The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-25

| A Post-ofice has been established in the
westerly part of Thompson, (Ct) called the
New Boston Observation-Disclosures Knapp is ap-
pointed Postmaster.
PENNSYLVANIA BANKS. In the city of Phila-
adelphia there are ten banks, with an aggregate
capital of $6,72l.6l0. The amount Of notes
put IN circulation by these banks is 50 504- SIS,
to meet which they have in their vaults in spe-
Gle, $969.54l. This makes something less than
three dollars in paper to one in specie.
While the Legislature of Massachusetts, will
not tax The people ten cents each, to pay the
state debt and save it from going to jail, or from
taxing the benefit of the act, the Legislature of
Maryland is engaged in passing a " stamp act"
for the benefit of the merchants and traders on
the Chesapeake. 1t is proposed by the latter
sister" to tax bonds, acts, and all other evil
dences of debt
ANOTHER CHILD BURNT. little black girl,
! daughter of Pero Hallam, of Stonington, Conn
was burnt to death on Sunday last, in conse-
quence OF her clothes taking fire. 1t is only 9
or thfee weeks SINCE similar instance, happen
ed IN the same town. Two children on Block
Island have met their death from the same
cause, during the present winter
A letter from Norfolk of the 9th inst informs.
that :" Lieut.. Smith, who killed Lieut.. Bourne,
IN duel, abont three years ago, in the vicinity
OF the Navy Yard, at Gosport, has been recent
ly taken up and lodged in jail, in Portsmouth,
IN Virginia. His trial will come on in that
place on the third Monday ofthis month";
Mrs. MCoy, an aged woman of 20, was burnt
to death in Utica, IN. " on the night of the
4th INST. Her husband retired to bed early, and
lett her up. On awaking in the morning he
missed his wife and found her dead near the
door OF the room in which he had left her the
evening before, her clothes all consumed, and
her body shocking!y disfgured.
The newspaper establishment at Botany Bay
was lately sold by its editor, DIR. Wardell for
the comfortable sum of $4,000! There are
but few newspaper establishments in the Unit
ed States worth more than this sum, and vet
Botany Bay is peopled exclusively by convicts,
who escaped the halter in England by the trans
portation act
The Halifax Acadian says, that it is fact
well known at New Brunswick and Quoddy
Bay, that all the people ON both sides of the
line are in the habit of smuggling, from the
Parson of the parish downwards The editor
thinks, however, that the American smugglers
nave the precedence in point of rank, as scarce
y ever a parsonage less than a Captain is en-
ployed-and often Senator or Brgadier Gen
eral.
A GOOD EXAMPLE. gentleman who is ex-
tensively engaged in the lumber trade, stated a
few days since that his laberers at The end of
year, were usually four or five hundred dollars
IN debt for ardent spirits alone that it always
cost them more for this than for the support of
their families. But since he had ceased TO sell
It, his workmen had ceased to drink it, and, so
tar from being in debt TO the establishment, the
balance was now in their favor.
Portland Mirror.
Benedict Arnold is elected a member of the
next Congress from the State of New York.
Sixty years ago gentleman in Massachusetts
gave son the name of Jeroboam, of whom we
read in scripture that he did coil an the sight
Of the Lord and made Israel to sin The bov
became minister. The Reuerend Jeroboam
Parker became a pious clergyman, and the
Honorable Benedict Arnold may be good
salesman BrattlebOr0' Messenger
lady in Vermont has cured herself of a
Predisposition to heavy colds by bathing her
tace, neck, and arms every morning profusey
IN cold water She has thus secured her
heaIth-but the relator of the fact did not put
INTO the newspaper how much more beautiful
she had become by her two years ablution
MATRIMONIAL COMFORTS Five bills of d.
vorce were granted, at the date session of the
Supreme Court, at Middlebury, in Vermont
The good people of Vermont seem disposed to
act upon the principle laid down from the bench
many years ago by Theophilus Harrington.
then Chief Justice ofthe State, namely" when
a man and woman can't live together without
quarrelllng 1t is best to put them asunder"