The Litchfield County post., 1826-08-22

ious speculation ia town. The truth is, that
the whole matter was hoax, and that all the
ideas with respect to large serpent originated
in the sagaciOus mind of an honest cultiVat0r
Of l. Absorption, who had accidentally dis
covered an extensive lot of Strawberries on
his land; and as the only means Of avoiding all
unnecessary visits from his neighbors, and of
securing the entire booty to himself fell upon
the capital plan of cOnjuring up the large
snake Of which we have had such an elegant
description in the Morning Herald, followed
up by one of the most luminous scientific spec
ulations that any age or country has hitherto
been favopred with. -
LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, JUNE 2O.-Court Of Chdncny.
-ABERNETHY VS.. The LANcET.-His Lord
ship. on entering the court, commenced his
judgment. This was a motion, he observed,
for an injunction to restrain the publishers of
the Lancet from communicating to the world
the lectures of DIR. Abernethy, and had been
argued on three grounds "A violation of lit
erary property; breach of trust and Of i'm.
piled contract. At the conclusion of his for
mer observations, he raised the questions,
whether, if these publishers were pupils, they
would not be guilty of breach Of an implied
contract in publishing to the world lectures,
which it was intended never should be pub
lished; or, if they were not pupils, but obtai-
ned their information through some one 9th
er of the pupils, they would not be guilty of
such violation of trust, as would warrant the
interference of that court to the extent now
prayed? The Importance of the question had
led him to advise with the Common Law
Judges on the subject, who were unanimous
ly of opinion, that if the publication were by
apuPi, IAN action for damages would lie against
him, as the Common law would assume an I'M
piled contract; or that publication wereby
a person who received his information through
a pupil, and there was no other way in which
he could receive il, a similar action would lie
against the person thus publishing, for the
law would not permit that which gould only
be obtained by fraud, to be employed by \
third party to the injury of the person in
whom the property existed. In this view of
the law, he perfectly concurrea and IL was
wei for the protection 81 that large and mer-
itorious class of iCiividuals-our pnblie lectu-
rers-that such was the law. On the whole,
ne Was Of opinion, that it had been made sat
effected by either of these grounds, MIR. Alb
ernethy was entitled to the Injunction prayed.
Motion granted.
FTons the Kentucky Commentator.
More dreadful mmders.-Two men were as.
sassinated in the county of Nelson, last week
on Friday. One was Mr.. Causman of that
county, the other Mr.. Courtney from Mis-
sissippi. They were shot in by path, in
dark shady wood, a few miles east of Bards-
town. The bodies were not found until Sat-
urday evening or Sunday morning. They
were both shot with rife balls in the back
One appeared to have been killed instantly,
and to have been dragged little distance
from the path, into the woods. The other.
who had two wounds, appeared to have re-
~ceived the first in the shoulder, and to have
run some forty yards, dropping blood freely
as he went, and then to have received anoth-
er and fatal shot, and was left in the path.
The account has been brought to this place
by two different gentlemen from Nelson. and
may no doubt be relied upon.
Three individuals, father and two sons. we
understand, are suspected, and have been ar
rested aad confined, upon a charge Of having
perpetrated this horrible outrage, aud circun-
stances of great weight are mentioned as
grounds for suspeeting them.
AsiOfher kentucky Iragedy.-Again we have
from the West, a melancholy tale. We learn.
from private source, that about two weeks
ago, DIR. Young, Representative in Congress
from the state Of Kentucky, shot and killsd I'm
the street of Elizabethtown, Mr.. Hardin. a
lawyer from breckenridge county. OF so eg.
gravating and atrocious a character was tSe
cause Of this act, as to shield DR.. Y. from pros-
ecution, and almost to justify the act in the
public opinion. Mr.. Hardin was one who on.
posed the election Of DIR. Y. and is supnosea
to have been partly led by vindictive feelings
to commit the outrage which foreran his GeatS
Nothing short of an atrocious violation az The
sanctuary Of his domestic hopes and happinrssz
could have instigated man of the an,;,hle,
character of DR.. Young to this rash act
- Ndf hsseE
Most Horrible !-Horatio Cozens, ESQ.
distinguished memberof the bar Of ST. Louis.
Missouri, was assassinated in that place on the
18th inst. by Mr.. French Strother. The edi-
tor OF this paper. who was there at the time.
understood the circumstances to be as follows.
Mr.. Cozens was engaged as counsel against
Mr.. Strotiler; and the latter finding the cause
was going against him, asked the former to
step aside, as he wished to speak to him. Mr..
Cozens complied with his request, and Mr. S.
stabbed him two or three times in the breast.
and once in the neck, with dirk, and kille,i
him instantly. Mr.. Strother was committed
to prison. Cincinnati Crisis.
From the Cazenopia Moa;tor.
Shocking e6scts Of Iatemperance. In
stance ofthe horrid effects Of this beastly SIN.