Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-05-04

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neighbors. True Amer.
| Colonization Of Blacks.-The Mana
gers of the American Colonization Socie-
ty have addressed the public for funds 10
aid in carrying the object Of the society
into effect-particularly for contributions
to redeem between thirty and forty Afri-
cans imported into Georgia contrary to
law, and TO be sold for slaves unless the
society pays the expenses the state has in
CURED by them, and engages to transport
them TO Africa. 1t is thought 5000 dol
lars will accomplish this purpose. G. w.
z. Gusts has offered the use Of an island
at the mouth of the Chesapeake bay, for
their temporary accommodation. ID.
The U. S. sloop of war Ontario, Capt.
Biddle, has arrived at Annapolis, after a
long cruise on the South American sta
tion. At Valparaiso, Capt. BiddIe had
some difficulty with Admiral Cochrane,
who it is reported, attempted to prevent
MS departure from that port-ib.
Rhode Island Election.-The republi.
can Governor, Lieutenant Governor, &c.
are re-chosen without opposition and the
republican majority in the legislature is
increased. Id.
John Randolph is elected member of
Congress from Charlotte District, Va.
Caution.-It is stated in a late Greens
bnrgh PAL paper, that two lads. sons OF
MIR. Oliver Bovard, residing on The Sc.
wickly, died in consequence of eating
wild parsnips, which they mistook for the
root known as sweet myrrh.
We understand that cloth for two coats.
one black and the other blue, manufactur-
ed by Mr.. Hirst, of Yorkshire, has been
received here as present to the Presi-
dent of the United States. This cloth
sells in England for los. sterling a yard.
N. Z. Gas.
AT a late session of the Superior Court
of Effingham county, Geo John Evers
was sentenced to be hung, for the murder
OF Mr.. Jones, relative, by repeatedly
stabbiog him in the body with dirk.
Most melanchcly-On Wednesday at
ternoon, the l4th inst as Benjamin Hb-
berd, of Williston township (Pa.) was
burning cornstalks in his field, the fire
caught his clothes and burnt him so dread
fully that he expired before he could be
taken to his house. The deceased was
70 years of age; very respectable man.
His death, and the melancholy circum-
stances attending it, have spread gloom
over the whole neighborhood, for he was
well beloved.-Vi. Rec.
JuniuS.-The author Of the celebrated
letters of Junius, is now said to be the lat,
DIR. Wilmot, of Oxford. A letter from
Ill. Campbell, ESQ. F. A. S. dated Lon
don, the 9th Of March, 1919, mentions
that he has compared the MSS. of Juniu.
with the writing Of DR.. Wilmot, and that
there is not, nor cannot be shadow Of
doubt but the same hand traced the char.
acters. MIR. Campbell gives other evil
dence that the Doctor is the author oil
these letters.-N. Y. Gas.
| Warning to the Intemperate.-A late
New-Bedford paper gives the following
Died, at Westport, (Mass.) on the 18th
inst. Peleg Trip, young man CT about
20 years of age. Having, with number
of his associates, spent most of the pre-.
ceding day in idleness and drinking, to-
wards evening one Of the company offered
TO pay for it if he would drink off a tum.
bier Of strong spirits, containing half a
pint or more: he Immediately swallowed
the contents, and was soon wholly sense.
less: medical aid was exerted in vain
and he died the next morning, victim to
intemperance.
At New Lexington, Con. man by the
name of Clap, in frenzy of mind, occa.
stoned by drink, ordered his wife to give
him razor to cut his throat. She refus
ed; upon which he took hand axe ant
struck its edge into his forehead, ther
turned the pole, aud gave himself severa
severe blows on the head, before he ex.
pired.
Fine Sport for Hunters.-A letter from
Trumbull county, in the state Of Ohio
to man in this town, states that at three
parties at hunting in that county, they
had killed 10 Wolves, SO Bears, Pan
Their, 100 Deer, and between A aud soc
Turkeys. Oxford Gas.
Munifcent.--The Legislature Of New
York have appropriated $4,000 for ths
use of the institution for the instruction O
the deaf and dumb.