The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-01-07
Nrw YEAn,s DAY AT wAsnIserox. The

III HuOu lOI the vi ANA
according 10 custom, the citizens called on
their Chief Magistrate 10 tender to INN the
{ Cml l,mcnis OF the season. On no former
occasion have we Witnessed IA 2reatercrowd,
nor have ne ever seen lie annual tributes
OF good feelings offered with mere apparent
sincerity on the one hand, or received with
more evident satisfaction and rheerfulnes3
on the other. Mr.. Adams seemed to he IN
{" excellent health" ami excellent spirits,
ana the sight shade of pensiveness on the
conntenan,e Of Mrs. Adnlus was the neces.
sary, although to he regretted consequence,
as we'll az proof, of the almost incessant in
disposition ~ which she has been, for some
time, afflicted. Mr.. Calhoun occupied
prominent situation in the prinripn room;
while Nj. Clay stool in the centre of the
East luon, and Mr.. Southur IN The inter
Mediate apartment. to receive the greeting
of their friends. The other Secretaries,
the Postmaster General, the Commanding
General, the Clergy of the District, and the
Members of both Houses. with only few
exceptions. we've present; and il WAS near
three O'Clock before the last of the vIsiters
had retired.-.NdtiOnql Journal.
Town OF Paterson. 4 Trenton, New
Jersey, paper gives very satisfactory des-
Icription ol the improvement Of the town of
Paterson in that state, which is mainly at
tributahle TO the increase of Manufacturing
establishments.
That plare, 20 years ago. was scarcely
known. Situated on soil little susrepti-
BILE of cultivation, its population in 1903 was
about 800; in 1890, i'y the Introduction of
manufactures. it had increased to 1887. anil
is now computed ut 80G0 the whole of
which, directly or indirectly, are sustained
by the manufactures. In the town there
are seventeen cotton factories. employing
3 eco spi~des one fax or sail duck f.irto-
nv, with 1850 spindles one Sitting and roll
ing mill and nail factory, working annually
$4,000 pounds of iron. costing Sl0.:}20, and
making yearly, Sjl.2C0 poonds Of nails.
The cotton factories consume. annually,
2G00,0C0 pounds of cotton, and the fax
factory Geo eco pounds of fax. Thee is one
mnrhine shop employing $50 hands, CON
necteI with which is an iron and brass
foundry, working annually, 6O0.G00 pounds
Of iron. and 16,5C0 pounds of rruss the
estimated yearly value of the iron and brass
castings is S25,CG0.
There are four turner's shops, employing
% hands, two millwright AMI three other
machine shops. employing together sc hands,
one saw mill, aud one establishment for
making umbrella cloth. The whole amount
of capital invested in these establishments
is computed at more than one million of
dollars, the whole of it domestic capital.
Fhere are in the town ) Ga-.v dry gonl
stores, . hardware stores. 80 large, ana %
sm,l grocery stores. }trv gnod anil uro.
icrry stores, ii mllIneries, oil latters'
snOps, &c.
The price of property has risen with the
increase Of the town. vacant lots 25 hy leo
feet are worth from 200 To 500 dollars and
in business streets 20G0 dollars have been
paid. Within mile and three quarters of
the town there Is one machine shop, with
30 han,lS. and one woollen factory with rs
hanls. All these establishments flourish
the town presents the aspect of busy life
the m ,rkets are COOL for every article OF
agriculture and plenty AMI prosperity
relgns.
PEDEsTRIANIsM. A man name1 Howe.
IN Lincolnshire. for trtllng wager, in the
month of July, 1917, on II measured piece OF
rronn |. walked S,r miles in the snort space
of 46 min. 20 sec. D!niel Crisp, OFT 6.
1917. walked SO miles in 10 hours 10 min.
70 MI the Reg"nry Park, Lonion. In Sept.
1878, he walked IS miles daily, for six sur
"essive days, on the An'over road. Foster
Powell. in 1897. wake ll2 miles in "a
hoIrs. from Canterbury 10 LONDON Bridge
and back. He also performed 394 miles on
journey from Lon !on to York, and back,
IN five days AMI hiteen hours. A coarhulan
named West ran miles in 50 min. SO see.
OIL the 10Th April. 1878, on the Epping road
heating Bumsel's celebrated feat Of nire
miles within an hour. Capt. Barclay, in
Dee. 1863. ran nine miles ia iiitv minutes.
FhiS famous pedestrian. in lSC0. walked ga
miles in u iOuTs. inrlu'ting time for refresh
nent. In his Training to walk match of
ninety miles. (which he Afterwards won, lin
2lA hours. he actually completed ITO miles
IN - houTs-whch may lac considered the
greatest pedestrian feat on record. He
walked from Charing Gloss To Newmarket.
u nlstanre of "a miles, in ten houts, IN July,
loC3 one OF the hottest days in the season
he ran amiic in five minutes AMI seven
seconds, ami afterwards in four minutes and
fifty sernntls. This was done hv Brooks, in
Jan. ISIS, IN nIin. 46 sec. Capt Barclay
performed "a miles in ten hours, in 1865.
from Charing Cross tn Seainrh in Sussex.
In Dec. 1906, lie walked 1C0 miles n seven
teen hours AMI u half, over the worst loa,.
in the Observation-Disclosures BY his servanr,
William Cross, who performed the distance
in the same time. Every body rrcollcrts
the Barclay match in whc;I he walked 1000
miles in LOCO successive hours. The agere-
gate of bets on this orcas on was eIC0,COO.
A vonne man. nane'l Carprndale in Aug.
1878, went on foot from a shwell TO Hat
borough. tmrnty-iro mills in i,co hours
which Is as fast rs any thing on rece rd.
EQuEsTRI,NIsM. Mr. Hntrhenson. horse
dealer in Canterbury. in Nav. 1917. for a
wa"rr of6C0 gnineas. role from that place