The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-01-10

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Dyke across West Passage, Mar IN
ragansett roads, estimated cost 2O5
Total in this State &IOaI
] Winter at Nsw Osleans--Tbe rolN
advertiser OF the 18th ult. says the
Tor some time experienced all the sei,
OF a Northern winter. So intense had
the cold, accompanied with biting win
sleet, so unusual to the climate, that n
our citizens have been more or less sic y
in many instances valuable lives hav,
lost. Our accounts from all parts
country state that winter had set in will
than its usual severity.
The New York papers are putting OF
dresses and forming new plans for the
year: the Mercantile has new type froi Y
Geo. Bruce's foundry the Courier g. EE
er have had double cylinder press cons
ed by Robt. Hoe, g. Co. capable of pri
1000 sheets per hour, and that paper IL
enlarged after January Is. They inte,
publish 1880 papers, for gratuitous dis
ton, and offer to advertise in that nu h
ono column of advertisements at rs ce
line. The Journal of Commerce is to b N
Iarged the past year it has had a ne
crease of96 yearly advertisers and $40
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ID. advertiser.
The Last Leap.--A rather singular o,
renee took place few days ago. M
and sleigh were left standing in front o.
Washington Hotel, when the horse
fright and ran directly up Central stree
the top OF his speed; on the way he was
oy two ladies in another sleigh, one of "
became frightened, and in attempting to
o,t, landed. directly into the sleigh draw
the frightened horse, and was carried /
TO the top of Chapel Hill before the n
could be stopped. She met with no far
nishap than the lepgthening her ride in a
On equal ratio with the heightening of
fright.--Lo,oeHJ Journal.
The following is the joint committe
Congress on the Library:
On the part of the Senote--Mr. Robl
OF Rhode Island Mr.. Frelinghuysen, of
Jersey Mr.. Poindexter, Of Mississippi.
On the part of the House of Represe
tives--Mr. Everett, of Massachusetts;
Wayne, of Georgia ; and Mr.. verplanck
New York.
I John Townsend was on Thursday last el
ed Mayor of Albany, over the present inc
bent, Francis Bloodgood.
Hon. Francis BayIies of Masssc husetts.
been nomnsted by the President to be Ch.
d'Affaires to Buenos Ayres.
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The Philadelphia papers announce
death OF Mrs. MARSHALL, wife of the c
Justice, on Sunday last, Christmas Dsy.
venerable couple had been married With
few months of forty nine years.
The nominations Of Mr.. Woodbury.. as s
retary OF the Navy, and Mr.. Taney. as
torney General, have been confirmed by
Senate.
There arrived at Fsll River, says the N
itor, from the 18th of March 1891. to Dec
Der 2S, 1881, 3 briggs, 65 schooners. and
sloops. Al vessels brought lumber, 30. c
and were from the West Indies. One /
Der yard received Of the above q carpoe
MISERY. On Saturday Alderman Pain
OF New York, was informed by person ,
resided near him, that two females were Il
IN state of the most extreme desttutio,
an unfinished building in Delaney street.
proceeding to the house the Alderman
covered the sufferers in a garet room,
windows Of which were unglazed, and
OF them frozen dead the other SO much
zen as to be almost insensible. The ma
of the deceased was Elizabeth Appleby.
was about 35 years old. The survivor
by the humane interference of Alderman
mer cnrried to the Hospital, where she
likely to recover soon.
Sixty one tons of Lackawana coal was .
by auction on Monday, in Boston, at IA
l5 dollars per ton.
Sheep.-The number Of sheep in the s,
OF Maine, in the year 1880, ss taken from
returns in the Secretary's office over 6 NOR
old, 446,976, and the annual product of v
is estimated at |, 400, 900 pounds. The n,
Der of sheep in Massachusetts is stated
36O,6S2. Vermont is stated to have 1885
The vaults ofthe Georgia Banks, accord
to their late, reports, exclusive of that
Darien, contain $l,029, ,4332I.
Port Of Boston. imports ofcoston
the district Of Boston, in the year 1881. W
$3.50 bales--of -four 284, ,5O4 barrels /; 8!
bali barrels corn 68l ,13l bushels oats 2:
6O6 pounds ;rye 49, ,495 ditto shorts g, ,4S9
and 5S,O42 hhds Of molasses.
Thirty. one deaths occurred in Portsmo,
N. II. in December, the average age oftw
ty OF whom were serenty-one gears.
The Agricultural Society of Ohio h
proposed 10 recommended the passage o
law requiring that makers Of barrels, 6rh
and kegs, intended for the packing Of fie
pork and other articles, the produce of I
State, to brand their names upon all such '
sels.
The steamboat Stranger burst her boi
opposite Plaqueminc, on the Mississ;on;