Wolf Bounty.
The Comptroller of the State of New York, has communicated to the legislature a detailed statement of the monies paid out of the state treasury, to the several counties, during the last five years, as bounties for the destruction of wolves.
The following exhibits the amount paid to each county.
| Dolls. | |
| Allegany, | 5527 |
| Albany, | 40 |
| Broome, | 1760 |
| Chautauque, | 1762 |
| Chenango, | 440 |
| Cayuga, | 600 |
| Clinton, | 280 |
| Cortland, | 77 |
| Delaware, | 1490 |
| Essex, | 577 |
| Franklin, | 2445 |
| Greene, | 520 |
| Genesee, | 1937 |
| Herkimer, | 260 |
| Jefferson, | 2177 |
| Lewis, | 1250 |
| Madison, | 162 |
| Montgomery, | 160 |
| Niagara, | 1475 |
| Otsego, | 143 |
| Oswego, | 1180 |
| Orange, | 200 |
| Ontario, | 1450 |
| Oneida, | 1320 |
| Onondaga, | 480 |
| St. Lawrence, | 3190 |
| Saratoga, | 165 |
| Schenectady, | 22 |
| Steuben, | 3520 |
| Seneca, | 67 |
| Schoharie, | 120 |
| Sullivan, | 970 |
| Tioga, | 1487 |
| Tompkins, | 20 |
| Ulster, | 380 |
| Warren, | 435 |
| Washington, | 20 |
| Total, | D. 38,259 |
The earl of Dalhousie is appointed governor of the Canadas. Sir P. Maitland administers the government till spring.
Boerhaave in his old age.
All peculiarities in the lives of great men are interesting, and much more so when they relate to their latter years. The name of Boerhaave is regarded as the most illustrious in the annals of modern medicine. After having courageously withstood the evils of poverty in his youth, his talents and reputation enabled him, it is said, to realize a property of two millions of florins, which he left to an only daughter. Let us see whether his wealth had not changed his occupations and taste.
In a letter, written in his 67th year, to his old pupil Bassand, then appointed Physician to the Emperor of Germany, he speaks thus of himself: