Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-03-15

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A woman lately died at Richland, in
Oswego county, New York, aged one
hundred and nine years. A few days
previous to her death, she appeared 10
be in great agony of mind--and at last
confessed that she had strangled an in
FAINT child eighty one years before. Hav-
ing diyulged the secret she became Con-
posed and met her end with tranquility.
The Pioneers, the new American no
vel, was announced 10 the New Y ork pa
| pers of Friday to be published on Satur-
day morning; and at twelve O'Clock on
that DAY Mr.. Wiley, the publisher, had
delivered thrty-i FIVE hundred copies.
Ii is stated that the auc ION duties paid
in the city OF New York, for the year
ending on The goth September last, ex-
coed Sl8i 900.
In the House of Assembly of New
York il has been resolved, that in the
Journals OF the proceedings 81 The House
the titles Exoeliency and Honorable
shall henceioYth be omiued.
The city Inspector Of Newly rk has
reported the death OF $3.50 persons dur
in, the last year, viz: 997 men, 995
women, 837 boys, and 705 girls-con-
sumption 924, yellow fever los, drown
ed So, in.emperance A., suicide 5.
Mr.. Joseph Varney, OF Marlborough,
killed on the 2lst of December last, 4
hogs, the weight of which are as follows !:
$40, $40, 500, and AS; making in ali,
1925 lbs. The above hogs were all of
one litter; and were ons year old last
spring.
Six persons were killed on the Soth
ult. and several badly wounded, by an
explosion at Eden Park powder mills,
near Wilmington, Delaware. Two
horses were also killed. The building
in which the principal part of the powder
was deposited did not explode, or it is
thought the destruction would have been
much greater. $3.50.
There was large and very destruc-
live fire al Norfolk on the morning of the
3lst January. One person was burnt to
death in the house in which i, originated,
supposed to be sutfocated by the smoke.
Aoother was killed and several dam
gerously manglcd and hurt by the falling
of walls and chimneys. The fire was ar
rested by the blowing up ola building.
The Roanoke canal, says the Norfolk
Herald, is completed to the basin at
Rock Landing, and there nov remains
no obstacle to the transportation of pro-
duce from above the falls Of Roanoke 10
this place.--In one word, that work,
which has been so long subject Of So
llci,ude, anxiety and interest, is COM
plete.
A grand project is on footto canal the
noble river Potomac, from Cumberland
to the tide water. The cost is estimated
al ! 100000 dollars, and the plan is that
the United States, and the states of Ma
ryland and Virginia shall each take
third part of the sum. The affair is be-
fore the legislature of Mary land-but
the state is too muca reduced in its
means to accord with the scheme.
A medical writer attributes the great
increase OF apopIexy TO the wearing of
cravais, and endeayors 10 prove his theo-
ny by the observation, that women, who
generally go with neoks uncovered, are
rarely subject TO this disease. He also
attributes The paucity OF poetical genius
to the same cause; the ,ightness OF the
neckc 10th fills the head with blood in
stead of the airy dreams Of Imagination
Among the many Improvements made
in surgery Of late years, machine has
been invented BY Mr.. Amesbury, sur
geon Of London, for fractures of the leg
and thigh. A number of curious facts
relative to this invention are pointed out
in the paper which Mr.. A. has given to
the world in The Quarterly Review OF
Foreign Medicine, Tor July, 1929. Were
there no cases related to subs,antiate the
use of this machine, Sir Ashley Cooper's
recommendation speak volumes in its
favor. The following are some Of the
advantages which it gives to the patient.
1t gives no pain, it keeps the end of the
bones nicely adapted, and enables the
surgeon to fix the limb in any position
he peases. In all cases of fracture OF
the thigh, it allows the patient to place
The limb in any position most comtorta-
bic to himself, and to alter it at pleasure
without any danger Of disturbing the frac-
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