Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-10-31

aud succeeded IN dri,i ing ava, the bees
As soon as the carrier had placed his horses In
safe, be cane back to us, having for,ned bm.sif IL
against the bees show ed himself anxious
to give all the assistance In HI. power I. ~, horses
But Of them severely injured that he died
the day. The other conducted to Schmogels
dorf but though the vet.iina, surgeon exhausted all
his skill, the annual persisted ia "a hours after.
Ny coaehman had brought his misfnttunes on him-
SELF because Ia endeavourug To suceour the horses he
had lost his hat The bees fastened his nakef head
and deprived him of his tenses, and for forty-eght
hours he remained in state OF suffering that threaten
ed 10 terminate IN his death. We were supplied With
horses, aud bad him conveyed to rreuenbretxen where
he recovered. Vie had at hTst cried vehementy
throat myself passed twenty -four hours In extreme
pain at the same place, aud compelled apply
several poutces TO my head neck and ears to appease
Ny wife. who, a, II by Inspiration threw herself
down into the ditch. came out again perfectly safe;
and IN few DAYS after. the coacbman aud I were at
lrng' IN entireiy recovered.
attribute this accident to two In the arsI
place. now believe IL was not horse-al that stung
the horse as hrst supposed bnt rather the Queen
Bee, which must have been Killed when the animal
rubbed against his companion. conjecture this to
have been the case from natural history Of these
insects II Is yer, common 10 a swarm OF bees,
when deprived Of their leading Queen unite with other
s"atms, ana tau with species OF madness upon the
FIRST objects they encounter.
g." In the next place attribute the circumstance to
the act that contrary TO express prohibition OF the
Magistrates the Commune Of Sehmogesdorf, besides its
proper number # 900 hives takes in equal number
tom Use neighpohiing commuses to tend during the
TIME OF snar'nng, because the flowers. heids, and
gardens which II contains, present singular,y rich
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small space nearly two thousand hives are crowded
together so that Ia the season Of swaimns is Danger
Gus 10 pass that way"
The deaf and dun fond of Nssic.
Inc following interesting account OF the
iondness tor music OF Al artist born deaf ard
unmb. Is extracted fam recent work ON
The art of instrnc,ing the deaf and dumb, by
John PauDrefor, Ar,owsmith. II is part Of
letter written by G. Cbippeudale. Esq. of
"mwick, COPIED into the work of MIR. Ar
m tIs,ef
ing in his brother Nat. Gaz.
Some Years back. probably five or six
young gentleman Of The name of Arrowsmith.
mrnb Der Of The Royal Academy at Somerset
H"nse, ct what degree I cannot remembpr,
came down into this country. aud resided some
months IN Warrington, in the exercise of his
professi' as miniature and portrait painter.
II" was quite deaf. so az 10 be entirely dumb.
de had been Taught 10 write, and wrote an II
~sani hand in which he WAS enabled TO express
his own ideas with facility :; h. was also able
10 read aud understand the ideas OF oihersex-
pressed IN writing. Ii will scarcely be credit
Ell, That person thus rircnmsianced should
he fond OF music, but this was the fact i'm the
case OF Mr.. Arrowsmiih He was at a gentle
mans glee club of which | was president at
'hat Time, and az the elPcs were sung, he
wonld place himsrltnear some articles OF w aod-
en- inrniiure, or a partition. door, or window
sGntfer. and would fix the extreme ends of his
lngcr nails, which he kept RI ther long, upon
TIE edge of the wood or some projecting part
rert omance was finished. for all the while ex-
pressing, by the most significant gestures the
leasute lie experienced tom his perception
OF the musical sounds. He was not so much
pleased with solo, as With pretty full CLASH
vt harmony and il the music was not very
;ood, or should rather SAY, if it was not cor
iec'iy executed he would show no sensation
o' pieasnIe. But the most extraordinary cir.
H""lN'dnre in this case is. that he was most evi-
sently de'is "'ril with those passages in which
The composer displayed his science in modn.at-
in2 his different KEYS When such passages
iarpeHed TO he executed with precision, he
could scarcely repress the emotions of pleasure
ne received within any bounds for the de-
liSht ne evincsd seemed To border on ecstacy
his was expressed mosi remarkably at
orr riuh when the glPe sung, with which
W. often concluded; il is bv Stevens aud begins
with the words" We spotted snakes" sc. from
Shakespeare Midsummer Night Dream 10
the se"ond stanza, on the words, e Weaving
Nrlders Came not here, &c. there is some mod-
nlation OF the Kind above alluded to- and here
MIR A'rowsmith would he in rapiures, such
as wonld not he exceeded by ona who was in
'mned late posSessiOn of the sense OF hearing
These f"cis are very cxtiaoIa iuary ones
aud that they are facts cen he proved by the
evidence NJ six or eight genllenit'i who were
"'.seEt, and by tnIns observed him accurate
Iy."