersfeld and
Manchester extends under ground upwards of
three miles and is two hundred and twenty
yards below the surface.
The Providence Journal states that a vein of
good coal was discovered in excavatino a well
few days since. at the depth of eleven feet from
the surface of the ground on a hill, only n few
hundred yards from the centre of the town of
Providence.
PAwN-BRoKERs. The extent to which this
business has been carried on in New York citv,
is, taking every thing into consideration, truly
appalling. 1t has been ascertained that there
is the sum of S540,000 annually advanced in
small sums, yielding an interest to the persons
taking the pledges of 23 per cent or Si35. 600
UNITED STATES BANK. Mr. Bidde has been
unanimously re elected President of the Bank
Of the United States. A dividend of three and
ana halt per cent. has been declared for the
last six months.
In Bolton. recently, an eagle weighing 10lbs.,
was caught in trap set for fox, by son of
MAJ. Barrett. The mate was caught on a sec
ond trial, and weighed l2lbs
CHEATING THE REvENUE. A man in the vi
entity of Northampton has been recently fined
ten dollars for two violations of that law which
prohibits the writing any newspaper or mag.
azine transported in the mail
The Lowell Journal contradicts the report of
the failure Of the bank in that town. 1t is
fully able to redeem lis bills
During the last year 157 persons belongino
to Nantucket. died 10 of them while abroad.
There were 81 over 20, and So under 10 years
of age.
Drowning AND ISToXICATIoN On the nipbt
of the LIST inst. two men who had been drinking
very freely in-South Boston, attempted to 90
home. One of them made out to find his board
ing house the hat and mttens of the other
being found near clay-pit which was filled
with water, hole was cut in the ice which had
formed over the pond, and his body fshed out
OH Saturday
John Gregor, Scotchman, and shoemaker.
about 35 years old, was taken up in the street
in Burlington, (Vt) on the morning OF the 3ls
ult. and died in a short time. Hc had been
intoxication. ne
DRrADFUL ACCIDENT. In Newmarket, Md
on Christmas night, some persons were anus
inc themselves with firing crackers in the store
of Mr.. Charles Smith, Jr one exploded in
cask Of gnnpowder, the house was blown up,
two persons killed and the recovery of another
considered doubtful. The owner alone escaped
unhurt.
Tho dwelling of Mr. Hisbv, near Perth,
(Canada) was burnt on the night of the 9th ult,
,cith his 'ofc and four children. The fire took
in straw bed, the smoke from which suffoeat-
ed them, and deprived them of motion. Mr..
HisbY was able to save himself and one child
only before tho flor fell in.-The barn of MIR
Lewis Arnold in Wilton, Comm was set on
fire on the night of the 9th ult and burnt with
two horses, some hay, &c. A person has been
committed for trial, charged with the crime
On the same night, the barn of Capt. Joseph
Adams, of Greens-arms was burnt with all its
contents A man named Barlow has been com
emitted for trial, also one Joseph Patterson, as
| an accessory
Nh Abner Rogers of Vincentown, On J)
with celebrated gun called "Queen Anne"
recently killed. three fine deer at single
shot. near Egg Harbor The deer advanced
abreast: two fell Immediately, and the third
ran 100 rods.
Hon. David Crockett, a member from Ten
nessee, who has been made the hero of most
laughable story, by waggish Kentucky edi-
tor, published in the last Spy,) has taken that
matter SO seriously to heart as to publish GER
ti6cates of his conduct on the occasion alluded
to- Mr.. Clark of Kentucky and Mr.. VerplanS
of New York. have both certified. that his con-
duct was 'smarked with the strictest proprie.
I ty."
A timber merchant at Weedsport, IN. "
alias pedlar of brooms, recommends his wares
as Jackson brooms, with raat hickory hand
les"
Ga board the ship Othello, at New YORK
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