The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-03-27

IIc was purchased byJ. Bird, Esq. at 8,
per cwt.
Working Cattle and Mich Co,rs, plent,
and dull-a favorable opportunity now Of
frs for Farmers to supply themselves will
1.-THE former.
| Sheep.-The market for Sheep seems tc
have revived, and sales today were more
easily effected. The lot unsold last week
were taken at $l,75; lot of2l at S4, and
a lot of69 from the farm of Elias Phihney.
ESQ. Lexington, at 5 IA per head.
Sv:ne.--None at market.
The u. s. Telegraph of 9th inst. says,
/" We learn that most of the nominations
Of Consuls, Marshals, and District Attor-
nies, whose nominations were some time
since submitted to the Senate, were yes
tefday confirmed Commodore Porter's
nomination was also confirmed. The
mooted question ofthe power ofthe Presi-
dent to make removals, has thus received
the sanction ofthe Senate"
Orrin Kent has been fined $50, in O.
Media, county, N. Y. for an assault and
Lattery on his wife. His counsel contend
ed that he had right to fog her in rat
ional manner, to keep her in trim. Lest
any of our fair readers should have their
sensibility painfully excited, it may be
proper to state that it appeared on trial
that this was his.second wife, and that she
had Tilted Mr.. Gilbert, whom she had a
greed to marry on Sunday, by marrying
Kent on the Thursday previous.
The Liverpool papers state that the
distressss Of the poorsin that city as unus
ally and insuppor:ably severe. Thou
sands and thousands ofthe laboring clas-
ses are spoken of as having been COMPEL
ed to ask for charitable assistance.
Accounts from Calcutta, estimate the
crop of indigo for the last year at l8O,-
600 maunds.
Letters from Paris announce the arriv-
al there of General Barradas, and that he
was shortly to set out for Madrid.
GREEcE.-Letters from Syra state that
the division formerly existing among the
Greek chiefs had ceased. A report was
current that the Island Of Gambia was to
be united ao. the new state.
Mr.. Jabez Newell, Of Attlcborough,
Mass. states that he has been unable to
discover a sin yle peach bL ssom, in that
vicinity; which is not ruined by frost.
Capt. Griswold, of the ship Panama,
writesylrom the Sandwich Islands to his
employers in New York, who had sent the
vessel out with tea, coffee, claret wine,
hops, salt, sc. instead of spirits, that the
experiment proved satisfactory; there had
been no murmuring, and the crew had
been on shore at Wampoa and returnt d
sober.
The appointment of David Porter to lie
Consul General of the Barbary Powers,
has been confirmed by the Senate.
AccIpESTs.-An lrishman, named John
Sullivan, was killed at Georgetown, ID. c.
while cxcavating on the canal, the earth
cavingip. Two others were much hurt.
IN Shenandoah county, Va. Mr.. Pit
mans miller had conveyed several ladies
safely across the river in a canoe, and WIS
crossing for the last time with Mrs. p.
when it upset. He would have saved
her, but the canoe, which had lodged,
struck him on the head, and stunned him;
both were dro yned.
Josiah Warren, of Cincinnati, publishes
that he has devised a plan by which types
can be cast by any person of common in.
telligence, without dependence on cap'tal
His press can be made in five days, ant
the art of printing " acquired by females
or child, en- in few hours"
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