Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1843-04-20
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4 Brcad Stuff m ls42 The whole amount
Of bread suils raised in the United States in
the year le42, including corn and potatoes,
was ZIG, lI7 $50 bushels. This allows for the
whole estimated population, nearly thirty.
nine bushels for each man, woman, and child
\ IN this country.
4 SpaniSh Coins Tho Banks in Boston refuse
to receive the Spanish coins representing frac
! nonol parts of dollar at tho previous rates.
Il Quarters nre received al 23 cents. .Nme-penccs
! a, 10 cents, aud Fourpencc haypennieS at
/ cents.
H This has been attempted before, but the
| public and the banks generally did not agree
10 il.
1 From one word of two =, Ilnbles, containing
! only seven letters, iboro can bo formed, by
transpositon, not less than 80 different words.
| The word s-remains.
Il 1t i, the excellence of n great mind To tri-
/ umph over all misfortuncs and nfelicities.
/ Every man IN business finds it necessary to
! have signs To designate his place Of business
/ and the character of that business. lie should
! know that what his sign is to his shop, factory
! or store nt home, an advertisement is to him
\ all over the country: one is a standing, the
! other flying sign, lighting down under lie
! eve Of thousands aud thousands of persons.
/, 1t is stated as within the experience ofmany
! worthy men that man is happier aud reads
his newspapers with new interest for having
! paid for them,
I. a Magurtser, says the Mercantile Journal,
fixed all his audience in their position of
laughing, gaping, &c. One Young fellow,
who wns trying to steal kiss from his girl,
! was fixed with his lips puckcrod up
!. Tur Hupsos.-The first boat Of The season
from New York 10 Albany was the Utica, which
succeeded in making her way up to the Albany
! docks at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning.
! The appearance Of the comet is said 10 have
| caued great alarm among tho population of
| Yucatan, especially the lndian portion OF IT,
! A full view Of it was had every night IN the
Gulf, and tho nucleus was seen very distinctly.
n Bracke,t-.,ho Sculptor, has executed bust
] Of the late lamonted Bishop Grswold, which
is said to be very fine,
/ Father Matthew, the Great Irish Apostle Of
1 Temperance, it is said, will visit the United
States this summer
+ The Merchants Exchange in New York is
advertised for sale by the Sheriff lis debts
! amount to upwards of $300,000.
II Ii is said that loco ioco Senator in Maine,
on arriving at Augusta, by mistake wen, 10
| tho .2rstnal instead of the State House, and
| on demanding his seat, was requested 10 sign
/ tho books of The establishment, when he
/ found himself enlisted in the army for seven
| years
n Precocity--A boy Of II lately married a girl
of i3 n, Quebec. The boy imposed upon tho
clergyman by wearing false whiskors, and the
girl by cotton broastworks.
/ Timcs IN the S0mhrtSt.-The Vicksburg
Sentinel saws: Wo see hundreds Of thousands
of acres Of land advertised to be sold for taxes
/ in this State where the tax amounts only to
ten cents, aud the priuicrs ieo for advertising
the same to fourteen dollars.
4 We learn from the Philadelphia and Balti-
more papers that the Pennsy ylvonia and Tide
Water Canals are in good navsnb'c order, and
that canal boats from ia. interior Of PcnnslI-
,ania may ha louked for III few days. The
! Baltimore American says tho Snsqnchnnnah
river is reported ~ be IN fine order for The de-
sccndlns spring trade.
Exemplary damages trial which took
place ia the Circuit Court at Buffalo, lew
da,s since, excited considerable interest
II was tho case or Enders vs.. Smarly for
u breach Of promise Of marriage The jury
gave $1,000 damages. Another trial took place
between the SANE parties, IN a suit brought ~
Nh, name Of the father of the first plaintiff, for
the seduction Of his daughter. The jury gave
$4,000 damages.
I .7nothcr Miiier Tichm. Mrs. Ia, Tor, re.
spectacle lady Of phl'ndolphia, was s"nt to ia"
insane hospital on Friday last, perfectly crazy,
in consequence. of the beiIcf that the world -
10 be DESTROYED on the 23d inst. Can amy Que
tell ~ what sort of punishment the preachers
of Miller, doctrines ought to have
I Company T. United States Artillery, arrived
NJ Charleston ~ the schr stephen y iranri'
nn The 9h inst from ST Augustine. TIE
company wns under tho command "I Lieut. y
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