The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

we earn that an Ecclesiastical Council. re-
Gently neld in North Wrentham, on the conduct
OF the hev Moses Thatcher, after session NJ
Two days determined, that his Reverence had
been gully of unchristi0n coaducr in excluding
rasons from the Communion table. and also
oecreed, That these excluded brethren be re-
ceived again into fellowship. Messrs. Beecher
anu Soohan were members of the Council.
Boston Gazette.
we Understand from credible authority, that
maiialits nave been issued for the apprehension
OF certain persons, whose names have baan
mentioned to US, as accessories before ,ha e.,
to the murder of the late Joseph White Eso
OF SaIem.-Bostsn Transcr;1t ~
The Society OF r rlends have Removed Irum
the State OF North Carolina, 652 persons ofcol-
or from under their care and an unknawn num-
Der OF children, husbands, and wives, that were
connected with them by consequently. in do
ing this the Society has expended twelve thou
sand, seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and
htiy cents. There are remaining in their care
four hundred and two-RaLeigh Register.
A man mined iona. H Carr of Somer.worth,
perlshed frpm iRtoxication and exposure in a
held about three miles from Dover, N. H., night
of 18th inst
The exports Of -four from the United States
fi'o AhC AtiFCI ldtC, Si0C6 inc ISL OF
August, are estimated to exceed 100000 bbls
The New York Post states that the accom-
plished Persian, whose long residence in Enc.
land as Ambassador from his Persian Maiesty
formed the basis lof the amusing volumes Of
HalI Bahia, and other works of satire and light
literature, is aboutto visit this country, 10 learn
| something Official about the New World. He
will probably be llere, by the way of England,
some time next fill.
FATAL AccrDFSr. On Thursday last, as Mr..
Elcazer Luce, s'n Of Mr.. james Luce, of this
village, who had been shooting ducks upon the
lake, was drawing his skff upon the shore, his
gun, which lay in the bow ofthe boat, accident
ly discharged, and the whole contents entered
his side. He expired on Saturday, in the 2Ist
year of his age-Hheca Journal.
BANK OF TIE. UNITED STATES. The Legis.
ature Of Mississippi have repealed resolution
passed in 1873, demonstrating against the in.
PRODUCTION of branch of the u S. Bank into
that State, and have passed resolution in
0tting the establishment of branch in Missis-
slpDil, The vote on this propositions, was, in
the House of Representatives., 81 to II; thai bv
which 1t subsequently passed the Senate is not
stated. Mississippi does not agree, it seems,
with the President, in his apprehension, feign.
ed or felt, Of danger 10 State rights, from the
operations of the Bank.
1t is stated in the Essex Gazette that vii.
liam Bartlett of Newburyport, had $3.50 900
worth of Coffee in store at Antwerp. Several
merchants of this city, understand, have
large quantities of merchandise at the same
place One gentleman, it has been said, had
40O boxes OF sugars there-whether in the Gus
tom-house stores or not, we have not heard
Boston Courier
NATcHITocHEs, Nov. 6. The bold rapid. and
until now unfathomabe stream, Red River.
which has for years waited on its tranauil
bosom, to the emporium of Nations, the fruits
OF the prolific soil through which it rldes.
owing to the unparalleled drought with which
We have been visited during the last summer.
has changed the course which it has run for
centuries past, and is at present, and has been
for many days, flowing in different direction
The court of Bucks county, Penn, has peen
occupied during the past week with the trial
rot c. v. Rousseau, for having killed his brother
The verdict of the Jury was, Involuntary Man
slaughter. The sentence is, fine of 100 and
restraint of liberty for Is months. The court
and audience expressed much sympathy for the
prisoner, being fully satisfied that he did not
design to injure, much less to slay his brother.
but was laboring at the time under an aberra-
ton of mind.
The Buffalo Journal states that there are
establishments in the western counties in that
state, where one hundred sheep are daily
slaughtered. The sheep arc bought up all over
the State, and killed for their hides and tallow.
the carcasses being boiled and fed to swine. This
business is said to be pursued solely for gain.
the skins often bringing more money than was
paid for the sheep alive. The killing of sheen
to feed swine, was resorted TO in The hard win
ter OF 1916, through necessity, and the pork of
swine thus fed had mutton taste.
N IL
tinel,) came in rubbing his hands last Wednes-
day morning and exclaimed-What Swinging
cold night we've had-ihey have a monitor
down at Tom Taft's and by that it was 10 de.
grees colder than nothing.
Dexter Hemmenway of birmingham, re.
Gently killed two pigs on his farm, seven months
and twenty days old, weighing as follows .-one
29l lbs. and the other $50 lbs. In Concord, Mr.
Arfridson last week killed pig, bat six months
old, which weighed $50 pounds.
Governor Cass of Michigan, in an address
delivered before the Detroit Temperance Soci-
ETY. on Thanksgiving evening, remarked as
follows: Ii l may be allowed to speak of nv
self, standing in this sacred place, would say.
that | stand here a living monument Of the
utter uselessness of ardent spirits, having new
err tasted them; and yet have endured my
full proportion of fatigue and exposure, in
peace and in war"
L. l.. Macomber of Gardiner, (Me.) has
secured patent for an improvement in stiff
fleming hats One weighing only a o. has
been doubled up, and put into the pantaloons'
pocket, whence being withdrawn and slightly
shaken, IT sprang out into perfect shape.
The Buffalo Journal says, that the immense
bors, from the Weliisshid canal, are found to
be delusive. The canal has been open for The
reception of vessels most of the past season.
and yet, so far we are informed, only some
four or FIVE cargoes have been conveyed through
it,"
In Ohio l0l newspapers and monthly Jour
nails are published.
The inhabitants of Brown County, Michigan
Territory, are about to petition 10 have the Ter