Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-05-22

| a. ~ y CioCk, AM
AT late meeting of the Protestant
| Episcopal Convention of Georgia, the
Right Rev. DIR. Bowen was elected
Bishop of that Diocess. DR.. B. is now
Bishop of the two Diocesses of South
Carolina and Georgia.
PR0DIGIOUS.-The following COM
munication is from Major Matthew j.
Clarke:
Mr.. EVANS: In the presence of Doct.
John C.. Cromwell, there was taken
from a dunghill hen, a Liver that weigh
ed IA o.! After weighing the Liver, |
weighed the Hen, with her feathers on.
and to the best of my memory, she
weighed 2slbs.-she was very fat.
DISTRESSING .OccURnENoE,--On
Thursday evening last child about l6
months old, daughter Of Col. Augustine
c. Smith, fell into tub of water, which
we learn had been prepared for wash
ing, and was drowned!-Every means
were used to resuscitate the hapless in
nocent but without efiect-Win. Gaz.
We understand that, at the Circuit
Court of the United States, holden at
Portland, on the first day of this month,
came on the trials of Jelediah Elliott
and Jonah Austin, for false swearing in
relation to the schedule of property
exhibited by them respectively, agreea-
bly, to the act of May l., 1920, entitled
"An act in addition to an act, entitled
can act toprovide for certain p ersonsen-
gagged in the land and naval service OF
the United States in the Revolutionary
war; passed 18th March, 1873" Ell
lott was found guilty, and sentenced
by the Court to pay fine OF ten dol
lars and costs of prosecution, to be inn
prisoned sixty days; and to stand in the
pillory one hour. Austin was acquitted
by the jury. The facts proved were ip
substance as follows he owned farm
in Windham, estimated by him in maxi
ing his conveyance at ST. 500, which he
conveyed, in March, 1920, to his son,
time lease of the farm during his ma
tural life, and has lived upon the farm
ever since. He did not notice this life
lease in the schedule of his property,
unless it was noticed by his mentioning
that he had articles of "householdstuh
in the house where l live, which stands
on leased LAND" 1t is supposed the Ju-
ry acquitted him on the ground that he
did not intend to suppress the knowl-
edge of the lease. The Court charged
the jury that he was guilty, unless he
used such language as would enable o.
theirs to understand that he was the
owner of such property which did not
appear. :
The conviction and punishment of
Elliott should serve as a warning to
those whose avarice tempts them to
perjury.-NAT. INT.
From the National IntellgeBcer..
GENTLEMEN This letter is intended
for any person or persons who may be
pleased to receive it as addressed to
him or them.
NEWARK, Ohio, April 18th.
Ihave journeyed here, and am too
sick to travel homeward or EDWARDS,
and am without sufficient funds to pay
my way much longer, & none at home
to draw for o! that some of the citi-
| zens of our metropolis would subscribe,
and authorize me to draw for, what
| would keep the discoverer of new worlds
from the cramp of want and depression;
but for lack of finances should long
| since have personally explained my
| principles at Washington and other At
lantic cities. say, new worlds, tor,
besides the CoNcAvE, prove that both
surfaces in the Mid-plane-space are in
habited by animals; also, the adjoining
sphere above and below us. / prove
that the herring, and other migrating
j fish of Europe, inhablt the Convex, and
/ the herring, sc. of the east coast OF
/ North America, the. -Concave surface
in the Mid-plane-space, and that the
martin family inhabit the Concave OF
the sphere over our heads, and the pc
culiar water fowl, of Hudson's Bay,
and other parts of borders of the Con-
cave of our sphere (seen on this sphere.
only in summer) inhabit the Convex OF
the neighbor;ng sphere within; those
water fowl go naked whilst here, and
the martin do the same whilst away, as
is proved by caging them all winter.
/ have an essay written, specifying
particular proofs of these positions: but,
under present circumstances, 1t is IKE
" to linger long on hand in an ancor-