The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SouhIIy, VIZ: MS SdldcIar, or sword bearer,
answering, of course, to our First Lord of the
Treasury; his Mu-dar, or Seal Bearer, Lord
High Chancellor; his Dividar, or inkstand
Bearer, Clerk of the Court; and his Tumassi
Agussi, First Lord of the Admiralty.
London .4theneum.
CINcINNATI. The trade of Cincinnati is spok-
en- of, in letter to Baltimore editor, as ex-
ceedlngly active. Ten or twelve boats arrive
IN day, laden with cargoes of from 200 to 500
tons of dry goods which return in 2 or DAYS.
reloaded with produce Six boats, engaged in
the trade are named of 400 to 600 tons burden.
bearing as many hundred passengers, having
ta0O stories aboUe deck for their accommodation.
OPENING OF A MUMMY. On opening and I'M
folding mumy in the collection of NJ. Passala-
qua, at Parls, 1t was ascertained by a roll of
papyrus found Within interpreted by Champol-
lion, that the mummy was 5000 years old, and
that the body was that of the daughter of
guardian of the small Temple of Isis, at Thebes.
The pupil of the eye was artificial, and of glass.
REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCES. The present
is the Secenth President.of the United States
and two only of them had sons. Both of those
We're Of the Adams family the son of the first
Adams became President; and neither father
nor son served more than one term. The 9th.
er Presidents had no sons-but two of them had
daughters only-the other three had no chill
dren.-Richmond Compiler.
The seat of government of Louisiana is to be
at Donaldsonville, instead of New Orleans. The
public offices are to be removed in May-lhe
Legislature next year
The acquisition of Louisiana that of the
Floridas, and the extinction of certain grants
and original titles, have cost the United States
about hundred and sixty millions of francs
The territories acquired contain three hundred
millions of acres. About eighteen millions on
y have been sold. That which remains unsold
Will, in less than century, be worth many
thousand millions to the United States.
The ice on Lake Erie, short time since,
was four feet thick.
There is now living in the parish Of Penboyr,
Carmarthen county, Wales, female aged i95
years, in perfect possession of all her faculties
corporeal and mental she frequently travels 8
or 10 miles day Although she is well found
in shoes and stockings, she generally goes bare
footed, whilst the hose and sandals are snuply
lodged under her arm.
Ice MOUNTAINS. The ship Nile arrived at
New York, from Havre, was surrounded from
the gath to goth of March with mountains of
ice, the largest of which was about miles
long, and 900 feet high. The thermometer fell
to % in the water, and 90 to 80 in the air. The
Nile was at the time in lat. AZ 50, lon. 40 to 81
There is now living in Providence a man.
aged about So years, who was never out of the
State of Rhode Island, never sick, or took
medicine never sued, or was sued !; has been
up before sunrise. every day in the last 30
years, and has not. asted any kind of inebria-
ting liqour for 80 years.-Prooidence Journal
The York, Upper Canada,) Gazette, of week
before last, contains six columns of Sheriff.
sales, and an advertisement of the Coroner to
sell out the Sheriff We should Judge from
this, that there was great pecuniary distress in
this province.
A REAL JACKSON MAN. The Steuben IN W
Advocate states that Joseph Potter of that
County, had twins presented to him, on the 4th
March. He named one .4ndre,o j., and the
other Jackson H.
One bushel of potatoes was worth two BUSH
els Of corn in the New York market last week
The contractor on one of the sections of the
Delaware Canal, recently used four kegs, about
100 lbs, of powder, at one blast 1t blew up 400
cubic yards Of rock, estimated TO weigh 500
tons. 1t is said to be the greatest blast ever
made in this country.
The Kennebec Journal, states that fortunat e-
ly for the world the proper use of ~ f. rum
has been discovered at last, and that is, to kill
lice upon calves!
The ravages made by the wars of the Revo-
luton and of the Empire upon the population
of France, have been estimated, according to
NJ Dupin, at 100000 men, and 1904 900
dollars.
Mr. Adams, the late President of the U. S.,
will return to his seat in Quincy, in the ensu-
ing month.-BOston CentineL.
The Journal in Belfast, (Me.) stltes that
within the space of half 4 mile, in Searsmont,
there reside three families, which turn out
thirty girls.
HARVARD COLLEGE. We understand (savs
the Boston Courier) that Mr.. Quincy is to be
indicted into office, us President of Harvard
College, on the first Tuesday in June.
The editor of the Portsmouth Journal states
that a man who few years ago was blessed
with about $4,000 lottery money, applied to
him on the 10th inst. for l2k cents to pay for a
nights lodging.
The reflection Of the light Of the late fire in
New York was seen at distance of 1875 miles
On the night of the 18th ult the house of
Mr. J. Watts, of Butler county, Alabama, was
burnt, with, four of his children grand child
and 4 traveller, who had put up there for the
night Two other persons were dangerously
burnt All the furniture and $4,000 in money
were lost ?!
Miss Hannah Dennis, in Wayne county, N.
York, has pocketed $500 of Mr.. John A. Stew
arts money, because he did not do as he said
about marrying her. If it cost him $500 moi
to marry her, how much would it have cost him
if he had married her ?
A gentleman in Plympton spread COATING
of lnseod oil over a number of cotton Jackets
and trousers to render them irnpcrvious to
water and laid them together in his store. He
soon, however, discovered strong symptoms Of
spontaneous combustion, they had imbibed a
considerable degree of heat and had the an.
pearance of being scorched. These incenda.
ries were not suffered to set the store on fire.
The Baltimore Patriot publishes the names
of the individuals, IL in number, who have been
turned ont of the Baltimore Custom House by
order Of Mr. Secretary lngham.
A Prolific NnIGHBoRHooD, The Patriot