Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-09-18

practised Tor a similar disease Of the hu-
man species.
| We lately published an account OF
The execution of Dir. Hamilton of Ky.
Tor the murder of DR.. Sandcrson;-
which stated that Hamilton was limo
cent, and that 4 man lately executed
IN Alabama, had confessed himself the
murderer. The Winchester (Va.)
Republican,. upon good authority, con-
tradlcte this statement, and AYERS that
Hamilton was the real murderer, that
he first shot Sanderson, and afterwards
beat out his brains with bis pistol.
Suicide-A man by the name of
Brockmcr, carpenter, and a Ger
man by birth, put an end TO his ex.
Istence at New Orleans on the 9th ult.
by hanging himself - He had been for
few days past, somewhat deranged,
and said that he was accused of muir
der.
1t is mentioned as fact in a late
English paper, that poor woman
with an infant at her breast, employed
on the grounds of Mr.. Baily OF Swans.
combe, Kent, in poddlng peas, previ.
Gus to the COMMENCEMENT OF her daily
iabors sucked the child, and left it in
a hedge near the place where she was
at work, OH her return some time after
to look for her child, she was struck
with horror at finding it dead With
the wre,ched mother conscntthe child
was opened by surgeon, and a snake
found in its stomach. 1t is supposed
that soon after the mother had sucked
the infant, the snake attracted by the
milk remaining on the childs lips, had
entered the mouth and suiiocatcd it.
Cork, { Heland, july 18.-An-
drew Sullivan, Dennis Sheeban, Pa
trick Hennessey sen. Patrick Henncs-
.ey, jun. Jeremiah Flynn. John Finn,
Thomas Leaby, David Wagner. and
Edward Murphy, have been found
guilty of setting fire to the house and
mills OF Charles Hennessey, and or
dered for execution.
There is at present fellow in Lon
don who is in the habit of calling on
persons with birds of a very beautiful
appearance, which he says he has
brought from Savannah, but which in
reality are nothing but sparrows dyed
various colOrs.
Something Neao.-A retailer in
Dutchess county, has offered premi
UNI of silver cup, valued at IS, to
any person who will, within 6 months,
devise the best plan for merchant to
keep his stock replenished with well
regulated and fashionable assortment
of goods, pay for the same, support
his family, and satisfy his physician,
his priest, schoolmaster and printer,
without resorting to the unpleasant and
dsagreeable task of dunning his Gus
toners.
The Boston Gazette states that the
French government has declined ac-
ceding to the request of Bishop Che
verus, Of tina. city, to be excused from
accepting the appointment to a Bisho
pric in France, and has directed a
French frigaie to call THAT port to af-
ford him a passage TO his native coun-
try.
DISTINGUISHED Beneuolence--A ge
nerous individual, whose name is un-
known, having learned by late publ
cation in the Newark Eagle that there
were seven debtors confined IN the
Jail of the county, for debts amounting
in the whole Ito ,Sl2, accosted the
Sheriff in the street some days ago,
and handed him that amount for the
purpose of liherating the unfortunate
sufferers. The gentleman refused to
give his address. Iiberaiity and be
nevolence like this, require no CON-
ment.
The body ola man named Bethel
Oglesby, a blacksmith by trade, was
found dead in cotton field near Cam
den, Is. G. J on the 2lst. nit. He had
been i'll oil fever, and about four days
previous escaped from his lodgings in
a state of mental delirium -butnot
standing the most strict search, the
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