The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| The last Medical Inteligencer contains an
account OF two cases of cancer upon the tongue
and lips, both produced by the use of tobacco
VIM. Low, ESQ., is appointed Postmaster al
Concord, (N H. in place of his brother Gen
Joseph Low, removed, the latter not being a
Jackson man.
! During shower in Augusta, (Me) on Sun
day, the 10th inst, several eels fell to the
earth few rods north of Capitol Hill, making
a considerable ndentation in the mud where
they fell They were foot or more in length
and a few minutes after their fall, wriggled
about as if they had just been taken out Of the
water.
At the recent term of the Supreme Judicial
Court, in Springfield, VIM. L. Lorng and
George Ball were indicted for receiving and
conceallng human body taken from grave
in Springfield. Ball was acquitted. Loring
was convicted. The defendant offered mo-
ton in arrest of judgment, and the considera-
tion of the questions of Law raised by the mo-
ton is reserved for the full Court next Sep
TENDER.
PAPER MACHINE. Isaac Saunderson of Mil
ton, (Mass) paper manufacturer, has invented,
and secured patent for new and highly i'm
portant improvement in the cylinder paper ma
chine, for manufacturing paper, consisting of a
counteracting horizontal whirl wheel-and a
paper forming roller, by which the paper usu-
ally made by machine is greatly improved in
quality, strength and durablity-and several
kinds of paper are made, never before produced
by any machine.
1t appears from late report, that the re-
ceipts of the American Tract Society, the first
year after its establishment, were $4,000; the
second year, 100000 the third year, 5000 ;
the fourth year, 100000; and its issues were,
the first year, 100000 of Tracts the second
year, 100000 the third year, 100000; and
the fourth year, 100000.
In compliance with the request of Gen La
tayette, sent through his agent in New York,
the Selectmen of Charestown, are about to
send to Havre, hogshead of earth, taken from
the battle ground on Bunker Hill, which the
General intends to have placed over his body
at his decease. 1t is TO be accompanied by a
certificate of three of the oldest soldiers in
Charlestown.
Two horses attached TO a hack, while stop
ping for water, near Augusta, (Geo.) became
frightened, and in attempting to run away,
were precipitated into a large well, 90 feet
deep The passengers escaped unhurt. The
| screams of the horses in their dying agonies,
were heard at the distance of three fourths of a
mle, by gentleman, who declared they were
the most awful sounds he ever heard
gentleman who resides at Kingsclere.
Hampshire, England, recently had in his stock,
COW which produced 81 calves, 300 hhds. of
milk, and tons of butter the value of which
might be fairly estimated at $500 When kill
ed, the fat of this wonderful COW weighed more
than the lean and bones altogether.
"MoRE WONDERS" There is now living
in one house, and only one family, at Jamaica
Plain grandfather, grandmother, 2 fathers,
mothers, 2 husbands, wives, sons, daugh-
ter, father-in-law, | mother.in-aw, ] daugh-
ter-in-law, B cousins, l brother, ] sister, I'M
Gle, aunt, nephew, 3 grandchildren, 9
chlldren-and only SeUen in all-Boston Pat.
HARVARD University. The Bowdon Prizes
for Dissertations the present year have been
awarded, the two first to Benjamin R. Curtis
of Cambridge, of :he Senior Glass, and Thomas
Hopkinton of New Sharon, Me-, of the Junior
Glass the two second, to James F. Clark of
the Senior Class, and Joshua Ward of Salem,
of the Senior Class
TUITION IN YALE COLLEGE. The Directors
of the Connecticut Branch of the American
Education Society, give notice that all benefi.
Charles of that Society, who shall join the
present or the neat Freshmen Glass of Yale
College, shall receive their tuition free of e1-
pensc
In consequence of the invitation given to
MIR, Rayner, the Universalist preacher, to pray
for the house, the Congregational and Baptist
clergymen in Hartford have refused to pray
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