The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

OEoSDAeA SALT. 1t appears by the report
of the superintendent of the Salt Springs, that
,5l4, 037 bushels of salt were inspected at Sa-
lima during the year 1881, of which l63 900
bushels was coarse salt made by solar evapora-
ton The works which make salt by the heat
of the sun or solar evaporation, cover 1903 024
square feet, or about 80 acres 307G kettles
are employed in making salt by artificial heat
THE CHOLERA. The New York Board of
Health have presented a memorial to Congress,
recommending that men should be sent under
the auspices of the government TO the places
in Europe where the cholera new prevails for
the purpose of collecting facts relating to the
means of preventing, and the remedies for
ing this disease. They express their fears that
this country will not be exempted from this
frightful malady
CoLD WEATHER IN ILLINOIS. letter from
Springfield, Illinois, dated Dec. 22d, says
Cold weather commenced here in November,
and for two or three weeks past, it has been as
cold, think, as l ever knew it in Northamp-
ton. The thermometer stood last Thursday
morning at II degrees below zero, and it has
been almost as cold since
The damage sustained by the people Of Or.
anre County, ~ J., in the death of cattle &C.
casioned by the late visit of mad dogs through
that place, is considerable. We have heard Of
many ~ or Is cows and young cattle that
have been bitten, and have since died or were
killed. Another dog, supposed to be mad
passed through the place few nights ago. A
valuable COW Of Mr.. Amos w. Condit was bad
~ bit-and the dog was evidently at other barn
yards, as appeared by his tracks in the snow
thai fell that night.-.Se,oark Sentinel.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania have pas
sed resolution recommending the re charter.
ing Of the Bank of the United States at the
If II Al
Senate unanimously, in the House, by 20 ma.
jority
The Legislature Of North Carolina, at
tleil late session, passed an act prohibiting
colored persons from preaching, or acting
as class-leaders.
Poor Calvin Edison has been imprisoned
for debt at Wilmington, Del. How they
must have tortured the writ which only en-
powers them to stake the body" And
now poor Calvin, who is nothing but skin
and bones, cannot move for writ of habeas
corpus.
RACERS. Mr.. Rufus Hoyt of Pound
ridge, Conn, is stated in the Stamford SEN
tincl to have made sixteen pairs Of first rate
COW hide boots on the Oath of January.
FIRES. Feb. 5 the Episcopal Church
at Auburn, under the pastoral care of the
Rev. DR.. Rudd, was destroyed by fire.
Cos: about four thousand dollars A good
organ, which cost $3.50 was DESTROYED.
The Congregational Meeting House, in
Dorset, Vermont, was consumed by fire on
the Both ult. The fire was communicated
to the building by the embers which re-
NAMED after service; the wind burst open
the door and scattered them over the house.
In the Umpqua country, south of Columbia
river. there is said to be pine tree, 81 feet
round and ZIG high without branches. The
great chestnut tree in Naples is 1876 feet round.
LoxeEyITY. The following instance of lon
pevty mentioned in the st. Petersburg Ga.
zette is almost Incredible. There is living near
Pol?sk, on the frontier Of Lithuaha an old
man, named Demetrus Crabowski, who is now
1853 years of age. This Russian Saturn has al
ways led the humble but tranquil life of shep
herd, assisted by his two sons, the eldest of
wEom, Paul, is 1870, and the youngest, Antole,
81 years old. They all enjoy high considera-
ton as being the Oldest family in the country.
We find it stated in the London Morning
Herald, that very general opinion prevails
among medical men, that the cholera will not
q be merely transitory visiter to their shores,
but that, like the typhus fever, it will add itself
to the permanent ills which flesh is heir to in
that country.
WALKISG STICKS. Dr. Blandng of South
Carolina, has presented General Jackson with
sundry walking sticks, selected from the spot
where he was born Query-Does he intend
TO give him hint that il is time for him to be |
walking-out of Officer
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER" Miles Cobb
o. Scar smont, Me-, has not yet finished digging
his potatoes; he was at it Jan. 20.
me grand principle on which the British
and Foreign Bible Society was started and on
III" ~ "as proceeded, with a march of indie.
, s;dn s a. moral sublimi,y wasthe distriJu
non q the bibte the sOorid oper. witboy, moi.
or eommeRtl This has dona ,na,a -, no'.
down party spirit and destroy sectarian Jealous.
les among Christians Of differen, de5o oanG"s
a nhl. ,ns" perhaps any single event in the
the gospel of Christ. 'p''au abroad
DR. REYNOLDS of Boston, lately removed
wen of the size Of small bean rro,, ,, ~.
rqade inside. '''n peing