The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-08-10

=, Inc General Assembly of the Church Of
scotland have passed resolution forbidding
tne Rev Mr. Irving from preaching in any
cnurch IN Scotland. This was in consequence
OF the publication ola book by the Rev gentle
man, IN which he asserts tho peccability of
our Saviour. Mr. Irving, it will be remember
co. was the assistant of the Rev. Mr. Chalmers
WINE IN Giasgow-but afterwards being called
10 London, he there attained much celebrity
ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY PGTRIor GONE.
DaVid williams, the last of tile captors Of
MaJor Andre, died at Rensselaervie, N. Y, on
tuesday last, in the 18th year of his age.
Auction DUTIES. The duties paid into the
reasury by the Auctioneers in Boston for the
last SIX months, amounted TO rising $4,000.
iOf this SUN Coolidge & Haskell, the highest
on the list, paid 1880.
FATAL AccIDENr. Mr.. John Poppal of Sec
street Market, intending to take dose of
magnesia yesterday morning, in mistake swal
lowed portion of sugar of lead. He proceed.
ed to market Immediately afterwards, under
the impression that he had taken nothing more
than mild cathartc, but became sick and died
few hours Observation-Disclosures Inquirer
DESPERATE Duel! On Tuesday morning.
r. DT' Esq accompanied bye e., Esq,
Esq, had hostile meeting at the Fifteen Acres.
IN Dublin park. The parties fired seven shots
each, at the distance of taoO hundred and ffy
PAGES, and at length, through the intcrcession
OF anxious friends, were induced to relinQuish
the murdsrOuS cOntest.-DuGtiMp aper.
Miss Louisa Trefry, aged 2G, died in Boston
on Sunday morning, from drinking a solution
OF sugar oil lead, which had been carclessly left
on The table over night, and which she, Leinr
age.
In lay, Me-, recently, a son of Rev Thomas
Dollof, aged 90, died from inhalino throuyh
his nnstrils into his lungs, the contents
o, puii-ball,' "a dead fuhgus) to check
Diceding at the nose it probably strangl led him.
NEW TREArfsE ON SILK. Carter, Hendee
~ Ba0cock have in press a new treatise on the
culture OF tho White Mulberry tree and the
raising Of silk worms, by jonathan H. Cobb,
Esq prepared under the direction of His Ex
ceNcncy, Gov Lincoln agreeably to a resolve
OF the Massachusetts, Legislature passed last
february-tlie treatise TO be distributed THROUGH
the several towns of the Commonwealth.
NJ E. Farmer
DIsGRAcEFUL EXHIBITION. A fellow recent.
ly sold bis wife at Long Moor Gate, Bolton
Tor 30. Gd' and gallon of ale. The purchaser
was man who lodged in the house She was
tract, and shortly after the belman announced
that her husband would not be answerable for
any debts which she might in future contract.
Manchester (Eng) Guardian.
SOMETHING New. Some days since mer.
chant of our village who had recently come
among us, was induced by his next nelehbor.
to sell his whole stock by 1ofight the nelghbor
agreeing to pay at the rate of IS cents per
pound The stock was forthwith sent TO The
pubic scales, and the weight ascertained, when
the seller found TO his infinite surprise, that ho
had made sale at a loss of about $500 from
cost-UticG Observer.
Mrs. Howe of Camberleng, (Pa) recently
had cancer cut from her breast, which weigh.
ed thirteen pounds, and had mass of bone in
the centre, extending in different directions
Though far advanced in life and much enact
ated, the patient did not suffer much in tho op.
Grafton, which lasted twenty minutes.
A bell has been cast at AspinwalPs Foundry,
Albany, for an Episcopal Church in Rochester,
weighing 265O. II Is four feet two inches
across the mouth, and is three and quarter
feet high.
The Rutherford, N. C. Spectator says-''We
nre informed by gentleman of undoubted ve-
raclty, that neighbor of his killed, during the
late wheat harvest on his plantation, rattle
snake OF very large size. We have not the ex-
act dimensions, but it ia stated that it took one
bushel and peck of bran, to stuff the skin
when taken off, and that il had sirty-ser rat
ties.