Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-10-04

mercial Convention of 1915, which
was continued by the above mentioned
Convention of 1918; is further contin-
ued.-The duration of the Convention
of 1918, having been limited to ten
years, which would have expired on
toe Goth Of October, 1928, on that day
the existing Commercial Convention,
and the article respecting the country
beyond the Rocky Mountains, would
have terminated, but for the recent
Convention. They are now to contin
ne indefinitely a to time, each party
reserving the right to put an end to Ell
Their of them, upon twelve months no.
tice given 10 the other party.
National InteHigencer.
4 sdrags schoolmaster.-At a county
court held at Hartford, Conn. last week,
a schoolmaster was tried for cruelty
beating one of his scholars, a boy in the
It'll year of his age. -Four several tres
passes were complained Of; one for
throwing him up against the ceiling of
the room and catching him as he fell,
and throwing him up again; one for ty-
ing a string around his neck, and lead
ing him round the room, occasionally
pulling him with violence, the third in
jury was for laying the boy down on the
floor and putting the round Of a chair o
yer his neck, and then sitting down on
the chair; and the fourth, beating the
plaintiff sixty.four blows with a stick.
The defence was, that the several tres
passes alledged were only necessary
and reasonable corrections of the plain
tiff, which defendant, as his instructor,
had to make. The charges were prov
ed essentially as alledged; nor was the
defendant able to show that the conduct
Of the boy was such as to demand or E.
ven afford any excuse for such novel
and extraordinary punishment. 1t did
not appear that the boy was wilful, stub
born Or saucy in any manner whatever.
The only faults found to Justify such
cruel chastisement were, whispering in
n instance, laughing in another, and
a third, when told to shut up his book,
be did so, but kept his finger in the
place. For this last offence no %receiv-
ed, according TO the testimony of six or
seven witnesses, sixty four stripes, in in
ficting which the defendant wore up,
completely, three apple. tree sticks, and
marked the back of the boy with n en-
tire bruise from shoulder TO shoulder,
for several inches in width. The plain.
tiff obtained a verdict of twenty-five
dollars and bis cost. Shamefully made
quate,-[Evening Post.
Murder and Suicide.-On Saturday
evening last. a Capt. James Burton on
Floyd's fork in Oldham county, COM
mitted one of the most barbarous and
brutal acts eve perpetrated in a civil
zed country, 1t is stated that Mrs. Bur-
ton bad for some time entertained ssri-
Gus religious impressions, and had sx-
pressed a desire to become a member
of the Baptist Church; but her bus
band opposed her wishes, and said he
would take her life sooner than consent
to her joining the church-On the day he
committed the fatal deed, she wished to
90 to a Methodist meeting in the neigh
borhood, but he would not suffer her,
and commenced abusing her 10 a most
cruel manner, drawing a large knife,
with which he threatened to take her
life. She retreated up %staires, and he
pursued her with more than savage fe-
rocity, where he would have executed
his bloody design if she had not have
jumped cut of the window of a two sto-
RE house in hopes of escaping from the
monster but unfortunately, in the fall,
she broke one of her legs, and was una.
BILE to make good her retreat. He came
down stairs and carried her into the
house, placed ~herupon a bed, and tied
his pocket handkerchief around the
fractured leg. She begged him to 60
for a physician, declaring that if he did
she would not tell that he had been the
cause Of the misfortune. He told her
that be would "soon be doctor enough
for her," and took bis rifle and deliber-
ately shot her through the head just a
bove the right eye. He then reloaded
his gun aud tied the trigger to the latch
Of the door and fred with a view of kill
ing himself, but in this he failed. He
took another drink of grog, loaded bis
gun again, sat down on tho side of the
bed where his bleeding wife was gasping
her last. Dlaced his oun hetvean his