Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-06-08


burg on the 18th ult. and continued four
days TWAS attended by 25 clerical and
9 lay deputies from all parts of the state.
The Virginian says:
The right reverend bishop Moore con-
secrated, to the service of the Lord OF
Hosts, in his usual impressive manner,
the new and elegant church just COM
pleted in this place. and delivered on the
occasion an appropriate aud eloquent
discourse. All the churches in town,
Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist,
were protfered to the convention, and
accepted, and the citizens Of this place
and strangers crowded in great numbers,
on each occasion that offered, to hear
the scriptures expounded in manner
at once profound and leloquen. Lynch
burg has seldom been gratified with such
an interesting and edifying exhibition OF
piety and learning.
At special ordination held in St
Paul's Church, Lynchburg. on Trinity
Sundy, 2Istinst. the following reverend
gentlemen, deacons, were admitted to
the holy order of priests, by the right
reverendRichard Charming Moore, ID ID.
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the state of Virginia. !;
Rev. John L. Brooke, in MaItinsburg,
Berkeley county.
Rev. Mark l.. Chevers, of Suffolk,
Nansemond county.
Rev. John T. Me CURE, of Essex county.
Rev. Stephen S. Gunter, of Eastyille,
Northampton county.
Rev. Robert b. Croes, of Richmcnd.
The ordination sermon was preached
by the Rev. William H. Wilmer, Rector
of St Paul's church, Alexandria, from
job 9th chapter and Cd verse. Hoo
should man be Just Nth God. The can
didates were presented by the Rev. Will
liam ii. Wilmer, and large number of
the clergy, attending the convention,
concurred with the bishop in the imposi-
ton OF hands:
At the same time and place, the apos-
tolic rite of confirmation was administer
ed by the right reverend the bishop to
thirty persons.
A respectable man by The name Of
Costeilow, committed suicide in Gardi-
ner, Me. on the otE ult He shot him~
self in the breast with gun, which he
discharged by means of pin he had
driven into log TOR the purpose. He
appears to have committed the act very
deliberately; but the cause which moved
him to it, is yet unknown.
We understand that Mr. Timothy Al
len of this town has obtained letters pa
tent for the exclusive privilege OF an i'm
provement in the machinery for Sitting
iron IN Rolling Mills, which he terms the
Side .Screps. Mr.. Allen is worthy ye-
teran of the revolution, and a pensioner,
and we hope he will receive, from a
generous and enterprising public, that
patronage which the importance of the
invention merits, and his situation re-
quircs. Plymouth Memorial.
The following paragraph is taken from
the Providence Patriot of Saturday.
The Elephant--This noble. animal,
which has been recently exhibited in this
town, and which attracted crowds oil vis-
itors, we learn, was shot at and killed
on Wednesday night last, as he was pas
sing through Chepatchet, Gloucester,
by some unknown evil minded and ma
licious person. The miscreants coneer-
ned in this nefarious transaction ought
to be hunted out and exposed to the ut
most rigour of the law; and every man
in the community should use his best
endeavours to discover them. The ell
ephant was estimated to be worth from
10 to $4,000 dollars.
Some years ago AN ELEPHANT,
we believe in New Hampshire, was shot
by some malicious person who had lain
in wait for the purpose.-We now learn
that on Wednesday last, another Eie-
plant, in the State of Maine, was shot
at and killed. Thus two Elephants ira
yelling on the public road in the United
States, have been shot at and killed,
each with a single bullet.
These circumstances are now remark
ed TO contrast with the recent murder
of the Elephant in ExeterChange, Lon
don. There the animal was enclosed
in cage; there were three surgeons to
point out the tenderest, and most vital
parts of the animal, against which file
of snilierS in tho sama room dice n rr-