The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1823-1824, 1824-03-11
CASHMERE GOATS.

CASHMERE GOATS.
%. valuable animals will doubtless soon
introduced into our own country; Inc
k,achusetts Agricultural Society some t
4 since offered "the sum of one hun
q dollars to the person who should IN
HUGE into Massachusetts, from Europe,
Ne and female goat Of the pure Cashmere
he'd" From a letter published IN the
(ssachusetts Agricultural Repository for
\. 1924, from John Wells, Esq. in Paris,
kppears that these animals have been
kces.fully introduced into France; that
prices Of them are from Is to IS doll
Is a piece, and that the duty on their ex-
ttation is only about four cents. The
kinal stock from which France ia now
bplied was procured with much labour
b expense, by Messrs. Ternaux and
Sbert, from the foot of Mount Caucasus,
STA: out Of 1929 goats with they set
J, only 400 reached home alive. 1t is
IN the down or wool Of these animals,
L those expensive articles, called CASH
Re shawls, are made. The down is pro-
led from them in the month of April BY
Inning them with fine combs.
NGULAR DECISION OF A JURY.
captain of a Steamboat in Canada,
ing received orders from the Steam
Company, to discharge the Steward,
uested MIN to leave the boat. But the
yard declined. The captain then or
ID him to go, buthe refused. On this,
captain took him by the arm, and led
to the gangway. An action was
ught for an assault and battery, and the
were proved as here set forth. The
1t charged the jury, explained to them
evidence. and expressed the opinion
/, according to law and evidence, they
Id not find the defendant guilty. The
then retired and in about an hour re-
led with verdict of GUILTY. The
Il on the plea that iney could not have
idered the law and facts, remanded
b, and after an absence of an hour and
{, they returned the same verdict. Sc
nge an instance is this considered, OF 2
sion by jury, against the cleares
ority Of evidence and law, that the
I have not given judgment upon it.
ON, Y Com. ADV.
REcTIoNIsTs.-The following ar
ON the means of preventing tine re
ores Of the dead from being pillaged
pm an English paper. The plan sug
I'd has at least the merit Of ingenuity
rom its simple nature deserves a tra
il country, where the practice Of steal
Fad bodies has Of late become exreme
snmon e. Post.
FaLing dead bodies.-I have long pom
on this subject, and atlast have fount
hat consider to be an effectual secu
For example so soon as the bod,
i in the grave. first cover it with eli
IS Of earth, then over the earth plac
hntity of clean wheat straw length
and afterwards cover the straw wit
six inches of earth then above tn
again cross the straw, the latter 9
must be purposely cut out to SUI
Feadth, and so on continue, till tn
e is reached. Resurrection me
ig in vain; for grave thus file
nnot be digged. the straw being I
yielding nature. that a spade, hov
welt sharpened. cannot penetrat
aust, in the event Of an invasion,
with the hands, and then the finge
soon get entangled, and become
Saders as endless and teasing a il
r. they were engaged in. particula
grave six feet deep, where one M;
po could not work) would take
wenty-four hours to clear to Il
and after all, could not escape di
ttck Work.-Between the hours
~ and four in the afternoon of Weane
lssf. two men, Henry Kelly and Jol
spg, were unitedIy engaged in pic
n p"cket of countryman by ii
&of Peter Onewalt, at a tavern
street. They were both immedia,
ehended and lodged in prison. {
Jay morning, an indictment was Sc
be Grand Jury. and was found al
d by them in few hours, to t
u Quarter Sessions. In the afte
he prisoners were arraigned. plea
utility, fruitlessly attempted to pc,
eir cause, were tried, convicted
rest proof. and in the tweoty-four
er their arrest were both sentence
lsonment at hard labour for t
two years. They we're old CO
Fhitad. Franklin Gag.