Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-08-14
Unionto, rn | Penn. ] august s.

! suddenly, and about the same time on
Friday evening last, with violent sick.
ness at the stomach, and vomiting
accompa MED with excessive thirst and
pain. In the course OF the night sir
Clark rose twice and brought from the
pump several gallons of water, which
was drunk by them during that time.
These circumstances strange as il may
seem, excited 10 serious alarm. and IL
was not until Saturday morning that
neighbor calling on business discovered
the situation of the family and gave the
alarm. Physicians were immediately
called in, but no ahate ment OF the symp
toms was effected, the thirst, vomiting
and pain still continuing. About ten %.
clock on Saturday the eldest boy died
The consent of the parents having been
obtained, the physicians opened the
stomach of the child. AT its upper ex-
trenity il was found considerable, eroded,
and at the lower much infamed From
an accident which occurred during the
dissection, satisfactory examination
OF the contents of the stomach could not
be made, but no doubts were entertained
that death bad been produced by min
erat poison 1t was inferred on Sunday.
Bot before this last sad Office was per
formed the young child. and shortly az.
ter on the same evening the mother yiel-
ded to the violence Of the attack, and
claimed the same Office. The friends
were notified to attend their funerals at
ten o'clock on Mosdsy. At the appoin
ted hour large company bad assembled,
but by this time it was clearly discover
| able that Mr. Clark himself. whose ro
bust constitution had more firmly resis.
ted the attack upon the seat of life, was
sinking under, and must presently yield
| to IT, The funeral was postponed, and
about O'Clock in the evening, bis spir.
itforsook ifs earthly tabernacle ofclay"
and it is hoped winged its flight after
the mother an! the sons to ''habitation
| high in the Heavens, eternal, not made
with hands" la the evening we saw a
relative 30 whose care it had been com.
mitted, conveying away the only surviv-
o. of the family, an infant unwsaned
| from tie breast Of IFS mother. The deep
sensation produced upon the public
mind was evidenced at the funeral,
which took place yesterday. The bo
| dies were inferred at the Baptist bury
ing ground, amidst an assembly of about
! oo0 persons the husband end wife in
the same grave, snd the child at their
| side.
Ne doubt is entertained that the deaths
of these unfortunate persons were ccea-
stoned by poison About fifteen min
utes before they We're taken. they had
all psrtaken Of supper, of milk and
corn mush, IN one or the other of which
il must have been contained But
| whether it was placed there by some
abandoned unkuowA william or found
its way there by accident is unknown
The family having bseakfaeted in par.
on mushrooms. one kind of which are
known to be poisonous, it has been
thought that death may have been pro
duced by them. The length Of time
however, between the period when
| they were eaten. and that at which sick
ness commenced : the fact that the sick
ness Immediately followed the supper,
| and commenced with all within a few
minutes of the same time, does not favor
| this belief
A dog to which portion of the musb
of which the family partook was given,
was sensibly effected by il. but death
did not ensue. A cat which il is sup
posed had eaten part which bad been
elected from the stomachs Of some of
the deceased by vomiting came into the
room where one Of then was lying and
died. We understand that some of the
mush has been preserved by the ply sic
ians and will De tested for arsenic. Demo
Drsodful accident and loss Of Lives at
Krkaldy, in Seotland-A most dread
full accident occurred, at Kirkaldy, on
+, Sunday last, ll5th June the disastrous
consequences Of which equal, if not ex-
coed, those produced by the fall of the
Brunswick Theatre some months back.
From the particulars which have reach
ed US through correspondent, it APP
pears that tho celebrated Mr.. Irving
! (who has been for some weeks back in
the active exercise of bis ministry thro'
| different parts of Scotland) was announ.
ced to preach at Kirkaldy, on the days
! of Saturday and Sunday, which natural