The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-10-18 00:00:00

THE GREAT FYIOT RACE.

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' Rainer went over more 'ground in the: time In bis match with
.Crew, Capt. Barclay's man, in April last, than ever was done
*foie, viz. 90 utiles and a half in 17 hours, when he fell ex-
hitusted. Cross once did the ground in 19 tours, and a Keatish
man, yctept Doctor Mills, did it a few years since in 20 hours.
lieeterden gonrse, a distance of one mite, was roped ranted ea
thisisecaiino, to prevent the irruption of horsemen, and tie pe.
Vest/inn started at tea o'clock on Wednesday night, backed by
'shine of the London cognoscenti,
_and time was barked by a po.
altos-merchant, wboknew its value. Rainer did SK miles is
(Our hours, when he took refreshment, and resumed his task
With much gaiety. He caudated to proceed at the rate of seven
aides an hour; and having gone betwixt .40 and 50 utiles, a
violent storm, which lastektwo hours, compelled him to shelter
dozing
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ii. his tent although he went some miles in it. The mia
made the groood like a sheep track,. cad the wind was boister-
stin the whole time of the pedestrian's travels. He. stopped
reed the
115kfierh°it tent apparently as fresh and
eilit
welti nug
isi I stoppages)ithwehenllegnhenitoreintstastedesh:la fouill,;:albead he was backed to win in 2to 1 and
sto it. dock were the pedestrian's own anticipations of success,
that there were no taker/ of odds. He lest none of his a doss.i
tioa sad' gots; the 68th mile, the greater part of which be
I wsdked ; and be continued to go the 69th mile at a very slow
I walk, and baring finished it, be retired to Ms teat, twelve hours
land nine minutes of his time being eipired. He reclined him-
self on the sofa, and wasseized wi A convulsions of the strongest
kind, which lasted a length of tithe, and he wri, 1116111 tit/ re-
moved of the ground in a pintechaise in a dcplor.ible awe,—
The best Judges of 'pedestriinism are satisfied, that to perform,
=eh it match is not within the physical powers of man; aid
Ratner is yet the first pedestrian of the day, from one mite to
tasty..
ANOTHER GRAND AITEHPT.
Roder Mills, of whom we bore before spoken, ambitions to
)preserve the honour of the Ingo of Kest, started after Rainer had
been beat, to do the 1411 mild 111-twinty hours, but we have not
beafd the result. •
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A men last week atteuipeed damneder his wife, at
Gainshorosigh, by administering:newsiest, hm What
breakfast. Fortunately the dose being ton,poyekstle
(*awed immediate Hitless, and induce& the'vtoman,
who suspected that she was poisoned," toappiy for
medical advice. She has since recovered. The man
has absconded, , - •
The body of a private in the 7th Dragoon Guards
was last Week found in one of the neili Urthicavilry
barracks at Haddington, into which it is supposed he
had thrown hiniself. •
On Monday morning last, an Irish recruit (who
had arrived at Worcester ssa Saturday, on his route
through that city), made an attempt to drewo.,bius-
self in the River Severn, in Digley, but was foots-
nately taken oat before he was exhausted, and con-
veyed to the Shades pnblic.house, in Frog-line' near
the Severn ; when, after remaining half an hour,
being recovered, he naturally took his walking-stick,
and proceeded to the spot .again, where he first
threw his stick into the river, and then himself. The
lattir project terminated his life, and he was maw.-
untitelY drowned:
Stiaitai Itersnwaaataas.—There has happened
in the 'comniune of the department of bons-le-Saul-
aler, an intermarriage very ram The father and
OA, one Jtanted-Psysa, the Shit I'sur,, married at
,tite same time two sisters. The degree of ieletioe-
.ollp that is the consequence of this union, is a very
dingutar connection. By this means PETER is become
the brother-in-law of his son, and of his son's Wife;
the mother-in-law of *Psut. Is his sister-in--law, and
Ail; wife the daoghterlin.law.of her sister. If Psysa
has children they will be, the brothers of their uncle
:PA.1;1., those pf PAC/71k !Alf be ilw_gratyl-ckildren of
teir aunt. The 'VIA?... a Pima iikewree, wbo are
after those of 'Eratri;: WilMetbe uncles of their
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