Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-07-22

papTt % gwen the history, lin report of the
trlal OF rencontre between a Mr.. Blake
schoolmaster, and three of his scholars
holhn' Marlus, and Seymour Howard. three
orothers, which resulted in the death of the
latter, young man of II. Mr.. Blake was
tried for manslaughter, and was defended
by some Of the ablest counsel of Vermont
among them the Hon. G. P. Van Ness. and
Il. b. Bates, Esq. The jury, after lone
consultation, agreed upon a verdict of oc'
qu1ttat. In our view it was a riphteous
Judgment, and had any other been given #
would have been serious reproach unon
upon the justice and humanity of the iuiry.
These Howard boys were VIGOROUSLY turin
lent and quarrelsome, and as we understand
had often before disturbed the district and
perhaps broken up the school by their open
and violent opposition to the master, face TO
face. On this sad occasion the master had
called up one of the above bows to chastise
HIM tor some misconduct, when Seymour,
Howard, the one who was killed, rose in his
seat and forbade the masters punishino his
brother. The master several times told him
to-" sit down" to which he replied he "would
be id if he would" and thereupon he
lett his seat and made towards the master.
VINO met him with the weapon nearest at
hand-a crutch-and struck him blow on
the arm. The scholar scuffied with the
master for the possession of the crutch, and
was thrown violently on his back in a mar
row aisle, at the foot of which he stood, his
head In the fall hitting the corner of a desk.
which probably was the cause of his death.
The master struck another blow at him while
on the floor, but hit the desk-more proba-
bly,, as is shown, than the scholar. Having
humbled this lad, and ordered him to his
seat, he proceeded to punish the boy first
called up, and was again assailed by another
brother with an iron poker, which the mas
ter having wrested from him, he next seized
the crutch and gave the master several blows
while correcting the original offender.
1t would thus seem that the master was
attacked, by boys who boosted they would
fog him, and that in maintaining proper or
der in his school and in defending his person
from insult and injury, he was the unfortu-
nate and unintentional cause of the death Of
one of them. What different could he have
done, or how anticipate catastrophe so
melancholy and which he himself laments.
with the keenest anguish. 1t was an acct
dent which occurred in the rightful exercise
OF vested authority authority too, essential,
absolutely essential, in country district
school.-.N Y. Nat. Ado.
LIGHTNING. The Tontine Coffee House,
New-Haven, which had three electrical con-
lductors, having been struck by lightning.
inquiry has been made and the following,
among other conclusions, have been arrived
at, The kitchen chimney, it appears was
thirty feet from any rod. "That lightning
rod is competent to protect distance no
greater than twice the length of the stem
OF the part that rises above the roof The
steam, smoke, and SCOT, are all good con
Eductors OF electricity, and consequently, that
chimney In which fire is burning, pre-
sents a point Of attraction to lightning.
That when, of several chimneys that rise to
an equal elevation, one 1.-THE kitchen chimney
Ter 'instance) has fire burning, while the
oIh:~S have not, that one requires to be es-
Pscialiy projected. That the kitchen fire.
piace' curing ethunder storm, on the suppo-
si.ioli 'iadt no otfsr fires are burning, is a
place ofpeculiar dagger"
We understand that col. Williams Sinh
Agent, and Mr.. John Miller, United States,
interpreter, have lately been enrared under
the authority Of the General Government IN
burning houses and destroying corn ofthe in
truders aOho had moued, in defence offhe en-
isting treaties, into the TCherokeel .Nation
from the frontier Of Georgia. We are Meas
ed with this new instance of the kind dispo-
sltlon OF our "Great Father the President"
Cherokee Phenir.
One hundred and sixty acres ofunimprov-
ed land, adjoining the town of Tallahassee,
IN Florida, recently sold at publick sale. for
nineteen thousand sac hundred and uii,,ety-
one dollars.
On the 10Th ult. beautiful male child.
about one month old, was left at the door of
Capt. Archibald F. Knight, near Ripley.
Ohio. Capt K. is said to be liberal gentle
man, Uneasy circumstances, blessed with ev-
cry thing to render him happy, except chill
dren, (some persons may say the exception
is happy one,) and the unfortunate mother
probably imagined that ON so Furnishing "a
stock she might safely engraft her tender
scion. We do not learn whether the graft
took or not Hartford Mercury.
STILL ANOTHER FORGERY Within
short time, we are informed, person has
arrived from England with a quantity of
composition sovereigns, which are so inge-
niously fabricated that he has succeeded in
palming off a good many upon different bro.
kers in the city. Their appearance is per-
fectly good, but they are found to fall short
in weight about 2 1-2 penny weights. One
of them may be seen at the Police Office.
1t is unnecessary to say that measures are
in train to arrest the william.
~ Y Jour. Com.
Be PARTICULAR. In the letter bag of a
vessel which arrived at this port few days