Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-09-15
SUMMARY.
From lie Boston Bulletin.


the land OF sscakes and kai'-this speaking
chroniclsr Of the events Of the past centurys
youth, with the lamp Of memory shining brlght>
~ in his brain-this eye witness OF the passage
Of human lives, as they bubble onward on the
stream of time-this lone pine which has SUR
vived the decay Of the Forest green at his oirth,
was brought before the Court this morning Tor
Being a common drnnkard!
Where now are the companions OF his youth!
those young loves which chung around the
hopes OF his boyish days? his companions In
arms? the Highland heroes of fonrenoy, with
whom he Fought ask Of their mouldered bones
of the erave:-darkness and silence engross
their story The folly Of life, the atomness OF
Time in comparison with the magnitude OF E
lernity, the frailty and nolhingness OF earthly
ambition, the dignity gilman, all are illustrated
and excmplIfied in the person OF Donald NJ
Donald, at his age, before the bar OF The Police
Court on the Charge of drunkenness!
The eye Of wonder gazcs upon him as he
seemingly Steps forth from the recesses OF an
age which is known only by history; on him a.
lone rests the correction Of many errors which
have crept into lis pages. What he has wit
messed he describes distinctly, even SO far as ii
relates 10 persons, places, time and circum-
stances, and unless they are now embodied as
teri,y as error has come to us. Donald was
sent to the House of Correction, whence proba-
bly, he will be removed to the House OF Indus
try, and his remaining days made comfortable.
| He accompanied the o icer with almost as e.
rect person at that Of the officer himself
Since last released from the House OF Correo>
ton he has been traveller, and can walk 20
miles per diem, though upwards OF 40 years
older than the veneI able Judge who sentenced
! him.
Accident By Bees. ----As Mr. Martin Laza-
rus, Of Salisbury Township, Lehish county,
was employed in hauling manure in three
horse wagon, on Wednesday last, bee happen
ed 10 light on the leader horse, whilst passing
the garden fence, and slung him. This started
| not only the leader, but also frightened the
other two horses, and, in endeavoring to stop
| them, the wagon Came III contact with the gar
den fence, tore it away, and upsc! whole row
of hives, the enrsged bees all fell upon the
! horses and men, and stung two OF the horses to
death, and very much in ured the other, as well
as Mr.. Lazarus, his son and servant. The son,
in partiular, was seriously in led, having been
thrown between the wagon ard the fence post
| he is, however, considered out OF danger.
NJ Gazette
Breach Of Promise Of Marriage. AN ac-
ton was tried yesterday in the Superior Court,
Judge Hoffman presiding, which excited consl
derabe interest. Ii was brought by Ellen
Yates, to recover damages against William lie
CoE.... breaking matrimonial engagement
kaon conducted the case for the plaintiff,
! n ee 70" the defendant. II appeared in
-. .e}ce that the parties had resided under the
| cav. ,,,c :, ,i-h--vv7-e .si'.",
Tor nearly seven years, and that an attachment
| was observed between Them in 1922 when the
age Of the plaintiff was only IS, and that Of the
defrndent l9. The proof was sufficient to es-
tabIsh the inference that an engagement had
been made between them. In May last the de-
fendan, married Miss Heartwell. The coun>
sci for the defence. in summing up, did not
attempt 10 assaiI the character OF the plaintiff:
5ut urged that the defendant acted correctly in
| breaking off any engagement which might have
been formed, il he arrived al The conclusion that
its fulflment would prove source OF unhappi-
ness. The jury found a verdic, for $500.
" Y Conn., .fdv.
At the latter end Of June, number Of Rat
| tle-Snakes arrived al Hayre in vessel from
New York. The newspapers OF Havre protest
ed against this importation, Of the ground that
the reptile might be propagated in France. We
| learn with pleasure, says the Paris Journal DIES
De5ats, OF the Isl July, that the seventy SIX ser
penis have been put on board The packet for
England.
FREsH.-Our River is higher than it has
been for several years, and is full o. timber and
lvmber, fencing stuff, pumpkins, sc. sc. The
crops of corn, potatoes, sc. are entirely lost
When our paper went to press, the water was
still rising at the rate of three inches per hour.
Mary of the stores in Commerce street have
tie water on their first floor. Tie Bridge Co..
had before the late rains, taken up one OF The
meadow Bridges for the purpose of building a
new one, and now there is no crossiag and
from East Hartford but by means of misera-
bic rcke,y old boat Hartford Conn. ! Mirror.
The above paragraph, is conf! matory Of
what we had before heard, ,ha: very extensive
damage has been done by the freshet OF the
Connecticut. 1t is reported that the locks Of
the canal al Enfield Falls were carried away,
that immense quantities Of hay and other pro-
ducr has been swep: from the meadows which
border the rivers even the cattle from the pas
lures Of the upper grounds, Agentlemsn who