The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

! There is church now building in Montreal,
Canada, which is $50 feet in length, $50 in
breadth, height to the caves 100 feet, with "a
towers, the two in front 240 feet high the pull
| pit window 60 feet by "a. The cost is estimat
ed at more than half million of dollars
! EXTRAORDINARY. Four months ago, u child
two years of age swallowed needle y inches
long. Yesterday morning the needle was TAX
en- out of the right side, Just above the hip,
where 1t had forced its way, and was considera-
/ bly, corroded. The child has, for the last three
months, taken medicine for the dropsy, her
body being much swelled.
| .Nc9o Orleans .4dcertiSer, FeG. %.
| BRoAD RIMMED WHEELS The Legislature
of Maine, at its last session, passed law au
thorlsng the assessors at the annual town
meetings i'll March or April, to abate three dol
lars of the highway tax of any inhabitant who
shall exhibit satisfactory evidence of his exclu-
sively using tile public roads, only such cart
wheels as have rims or feloes not less than
inches in width.
! EXPENsE OF COUNTING THE PEOPLE. In the
appropriation bill before the last Congress, the
sum allotted for covering the expenses inciden-
tai to taking the next census, is three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
I FREE SUFFRAGE. An effort is making in the
State Of Rhode Island to extend the right of
suffrage, (which is at present more limited than
in any other State, except Virginia, being con-
fined to treeholders and their oldest sons.
Thomas Chace has been fined So and costs
! in the Court Of Common Pleas now in session
at Taunton, for shooting pigeon belonging to
the complainant, and carrying it off. Either
pigeons or good feelings are scarce i'll Taunton.
NORTH CAROLINA Colo MINES At Col A.
F. CaldwelrS gold mine near Charlotte, IN. CO.
there has been about 10000 dws of gold found
in nine months preceding the first of December
last, which is worth $4,000. This is doing
we'll. North Carolina will enrich her inhabi-
tants with her mineral productions.
/ Y0rkrMe Pioneer.
| Jesse Briggs, who recently swindled several
people in Lancaster, has been arrested at
/ birmingham, and lodged in Concord Jail
The Boston Copper Company have recently
had Il set of bells cast, tuned by Mr. Goodrich,
organ builder. 1t is believed they are the first
ever cast in this country, and their weight is as
follows :-2572, 1853, 1880, 500, SOL, :}49, 339-
total 1872. The bells in Christs Church, in
, Salem street, imported in 1744, weigh 1915,
1888, 948, 1913, sig, 703, 622, 620-total 1912.
FATAL MISTAKE. Died, in this town, on
Sunday last, Jacob Mann, Esq, aged IS years.
In the morning MIR. NJ enjoyed his usual health,
(Which was remarkably good, for person of
his advanced age.) A short time, however, af-
ter the family had gone to church, he imagined
himself little unweil, and concluded to take a
portion of salts. Instead of taking salts, he
took, by mistake dose of Salt Petre, which
occasioned his death in less than half an hour,
and before any medical aid could be procured.
Mr.. Mann was an old inhabitant of this town,
and was once Sheriff of the county.
Schoharie on. " Republican,
| A late number of the London Times was
printed on sheet of paper Of the most extraor-
binary dimensions being as large again as that
on which the Spy is printed, and containing s
pages and AZ columns This is to avoid the
stamp duty, which is charged on a supplement
printed separately, though that supplement is
presented gratuitously to the subscribers. The
number of advertisements in this gigantic sheet
was upwards of 900.
/ The Town House in the north part Of Will
| Jamestown, was burnt down, on the night of the
22d ult From its proximity to the Meeting
House, and several dwelling houses, fears were
for time, entertained off extensive confagra-
ton. There is no doubt but it was fired BY
some villanous incendary for whose detection,
the selectmen of the town have promptly offer
ed reward of $50.
Several flies in Philadelphia, which were
taken out of bottle of alcohol, apparently dead,
revived after being buried under heap of
warm wood ashes. 1t would do to try this
mode upon the first "two legged animal with
out feathers" who may be picked up apparently
dead, the steam from whose nostrils may indi-
cate the agency of alcohol in his downfall,
Boston Patriot