Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-05-20
summary Of News.

House Wreekers.-There is a custom in Dublin,
which for its boldness and impudence, exceeds any
thing we ever read Of. In many parts of that city
the tenants pull down the houses and carry away
the materials MIR. Ellis. NJ. p. for Dublin, pre-
sented a petition to Parliament, praying for an act
to prevent it. lie said that the practice was carried
To an enormous extent, and that he knew one indi-
vidual who had lost fifty houses that Way! He gave
notice OF bringing IN a bill to remedy the evil. A
Dublin journal adds Indeed we do not wonder
that the worthy member should feel rather sore on
this subject, as we remember that not long since,
when he went to seek for his rents arising out Of
some houses in Fisher lane, he was informed that
the houses had totally disoPpeared sic wesks BEFORE"
Suieide.-Mr Aaron Nottingham, of Manchester,
saws the Canandsigua Repository, lately put a pc
riod to his existence by cutting his throat with a
razor. No cause is assigned for the commission Of
this act. lie had rented n tavern stand a short dis
lance this side of Manchester village, and had taxi
Ell possession of it only the day previous.
On Tuesday afternoon, as u Portuguese ship was
about weighing anchor at her moorings, near
Brooklyn, to prepare for sea, one of the sailors
watched an opportunity, stripped himself, Jumped
overheard, and swamstowards the city. Two boats
put of to bring him back, but such was his skill In
swimming, that he entirely outstripped his pursuers,
laughing at, and deriding their attempts to over
take him. He landed near New slip, and made his
escape, aUer having SWAIN more tndn q nile uSuihst
the current Of the East River.
Diseases among Horses.-Thers is a disease be-
coming very general aud destructive in the west
| ern part Of Tennessee, among horses, occasioned, it
is said, by the entrance Of a poisonous insect, some
| what smaller than a honey bee, called the bufialoe
| gnai, into the nostril, creating a %distemPer In the
head and producing a bleeding similar to the CLAN
ders. 1t battles every attempt at a cure.
An experiment has been tried upon a toad, by
immuring ii in a small flower pot sunk deep into the
earth, to ascertain the fact of the animals living
without food. When the light was let into his
cell, alter three years confinement, it hoped out
upon the earth quite ehiPp'r. 1.-The prisoner was
re-committed for further trial"
J Yery late from the Practically the schr. Shy
lock, Capt Minot, in twenty days from Chagres, at
Baltimore, L'na papers to the ID March and let
tiers to the 10Th have been received.
The Liherator Bolivar, returned from Lima to
Upper Peru and entered the capital on the 10th Of
February, when great rejoicings took place. 1t Is
thought that he will agaln visit the upper provinces
to consolidate the governments previously to his re-
turn to Columbia, and of course will not meet the
Congress of Panama for some time.
The General Congress had not opened its ses-
sion at Panama, bat most OF the deputies from
| South American States had arrived and much
anxiety VAS manifested to know whether The United
States would send Commissioners.
The irigate Uni'ed States had just sailed from
Calloa for VALPARAISO. The United States ship
! Peacock roma ned at Calloa. Purser Humphreys OF
tie Peacock died a, Callao on the 10Th March.
! The Dolphin was on a cruise to the Mul, rave
Stands
Flour at Lima was dull, at SO iH2 TO 50.
Captain King, who not long since returned to En-
| gland rom a survey of the coast of -Hollani.
! states that lie found the eastern and western shores
10 be extremely desert, and the Inhabitants in the
| most savage state. He failed to discover any great
| river flowing into the sea, as it was supposed might
be the case; and on y one great inlet was left unex-
plored, where il was possible such a river might
| exist. All hopes. therefore, of this coast being
| aught but barren and inhospitablc, seem to have
I aui.hed.
Erpens,ve Honor-Sir George Bampfylde de-
! clined Il fow weeks since the honor Of representing
Exeter in the Parliament of Great-Britain, which
was profered him, with an intimation which spoke
volumes-that the distinction was a little too OK
| pensive, as it had cost his father above 8O,OOO
pounds.
Near Derby Eng. about the 10th Of January,
there were found in a howell the bodies OF a man,
his wife, and three children, starved or frozen to
death. An infant was living and at the breast Of
its mother.
On Tuesday last, in the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner, in the city of Philadelphia, a poor country
man was tried for highway robbery. He clearly
proved an abb, and produced testimony OF an I'M
blemished character. He was acquitted; and, as he
was about leaving the box, one of the bystanders,
touched by the hardness OF the case, slipped a piece
of money into his hand. The example was follow
ed; and finally, the jury called him TO them, and
each contributed his mite to obliterate the remem-
brance of the wrongs he had sustained.