The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-01-28

seh'uness ABOUT us, lt Is not often that
we IND American felons So very rayenous
rs TO steal their own property. Not ~ in
England. William Richardson was ar
ragned IN November, before "A mapistrat,
IN London, under the following cireual-
stances On the ist of October h, fonL
certain articles of wearing apparel To n
laundress to be washed, and agreed 10 call
Tor them on the following day. He did
not then call for them, but in ten DAYS nj.
forwards demanded them, and they were
not to be found He then required of IN.
poor old people, with whom they had
been ieif, their value, or other articles in
their stead. With much ado, they mus.
tered up for him waistcoat, pair Of stock
lnss, shirt, &c. and allowed him the rest in
money.
Some time afterwards, being charged
with another and different felony, the iden-
Teal articles ION search made BY the con-
stable were found, that he had left with
the iaundress. ltappeared that, while she
was absent aud her husband asleep, he had
stolen ms oicn clothes from her apartment.
IL was llkened TO the case, which had been
decided as felony, where person stole his
l''GN''1 III bdiiiilfnl I'D hnUIntr. anu
the prisoner was committed for trial.
IN Y.qmr.
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CuSing according 10 ian.--Somo years
ago a scarcity of grain prevailed in Con
necllcut, poor man by the name of
Crocker, went To n rich farmer whom be
kne" TO possess surplus of Indian Corn,
and rendered him the highest price for a
bashcl of il but the farmer refused To sell
pretending that he had none 10 spare,
whereas II was evidently false and he on
~ boarded IT up for the present, as some
now do, IN order to starvc buyers into the
Necessity of giving them the cxtorl tomato
price they wish to take. Upon this Crock
err gave him his fun character, in which il
seems, he did not take the name of rod
IN VAN. However the farmer immediate
ly arra'gned him for abuse, before one irs-
tIse Hyde. When our pauper was called To
answer In the charge, aud make his de-
fence, instead of attorncs and lawboohs,
he produced ON bible tfor bibles were then
regarded, and read passage which saws,
" cursed Is the man that withholdeth Corn
from the poor, yea, aud the people shnll
curse him. Here he argued that he had
done no more than what God had authori-
sed, Il expressly commanded and turning
to the old Grpns who had prosecuted him,
said, " You see, God curses YOU and /
curse you DO you CURSE him too, ESQ.
Hyde, for one of your curses il worth two
of mine ~
-..ee Be-.
Not Tory, bm Lihsrtins.--A lady,
whose husband held an Office in the early
part of the American revolution, and
who was much more remarkable for
the beauty of her person than the bril-
llancy Of her mind, being, in compa-
ny with number Of her own sex, the
state of the times became the topic of con
versatlon, when one of them limited, that
the lady's husband was suspected to be in
the tory interest she Immediately con-
tradlcted it, with great spirit, asserting,
that ".she kneW, and all the ncighbors
knew, and many of them could not but
know, that her husband was one of the
libe,tt,es in that part of the coun-
try"
Cure for Liner Compiaint.-A gentle
man OF Baltimore who had for long time
Imagined himself dying of u liver complaint,
was advised by his physician DIR. Craw-
lord, to make an excursion into the state
OF Ono. After an absence of some
months, he returned home in good health;
but, upon receiving information of the
death of his twin brother, who had actual
~ died OF IA diseased liver, he immediate
" staggered, and falling down cried out he
"A dead l.. -.
expected died of the complaint in his liver.
DIR. Crawford being sent for Immediately
attended and on being informed of the
notion which had seized the hypocondriac,
he took hold Of his arm and feeling his
pulse, exclaimed, 90 yes, the gentleman
Is certainly dead, and il is more than pro-
babc that his liver was the death of him.
However to accrtaln the cause, | VIII cut
INN open before putrefaction takes place"
lie called for carving knife, and whctting
II as butcher would to open dead cali,
ne went 10 him and began to unbutton his
waistcoat "The dead man" became 50
horribly frightened that he leaped up with
the utmost agility and, crying out muir
der murder murder ~ ran of with
speed that would have deGed who'd col
lege OF Physicians TO catch him. After
considerable distance, until he
was almost exhausted, he halted and not
finding the the doctor at his heels, soon
became composed, and from that period
was peveT' known to complain of bis liver,
although he lived upwards of twenty
years alter 1t. Bat. finer.
..eAs..--
In one Of the rabbinical stories i'm tire Tai
mud, bird is represented as spreading its
wings and blottlng out the Sun. An egg
from another fell from its nest and the
white thereof oycrfowed whole village.
One of these birds is said 10 have stood up
TO the lower joint Of its leg in river, and
some mariners imagining that the water
was not deep, were Fastening to battle,
when a voice from hcaNen said Sien moi