The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-05-19
TEEE WILMITg gSSTspEJTsAyT,
della WARE REGISTER,
Thurs day, May 10, 1925.

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Thurs day, May 10, 1925.
We have received communication from
4 correspondent upon the subject Of Mr..
Vclles' rcUic7Y of Mr.. Owens System of
Society, (Which we are at present publish
ing in this paper) as delivered in course of
''lectures on clocuton,'' last week. We !
deem it hardly worth while to publish this
communication. as the sentiments of the
public generally arc those Of the writer.
This is the age of inquiry. The mind of
any individual of this free country, may re-
main untramclled and uninlluenced by the
opinions of other men. He can think for \
himself, can read and construc according to
his own reason. Things which are sclf-evi.
dent 10 the human understanding will have
the greater weight in his decisions, notwith-
standing all the epithets and declamations
that can be cast upon them by interested and
designing persons, and ohiaion, alone, can
have very little influence unless supported
by demonstration orpracticc; neither can that
argument be good which requires harsh cpl
thcts to force it upon the hcarcr. We ad
mirc the Voice and gesture of our orator
he reads we'll, and a greater portion Of his
subjects arc good. We have heard with
pleasure that he proposes to lecture i'll the
course of this week in the Town Hall. The
spacious and lofty ceiling over the first floor
in this building will produce fine effect and
we have no doubt he will be attended by a
large and attentive audience.
.Accident.-We record the melancholy
and Sudden death of Mr.. Seneca Scnnex,
an aged and respectable citizen of Brandy
wine hundred, who, while riding through
our Borough, on Monday last, fell from his
horse in consequence of it's having STUN
bled; which SO injured his head and neck
that he survived the accident but few mo-
ments, when he sunk into death. What
an awful spectacle, and how forcbly it
carries to the mind the uncertainty Of hui
man existence.
.hockihg.-On Friday last Mr.. George
Morrison, ii Clergyman Of the Presbyterian
Church, stationed at Bell Air, Hartford Co.,
guage, was met at the door of his own dwell
ing by a lad, student in his school, who de-
/ liberately drew pistol and shot HIM IN
the body The ball entered his side, and
still remains there, the physicians not being
able to find it. The boy, whose name we
forbcar to mention on his parents account,
they being very respectable residents OF
this State, has been taken into custody and
is now confined, to await the issue OF the Ca
tastrophc 1t is feared the wound viii
prove fatal. We are informed that the
cause which provoked this desperate at
tempt upon the lite of Mr. Morrison, was
owing to his having corrected the boy IN
school--not unproyokcdly, but for bad con-
duct.
The heavy frost which was experienced
here about the latter part of April. to de-
gree which destroyed the young fruit, was
also felt as far as Chillicothe and Cincin-
atti. Our accounts from the former place
state that the prospect of great abundance
of fruit which never was more promising
than at that time, was suddenly destroyed,
on the night of the 25th ult. The peach
es and other early fruits were nearly, II
not quite, all killed, and but few remains even
of the hardest kind. At Chllicothe the wea-
ther was cxtremely cool on the 2nd inst, and
it was feared the fruit at that place would
all be destroyed.
information has been received in this city (says
the "Natiorul lntelgencer," of the 18th inst.
which makes it possible, ifnot probable, that the
murderer of Evena Cunningham has been appre-
hended, and is now in prison. A letter from a
gentleman at IIayre de Grace, to the Mayor OF
Georgetown, states that Mr.. Stcbhns had just
returned from IIarpcr's Ferry, whittier he had
gone to examine man taken up os suspicion
Of being the murderer, and that he says the
prisoner is the same man whom he described as
Ihming seen coming out Of the woods where the
shocking act WAS perpctrated.
For the Wilmingtonian.
Dd Won see that wonderful piece of Poe