Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-11-27

FcSeioS cHcuUistAuS&e,s laO tnas which
we are now about to relate. On the
morning Of Monday, 9th ult Mrs
Elizabeth Ballad, coassrt OF Cant.
Benjamin Ballard, Of Gates County
IN. O. rose about The dawn of day.
and after converting . few minutes
with her father, Mr.. Robert Riddick,
at whose house she was on a visit with
her husband, stepped into a roon,
where several of the family were sleep.
ing, took a gun, left The house unnc-
ticed, and in an instant the report was
heard. Tue alarm drew the auliiy
to the door. within a few steps of
which her body was discovered wei -
tering in blood 1T is supposed thas
she applied her toe tothe trigger, and
put the muzzle of the gun close to her
threat. the load having passed entirely
through, which caused her death in
UNANIMOUSLY. We will a.tsmpt DO de-
script!on OF the heart-rending scene:
let the reader imagine himself in the
situation Of a kind and indulgent has
band, CT an aHectionate parent, and
sincere friend, and he will have aa
idea ofihe suiferings which must have
been endured by those endearing con-
nections. Ers IL. was only about Oh
years of age, is represented TO have
been truly amiable in her disposition,
aud pleasing in her manners, and the
cause other rash determination can on
!y be accounted for by partial de-
rangement of mind, under which she
had been laboring for a few weeks,
from the effects OF a severe illness
Mrs =. had been married about three
years, and she has left an infant only
eight months old, to feel the want OF a.
mothers care.-Beccoa.
ShipaUrecE.-The schooner Fox. of
Baltimore, was wrecked on the 18th
OF September, at sea, while prosecu.
ting her voyage from Rotterdam io
81. Thomas. She was struck by ire
mendous sea, which capsized her AMI
having nearly filled, the masts gave
way, when the crew regained tie
deck, which was about Is inches un-
der water. In this situation. the gale
continued to rage, and the sea to bre; k.
over their heads. They at length src-
ceeded in lashing some steering S; il
beams to The stump Of the foremas :.
which was about seven feet above thts
deck, to which they contrived, with
small pieces Of running rigging, and
the splintcrs of the foremost, to make
seat ole Q feet wide per man. On
this they remained six days and six.
nights. They were hardly fixed in
this situation before they we're visited
by Sharks, which followed them until.
the seventh day, when they succeeded
IN hanging one alongside by bow
line, after which The others Disappear
ed. Alter navigating the hulk from
LAT. So = aud long 80 w. where they
we're capsized, to lat GO, long. 40 W.,
they were taken off by French brig
called the Mjncrve. from Havana,
bound to Martinique, and were treated
with much cordially by tina captain.
Long Haired .9f,'icoas-Hugh Camp
bell of the English navy, has addressed
a letter TO the Editor of the London Cou-
rier, dated September %, on the sub
ject Of intelligence lately published in
the British newspapers, that horde Of
savages, with ioag foscing hair. had
made mischievous iucursion into Caf-
ire Land, and there spread havoc and
destruction among the Caffres and set
tiers. As the fact respecting these long
haired savages has been doubted, Air.
Campbell says that in 1909 and 1903,
there were more long haired natives on
he Island of Fernando-Po tan island to
he northwara of the Equator) than
hose with the common curled hair of:
Africans. lie also states that while in "a
bay, near Cape Lobos, tribe Of up
wards of 100 long (nowing) haired na--
ives presented themselves. These al
20 were evidently of European extrac-
ion, the colour OF their skins being
nearly similar to that of he Choctaw
indians. From the above facts, Mr-
Campbell thinks it not Improbable thas
n the long lapse Of time since the pas
age to India by the cape was known toa
Europeans, and the thousands of ship
wrecks that are known to have occurred
m the southern coast Of Airica, that ST.
nilar hcrlcs TO those Of Fernando Pc
nd Cape Lobos may have sprung upon
many parts OF the southern coast.
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