The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-04-27

PALM LEAF HATS. Most of our readers have
no idea, probably. of the extent to which the
manufacture of palm leaf hats is carried in this
state In several towns we might mention,
from twenty to fifty thousand are annually
made. Two establishments in Barre, those of
Messrs. Woods & Lee, sent to market last year
seventy I'VE thousand each. II is calculated
that last year there were made in New England
nine hundred thousand, and the present year,
two millions of this species of hats.
Boston Traveller.
DECLINE OF BosToN" The amount of du-
ties at this port for the quarter ending April /,
io3 |, is estimated at one million Of dollars!
oeing an excess over the corresponding quarter
OF 1881 of $5e0,00O. In addition to the above,
we are gratlhed to state that preparations are
making to build extensively, and that the pros
peei Is, mat mechanics well as every other
Rind OIL business will be in active and prof table
operation. The number of arrivals from for
eIgn ports up to the 25th inst exceeded that for
the same time last year by .fjty-sir.
BOSt Patriot.
Henry St. George Tucker, has bsen appoint
ed President, and the present Judges, Brooke,
Cabell, Green, and Carr, elected to the bench
of the High Court of Appeals, under the new
Constitution Of Virginia. This we believe to
be an able bench and all but one of the judy
es are distinguished friends Of Henry Clay.
ALABAMA. The Florence (Alabama) Ga.
zette declares that notwithstanding large
majority ofthe House of Representatives, and
a decided majority ofthe Senate, when Gener-
al Jackson was first elected, were his thorough.
going political friends, there are now large ma
lorltles in both Houses opposed TO The princi-
pies OF his administration, and, even, opposed
to his reelection.
The official almanac of Portugal, for 1881,
renders no account of the last French revolu-
ton. The government of Don Miguel still re-
cognzes Charles as King of France, and
Louis Philippe as Duke of Orleans
GoLD! The Salisbury Carolinian of the
18th inst, says" We learn from the most
unquestionable authority that from rs to 100
lbs. of Gold (the precise quantity not known)
were lately found upon tract of land in Nice.
lenburg county, about 90 miles east of Char.
lotte, belonging to two men in Virginia,
whose names were not recollectedby our inform
ant. Several pieces weighed from to 10 lbs.
The Boston Transcript states that young
man was nearly sufocated on Tuesday night.
On retiring to rest, being unwel he laid down
on the outside of the bed before undressing, and
happening TO awake, found the room filled with
smoke from his lamp: opening the window re-
covered him. His nostrils were nearly closed
with smoke.
SEED CORN. Last year several persons in
this vicinity tried the experiment of soaking
seed corn in copperas water before planting, to
protect 1t from the attacks Of the worms and
crows. The experiment in all cases. we be.
licve, was successful and we mention il to
call the attention of our readers to SO impor-
tant .-Greenfeld Gazette
A paragraph is going the round of the papers,
stating that, not long since, Spanish noble
man was sentenced to imprisonment for one
hundred years and day. 1t is curious fact,
THAI Francisco SalaZar, native OF Galicia,
born in 1860, was, at the age of 10, sentenced
to transportation for the same term he was
accordingly conveyed TO Ceuta, in Africa, where
he continued to reside until 1881, hauing out
hUed has sentence fire years.-4theneum.
A new dye has been discovered, which will
completely supersede the use Of indigo: it will
be much cheaper, and will yield faster color
than indigo.-LiusrpoOt Chronicle.
TEMPERANCE. 1t is estimated, in the annual re.
port Of the New York Temperance Society, that
the consumption of spirits in that State is reduced
one half From fair calculation it is inferred that
this is saving in money, of S2,e00,0O0 year.
The gain in morality, health and Happiness, is in
calculable.
EXECUTION On Friday last, the pirates
Gibbs and Wansley were executed at .Ellis's
Island, in New York harbor.
The accounting officers of the Treasury have
allowed Col. Monroe $4,000, under the law
passed at the last session of Congress.
The New Bedford Gazette states that a wo-
man persisted IN the storm of Tuesday week.
She became bewidered while carrying her hus-
band his breakfast to a ropewalk
The Erie Canal navigation is opened for the
season, and boats arrive at Albany and depart
in great numbers daily.
In the short space of five days, 10000 ship
letters were received at the New York Post
Office