The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-08-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


States to Great Britain and France, Messrs
MLane and Rives, have sailed from New
Y rk tor their destination, IN the U. S. frigate
Constellation. After landing the Ministers the
: frgate will sail for the Mediterranean to re-
lieve part of our squadron in that sea.
Accounts from all parts of the country repre-
sent vegetation as being unusually luxuriant ;
the crops of grain already gathered are album
dant, and the corn promises bountiful return
tor the labois of the >husbandman. Fruit and
vegetables were never more plentiful or cheap
err.
Commencement at Harvard University, Cam
bridge, on Wednesday, Doth inst At Amherst
on the same day. At Williams College on
"Wednesday, September 2. AT Bowdoin Col
lege, Brunswick, the same day. At Yale Col
lege, New Haven, September 9th.
WASHINGTON COLLEGE CONFINEMENT
The third annual commencement of Washing
ton College took place in Hartford, the 9th inst
The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred
on twenty-one gentlemen. The honorary de-
gree of ID D. was conferred on the Rev. Adam
Clarke, and the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne,
of England.
! UNION COLLEGE. The Annual Commence
ment OF this institution was held on the 22d ult.
The degree of A. b. was conferred on 81 young
gentlemen. The honorary degree of ID. D.
".
New York, and the degree of LID. on the
Hon. John Savage of Albany
Ii is stated in the New York Daily Advert.
ser that rs graduates of Yale College, at New
Haven, supposed to be now living, who
took their degrees before the declaration of
American Independence. The oldest of them
! is graduate of 1859.
At the last winter half year in the UNIVERSE
| ty of Gottingen, Germany, there were 1886
students Is more than in the summer half
year. 759 were natives and 627 foreigners
377 studied theology, 573 law, 263 medicine,
and 153 other sciences and arts.
The health of the city of New York was Off
cially reported on Monday, by all the agents
and officers of the Board of Health, TO be even
more than usually good.
Extract of letter from New Orleans, July,
%. The yellow fever, which has prevailed
some time among the shipping, has now COM
pletely entered the City, and is making many
riati---1 A-->~-ses tho nnaeclmated'
The city ofSavannah was remarkably healthy
on the LIST of August. Not death had taken
place since the 18th of July.
Travellers from Michigan state, that an unu-
sual degree of health prevailed there Crops of
grain would yield abundantly. The country
was settling fast by emigrants.
The Ohio papers speak of the weather as be-
ing delightful, and the crops as never having
been better or more abundant.
Mr. Samuel Brigham of Shrewsbury. has
mown grass and made hay on the farm on
which he now lives, elghty gears in succession
An Adder was killed in Bradford last week,
which on being opened contained forty y0ung
ones.
VETERAN STAGEMAN Mr. Jedediah Little
than hoe Jtl,o
mail from Boston TO Marshfield, through Hing
ham, Cohasset and Scituate; and during his
whole period, has never failed, but in single
instance, to accompany it himself. No acct
dent of any moment has ever occurred to his
stage, and no passenger has received the slight.
est injury.
The death of Miss Turner is noticed in the
Dover IN. H. Gazette, who died of drepsy.
In the course of her disease she was tapped
twenty-four times, the first on 26th July. 1927,
and the last on the 3lst May, 1929, (about once
a month"; the aggregate amount of which was
nine hundred and t1oenty-three pounds! On
the 9Th May last, SO pounds, and on the 3lst,
30 pounds were drawn from her. In addition
to the above large quantity was discharged
from punctures made in her legs and feet.
COMPETITION. The wharf lying at the foot OF
Courtland:-street, New York, hitherto leased
to the Hudson River Steam Boat Company for
$3.50 per annum, was on Tuesday week leased
to the same Company for three years, at $3.50
per annum The competitors who abandoned
the contest, must be great gamers by their loss
But two steam boats can como to at the wharf,
and the former rent was high enough
VALUE OF NEWSPAPERS. A man, lately, in
New Jersey, lost $50 in consequence of not
taking the newspaper. A bank had advertised
winding up of its concerns on a certain day
the holder OF 500 OF its bills, unconcous of the
advertisement 0aking no neWspaper) presented
his notes days after, and was told that he was
Just days too late.
A corner lot, 90 feet by 70, with store on
it, centrally situated in New York city, was
sold last week for $4,000.
Dr. John Porter has published an article in
the Portland Christian Mirror, stating that
nearly GO years of extensive experience has
convinced him that "the Physician is under no
necessity Of erer t0terating the Internal use Of
ardent liquors IN cases of sickness"
The owners of the steam boats Bellona and
Victor, plying between New York and New.
Brunswick, formerly received $1,000 per annum
for the rent of the bar-rooms on board-the
price is now redHced to $50.
At Brdgeton, (Me) a trader who used to sell
fourteen hhds Of rum during the hay season
has not been able to sell one the present season
Dayton, Ohio, which contained in Nav, 1928
: 1897 inhabitants, in the census of July, in thi.
year, shows 1858: an increase of 65i IN four.
teen months.
In Oxford University, (Eng) an efficient
, police has been established, to 20 into effect
next term. Fifteen constables or Vice Chance
lor's men will keep watch and ward, and assist
when called on, to put down any disturbance
Every member OF the University whose name is