The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-05-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

At the election in Boston, on Monday last,
it is understood that but 80 representatives
were chosen, the names of whom we have not
ascertoined. There must therefore be new
election ordered for the remaining 80.
Mr.. William H. Bigelow has been appointed
Post Master at South Oxford, in place of Mr..
Geo. w. Kimball, resigned.
! The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal will be
navlgable by the first of July. The deep cut
on this canal, is said to be one of the greatest
works of human skill and ingenuity in the
world; the greatest perpendicular of which is
upwards of 20 feet, the whole length miles,
and over the deepest part a bridge of one arch
Is thrown, with span of $50 feet.
Mrs Hooker of Prescott St. Lawrence
county, IN. ~ was sitting near her window,
lately, In rocking chair, when a careless NOR.
tai discharged gun near, the ball from which
entered the window and passed her face Just as
| she was rocking backwards. The ball passed
out at the opposite window.
RHODE ISLAND. The Legislature of this
snug little state hold quarterly sessions, one of
which required last week. The government
was organized on Wednesday. j. L. Tiinp-
| hast was the successful candidate for Sneaker
of the House. This law making body seldom
sits beyond three or four days, and forms a
commendable pattern for some Of our larger
states and more numerous legislatures
There are, says the Philadelphia Gazette
about 1000 persons in the Alms-house in that
city--seven hundred of this number, it is be.
lleved, have beer reduced to paupersm by in.
temperance. Tho tread mill in operation in
that institution keeps beggars away, especially
in the summer season.
An alligator, lately taken in Savannah, is a
lizard Of IL feet inches length-of feet IL
inches girth, and opens his mouth one foot five
inches The hinder leg, measured round. was
one foot four inches. Il is thought that there
are but few men who would not have given leo
bail to such a customer
A person in Philadelphia was thrown from
his horse the other day with great violence I'M.
on the pavement. His skull was saved from
fracture by some newspapers that he had de.
posted IN has hat for leisure reading.
The city of Mexico was brilliantly illuminat
i ed and public rejoicings took place throughout
the Republic on the arrival of the news of G en-
Jackson's election to the Presidency of North
America.
A Byfeld Pig was on Wednesday last expos,
ed in our market " months old, which weigh
ed when dressed 662 lbs and measured thronoh
the middle of the back 10 inches. On the 1ilh
of May last, his weight was only 1853 lbs hay.
ing gained more than 500 lbs in less than q
year. He brought $47 74-Portsmouth .4du
PEDESTRIAN FEAT. A man in Charleston
lately undertook, on a wager, to take one hun
dred stones, each placed yard apart and tt
return with and deposit them successfully in q
basket at the point of starting. in the space O
50 minutes. This novel and difficult feat wa,
accomplished with great ease in AZ minutes 81
seconds, before large concourse of PERSONS
The distance he had to traverse is by compute
ton upwards Of miles,
A lady in Newburyport, in the absence o.
T her husband, has looked at the policy of insur
ance on their dwelling house, and found it hac
expired one hour before the fire broke out ir
that place, last week 1t was one of the build
ings which were in danger.
Some fishermen, while SEEMING in Irondequo;
Bay, drew up with their fish, jar, Theoretically
sealed and wrapped in several envelopes Vi
tarred canvass. The jar contained strip Of
parchment, written in French, giving an ac
count of detachment of French and Indians
on an expedition commanded by La Monitor
IN 1904, on its way from Montreal to For,
Frontenac, now Niagara.
\ MANUFACTURING. From publication in
Philadelphia, in 1897, copied by the U. s. Ga.
zette, 1t appears that thirty.t,o0 years ago, a
spinning Jenny was a curiosity to the President
OF the United States and the members of Con-
gress and specimens of the spinning and weav.
ing at the Globe Mills, were deposited in Peale's
Museum, for public inspection. A mighty
change has occurred since that period.