The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-12-01

Politics system is to be looked into by the
Georgia Senate.
There are 2O40 persons in the New York
City Alms-house-and $50 persons in the City
Penitentiary.
In Livermore, Pa, horse took fright, re-
Gently, and dragged his cart with great speed,
crossed the canal bridge, and came TO a place
where some children were playing. A child,
aged l6 months, was sitting on a wheelbar.
row, and the horse sprang over him one Of
the cart wheels caught the handles of the bar
row, both of which broke, and the child was
tossed 10 feet in the air-the cart body was
thrown off, and the horse continued its course.
The child fell on his breast across the axletree,
and the wheel ran down hill for at least 9
rods, when the child fell off, without having
received any injury.
GEORGIA. The Senate of Georgia has passed
Mr.. Wood resolutions, dsapproWng the Tariff,
but censurng the South Carolina notification
doctrines. They adopted two supplementary
resolutions one, expressing a strong solctude
tor the reelection of General Jackson, and the
other, declaring that the people of Georgia dis
approve of the political opinions of John Quin-
cy Adams, as expressed in his inaugural ad-
dress.
Roman Catholicism is progressing fast in
Scotland, chiefly by the emigration of Irish,
and the conversion of Presbyterian outlying
Highlanders. The Roman Catholics have now
some remarkably fine chapels, and the clergy
men are universally known as quiet and unob-
trusive men, The Roman Catholicism in Scot
land Is, on the whole, of very mild kind.
Census. sctuate, R. l., 1880, 1894 lnhabit-
ants-l820, 2S34-N. Providence, 1880. 1903
1920. 1t is expected the
population of the State of Rhode Island will
come up to 100000.
Counterfeit So bills, U. S. Branch Bank, pay
able at Washington, good limitations, have been
detected in New Jersey they are payable TO
the order of, and endorsed, R. Smith, Cashier;
letter c.
New YoRK. Gen. GansevooEt of Albany,
and Col. c. l.. Livingston of New York, are
named, by their respective friends, for Speaker
of the next House of Assembly.
1t is said that General jackson has made
declaration, that if Congress should, during his
Presidency, pass an act to renew the charter of
the United States Bank, lie ao0uLd assuredLu
put has Ueto to the bill.
The Gazette de France o5serves-France
within the last forty years, has tried every kind
of government, except the Federal Republic, TO
which the current is now setting with almost
irresistible force.
The Philadelphia papers mention a Grape
Vine, growing near the banks ofthe SchuylkiIl
in the township of Upper Merton, Oh the farm
of Isaac Jones, which measures at several places
between the root and the height of ten feet,
from 80 to 35 inches in circumference It is a
curiosity worthy the attention of those persons
who have doubts respecting the soil and climate
of this country being favorable to the growth
Of the Vine.
WaGhlnnfnn M 81 a. hat h.
lines of stages which run between that city
and Baltimore, have carried upwards of 20, 600
passengers in the last six months-from April
to October. During the same period two
steam boats were constantly plying between
the two cities, carrying many passengers.
The drought was SO great in Tennessee last
summer, that thousands of forest trees died,
where strata of lime stone were
near the surface Of the ground
Popularity OF INFANT ScHooIs. An Infant
School has been established lately at Methuen.
The first day it was opened, the pupils were so
well pleased with their entertainments that they
cried to stay all night.
RARE SPORT! One young fool was shot in
the breast by another fool near Camden, New
Jersey, on the Goth of October. They were
firing at each other according to the laws of
honor.
CANADA ELECTION. At the late canvass for
member of Parliament in the county of Haldi-
mand, U. G, (Which includes Fort Erie and ex
tends to the mouth of Grand Rver)J0hn Brant.
son of the late celebrated Indian Chief of that
name, has been returned to a seat, in opposition
to Col. John Warren, his opposing candidate
Brant is full bloeded Indian, who has receiv-
ed good English education, and is a gentle.
man in his manners.
BEES WITHOUT sTINGs DIR. Samuel L.. Mitch
ell of New York announces that he has re-
ceived small swarm Of Bees without stincs.
from Mexico.
Fuel is cheaper in New York this season, than
it has been since 1886, chiefly owing to the
rivalry of the Lehigh, Schuykill and Lacka-
wanna coal companies.
Williams, the only survivor ofthe three faith.
ful men who captured Major Andre, and who is
in his 9Th year, arrived in New York on Tues
day to attend the celebration of the French rev.
olution.
thief broke into grocery store in Macon,
Georgia, some nights since, and after filling a
trunk with goods went to drinking whskey in
large quantities, which fixed him for slow trav-
cling, and he was found next morning, fast
asleep, with his arms full of goods!
OF the Massachusetts delegation in the god
congress the National Journal says, +" When TO
the above nomenclature of talents, we add the
name of Webster, we think the Delegation from
Massachusetts will entirely eclipse that of any
other State in the Union. 1t is a splendid Con-
stellatlon, and we hope the light which ema-
mates from 1t will illuminate, cheer and renovate
the people every where, from the Atlantic to the
Mississippi, and from Canada to the Gulf of
Mexico
DOUBLE BLEssEDNEss. A poor but respect
able couple passed through this town last week,
on their way to the western part of the State
OF New York, with seven children, six of whom
the lady had been blessed with at three births,
in equal portions; all Of which, strange and
happy as il may seem, were 6oys-good, health
full, promising chaps. Their appearance and
the slngularity of their births, excited consid.
cradle interest. They we're from Brim6eld, in
this county, and there is no doubt of the facts
Their names are George Washington, Thorn.
as Jefferson, John Adams, James Monroe, La.
fayette, and Simon Bovar.-Spriag6eid Jour.