The Arkansas advocate., 1832-02-01
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 siorm.-We have experienced an 'inpre- cedented storm, He snow in tins county is from to ] feet deep--and the weather is the coldest ever known for the season.
 Buffalo Pal.
 The American Eagle, of stield gives she following shafp account ofthe weather in Chataaque county. s.GiRger a3fd scfssors.-What a snow .-- Two feet deep ir the woods, two and a half on tie hills, and nobody knows now much deeper where 1t is drifted.
 Il LegisJature grarogped by the Ie1aaea- xa.-W e learn from the Norfolk Eagle of Friday, that the Legislature of New-jer- sey were to adjourn the same day, until the first Tuesday ip February, owing to the ptevalence of the influenza among the members, which is so general, that on some days not half of them could attend in their places.
 LiberdHty offhe Negroes At conven- ton of colored people, held at Philadel- phia, 1t vas agreed to raise S2d,0e0 to aid the Sfricao Colony in Canada.
 Lead .Hihes-The II. s. agent of the Lead. Mines in the territory of Huron, states that in Illinois there were ,626, ,4s6 lbs. of Lead made in 1920, and that Tn Hut ron G,697, ,5l2 lbs. were made. There weressix Furnaces in operation in Illinois, and in Huron thirty-two. The total amount made in he state and territory last year was $, ,7s6 .2s5 pounds.
 sN. Y. Coltr. (. Eaq.
 Something Cayious.-In splitting rock about four feet sora and from l5 to IS inch- es thick, for | bailding nov going Up for John Hanna, Esq. of Addison township, in this county, a plate of iron aboutfour inch es long and more than an inch broad. per feetly smooth, and with the initials ". U. on it, vas found in tie middle of it. The split of the rock was perfectly straight, and struck the plate transyersely, so that wien the pieces of the rock were separa- ted, one end of tic plate stuck in une ol the pieces. It vas carefully taken ont, and is now Tn possession of tlr. Hanna.
 Somerset Herald
 Weatheq.-On Thursday morning last, tue thermometer stood at , deg below zero; al 6 o'clock, on Friday, at zero, and on Saturday, at the same hour, at S deg below zero. Its highest range for the last fourteen days, has not been above & deg The wind from the \. Y. N. aud lS. ! F. The observations were made two miles west of tue Hudson.
 .4!baay Argus. Dec. I3.
 GountevJeitlgg gEsfab5iislasuasat.-An ? estab- lishment of this description las been dis covered in Philadelphia, kept by Mir. and Mrs. Washington Taylor--olJ acquaintan- ces of the police. Mr. Washington Tay- Tor was caught in the very act of trans form ing someone doIlarbilis into the moro re- spectable denomination of fves. In the room was bench, wifi all the apparatus for engraving, copy ofMcKenze's 5Gn0 receipts, and some in chemistry. The plates, dies, 6sc. found in Taylor's house, showed the extent and ingenuity ofbis la. bors, Taylor and his wife were both com- prison-the woman taking with her to prison an infant child.
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 The Washington Globe, of December es. says
 Ne have received letter, dated the 26th, from plilade phia, which states that STEPHEN GERARD, the great Banker. lad just expired. He died of Typnus FEVER. \ Liverpool paper states that the rum Der of e1iidren Il, England now enjoying the benefit of saphath School instruction, is ls260,0oG. Ia the United States, the number, we presume, does not exceed 700, ,00o.
 .48arons.--1n the late attack upon Will na, three female warriors fought brayely in the Polish ranks One of them received three wounds with spear, and died, ex- claiming ( How happy should die, did l hut know that Wilma is our own!''
 0li People. There wero found in the I ft. United States during the last census, ,2654 persons who were lee years old and up- wards.
 A lady was lately committed to prison by the Philadelphia police, charged with beat-i ing her husband unnercnuiiy. There are Pear trees in the old French settlements at Detroit and Monroe, whicl, are from l50 to 200 years old, in perfect ly healthy state.
 4 ,coana,a in Casw ell county. N. c. lately cut of part of her tongue with a razor. he reason she assigns IS, that her tongue had led her intoa great deal of trouble ,and ti'at It should trouble her no more
 A "a church where tlere " as a call for a minister, two candidates appeared, whose names were Aaam and Iosc. The latter preached an elegant discourse from the text: Adam, where ant tbou!,' Tn the afternoon, Adam preached from these words s'Lo, lere an I!''
 The navigation of the river and the ca nals is now eIosed, tlle latter probably for tie v hole seasansA The cold weather bas been unusually severe, and the winter has set in earlier 5y several weeks than for years heretofore. We scarcely recotfect aseason in which we have not received the Presidents Message by the steam boat. Thexonstitution came up last eveinng hav ingmade ise way, it;i ard, through tic ice.
 Albany 8rgus, Dec. 5.