The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ana monroe, Chlef justice Marshall, the Gov
!ernor and two Judges of the State, and eleven
members of Congress.
The Quebec Star of May 81, states the
snow has entirely disappeared in the woods in
that vicinity, but about Is or 20 leagues north
ward it was two feet deep a week previously
PREMIUM FOR ORNAMENrAL TREES AND
FLOWERS. The standing committee of the
Massachusetts, Horticultural Society have pro.
posed several premiums for the cultivation of
some of our indigenous shrubs and ornamental
trees, such as the Kalmia LatifoIia, Rhododen-
dron Maximum, American Holly, Magnolia
Glauca, &c.
PRoGREss OF SCIENCE. It is only about 80
years since, that only thirty different salts, in
all, were known to the chemists Now, sur
prlsIng as 1t may appear, although the precise
number is not known, it is ascertained that
there are more than taoO thousand.
There were about 400 persons committed to
Jail in Providence for debt during the wear
ending the LIST JAN last.
The valuation of real estate in Philadelphia
proper, was in 1896, $22 PIE, 1888 in 1899,
1924 200, 7s6.
There is now in the Hospital near York, (Pa)
young woman aged about l6 years, who is
something of prodigy. She weighs 365 lbs.
and measures A feet q inches in height and
The editor of the Lancaster penny Gazette
Declares from experience, that slight applica-
ton If mercura ointment, will effectualiy re-
move the disease in the peach tree, usually
called the yeitOU teaf. One ounce of the oint-
msnt will be sufficient for fifty trees.
From the American presses l42, 1868 papers
daily issue and taking the amount of popula-
ton that can read at ten millions, we have one
Tor every seventy persons, and over, daily.
SPEED OF PiGEoSs. In the neighbnrhood
of New York, pigeons have been killed with
their craws filled with rice, collected by them
IN the fields of Georgia and Carolina the near
est points at which this supply could possibly
have been obtained and as it is well ascertained
that, owing to their great power of digestion,
they will decompose food entirely in IL hours,
they must have travelled 3 or 400 miles in 6
hours, making their speed at an average rate
of about mile minute.
At its last session, the Legislature of New
York passed 326 laws, one hundred and ten Of
which were laws creating or renewing corpora
tons, or amending the charters of those in exis
tence
A NEW DESTROYER The myriads of pig
cons which have lately visited this county are
almost as destructive to the farmers prosp ects
as the swarms Of iocustS in ancient DAYS to the
Inflated husbandman of Egypt. They seem to
make clean work where tn y alight upon the
corr fields, and farmers in this and the neigh
boring towns said to have had 6, 8, l2. and
Is acres of the young pulled up by these
mischevous birds Multitudes are shot and
taken in nets but farmer in Fairfield has
adopted a new way to g come Paddy over
them he soaks his corn in achiSkey and scat
tiers i: about the fields-the pigeons soon be-
come intoxicated, and are thus caught easily
by hand solution of arsenic is reported to
have been sometimes used-but this is an i'm.
proper and dangerous experiment.
Little Falls (N W Friend.
CHARITY WITHOUT OBSERVATION. An un-
known individual recently enclosed one thou
sand dollars in note signed Charity, to the
treasurer of the ST. Joseph's Orphan Asylum,
Philadelphia, in aid of its funds.
LARGE DANDELIoK There is now growing
in the garden of Capt Samuel Hunt in North
field a dandelion from one root, containing
four hundred and eighty-t,cO teaUcS, and one
hundred and forty stems; eight of which are
three times larger than those of common
growth. 1t occupies circle of six feet circum-
ference.
BANKS IN CoSNEcTIcUT. There are thirteen
banks in the State of Connecticut, from which
reports were made during the late session of
the Legislature. The aggregate amount of
capital is 81, $40, 1903, of which 2,472 400 be.
long to the Hartford and Phoenix banks in Hart
ford. The whole amount of bills in circulation
is 81 1924, 1913.
FARM1NGToN CANAL The navigation of
this canal is now open from Pennington to
New Haven, though there appears to be some
complaint of deficiency of water, in conse-
quence of the leakages on the canal. Several
boats have arrived at New Haven.
Goblet has addressed long petition to Par
lament humbly praying that the Protestant
Church of England, as by Law established, may
be by Law repealed, and utterly abrogated and
abolished.
A Tree IN FULL BEARING. Under this title
the Beaufort IS. CO. Gazette says, " last week
some Of Mr.. Turknetts negroes on New River,
St. Luke's Parish, while at work in the woods,
discovered four full grown Bears on the same
tree. Mr.. T.. being informed of IL, called to
his aid his neighbor DR.. Allen, and several gen.
temen whom he found at DR.. AS house, and
they succeeded in killing all four"
INrANTILE COURAGE AND GENEROSITY. Two
bulls, of equal bravery, although by no means
equally matched in size apd strength, happen
ing to meet near the front of Lalrd's house,
I in the highlands of Scotland began fierce
battle, the noise of which soon drew to the win
dow the lady of the mansion. To her infinite
terror, she beheld her only son, boy between
five and six years of age, belaboring with a
stiff cudgel, the stouter Of the belligerents.-
" Dugald! DugaId what are you about ?" ex-
claimed the atfrghted mother " Helping the
little BULL was the gallant young hero's reply.
HoRricULTURE. The first exhibition of the
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, was held
in Philadelphia the 9Th inst. The U. S.
Gazette says" The lemons and oranges of
the tropio, the coffee of Arabia, the cactus OF
South America, the Thousand almost namelcse
flowers from the South of ASIA and the hlrsute
and awkward cycas revoluta, that sets definition
at defiance, were among the vast profusion OF
genus and variety that ornamented the hall
or poured their perfumes from the opened
windows
The House of Refuge has now within its
walls SO boys and girls and is conducted, in
every respect, to the satisfaction of visitors and