Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-06-07

en- 29th March, 10 DAYS nom the Bite
Of b min, for The Gambia. The Off
GERS reported number OF piratical
vessels on the Coast, and thatlhey had
piundered iour American whale ships
in tne Bite OF Benin.
A woman in Warren county, New
Jersey, lately left her infan. Tor a shor,
time, and when she returned large
black snake was coiled around lis neck,
which she Immediately seIzed by the
neck, took of, and destroyed
Remarkable Prorideace-A son OF
Mr.. Polhamis, of Merbleborough, us
ter, county, New York, aged i've years.
on the 22d day of April last, in playing
ON the precipice Of the falls ofthat place,
fell 207 feet down among the rocks, was
carried by the stream about 400 feet
below the plac. where he fell, and was
there found the next morning alive. on
tue opposite bank of tie Greek. after
LAYING all night in the cold and rain. lie
has since recovered. The highest per-
pendicular fall is twenty-five feet This
fact can be attested by the inhabitants
oil that village.
Remarkable Longevity. Died at the
Aims House of Bucks County, ON sun
day evening the 9th instant. Mir. Joseph
Force, at the advanced age of one hun
dred and seven years He was brought
to the Aims House from Lower Wake
| field township, and was able to walk a
bout the room on the afternoon of has
death.
Thomas Spear died in Shropshire, in
England. aged SO years. lie married
at the age of 80, aud became widower
at AZ ..sa had two children, boy aud
girl. whu lived more than century,
anG left numerous descendants. When
| LIS years oil age, Spear was fined and
publicly punished for having seduced n
young girl AT his funeral s3s OF his
descendants were sent.-B.biioihs.
que Physieo.-Ecoaomiqss, Jan 1927.
Ignorance and Cruelty The age Of
superstition has not entirely passed a
way. Lancaster Schools and Mechan-
ics' Institutes have yet some victories
10 achieve. Four persons, of decent
condition in lie, were convicted of bav-
ing assaulted an aged female OF Wales,
whom they fancied to be witch, and
charged with having bewitched their
cattle. They dragged her surrounded
by great crowdl into barn yard,
When they had got her there, they pla-
ced her behind colt. and obliged her
TO kneel on the ground, and take the an.
/ imals' tail IN her hand, and repeat some
form OF prayer, which was TO protect
the cattle against her spells. This she
did, and the prisoners, under the stup-
id action that il you draw wltch's
blood she cannot hurt your, took a
| hough of a wild rose of hedge, aud
! they drew this across her arm, so as to
make il bleed. They then procee ded to
strip the upper part of her person, for
the purpose of finding a supposed mark
of where she sucked imps, or some sort
| Of beings Of another world, and when
| they had cut off some ot thu unfortunate
creatures hair, they found wart on
her head, which they said was it. Upon
this they proposed to duck her, but at
the earnest intreaties of her daughter
they let her go. She was ninety years
| of age. The persons were found guilty.
| One OF these men Is aenius to the other.
| ---Which is the natural man.
| And which the sprit'- Osmseig Of Errors.
There is at present at Genoa a Cor.
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