The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


At the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas
IN u, TINS Town. last week, David T. Brigham, and
Charles Wadsworth, were admitted as Attor.
MES of said Court.
PEACHES. One farmer who resides within
three hours sail of this city, sold thirteen thou.
sand dollars worth of peaches in our market
last season, the product of his own orchard and
nc expects to bring to market near TO- 900 BUSH
els the coming season. Several other farmers
IN the same vicinity have from to 10000
N. Y Sentinel.
BY the census of 1900, it appeared that ten
towns IN the County of Essex, had decreased in
Populatlon between that time and the census Of
iI9o, and OF these the town of Ipswich the most
largely. mere was an increase, however, in
the county at large.
A Geography and Map of Essex County are
now In preparation for The press. Messrs Car
ter ana Brooks OF Lancaster, are the compilers.
The late law of Louisiana imposes the penal
ty OF imprisonment or death, at the discretion
OF the Court, on persons using language, from
the bar, bsnch, stage, pulpit, or elsewhere,
tending to produce discomfort among the free
blacks; orln.roducing papers, &c, of similar
tendency; Teaching slaves to read is made
punishable by imprisonment.
A FisE Story. The Sag Harbor IL. ~
CorrectoI says =" Caught, on Wedne sday
and Thursday, of the present week, in the Oys-
ter-pond Ilarbor, at two draughts, fourteen
thousand Drum Fish, average weight about
thirty pounds piece, which would be equal to
t1oS thousand and ten TONS
SAM PATCH BEAT DY SAn1or The Troy
! Sentinel says-during the late cruise of the
Feacock in the Gulph of Mexico, in a violent
gale, one of the sailors was blown off from the
top gallant mast-royal- yard, into the sea- He
xUp pIDlra l. 4 L
on board without having sustained any appar-
ant injury. Distance upwards of one hundred
and fifty feet.
According to the last advices from india the
Regulation of the British Government at CAL
cutti, interdictng Suttees, or the burning of
Widows, had already proved efiectual in sever
al instances, and occasoned but little sensation
among the Hindoos. Yet, when this measure
was proposed under former administrations it
was earnestly repealed certain to produce
general dsafection or rebellion
A man named WEIGH, was convicted at the
Court of Common Pleas, held at Goshen IN. W
last week of resisting an officer serving process
with deadly weapons. One of the Sheriff's at
tendnts, Mr. Denton, vas knocked down
and much injured, by some of the defendants
iamll'. Hot water was thrown on the Sher-
i'll WEIGH was sentenced to two years impris-
oninelt in the State Prison. AS he is 60 years
of age, his case excited much sympathy, and
petition for his pardon was signed by the court,
ba, and jury.
The Newport Republican states that labor
efwas struck by lightning on Monday morning.
Up 2lst inst. while sitting on the floor by the
fe, and received no injury, although his shoes
we're stripped from his feet and appeared as
lieut. all over with sharp knife. Al the same
Hne schr. William of Bath had her mammal
PIT nearly to the deck, but no person was ma
brially hurt.