Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-09-12

the town. Gen. Bolivar has given a
months notice TO Gen. La Tore, the
Spanish commander 10 his front. The
Spaniards have sent ten officers over 10
BaranguiIa, to beg months armistice for
Santa Martha and Carthagena, which as
yet has been refused.
The affairs never looked SO well as at
present; the remaining term Of the year
must settle the whole--the new Constitu-
ton has been offered 10 the Independents,
and rejected with disdaiD.
The Independent brig Of war Urdanesa,
struck on rock off Carshagena, whilst
blockading that place, aud was totally lost.
From the Geneva Palladium.
Warning to Husbands. Last week the
citizens of this village we're gratifed with
an act of summary justice. A farmer in
this town, 10 easy circumstances, iufatu-
ated and seduced by the aliuremeats Of a
woman Of disgusting appearance and aban-
doned character, by the name of Eliza
beth Mcclure. actually turned his wife
and children out OF his house TO give room
for his dulcina. The poor woman, who
is pattern of industry, and her children,
we're bumanely taken under the protection
Of her husbands relations, she having
none in this part of the country. Infor-
NATION was given to the magistrates, who
on examination Of the affair, found that
he had absented himself from his wife,
and thereby violated the law. They di-
rected the overseers Of the poor to enforce
the 22d section Of the g act for the relief
and settlement Of the poor" by taking and
seizing the goods and chattels, and 10 lei
out and receive the annual rents aud profits
Of the lands and tenements Of this un-
faithful husband for the benefit of the
wife and children.
This was duly performed, aud the stat
ute properly enforced the same day by
the overseer; and on his application to
the Justices, the aliuring dufcina was
brought up for examination as to her last
place of legal residence. She utterly re-
fused to give the magistrates any satisfac-
ton on that point, or respecting her iu-
FAINT, which is supposed to be the illicit
offspring of the farmer. She continued
obstinate for long time. aud refused to
answer any question, for which she was
about to be committed, but Mr.. Justice
Dox having convicted her as disorderly
person, she was committed to the county
gaol for sixty days at hard labor.
GosHEN, IN. ~ Sept. A.
On Thursday morning last, man by
the name OF Gilbert Horton, about iii
years old, of the town of Monroe. was
brought 10 Goshen gaoI, charged with
having committed murder t,usnty years
ago. A great variety of particulars in
relation to this affair are already in circu-
lation, and we deem it 10 infringement Of
the rights and privileges Of any Of the
parties concerned, to publish the most cor
rect statement We have been able to col
lect--our readers will expect tive shall
therefore give 1t 10 them.
10 the year 1900, man named Amos
Wood, living at or near Butter Hill, in
the Highlands, died very suddenly--he
was well in the evening, and 10 the morn
ing was found dead. We do not learn
that any suspicion Of murder was enter
tanned at the time, or that the body under
went any examination. A report was
prevalent, that Horton had been intimate
with Mrs. Wood, some time before MIR.
Woods death-but for the truth of this
we cannot vouch. 1t is however true,
that soon after the death Of Mr.. Wood,
Horton and Mrs. Wood lived together as
man and wife.
Sometime after the death Of Wood (how
long we are unable to say circumstances
we're unfolded which caused Mrs. Wood
TO be apprehended on suspicion of having
murdered her husband. 1t was said she
had been to New Windsor, aud procured
arsenic, with which she poisoned him.
She accordingly was arraigned at the cir
cult court 10 this county, aud after the
district attorney had gone through with
his testimony, the presiding judge told
him If he had nothing more TO offer against
her she must be discharged, and she was
accordingly set at liberty. This woman
has been dead several years. II our re-
collection is correct, some suspicion was
attached to Horton at the time, as having
had hand 10 the death Of Mr.. Wood, but
he has never been unprecedented for it until
now.
| About five or six years ago, Horton
was apprehended in the town of Monroe,
for breaking open aud robbing house OF
store in Sussex county, N. J.. He then
appeared terrified at the idea Of going to
the state prison, (and as the story goes,
but this he now Denies he called two men
Of his acquaintance aside, and told them
he had been once TO the state prison, and