Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-02-08

moral justice. Bigamys we understands
done away with, aud prohibited by severe
penalties. As specimen Of the manner
in which they dispense justice ii cases Of
trivial import, We relate the following an
ecdote said to be authentic.
An Indian assaulted another. of shieEf
regular information was mate. The judge
ordered the sheriff TO bring TIE parties be-
lore him. The sheriff went in pursuit OF
them, but returned without them. Where
are your prisoners said tire judge. Il
caught Them replied the sheriff. What
did yeu do with them 4 gave The de-
feDdam fiffssu iashes.' What did you do
siili the PLAINTIFF Gave him fifteen too
w hat with the :alassaer cs =;:s-sss 2
Why gave him twenty five lassies--for
bad he held his tongue there would have
been none OF this fuss and trouble 1t
would be well if all the dispensstions OF
justice could be SO equally AID promptly
nistered.-SaUGnnah Museum.
4necdofe Of American frogs.-David
Battle " Arden, ESQ. a native oil Down,Iate
Consul for the United States at Paris. in
bis history Of America, relates the follow
ing extraordinary circums suce, on the au-
ihoriiy of Anbury, said to be currently
believed by The natives :--dnriag the great
heat of the month Of July. i758. a poad,
containing an area of nearly three miles
square, lost all its waters, aud the is0gs
which Inhabited it,uaBy thousands in nlIm-
Der, by some wonderful instinct. Sc out
for the river Winnomantic, distance of
nearly five miles and passing iQ the night
through the lows Of Wlndham, The ishabi-
'ants imagined that their noIse vas that of
an enemy : detachment Of French ard In-
dams. with whom not being able to cope,
they fled, almost naked to the neighbor-
ing woods, where hearing sound. dree
tete, which was supposed TO mean treaty.
thee persons were sent for the purpose of
negotiation, who 5000 discovered that it
was an army IF thirsty frogs, Ted on by
their king, who refused all treaty oat of
his natural element.
Longevity of the P1rrot--and original
notice of DR.. Fraakiin.-The parrot is
generally understood to be a bird Of ex-
trems long liie ii will therefore uot SUR
prise our ornithnlogicai readers to b. in-
formed that o0e Of this species dieda lew
days ago, in Preston, which must haye liz
we'd nearly, if not quits, a eensary, Il be-
lOnged to au Old lady. Ia whose fsniIy it
is known to have been an inmate Tor almost
the whole length OF this period Th7 Ia
lily herself is ia her 86sh year, aad the par
rot was ia her parents possession when she
zrae hnrs lint tfaff han So
previous to This event. we believe there 10
now no means Of correctly asceHaibiug
1t nay, perhaps, not be deemed soiails iF-
relevant TO remark here, that during some
part of his time the celebrated Fraktin
lodged 10 the same house, the family being
by marriage distaHtIy related TO him. This
happened when the transatlantic philos0-
pher and statesman was in this country on
behalf of the American provinces, aud
probAbl when he was uoier some appre.
tensions for his personal safety, short
time before the war broke out. Whilst
on this visit that illnstrious man amused
his leisure hours by forming with hrs own
hands, one Of those simple instruments Of
music now common as toy, composed OF
rude pieces OF wood Of various lengths,
linked upon string, and kept by the in.
PREVENTION of small eorks. With this iu-
slrument, which was recently presented to
gentleman Of saste in Preston, in whose
possession we have seen it, tie Individual
who was destined to become one of the
founders of a mighty state, amused the in-
tant mind Of niece TO the lady we have
mentioned. 1t will b. known to those
who are acquainted with the philosophical
researches of Franklin that his attention
was directed to this apparently triflins toys
before he entered upon hat series o. ex.
periments, with glasses, which finally led
him to complete the sweet toned musical
instrument he so appropriately called the
Harmonica. - Preston paper.
4 nev and cheap conductor Of lightning
and Ruid MIR. Capostolle, a French
professor of Chemistry, affirms that
rope of straw supplies the place Of metal
conductors. The experiments which he
mas made con6ru, as he says, that The
lightning enters rope of straw placed in
lis way, and passes through IL into the
ground so gently, that the hand OF per-
sou holding the rope at the time does not
perceive it. Mr.. Capostoile adduces the
following in proof Of his assertion -" is
we'll known" says he, I" that severe
shock is received BY person who iIn-
touches the Leyden vial. But
il person take rope of straw, ony
seven or eight inches long, in his han