Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1830-06-23


bated and denounced, even by the jack
son men in the State. We have heard of
some amusing confessions and recanta-
tions-but we let them pass until the pro-
per time. Truth is powerful, (says Gen.
Jackson) and will prevail. Amen! says
the editor of the Alexandria Herald.
Many of the Russian females, even Of
a good class, are more fond of ornament
than of personal cleanliness; it is no un-
common thing to see hand loaded with
rings, which perhaps might be fair, if not
begrimcd with dirt.
A London dentist advertises mineral
teeth, which "give perfect sounds of arti-
culation, more particularly the dento lin
gual double consonant tooth"
A late Groton Herald mentions the
discovery of soap-stone quarry in that
town. Several minerals have been found,
and black lead in considerable quantities
had been picked up.
The Philadclphians are engaged in
getting subscribers to petition to the
President of the u. States, to induce
him to commute the punishment of Por-
ter and Wilson, the mail robbers, from
death to Imprisonment for a term of years
Wolves have recently been seen in
Bryan county, about twenty miles from
! Savannah, one of which was shot some
time since. Sixteen sheep were killed
by them in one night.
A friend in Burke County, Geo. writes
to the editor of the Augusta Chronicle
under date of Both ult. awe have the
finest crops that ever were known here
! have Corn in the silks, and saw some
Corn silkcd on the 25th inst.-common
Indian Corn"
An African Temperance Society has
been formed in Philadelphia. Nearly
two hundred blacks bound themselves to
total abstinence at the first meeting.
The Somerset, Penn. Herald, of Mon
day last, says: "a party of twelve men
in Jcmcr township yesterday killed $50
ground squirrels"
A letter from Capt Holdrcdge, of the
packet ship Slas Richards, states that
on his passage to Liverpool, he sailed
from the 10th to the Goth ofApril, (scvcn
days) Il distance of sereaicen hundred
miles Some of the passengers were
landed at port in Ireland on the lth of
May.
The Dcy of Algiers has SIC, 100000,
in his Golfers; q sum sufficient to insure
allegiance and an active defence of his
dominicns for while.
The culture of silk was first commen-
ccd in South Carolina as far back as
1902.
The cost of supporting the poor in N.
York last year was upwards ct one hun
drcd and twcnty-four thousand dollars.
Counterfeit so bills, of the u. States
Bank at Pittsburg, Penn. are in circula-
ton.
An Editor in Illinois lately complain
cd that his only jouncyman had left
him, and that he was obliged to employ
his wife and her sister to enable him to
issue his paper.
A woman in Goshen, N. Y. lately
found letter containing large sum of
money, for the recovery of which re-
ward of two hundred dollars was offered,
and returned it unopened. She did not
even inform her husband of her good
luck till she returned with the reward in
her pocket-thus proving that woman
can kccpa secret.
1t is stated in New Orleans paper,
that a disorder has made its appearance
there, particularly among Spaniards,
which very much resembles the Dengue
of 1928.
The ST. Augustine papers of the Goth
ult. mention the sailing from that port of
the sloop John Dennison, having on
board Capt. Hawkins, late ofthc Mexi-
can Navy, who has been under arrest
some time, charged with the murder of
the late w. A. M'Crca, Esq. of Key
West.
Foxboro', and not Boyboro' deserves
the credit the famous Dunstablc straws,
which stole such march upon the world
of fashion this spring. While supposed
to be English bonncts, they sold for
Sl5, and cost but two. They now sell
at four and five dollars piece. Foxbo-
ro' is famous for the manufacture of straw
bonncts. 1t is said that from 80 to lOO,-
600 dollars worth are annually sent from
thence to the South alone. May patri-
otism have local habiaton, as well as
a name; and Foyboro' long reap n rich
reward for the laudable industry of its
women!