Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-10-26
BdI.imore, Oct. 1s
DISHONESTY oersus HONESTY.

DISHONESTY osysus HONESTY.
A few days since, Mr.. William NJ Coy,
a merchant from Virginia, lost aferge
tsum of money enveioped in a piece of
paper, which ne advertised in this and
other papers of cur city, offering re-
ward of 500 to the person who should
restore It, The advertisement has had
/ the effect to draw from the finder the
following letter.
".ur. M Coy Having found paper
with seven hundred and forty dollars, I
return you two hundred at present; the
balance shall be returned when am a.
BILE, perhaps not soon, ash am in want
of the money, but it shall be faithfully
returned, except, perhaps, forty dollars
as a reward. :
Baltimore, October 18th, 1896.
7 s. Deduct 80 dollars, which will
leave the sum enclosed, 40 dollars, it
shall be paid 20 sou in the course Of
time.
The above letter bears the Baltimore
postmark on the 18th INST. three days
after the body of it was written
BY the advertisement of Mr.. M'Coy, it
will be perceived that this gentleman has
generously offered to let the finder have
the sum retained by him as loan, for
reasonable time, provided he will fur
nish him with his name. (Chronicle.
LustS Nature We have this morn
I ing examined young terrapin, caught
yesterday on Staten Island, by Louis
Skorke, and by him presented to Mr..
Peale for the Fafthenoh Museum, which
lis very great curiosity. Its circumfer-
ence rs about the size OF dollar, and
t 1t has two distinct heads, and but four
legs as usual. The heads and eyes are
perfectly formed, But what appears
more singular is the fact, that they are
ten&owed with differentinstinc or intel
LICENCES: that is, there is no concert OF
action between them. S0ne head often
pulls one way, and the other another;
and is often q matter of some struggle
| in which direction the animal shall move
Sometimes one rs the master, 'and some
times the other; during which times the
progress is slow. Now and then, how
ever, when they 'sput their heads toge-
ther," and have apparently the same
ohJe in view, they walk off with the
ordinary speed of common 'terrapins. -
1t is really curiosity which will afford
much qualification to naturalsts.
". Com. .Ade.
! Extract ola letter from Ferdinand Char
sard. w. ID. dated Paris, .fag. 10, 1926,
to p. Chartard, M. ID. Of Baltimore.
81 had the pleasure of seeing DR.. Ci
vial operate for the Stone, according 10
his method without cutting.) The de-
scription of the operation given in the
Med. Recorder, is as far ash can remem-
Der correct. The patient had already
been operated on, three or four times,
and a number of small stones of fra
BILE nature, had been destroyed and ex-
tracted. The patient was laid on bed,
and the DIR. operated standing. He in
troduced the instrument with great ease,
aud found little or no difficulty in secu-
ring the stone. The whole operation
lasted about ten minutes The patient
told me, that he experienced no pain
or Inconvenience from the operation"
Common Drunkards.--A man and wife
aud four other men We're arraigned last
week at Springfield, on complaints of
the Overseers of the Poor Of that town
against them as common drankar','s.
They all pleaded not guiltyS bat upon
evidence, five of them were convicted
and sentenced 10 the House af Correc-
tion. Let Che good tpo'A 90 on
JoHx BREWER, who was to have been
executed in St. Louis, Missouri, in No
vember, for perjury, broke All on Tues
day night, 26,h ult. and had not been
heard Of on the 2sth Patrick Soye,
convicted Of granddaughter, and French
! Stroller, indicted for murder, escaped
= at the same tina,