The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-12-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

All the Boston papers tell US that the al4on =
Daniel Webster has left home for Congress
Do, brethren of the noble city, leave off that
honorable II was well enough ence in the
better days of the Republic, but Daniel Web
ster is above the epithet; it does not honor
1 him he needs no such honor Give us the
piain Dan. Webster, for--as the Englshman
said OF his beef" There is s0mething to shetc
pon."-PortLand .adverfissr.
Two hogs, from Cumberland, (R. ~ were
sold IN Boston Merchants Hall Market. Tues
day They were about Is months old. and
I weighed $50 and 654 lbs when first dressed
the largest did not get up alone for six weeks
before he was killed
Abraham Van Kuren of CoIambiayilIe, IN.
- was drowned in the Hudson, on the Sd
INST He was intoxicated and fell from skifF
IN which ne was alone. 1t drifted ashore, and
his bsdy was found attached, his coat having
caught upon hook
Fortune-telliRg is all the go in Philadelphia.
A mulatto woman from The West Indies al.
| tracts crowds of fools, who wait their turns.
sometimes all day. She cheats the public of
about SIS day.
HrDRorHoBIA. Three cases of the cure of
this formidable disease, by friction with mer
curIal ointment, one of them at forty DAYS after
the D,te, with slight symptoms of the disease,
attended with spasms, had become manifest,
l~'S NSSSiiuSO tl the DID. univ.
The Boston Patriot states that a Ynecba mic
In Marblehead, made and sold a magnet in this
! city, which supported 20 lbs when first chorg
ed, and its attractive power was more tbsn
twelve times its weight, 81 lbs. The Same
person states that he has discovered that mag
netism is " a subtitle fluid, continually in mo-
tion from north to south, describing a great
circle of the earth. boston Courier.
correspondent Of the East Florida Herald
states, that he had succeeded within the last
two years, in cultiyating the Olive Trees in
that vicinity.
Willie K. Mangum has been elected u. 8.
Senator from North Carolina, for six years from
March 4, 1881. MIR. Mangum was formerly
member Of the House of Representatives.
RESURRECTION. On the 22d of October, a
citizen OF Plaquemine, Louisiana,) received
some information relative to a contemplated
lnsurrectlon of ahe negro slaves. On the fol-
lowing day, one or two companies of militia
were ordered out, and succeeded in arrestinO
several siaves-tour of whom, on being i'm.
Prlsoned and examined separately, testified that
there were upwards of one hundred negroes
concerned in the plot, several of whom were
Tree The ringleaders were to be punished.
Mr.. Otis was reelected Mayor of the CITY of
Boston on Monday the 18th inst. Returns
from all but the 9th Ward give him 25l7 votes,
iheodore Lyman, jf., 646. The National Re-
publican ticket for Aderm en- prevailed BY
large majorities.
The property of Trinity Church. New York
is SAID to be several millions of dollars $780,
ooO persons have been buried in it's cemetery.
The stock of the New Castle and French.
town Railway, between the Delaware and
chesapeake, is selling at $40 for $40 paid in.
At the recent election of members Of Con.
RreS9. m alti,
6ers are re-chosen, those of Barnstabe and
North Worcester Districts, with extraordinary
unanlmty, the Hon. John Reed having. out of
IUoo votes, oil bat Sc, and the Hon. Joseph G.
Kendall out Of 1927, all but So
Four Newspapers have been suspended in
Name within the last three weeks, viz the
Maine Gazette, Bath; the Thomaston Regis.
yer the Saco Palladium; and the Wiscasset
Clizen' Squaily times for printers, down east.
Dover Inquirer.
David }. Baker, friend of Henry CLAY, has
oeen appointed by the Governor of Illinois.
Senator in Congress. to fill the vacancy in
s me aeiegation from that State, and has taken
The increase of population in 25 counties of
pennsylvania, in che last ten wears. has bean
1920. rOP''a''0h OF
The bill for surveying the lands of the Cher.
okees, and distributing them among the in
hae'iants Q: Georgia by Lottery, has passed
the f1ouse OF Representatives of that State, by
majority of &c to S.
PENNSYLVANIA. The United States Gazette
says, our State now presents the singular in.
stance OF commonwealth anxious for the re-
election OF man whose efforts must he direct
ed to the destruction of her favorite policy. II
cannet, we think, long remain thus ,-with al.
most every view of national policy in oppesi.
ton, Pennsylvania must leave the max.
The Philadelphia Gazette promises to pub
lish statement of40 cases of Imprisonment by
magistrates Of the city and county, in which
the sum total of debts was but 800 4O4. while
the costs amounted TO $40 90 In one Of these
cases, man was imprisoned thirty days for
debt OF too cents. In another case, debt of
vi 5U appears to have been divided into two
debts efseventy five cents.
Mexico. The New Orleans Bee of the Isl
inst says, " In casting rapid glance over the
journals just received from Vera Crua, we ner.
ceive that tho cause of Guerrero is lost for
ever. His partlzans have been routed in every
quarter"
Mr.. E. Reneicker has presented to the Bal
timore Museum, petrifed birds nest, with it's
young, taken from the petrfying spring in
| Clermont, France.
SMALL Pox There have been several cases
Of this direful disease at Newport, within the
last few weeks A town meeting has been
held to take into consideration measures 10
prevent its spreading.
Messrs Waldo & Ripley, who failed in New
York, several years since, and paid so per cent.
recently RENTED the balance of what thew
owed to some merchants in New Haven, with
z per cent: interest.
HANDSOME DISCLAIMER A lady while
tripping down our streets the other day most
| gracefully, and balancing her neck a la mode.
found to her inexpressible confusion that all
her hair was dropping from her head Turning
round she saw two or three false curls, bundle
Of pntfs, DC. DC, PROSTATE in the mud "Law
me, she cried out to gentleman in the rear,
blnshng up to her eyes, whats that? NV
conscience if tisnt false hair declare, only
think what ridiculous fashions folks are getting
into off abe whirled, leaving her poor