Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-11-20
d feans.
Top boots are again coming into fashion in
the British metropolis.

Top boots are again coming into fashion in
the British metropolis.
Lieutenant Babbitt has been honorably ac-
quilted Of the charges brought against him by
the Hero of the Lakes. The worshippers Of
the Commodore and President Jackson feel
very sorely the disappointment that has fall
len on the setter-up ofgraven images Bos-
Ion .HiaS.
Irish intercourse ,cih the United Slaes.-lt
is stated by the Dublin Register, Is a fact il
Illustrative of the great amount of intercourse
between Ireland and this country, that tho
postage received in one day, at the Dublin
Post Office, not long since, OH letters for A
merica, amounted to 3O0i.
Pennsylvania Coal 1rade.--Twenty- seven
hundred and siXty-four boats with 97,7G} tons
of Coal, have been dispatched from Mauch
Chunck from the commencement Of the sea-
son, to October Both, and from the Schuylkil
during the same time, 1870 boats with lS7,-
740 tons.
Children Killed by Bears.--Two children
have recently been killed by Bears in Penn
,sylvania-one small child in Tiosa, and the
other ut Petersburg. The latter was little
boy, that had been sent in search of the cows.
The legs and feet of the little sufferer, were
found, which was all that was left to reveal
his fate to his agonized parents.
"Uhat IN Ocean oftears fell thai. fatal day."
The New England Review says, that two
Weathcrsfeld girls lately strung seven hun
dred punches of onions in one day, one hun
dred and fifty being an ordinary days work.
Al the Sqaashes.-IfThanksgiving in Mas
sachusetts go not off with eciat, this year. it
will neither be for the want of u good proc!a-
nation (for Governor Davis has written pat
tern one for the occason,) nor for lack Of
squashes, which every body knows are con-
vertcd into what is by figure ofspeecli, cal
led pumpkin pies. We have newspaper au-
thority for stating that one acre and quar-
ter of land in Roxbury, produced during the
past season, sirteen tons Of squashes of sll-
perior quality! Roxbury has probably out
squashed every town in christendom.
Newspapers in the United .States.--The
whole number of Newspapers now published
in the United States, is Twelve Hundred and
Sixty-Five.
New BED OF CoAL.--There has recently
been discovered in the towns of Blue Hill
and Sullivan, Maine, beneath an immense
quantity of fine granite, a bed of bitumnous
coal, similar to that Of Liverpool, which has
been found to ignite by application to can
die. The place where the coal was dug out,
was about three feet deep, and it appeared in
greater quantities at the bottom, than near
the surface. The granite ledge lies princi-
pully on the farm of Mr. James Means, and no
doubt can be entertained, if the coal exists in
any quantity, that it forms the foundation of
the quarry.
Georgia has larger Senate, than any 9TH
or State i'll the Union. 1T consists of about
100 members, and the House of Representa-
tives Of only about l'6!
Mr. MKenzie, of Quebec, has invented n
machine for tongueing and growing boards
and planks.
Mr. Call, Of Concord, N. H., contracted to
remove the large Court House, at Exeter, N.
H., to new location in that town. II was to
be put in motion on Tuesday of last week.
The IN. H.) Statesman says, Mr. james is
chosen to Congress, in Vermont.
Mr. Ephraim Colby, in attempting to jump
from railroad car in Lowell, last week, got
in the rope aud fell across the rail.
The car passed over his thighs SO that he died
n few minutes
An individual named Guier, or Gricr To-
'cgner, has been arrested on suspicion of be-
ng the person who assossinated Perry, in
on the evening of the election
u Locust Ward. lie had partial examina-
ION before the Mayor, and was committed for
urther hearing The prcsumptive evidence
gaInst him is said TO be very strong,