The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-06-08


pletely and richly too, dressed and nrcnsna, Oa,
for the ceremony, caused her to be M, int.
one side Of large pair of scales, in the nrs rso
scnce of her friends, and then piled on dol
lars and crowns, silver money. until tha,.
weighed her down" Report says She wa.
a plump hearty girl. This must have been
fat marriage portion in those days.
The Great Elm tree in Wells, Maine q.
uated about one and half miles from the
sea, was blown down in the gale on the I'm
ult. 1t had long been a land mark fer yes
sells entering Wells harbour, and measured
27 feet and four inches ia circumference
making the diameter something over nine
feet. 1t was 40 feet from the foot to a crotch,
thence 90 feet to the first limb, running 6o
feet from the ground before there were apv
limbs, and then it expanded to an Immense
size. The height of the tree was COMPUTED
at above 100 feet, and, for more than loo
years, it had been shelter in winter, and
shade from the summer heats.
A very sagacious Elephant has been re.
Gently exhibited in Providence, r. Island
Last week while she was travelling win
her keeper towards Connecticut, havinp ;nst
two guns were fred upon the poor anma,
within about fifteen feet of the person who
was leading her, FIVE bullets from which ne.
netrated the brain, and caused her to fall
and almsst instantaneously to expire on the
spot The animal was said to be worth
S12, 900 dollars Every effort has failed to
detect the villains who committed the act.
A pfh h,,,I
property of Erastus Phelps & Co. Of Gran
by, Con. blew up on the 25th ult The ex.
plosion was tremendous. Two lives were
lost. Scattered fragments of the buildings.
and pieces of the mangled bodies, were found
at great distance, and it was only by the
greatest exertions that the magazine con
tanning one hundred and fifty barrels of pow
der, was preserved The scene is describ-
ed as having been most terrific.
! 1faryland- The Easton Gazette gives
gloomy account of the appearance of the
crops in this state. The wevil fly has made
| its appearance and caused extensive devas.
tations, which cannot be repaired. Whole
4 fields are destroyed; the thin lands will
scarcely produce their seed-somc not half.
! The continued drought has added to the &C.
4 neral distress. The corn crops have not yet
received any serious injury. Oats promise
n-thing--the gardens suffer extremely-the
fruit is generally destroyed; and grass new
er promised worse crop,
4 Virginia. The crops in this state present
gloomy prospect. In consequence OF the
incessant drought very little tobacco has
been planted, and the plants in the ground
are severely suffering. The wheat and oat
fields look badly. Large fields are planted
with corn, and not a sprout to be seen; much
has been replanted the corn planted in the
middle of April is the only corn which pro-
misses fair crop. The gardens are LITERAL
| y burnt up, and the vegetables die before
they are halt grown.
Georgia. Influenza RACES more vlo-
/ lently in some of the western counties OF TINS
state than has been ever before known. In
one family in Jasper there have been ten
! deaths. 1t is said to resemble in type the
cold plague that prevailed at the North in
1912 and 1873.
Nearly 10000 bags of Upland Cotton have
been exported from Savannah, and 5000
tierccs OF rice, for the season ending the lst
of May, more than for the same period dur
ing the last
Laaiana-A species of worm commonly
called the army 7oorm, has made its appear
ance in the neishborhood of New Albany, in
such formidable numbers as to defy every
effort of the farmer to check their progress
eating down whole fields, and destroying ev-
cry vestigc of wheat and timothy. The
young corn has been also much injured.
Many papers have published notice OF
one Hiram Hull to bis friends and relatives,
requesting them not to visit him for two
years. The general reader sympathized
with poor Hiram, whom they suspected to
be thoughtless, generous hearted fellow,
eat ont ofbouse and home by his cormoraA
klnsfolk The truth is, that Hiram has been
sent to the state prison for couple OF years
and it is there that he does not wish to see
his relations. He would be very glad we
suspect, to sec them at home whatever thcif
appetitcs might be.
\ young lady looking into the family BIZ
bic, observing the date of her birth, took her
pencil and wrote--"Above the age OF twen-
tyonc, and not yetlgiven in marriage" ms
induced her father to write bcneath-"tie
who giveth in marriage doeth well, bur nc
who giveth not in marriage doeth better
10 which she made the following reply
Dear father, love to do we'll, let those "