The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-11-17

Wool ~ Banailoe Fair-the arrival aud departure of
the Judges TO and from your Afse-.owns their fplen-
cid retinue, the Sherrifs iveres, and an accc.
OF thesiIhe OF high water at Dublin Bar
DIED, on the goth ult. Ifjy Elisabeth CA:
borne, wife Of his eSceefcy the Governor Oft this
Provlnce-and, on the fame day, his only daugt-
ter and child, aged four years. To do iaifice
to the character of Mrs. Claiborne to portray
inc various virtues which marked her as the Oh.
Ject OF universal admiration and efeen, is A talk
far beyond our ability to perform. EQUALLY
fruitieis would it be For us, TO at.e1,.,t to c.
pre1s our COMMUNICATION at this mon mc,srchoi-
y and diitrefline event, after the univer! fyr.-
patty and deep felt lamentation, which has been
10 itrongly r1anifeaed By every ciafs and def
crlptIon OF our fellow-citizcns. Of M,s. Cls.
borne 1t may be juaiy faic, that her virtues pro.
cured her the love CT all who knew her-To 4
dignifed department and a mafculinc under
itsuding, fhe united all thofe accomp iiihnents
which could adorn her fex-Fier fuperior ey
cellence feemed hidden Only from herfelf.-
Shrinking from the obieryaton of the world, ft,e
was the theme Off conftant eulosium. Wher-
ever The moved there was Joy wherever f,e was
Known there was an example OF ali that was ex-
cellent, all that was amable in womau.-Fiffrd
to adorn he higheit ftations, to Glipe in the
hrightet circles of gaiety and fplendour, the mo-
hiehts OF her felicity were thete when unobferv-
ed by others, fhe had the humble opportunity
OF DONG good. She avoided rather than foupht
ior the attention of the world, and the very tri
butte which gratitude paid TO her affiduous and
unWearied benevolence, was 4 burthen to the
qinntereitedneis and generoiity of her nature.
Let IL then be recorded, that, although cut off:n
the very prime Of lite, her life has moi been n,ort
iince every day of it was devoted to the per-
I ha OF lone duty TO the encreafe of bp-
mifery. Long will her memory be chcriihed in
grateful recollection bv the virtuous and the
good. ". OIL. Union, GA. 1.
Il BEAR FIGHT
a Gentleman from Cayuga county, between the
Seneca and Cayuga lakes. reatss thar Mr. Way-
bone, farmer in Ovid townnip, went out one after
through the woods in fearch OF his horfcs tax
ing with him his rifle, with the only load of anrnuni-
tion he had in the houe. On his return home about
an hour before duik, he perceived very large bear
eroirg the path; which he infantry fred and the
bear fell, but immediately recovered his legs made
tor deep raviEe, hort way ahead Here he track
Cd AIN a while by the blood but NIGHT coming on,
and exposing to find him dead IN he morning, he re-
t.irned home a Little before day-break the neyt
morning, taking pichfors and hstchet, and his ION,
boy OF ten eleven years of age with him. he pro-
ceeded to the place in que;t of the anir,lal-rhe
glen or rvins into which he had difppeered the e.
yeniDg before IS eighty ninety feet from the top OF
the banks TO the bottom of the baulE below: down
this preepice rea Of three four yards in breadth
is precipitated III uhbroken meet and forming
Circular baton or pool, winds away among thick un-
derwood below
Alter reeolnoitering every probable place of re-
treat, he at length dGc6vered the bear who had made
his wsy up tie other de Of the rayine as far as the
rocks would admit him, and Eat under a proieaiag
Cliff, Hedtaii.y eying the motions Of his enemy
Waybone dsiiring his boy to remain where he vas
took the Pitchork and defending to the bottom, de-
terinined to attack him from below
Inc bear kept his petition until ne got within fix or
ieven teet when, the infant Of makuig ifab with
the pitchork he found imelf grappled by Bruin and
Doth together rolled down forwards the pond at Leaf
twenty or twenty-five feet, the bear i1unchinr his Left
arm and breait, and huggrg him almon to fuFoca.i-
Oily great exertion he forced his right arm psrty
down ms throat, and in that manner endeavoured to
triangle .Iim, but hurled headlong down
through the buihes, greater diAance than before,
into the wafer-tiere Gnoiug the bear gaining ON him
he MADE one defperate effort and forced his herd part
~ under water, aud repeated his exerton, at leupth
Weakened the animal 70 much, that calling to his bow
who food lhe other ide in tate li.tle Cort Of d
traction for the fate Of his father he funk the ed5e of
his Ratchet hy repeated blows, into his brain.
Waybone, though robuit mufculsr man was with
great difficulty able to crawl homo, where he law for
upwards OF three weeks, with bis wounds his arm he
ing mahed from the louldcr to the elbow ;n,o tho
bone, and his bresf fevere!y mangled The bear
weighed upwards OF POUR HUNDRED and TWENTY
pounds. ~ n Pr
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