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trees and fences, <°<e and entirely de
stroyed the property of David JL.ee, Jun.
living near the Friends’ meeting-house.
May J.
A gentleman resident in the upper
part of Baltimore county, has obliging
ly furnished us with the follou ing ac
count ol the Ilail Storm, on Wednesday
last.
“•The Storm began at about half past
12 o’clock, and appeared to come from
the South-West, but soon veered to the
North, a little Westerly; a continued
shower of hail about the size of a mar
ble, fell lor hali an hour, when the storm
became more tremendous; large hail
stones, or rather lumps of ire, of an ir
regular shape, many of them larger than
goose-eggs were precipitated in a terri
ble manner, for fifteen minutes longer,
when the storm ceased.—I measured
several of the latter, and found them to
be about fourteen inches in circumfer
ence ! and one of them weighed six oun
ces after it had been considerably melt
ed.”
L-ari tsi.f, jVlnv 12.
Hail Storm.
From the information ve have had
ot Ore hail storm on Wednesday the
29th ult. it must have fallen in different
parts in very large quantities. By a
gentleman from Baltimore we learn,
that in Reistcrstown, the hail-stones
were as large as a half pint. One horse
Was killed l>v them, and considerable
damage done to glass win lows and roofs
ot houses. In Adams country they
were very large ; and in Mifflin county
"hey are deenbed to he as large as goose
* ggs. Two young men crossing the
Juniata in a canoe, had their hands so
cut and bruised, that they were unable
to work the canoe, and were obliged to
let it drift with the current until the
storm was over.—A number of Iambs
and other animals were destroyed by
the hail-stoucs.
Since news is soscant, our readers in want
Of foreign, domestic, or either;
vV e tho’t it best then, to take up our pen,
And give you a sketch of the weather.
Nf.w-London May 6.
It i supposed the rejected Treaty has
been returned to England in the Wasp
sloop of war, which left the Potomac
the 24th ult.
Some difficulty has occurred between
the faculty and students of Cambridge
of Princeton colleges; but we are hap
,py to learn that in thr former tranquilli
tv Is restoied, and the exercises pro
ceed ns usual.
“ On Friday Inst, a man was found
dead in Smith’s cove, on Norwick ri
ver. A Jury of inquest was impan
elled, who, after examination of the
body, gave in their verdict, accidental
ly drowned. It is concluded, from the
best information, his name was A v
t'REW Mu.i.ir, an old countryman.
He was seen the day preceding his
death, much intoxicated.”
On the 4th ol April the snow was five
feet deep, on a level, in the N. parts of
Vermont.
In consequence of the melting of the
great bodies of snow and ice at the north
ward, rivers and other streams have
been raise-el to an astonishing height.
The Connecticut has not been so high
lor many years as at present.
Admiral Cochrane, with a British
squadron, consisting of five sail of the
line- and a few frigates, left Barbadoes
the" Oth of April, in quest of a French
fleet of the same force, which it was
( re ported, laid arrived in the Wtst-In
I dies.
i'll II. a nr i.pii r a, May 13.
In the thunder storm of April 30, the
Portland stage, from Portland to Ports
mouth, was struck with lightning in
Cape Xeddock woods, and three of the
horses killed. 1 he carriage was con
siderably hurt, and the drive r precipi
tated to the ground. Mr. Low of Cape
Ann,and Capt. APClellan of Portland,
were passengers in the stag. , but they
received little or no injury. We had
h avy showers in this town, and in Pos
ton the\ had hail, and the hail did great
damage in X wton. A ham was burnt
with lightning at Cohasset.
[Salem Register.']
Lxtract of a letter from Linrolnville,
Maine, dated April 15.
“ A sevc re shock of an earthquake,
attended with a violent wind, was fell
here on the 10th instant. The conse
quence of which was the l ass of General
ULner’s mill-dam,part of his mill, about
100,000 feet of b >ards and plank, toge
ther with the handsome bridge at Duck
Trap—all of which by the violence of
a north-west wind were c arried out to
sea.—— I lie loss to General Ulmer and
the tpwn \a considerable.”
The celebrated General Mot:f At: and
suite arrived in thi. city on Saturday
evening la^t.
St atement
Of the wilful and accidental deaths,’
whi h have come under the notice of
the Coroner of the city and county ot?
Philadelphia, from the 25th of March,
180'), to the 25th March, 1807, vis*.
21) Drowned.
2 1 Died suddenly.
8 ill treatment.
4 by taking laudanum.
4 by hanging themselv • s.
3 bv cutting their throats.
3 by being exposed to severity
of the weather.
5 by accidents.
1 by shooting himself.
2 by strangling themselves.
1 by jumping out of’a window*
1 by stabbing himself.
1 murdered.
John Dennis, Coroner.
Tb e annual Spanish ship, from Ma
nilla to Amov, h.is been captured by the
British iiigate Phaeton, capt. Wood.
I he prize is valued, on a moderates
computation, at 250,0001. sterling.
On Wednesday afternoon last F.liza
beth Donnelly was brought to the Penn
sylvania Hospital, with her leg very
much shattered, and herbody burnt and
bruised, by the bursting of a shell, filled
with combustibles, which a man who
came to her husband’s house offered for
sal-, with a parcel of old iron.
In the shell there was a plug, which
the vender advised David Donnelly to
burn out, by putting it into the fire.—
The advice he no sooner followed than
the shell went off, w ith an explosion that
alarmed his neighbours.
Several of them, who came to assist
the family, found the clothes were on
fr>- on Donnelly, his wife and child,
which they soon extinguished, but not
until the sufferers were injured by the
burning. The doors in the room and,
c- iliug were broke though in different
directions. David and his child are at
t-nded as out patients of the Hospital
Dispensary, and his wife is taken good
care of in the house. How the vend' r
of this shell came bv it is unknown, but
if any person soldi it to him without
mentioning the circumstance of its be
ing charged, it was a very inconsider
ate, if not a barbarous act.
N i w-Yon k , May 1 3.
Singular tidcidr.—Hast evening
married a Mr George Miller, widower,