The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-12-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

In Leve'ett, on Monday evening, the 7th
inst, while Messrs. Justin Felt, Salmon Cutler,
Silas Ball Jr., and another young man were
engaged in hunting raccoons, they found four
on tree and shot three of them, the other
attempting to escape, was pursued to the de-
clivity of ledge of rocks where Mr.. Felt, ad-
vancing near to the precpce, which was COW
cred with snow, slipped off and fell distance
of thirty feet, struck among the broken frag
ments of the rocks and was dashed to pieces.
His mangled body was found Immediately after
by his comrades Greenfield Gazette.
The General Council of the Cherokee Nation
of Indians, assembled at New Echota, on the
18th ult. The Message of the Principal Chief,
John Ross, relates mainly to the claims of the
nation to the territory they inhabt, to the right
ofa separate independent government, land to the
obligation of the United States to protect them
from the encroachments of the government of
Georgia. A resolution has been adopted, ap-
pointing delegation of five men to repair to
Washington, during the ensuing winter, &c for
the purpose of making known to the represen-
:atives of the United States, the feelings of the
nation on supjecrs which are or virat import
ance"
THE MAIL. The transportation of the mail
in coaches, at this time, amounts to 6,507 ,8lS
miles in one year and on the LIST of January
next, it will be increased TO 6,785,810 miles.
The whole yearly transportation of the mail, in
coaches, sulkies, and on horseback, amounts to
about i3; 100000 miles.
FIRE. Mr.. Oakham's hatter's shop, in Fitch
burg, was burnt on Saturday night, Dee. IL.
Loss, above insurance, about $3.50.
PAPER HANGINGs. negro named Thomas
Paper. and his son Ezra, were hung at Mounts
vile, Alabama, ON the Cd ult., for beating to
death the eldest child of grocer in that place.
John Pattison has been tried for keeping a
gambling Faro Table in Baltimore, found guilty
and sentenced to pay fine of $1,000, and be
imprisoned 80 days.
Ofthe pyramids Of Egypt the largest, that
of Cheops, is square, TAG feet, (near IA acres)
and its height 46l, being "a feet higher than
ST. Peters at Rome, and III feet higher than
st. PauI's. The quantity of stone which it con-
tains is estimated at six millions of tons, and
has been calculated by French engineer to
be sufficient to build wall round the whole of
France, ten feet high, and one foot broad.
LARGE PAPER At White Hall Mills, in
Derbyshire, sheet of paper was lately manu-
featured which measured 1890 feet in length,
feet in width, and would cover an acre and a
half of ground.-LondOn Imperial Magazine.
INpIvE OR SUccoRY SUBSTITUTE FOR Cor
FEE. A communication, made TO the London
Medico Botanical Society, states, that the root
of Indiye or Succory, roasted and reduced to a
powder, is an excellent substitute for tea OF
coffee. 1t is in general use in Russia. This
information is considered valuable in England
The alligators Of the river Orinoko have be
come incomparably more bold and ravenous
since the feast of human flesh with which the
were provided by the late wars in that quarter
Formerly, they would rarely attack man
now, it is extremely dangerous for any person
to como within thar voaoh- Tins dnes human
ferocity aggravate that Of the brute creation
The ship Silas Richards was detained at New
York one day in order to receive the President
Message. Capt. Holdridge, who commands
her, has been the first to deliver the President