The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-03-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

FREEMAsoNRY IN SPAIN. Among the late
items Of news from Europe, it is mentionaJ
that by decision of the tribunal at Barcelona
Lieut.. Col. Galvez, a Neapolitan, was hung
for being freemasOn and an elder of lodge:'
two other Neapolitans were sentenced to The
gallies for like offence ~
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. The large cotton facto.
ry at Saco, and the boarding house connected
with 1t, were entirely destroyed by fire on SIM.
day afternoon week. The fire was discovered
at about o'clock. The factory was erected in
1877, was five stories high, and was calculated
tor I3OO looms. The loss has been stated At
$3oO,OOO of which $4,000 falls on insurance
companies.
ADVANCE OF FORTUNE. The present Lord
mayor Of London was formerly iournevman
printer by those gradations in wealth and rank
h mnlch INDUSTRY and honesty alwavs hns4et. ha
Decame proprietor OF newspaper, and hence
through all other advances,to the highest office
in his native city.-London paper.
About five miles from the Wachita river. Ar
kansas, a number of Hot Springs, inferior onlv
to those IN Iceland, have been discovered.
Emanuel Phillips, who recently added = third
or fourth wife in Pittsburg, Pa, to his former
stock, but escaped from Justice, has been ar
rested in Cincinnati, at his old tricks.
Fresh Goldfish from the Atlantic. via the land
OF the pilgrims, were sold in Buffalo, N. Y. on
the shores of Lake Erie, 9Th ult
The experiment of removing snow from a
rail road has been tried at Baltimore and found
completely successful.
correspondent of the American Farmer re-.
commends the culture of the Cork tree. It
Hourlshes on the mountains of Spain where
snow lies most of the year. 1t is valuable, and
ornamental.
$22 were collected in Bucks County, Penn.
last year in fines from swearers and Sabbath
breakers.
DISTRESSING. The dwelling of A. Atwood
Esq, of Gouverneur, N. Y, was burnt recently,
ana MS son, aged IA years, persisted
Among the novelties of the celebration of
new years morning, may be mentioned the
substitute Tor whlskey, used by the disciples of
the temperance societies, party of whom Wis
tied their friends, carrying with them good cof-
fee, and the other requisites generally used on
such occasions; and on which beverage the
party and their friends enjoyed all the sociality
which spirits could excite, and without feeling
any OF its bad effects So much for the pro-
gress of imProvement.-G Glasgow Chronicle
An English paper announces that one George
Bromley, calico-printer, recently fell down
dead, and instantly eapired
FIRE. The Town Hall or Centre School
House, (as it is caled) in Belchertown. was
consumed by fire on Tuesday morning, the 23d
ult. The fire was discovered about one o'clock
There were two or three schools kept in the
building, and it is supposed that the fire took in
one OF the e ground rooms, in which school is
of books, &c, was lost,-loss estimated at from
$1,000 to $500.
A writer has been struck with the longevity
of the Signers of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, as body of men. They were fifty-six
IN number, and the average length of their lives
was about sixty five years. Four of the mum.
Der attained to the age of ninety and upwards ;
fourteen exceeded eighty years; and twenty
three, or one in two and half, reached seven
ty. The longevity of the New England dele
cation is still more remarkable. Their num-
Der was fourteen, the average of whose lives
was seventy-fve years. The survivor of the
whole venerable body lately entered into his
ninety-third year-.Nat. GGz.
The Newburyport Herald states that an ex-
cellent old lady called Aunt Tappan, is now lv-
ing in that city at the age of 1902; her mental
faculties unimpaired and her complexion that
of lady of SO: sociable and cheerful.
In Ames, Ohio, on tho night of 30th jan, the
family of Mr.. Daniel Phillips, hearing an owl
dihOLS lHe loWlS mar the mousse q son under
took to shoot the marauder. He had aimed at
the bird, when his sister, about 1e years of age,
excited by curiosity, incautiously put her head
out at window, when she received the dis
| charge in her head, just above the ear, which
caused instant death, without struggle or a
groan The event has caused deep distress to
the family, and the young man is almost bereft
of reaso n
The Wilamstown Lyceum have voted to
plant nursery of 10000 white Mulberry trees
early in the Spring.
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