The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE Crops of hay and grain bid fair to be
heavy in all parts of the country, and prices
will probably be still lower after harvest Good
Flour is selling in Boston and New York for
from $50 to $3.50 per barrel. Corn sells for
Sc cents, Rye for rs, and Oats for 40.
BRIGHToN MARKET, Monday, June 90
Number of Beef Cutie at market 2S5, including
80 unsold last week. 23a sold, at from SIS to
50 per cwt about % prime brought S. Is, and
few sold as low as 81 so. Mich Coos
Dull 90 at market-we noticed few sales, at
from SIT to 90, and one at $25 Sheep and
LambS-2342 at market; about 1900 sold, at
from 81 so to ,97k per head few small lots
brought So, and one 1925 ; few lots were sold
as low as ST ,25. S.oine-None at market, ex.
cept III fat hogs, unsold last week, which were
disposed of at b cts. per lb.-BOston Patriot.
Strawberries, 81 inches in circumference,
have been taken from DR.. Mancheste.'s garden,
Pawtucket, this season.
A motion for leave to bring in a bill to pro-
hbt Bull-baiting was rejected in the British
House of Commons, on the 18th ult. 1t was
contendcd in opposition TO the notion that it
would be unwise to diminish the amusements
of the people, and that if this bill should pass,
another to abolish cock fighting would be in
troduced The ayes for granting leave were
25, noes 70.
The N. Carolina Register says" We are in
formed that Gold Mine has been recently dis
covered in Davidson county, containing a rein
of the precious metal, eighty feet in width
This is the largest vein ever heard of either
in this or any other country. The veins gen
orally vary in width from two to five feet"
MALT LIqUoRs PREVENTIVE OF FEVER. 1t
is a curious fact, and one which is worthy
of investigation by medical men, that persons
who are in the habit of drinking largely of malt
liquors are rarely known TO be seized with typhus
or other low fevers, whatever other effects
these liquors may have upon the constitution
In corroboration of this fact, we have been as
sured by those whose opportunities for observa-
ton have been extensive, that there is not an
instance known Of brewers servant being en-.
tered as a patient, under these diseases in any
of the public hospitals. - York (Eng) COurant.
SUDDEN DEATH. A colored woman, recent.
ly from N. York. in the employ Of Mr.. f. VI
Diffendeffer of Baltimore, died suddenly on
Thursday last while standing at table ironing
cloths An inquest was held over the body
during which the body was opened by a ply.
stefan who had been called in. 1t appeared
that the deceased had been in the habit Of
tight laciRg to such a degree as to force the
liver from its natural seat.
AWFUL EFFECT OF CARELEssNEss. On the
Odd March, 1911, at Gloucester, England, VIM
Townley, was executed for burglary, utter he
aeas rcprieued Tho pardon for the pooI
wretch was made out in season, and ordered
to be sent to the sheriff. BY the stupidity oil
some clerk to the office, the letter was directed
to Herefordshrd, instead of Gloucestershire.
! A western paper announces the marriage Of
Miss Polly Schrecongost. We wish her joy
She can hardly have found worse namo.