Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-02-02

red in the Suffolk Hotel, Boston. Mr..
Hastings, the keeper, authorized the
Boston Courier to publish paragraph,
commencing, owe understand" Sc q
proceeded to inform the reader, that
strong suspicion had fallen upon the bar
keeper, who had absconded, leaving his
wearing apparal behind him, and his ac-
counts unsettled. The money was sub
sequently found in the cellar Of the Ho-
tel, and Mr. Albert Case, the bar-keep-
er referred to in the publication, brought
an action against Hastings for damages.
The cause has Just been tried at the
Court of Common Pleas, East Cam
bridge, and the jury brought in verdict
in favor of the plaintiff, S275 and costs.
Fourteen Newspapers are allowed cv-
cry member ofthe Massachusetts Legis.
lature during the session, which are paid
for at the public expense. The Treasu-
rer's Report dscloscs that the sum of
S2,137,7l was expended on newspapers
exclusively for private accommodation.
$4,000 tons of anthracite coal are said
to be annually consumed in Philadcl-
phia.
In Philadelphia, there were in 1880,
forty fires; damage Slll,997. Unlnsur-
cd, SG5, ,3O6.
The directors ofthe Camden and Am
boy Rail Road have it in contemplation
to lay railway from Philadelphia to y.
York in the ensuing summer.
The Philadelphia Committee on the
occasion of the celebration ofthe French
Revolution, have received Il letter of ac-
acknowledgement from Gen. Lafayette.
A brisk business in flour was done last
week in New York. 5000 barrels at an
advance of 25 cents barrel, were sold.
There were said to have been 400
bonds taken lately at the Custom House
in New York in one day, and l3 loads
of goods sent in few hours to the Ap-
praiscr's office.
The currency ofthc country, according
to MIR. Saniord's Report in the Senate of
II. S. amounts to about 80 millions, con-
sisting of II millions of bank notes, and
8 millions of coins.
SLAVERY bill has been introduced
to the Legislature of Kentucky, and has
passed to a third reading in the Senate,
the effect of which will be to allow any
slave who can show that he has been
brought into the State for sale, to demand,
sue for, and obtain his freedom, as one
whom the law will not recognise as a
slave.
BALTIMORE AND Ono RAILWAY
Notwithstanding the unprecedented ial!
of snow on Saturday the 18th inst. and
the immense depths ofthc drifts, the trav-
el on the rail road was suspended only
one working day, to wit, Saturday, an1
on that day all travel to and from the city
ON account of the violence of the wind
was nearly suspended. On Monday
car, preceded by plough and scrapsr
constructed for the purpose, opened th'
road to the valley of the Petapsco, an'
the whole line oftravel to Ellicot's Mill
was at once rc-cstablishcd.
Many ofNapoleon's great projects TO
improving and adornlng Paris arc nov
to be completed.
A carriage was so rare thing in tn
time of Henry 4th of France, that whe
invited to dine at distance, he made tn
excuse that he could not come, becaus
the Queen was using the carriage.
TIE SroRM.-It is worth rcmarkln
with how much regularity the late storl
made its approaches from the leeward
the quarter where the wind blew, verify
inr the observation first recorded we be
heve, by Dr. Franklin. In Baltimol
the snow began to fall about noon OF fr
day, in Philadelphia towards evening,
New York in the early part OF the nigh
and in Albany at nine o'clock on Satu
day morning, the same hour as in Bosto
the two places being in about the san
parallel of latitude. The storm appca
TO have exhausted itselftowards the nortl
ern frontier Of the state.
NORTH CAROLINA GoLD.-Ofthe 60
coinage of the United States during u
last wear, the amount of S466,Ooo W
from the mines of North Carolina.
The whole amount of money Tor Il
Pennsylvania Canals and Railroads a
propriatcd and placed at the disposal
the Canal Commissioners, up to the ~
ofDcc. 1880, amounted to SlO,233,3o'
50.
There is much active bcncvolencc
the Southern cities, during tins roui
winter. A gentleman in Baltimore ia'
ly gave bbls. flour for the poor, WIN
was baked into 1000 loavcs and distrip