The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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RUMoRs OF WAR. For few DAYS mast n
rumor has been in circulation, that War had
been declared by Russia against Franco. By
our foreign news, it will be seen that the report
is, at least, premature.
We are happy to learn that it is nsccrtained
by the accounts from Antwerp to the 18th Nov.
That the losses to be borne by the merchants of
this city are very inconsiderable compared with
what were nPprehended- altogether not more
than thirty thousand dollars; and that all Tho
Honee belonging to the merchants of Salem,
| Ma[5lehead, and Newburyport, escaped The
eontiagration, not being placed in the Kings
Warehouse or Public Entrcpot
Boston Daily .4do
letter received in London from St. Peters
Dnrg, BY respectable commercial house, states
Ihat me cholera morbus at Moscow. far
rom diminishing, is rapidly on the increase.
Gut OF 2Ou who arc attacked daily with this
comPla Mt, 100 die in the course of "a hours.
xtr,ct of letter dated Iverpool. 10th
Nov. i9So Our rail road from this to Man
I chester continues doing well; the receipts
from passengers alone exceed taco thousand
pounds sterling per week, and the people are
no longer fearful to travel at the rate of twenty
miles an holr.
Lady Morgan, in her late work on France,
mentions having seen horrible relic in the
museum OF private gentleman. It was a copv
oil the Constitution of 1893, bound in human
SKI" 1t had been the property of terrorist.
VINO paid the folfeit Of his atrocity on the scat
The Importance of single type is illustrat-
ca oy Inc following notice in western paper ::
he Court of Fle1s and Quarter Sessions is
neid TINS week. In such n court we should
! imagine that there would be brought many
suits lor Islander and back -bifing
Philadelphia U. S. Gazette.
Judge Emmot, in the full vigor of usefulness,
has retired, to the great regret of the bar. Be-
ing more than sixty years of age, by strange
provision lately introduced into our Constitn-
tlon' ne IS excluded from sitting upon The bench
OF this State-Nt1o York Gazcue.
! The nvails of our Canals the present year.
exceed the most sangaine expectations. More
than one million of dollars has been received
Tor tolls, attordlng very large interest upon
the cost, while the advantages to the communi-
ty, if estimated in dollars and cents. would
amount to much greater sum.
! .Neac York Journal of Commerce.
| A shop keeper in Taunton, lately missed a
q tGfnalE customer
| quilted his shop. A search warrant was pro-
cured and on searching her house, several humid
red dollars worth of goods were found, many OF
which were claimed BY different shopkeepers
She has been committed for trial. and it is be-
| lieved that the business has not been driven
single handed. Her husband is believed to be
an honest man.
The Duke of Sussex has been elected Presi-
dent OF the Royal Society by majority of
eight votes over Mr.. Hershel; for the Duke
", for MIR. Hershel, Ill. The Times remarks,
I" The first scientific establishment in the en-
plro has obtained Prince and missed a Philos-
opher."
ILLINOIS. Hon. f. K Kane has boon elected
Senator in Congress fiom this State for the
term of six years from the third of March, and
Gen. John NJ. Robinson TO fill the vacancy oc,
casionod by the death of Hon. John MLean.-
Both Jacksonians.
South CARoLIEA. Tho recent election Of
State Representative in Charleston, Is. CO 10
supply the place vacated by Hugh s. Legure,
has resulted in the choice of ]. L. Petigrue, ahe
Union candidate; for Petigrue 1866. +. r.
Laurens, Qualification candidate) l04I-maiori-
ty for Union 225.
INDIANA. The Legislature met md organic
ed Dec. 6. There is a National Republican ma
jority on joint ballot Of 20 or 30 votes
The Vermont Chronicle, religious paper,
recommends that these churches in that State.
which are destitute of bell, call the congre.
cations together by the sound of the trumpet,
" as in the olden time
mother in New York lately gave her two
children poison, by mistake, for medicine and
both died in consequence.
The only child of LOWS Durham, New York,
an interesting girl, 3 years cid, having been
left alone by her mother few minutes, was
! found on her return, enveloped in flames, and
died in about four hours after.
FRANCE AND THE United STATES. Bv a
royal ordinance, commission has been formed
Tor settling tho claims of the United States
upon tho Fronvl GvvUIu menU, which have so
long been urged by the American Minister.
The same commission will also consider the
counter claims against America, and then form
basis for an equitable and final adjustment of
each, The Commissioners are Viscount Laine.
President Messrs. Geo Lafayette, Beslav,
and Delossert, Deputies; NJ dAndffret, Pres
ldont OF Accounts, and NJ. Pichon, Councillor
of State.
EMIGRATION, 1t is stated in the Quebec Ga.
zette that, during the year 1880, the total num-
Der Of emlgrants who arrived at that place from
the United Kingdom, amounts to $4,000. OF
these, "a, $50 are from ireland, 6S95 from Eng
land, 26OO from Scotland, and the remainder
from Wales The amount of emgrants who
arrived in 1923 was 10000, and in 1929, l5945.
Lorenzo Dow announces that he does not
mean to offer himself ms candidate for the
office of President of the United States, though
he has been nominated.
PEDLARs. There is much complaint made
of late in regard to the multitude of pedars
who roam about the land ; not exactly eating
the bread of Idleness but that of fraud and de-
ccpton. In this State the evil calls loudly for
the passage of some law TO check the practice,
as the one passed not long since is found to be
inefficient in ITS operation, and frequently elud
cd by those on whom it was intended to opcr-
ate 1t is expected that the legislature, at its
coming session, will take the subject into con-
sidoration.-BOSt0n Patriot.
II is calculated, says the ~ Y. Courier, that
$l2OO0,000 worth of domestic goods were sold
last year in that city.