The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

/ hCiS Hl8ulf prosperous. nc IuHlOT Ol q
mortality among the emigrants wholly I'm.
Jnundel. F"rty-sx vessels visited Monrovis
during the last year. Of which twenty-one were
American The country, 10 a Considerable dis.
lance in The interior, has been explored. end
found to PROMISE success to agricultural indus
try. The native tribes are seeking the nrotec
ton and submitting to the laws of the Colony.
The AMERlcAS Navy According to a list
OF the Navy Tor 1881, there are ships of "a
guns each Z ftigates of "a guns; 3 frigates
OF 81; 2 ships of "a Is ships of Is A scboou.
ers of l2; ! Of 5 and 2 store ships Besides
the above, which are afioat, there are on The
stocks, nearly ready for launching, 5 ships of : /.
guns: frigatcs Of a. /; and some smaller yes.
'es The Pennsy lvsnia, on the stocks al Phila-
delphia, is the largest vessel in the navy-and
is suppo ed, by many, to be the largest vessel in
the world The Vermont on the stocks at the
Charlestown navy yard is not 10 be % sneezed
at by whole fleet Of small cruh.
The number Of subscribers for Webs,er's
Dictionary in England and on the Continent,
Is more than nine hundred, and ameng them
vary distinguished individuals.
WIN. Bradford of Montpelier, (Vt) states
that he has horse which he began TO drive in
loaded wagon to and from Boston a few
weeks bafnre he was IA years old In wears.
{ months and days he has been To Boston and
back 100 times. and has n It lost n single t,in
equal to 1000 miles. lie has been 1ne trim
S'hce' ana lie adds is pretty goOd old horse
get.
FIRr. There was a destructive fire at Lou.
| isville, KY, a fortnight apo !. commenced in
the store of Messrs shannon g. TAYLOR. nd
joining the United States Branch Bank II
| communicated TO the store Of Messrs Fitch q
! stewart, and Mr.. Pettitt:-loss estimated at
$40,0OO, part of which is covered by insur
ance.
LOWELL RAIL ROAD. The directors have
concluded TO terminate the rail road from Low
ell TO Boston near .he entrance of the Warren
Bridge, on the westerly side 1t will enter the
city by viaduct across the Charles river east
oil tho Canal Bridge. end will cross the flats
contiguous TO the Prison wharf and the Barton
Point estate. These flats with other lands ad-
Joining, have been purchased by the company.
The location of the road is completed; and il
will be constructed from Boston TO Lowell
without an inclination in any part, of more
than ten feet in mile.
Ono ELECTION. The returns from the late
election in Ohio still incomplete. So far
as at present ascertnined, the following are the
results Elected TO the Senate-Natonal Re-
publicans, S-Jacksonians, A. To the House
OF Delegates-Natonal Republicans, 30-Jack
sonlans, 2l-Anti-nasons, a.. In the list of
those credited TO The Jackson side, the politics
of three or four are unknown.-.Nat Journal.
New JERSEY ELEcTIsN. The Newark Sem
tnel contains returns from all the counties
which show that there will be a tic in both
branches of the Legislature. The House con
slsis OF so members, 25 of whom are National
Republicans, and 25 for Jackson The Coun-
Gil consists of IA members. Z OF whom are Ma.
tlonal Republicans, and for Jackson Last
Year the Jackson party had majority of 20 in
joint ballot-N y J. Of Commerce.
An Apple, measuring one foot two inches
and fve-eighths i'm circumference, and
weighing, when taken from the tree, one
and half pounds, was raised this season
on the farm of Gen. Mansfield near Middle
town, Delaware.
petition TO the Legislature is circulating
in Virginia, to have measures taker for remoy.
ing all the FREQ celorcd people from the State.
The house of John Henry Lewis, single
gentleman of Prince George County, Virginia.
was recently burnt and himself in 1t. For
day or two 1t was believed to be by accident
but now it appears that his slaves murdered
and robbed him, and then burnt the house for
security Five Of them are to be hung.
Darius d. Farpum, is appointed Post Master
at Waterford Mass, in place of James Wilson,
Jr., resigned.
The Washington correspondent of the Unit
ed States Gazette writes, that Mr.. Writ has
sent in His resignation as member of the Bal.
timore National Republican Convention.
CAUTION. The Stamford Sentinel says:-An
Englishman employed at the Wire Factory of
T. Davenport, ESQ.,, in this town. died few
days since from eating toadstools he supposed
they were mushrooms.
III IINIvppcIrv IT, ,,LoIo
OF students connected with this institution is
four hundred and four; graduates IGs, I'm.
dergraGuates $780, of the graduates, 81 are
Theological students; al Law students, and
70, students attending the Medical Lectures
The College Library, for the common use of
the whole University, contains SO 900 books
the Law Library, 5000; and the Medical,
1000: total, 81 900.
AN AMERICAN GoURD. There is a Gourd at
the Museum, the growth of the present season,
under whose shade modern Jonah or even Go.
han might repose. 1t measures FIVE feet four
and hall inches in circumference, and weighs
nifty SIX pounds 1t was raised in Hubbardston
by Mr.. Aaron Greenwood, nephew of the SUI
perlntendent Of the Museum, from seed brought
by Mr.. Moses G., from place 700 miles west
Of Little Rock in Arkansas Territory.
Boston TrarcHer.
states-ln town containing about l400 inhab
ltants, IN sterile part of New Hampshire, about
oU miles north west of Boston, there was manu-.
iactured INTO starch, for the use of manufacture
ers, $4,000 bushels of Potatoes, at 20 cents per
bushel, amounting to 5000 dollars Will our
advocates OF tree trade" inform us where these
farmers would have vended them, had it not
been for our manufactured
CHURCH AND STATE. The Committee Of the
American Sunday School Union have offered
premium of 500, in addition TO suitable com
rensa'lon, tor an approved and original work on
the principles of the Constitution of the United
States, particularly in reference to the separa-
ton OF civil from ecclesiastical power, and show.
ing the evils of their union The size of the
work Is submitted to the Judgment Of the au.
thor 1t should not exceed 200 pages l9ino.
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WORCESTER TEMPERANCE SOCIE-
TY
An adjourned meeting of the Worcester Tenn
perance Society, for the choice of Officers. will be
held at the Town Hall, on FRIDAY 4 VENING,
NOU. a, at o'clock. In the course of the evening