Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-05-31

DALnMoRs, NAY x4.-forEed Drafts
We learn that two drafts were present.
ed this morning at the United States
Branch Bank in Baltimore, purportins
to be drawn by the Cashier of the U. s.
Branch at Norfolk, tor $1,000 each,
which are pronounced to be forgsries,
they had previously passed through
several hands, not doubling their genu-
Ineness, being so we'll executed.
Laos Of Honor in the United States.
Under this head the Liverpool CONNER
cial Chronicle comments "a the contro-
versy between Mr.. McDuthe and Mr.
MetcaHe, previously to the republica.
ton OF the epistolary correspondence /;
the Liverpool paper observes, 'one OF
the perso as mentioned ia this account
bad his arm shattered BY ball from a
rifle IN previous combat in which his
adversary persisted. Ii IS needless T.,
inform any person conversant with the
use OF firearms, that at the distance #
thirty yards the rifle in the hands OF A.
mericans is fatal weapon.n
FSsn the .7baay Daiiy .ii,er,i,sr. Nav 81.
Mystery Uarauet ed-Some time in
the later part of 1924, or beginning of
1875, 1--WE believe) horse was found
dead IN the woods, in the vicinity of Cay
nga lake, ard pair OF saddle bags near
Inm, cut open aud riiled: 1t vas then
supposed that the owner of the horse,
whose name was Jesse Srang, had been
robbed and murdered, and his Doe,
thrown int" the lake, aud much time
and pains were taken by hundreds of
people in dragging the lake in search
OF the body. From that time until last
FRIDAY, thpte had been no intelligence
OF the lost man. On that day, a gentle
man from that County, went to the Jail
10 TINS city, and the moment be saw
Strang, the supposed murderer of Mr..
Whipple, he knew lin TO be the person
before mentioned, and on charging him
With the fact, strang acknowledge it,
and laughed heartily at the idea OF drag
ging The lake in search of him. The
reason tor bis practising his deception,
IS said to be, that be bad forged several
drafts, Zone OF which was cashed in this
city, and he wished TO be thought dead,
to avoid being discovered Since thai
time he passed by the name OF Joseph
Ohon.
Tue story in one Of the German pa
pers respecting the reduced state and
poverty of the Ex King of sweden.
gives birth to singular reflections. 1t
sppea rs that he was lately obliged to
travel outside diligence in Indictment
weather, for want of funds To pay for
an inside place, and that his hands were
frost bitten in What a
lesson on the instability Of human af
farsi SO striking an instance of the
freaks OF fortune has not been played
since the Elk King of Corsica. Theo,
dore, who lies buried in st. AIMS church.
London He received IN state a depu
'ation which came 10 pay him some
petty amount of a charitable subscrip
ton, under the gorgeous coaopy of a
check curtained hall tester bed. his on
ly furniture, in tho garnet where he liy
ed, aud robed in dress coat out al the
elbows. The times have, indeed, been
so faithful in vicissitudes, that the i,na.
gined meeting of the four Ex Kings in
Voltaire's Candids, who possessed only
one shirt between them, is no longer a
romance. Sometimes, fortune appears
no longer blind. similarly ABRUPT chan
ges, but of an opposite character, have
also raised men from the lowest stations
to the highest by their own merit. OF
this BerDadotte, the only crowned rem
mani OF the Bonaparte school. is an ex-
traordinary instance Truth Teller.
The New York Common Council
passed resolution on the Soth ult. to
wear Grape for so days, in testimony OF
respect Tor the late Hon. Rufus King.
squirrel hunt took place near
Brookville, in the 4th Concession of
longe, U. Canada. consisting of al
individuals, 1914 squirrels were killed.
One person produced lI6 tails, and ano.
Their i04.
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MARRIED,
on the 10Th inst in Philadelphia, Rev. J.
BEECHER, of Shepherdstown. 10 Miss HAN.
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