The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-12-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SLAVE TRADE. tits gratifying to learn tina.
the Emperor of Brazil has abolished the Slave
Trade in his dominions. 1t has, heretofore
been carried on there to great extent
CoNNEcTIcUT STATISTICS. 1t appears by 1
publication in the Hartford Times, that there
are in Connecticut Al, 4l6 dwelling houses
2,607 1863 acres of land, ,597 mills ,827 stores
400 distilleries, 1911 manufactures, SO. 35s
horses, asses, &c, 2I9, 1888 neat cattle, 33I ,05t
sheep; and that the whole value of the taxable
property in that state, is over eighty-seven mil
lions of dollars.
The city of Trieste was inundated on the 8th
OF October after dreadful storm. The waters
penetrated into the highest parts uf the city anc
destroyed a great number of magazines.
Several Journeymen Shocmakers at Cham
bersburg, PENN have been convicted of con
sPIracy to raise their wages, and fined.
There is at present living in Newton Blewett
Somerset, eng man named Thomas Harris
aged lOS years, IN full possession of his facul.
ties.
A marriage is not considered respectable al
Geneva, Switzerland, unless it be made known
to the friends and acquaintances of the parties
year before it takes place.
ISABELLA GRAPES. The standard Isabella
Grape Vine of the Messrs. Winships, at the
has tnlS year DOTno OUf
punches of fruit, being but live years old
The swindler, who was recently making con-
tracts for slip timber in Worcester county, rep
rcsenting himself as Navy Agent, &c, has
been arrested in Boston as q vagrant.
CoLD WEATHER The thermometer at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, on the 18th ult., fell to degrees
above 0.
Snow AT THE SOUTH The st. Louis Times
nF the Nth Nav c,1l Al. .
region, on the 18th, to the depth of inches.
SINGULAR BIRTH. On the 10th ult a male
child was still born in the parish of ST. Charles,
River Boyer, in this district, with two distinct
heads, three arms, very flexible, the parts being
well Proportioncd The third arm had hand
with eight fingers, and was rooted in the nape
OF the neck, and circulating one of the necks
OF the heads. The child was strongly formed,
and might have lived for some time, if medical
assistance had been had at its birth, and thus
given an opportunity for some scientific obser-
vations.-Qucbee Gazette.
YALE COLLEGE. The number of undergrad
uate Students at Yale College is, Seniors II :;
Juniors 81; Sophomores 95; Freshmen JOG :;
total 359. The Freshmen class is the largest
ever entered at any college the United States.
Festus Stebbns has recovered $50 of Tru-
man Sweet, in Springfield, for injuries sustained
by himself and wife by the careless upsetting of
a stage, in June, 1923. The injury to Mr. SIS
shoulder is considered iHcurable ; and SO also is
Mrs SIS. arm, which was broken. The amount
awarded would have been greater, had it not
appeared that the incurablity of the hurts was
owing TO the employment of natural bone
setter"
-Four young men in Northampton have been
fined $40 each, and costs, amounting in all to
$lO2 for tresnoe- an Pivhing peaches from an
orchard IN the night, without the leave of the
owner.
FORCE OF CONSCIENCE. Conscience is Gu
rious thing sooner or later it let's the cat out
OF the bag, in all cases where men have done
what they ought to be ashamed Of An instance
lately occurred in England. A shopkeeper's
family were called upon by woman aged eigh-
ty; who insisted upon paying them sxpence,
stating that fifty years ago she gave their father
bad slxpence for some article of trade. They
accepted the money, and the old lady went off
very much relieved.
Mr. Ethan Crawford, who resides near the
notch of the White Mountains, has taken this
season ten bears, and many other wild animals
SPEcTACLEs. The French papers mention
that NJ. Tenequer, respectable tradesman of
Flaquolle, in the department du Var, refused his
consent to his daughters marriage last month
with a young man, every other way unexcep-
tionable, because the intended bridegroom aoore
spectacles'
FLORIDA ORANGES. Our market is now full
of Florida oranges, and they are sold at a price
so exceedingly low, that foreign competition is
likely 20 be ended without the Intervention of
the Tarf.-N. Y. Journal Of Commerce.
MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT. The rCanada1
Welland Canal was opened last week for the
passage of vessels from Lake Ontario to Lake
Erie. Vessels were towed by steamboat to
Chippewa, and on the next day sailed to Black
Rock, and eturned the day after to St. Catha-
rines.
CURIOSITY. In Dandy, (Vt) there are two
large beech trees in that town, whose trunks at
the ground are upwards of three feet apart, and
which completely unite at the height of about
nine feet, forming thereafter but one tree and
one top.-RutIand, (Tt) Herald.