Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1818-12-15
SUMMARY.


Melancholy Disastsr.-The sioop Eli
"a, on her way from BeleviIle to New.
York, was cast away on Oyster Island,
10 the gale on Saturday evening, the 7th.
inst. Capt. Glass and two other men we're
lost.
Trial for Mmder.-David Phillips,
who in September last murdered his wife
at Marblehead, Mass. has been acquitted,
being considered insane.
Upwards of five hundred dollars we're
received at late collection ia the church
in Allen-street, New Y ork, for the benefit
Of the Methodist Charity School.
Don Thomas de Ceres, cemmandant Of
Cumana, in Venezuela, is said to have
communicated to Gen. MoriIlo dispatch,
stating that he had frustrated an attack
made by the Patriots, aud had driven them
back into the country with loss. We be-
lieve this account is given on the autheri-
ty of the chevalier de Onis, as late arri-
walls direct from Cumana, make no meu-
ton of such an affair.-W. City Gas.
A half sieve of Delaware pippins, very
large handsome American apple, of which,
it is said, there are only two trees in
England, was exposed for sale, yesterday
in Covent Garden market, aud sold at the
rate of one shilling {sterling) each apple.
London paper
| Great Slaugh.er.-We are requested tc
state as fact (says late Cooperstown
N. Y. Paper,) that party of twenty-five
boys few days since, killed 10 the town
of Hartwick, three thousand four hundred
and forty-one mice. So numerous are
these vermin, that the contents of our
granaries, barns, and even potatoe holes,
are threatened with entire demolition.
Not log can be overturned or a stone up
lifted in our fields, but those depredators
flock from their hiding places 10 great
numbers.
Common Scold.-Was lately tried be-
fore the city court Of Baltimore, Mary
Davis, indicted as common scoId' .
After hearing evidence, the jury in about
an hour and half returned with verdict
of guilty. The punishment for a common
scold, agreeably to the law, is public
duCking. But the defendant having dis
appeared, sentence was not pronounced.
We understand that all the coloured
persons taken out of this state, since the
passing Of the late law against the slave
trade, by Compton, Raburgh and Co.
have, through the vigilance and activity
of our Pennsylvania neighbours, been re-
turned, and, as we suppose, are now free.
Trenton FedcraliSt.
Sunday Schools.-A London paper oil
the 22d Oct. states, that the total number
Of Sunday Scholars ia Great Britain and
ireland, is about five hundred and fifty
thousand, attended by sixty thousand
teachers.
In Switzerland a new mode has been
adopted to prevent pauperism; among
the articles is the following -" That all
who obtain relief from benevolent institu.
tions in any wise, are forbid to frequent
taverns and tipling houses uadsr seuere
penalties" This is regulation well
worthy the attention Of the American pub
lie.
A late Liverpool Advertiser says, " the
bark of the Willow tree burnt TO ashes
mixed with strong vinegar and applied to
the parts, will remove all WARTS, CoRNs
| or other excrescences on any part of the
human body" Perhaps the above recipe
may be worth an experiment.
| The Hornet.-The U. S. ship Hornet
Capt. Read, from Copenhagen, last Fay
al, arrived at Boston on the I'd instant
having Oh board the mutineers Of the
shooner Pittsburgh.
Tremendous Gale.-The gale which
was experienced on the night of the ST.
inst. has done much damage to the ship
ping and wharves ia New York. The