The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-08-22
From the Nashville, Tenn. Banner Of July "a.

day last, of which, it afforded much amusement to
the bar and audience generally, we took some notes
with the intention of reporting it at length for the
qualification of readers but as the evidence turn
ed out to be entirely insufficient to sustain the charge
against the defendant and the counsel did not find IL
necessary even argue the cause have concluded
to give only brief outline of the proof, without men
toning the names of the parties.
The plaintiffs son, young man not quite of age
had, it seems attended subscription ball in the neigh
borhood of his residence, and had attracted the atten
ton of the company by his voracity having drank, as
some of the witnesses stated, from Is to Is cups of
tea or coffee and eat in proportion. short time at
forwards, he attended another similar party, and a
youth who had resided with defendant and suppo-
sed to have been instigated by him, administered
liberal dose of tartar emetc, by mixing it with the
coffee which he handed to plaintiffs The decla-
ration alleged that defendant had aided and abetted
in this attempt 10 poison sicken the young man.
Several witnesses testified that the tartar given.
that it operated powerfully, and that the youth above
referred TO had boosted of his agency in the ransac-
ton. But no evidence furnished of any partici-
patton in the act by the defendant, and the plaintiff
therefore lost his cause. The young man who gave
the dose has removed out of the state.
The defendants counsel, in the course of the ex-
animation, inquired what motive the youth had assign.
ed for administering the medicine, and commended that
if it given in order to effect salutary cure of
disposition to excessive gormandizng, the act instead
The court however, would not admit testimony of the
alleged motive, except far the statement respect
ing it might constitute part of the conversation al
ready introduced by the plaintiffs examination, and
the inquiry, therefore, was not persisted IN.
Easton, Md. August 18.-Agreeable to notice Civ
en- IN the newspapers the Methodist Episcopal Church
commenced a Camp-meeting in the woods of Mr.
William Benny, Jr. near this place, on Thursday last.
And on Sunday last there on the ground ninety
Tents, hoo hundred and forty-three couered carts,
oty.or double carriages, and one hundred and eigh-
ty-three gigs, besides immense number of saddle
horses. We should judge there was from three to
four thousand persons, on the ground perfect order
has been observed throughout the whole time-noth-
ing occurred which could mar the harmony or unan-
unity that prevailed.-WAig.
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RALEIGH, ~ G. AUG. TO-
POtcer of Conscience or Murder aoiU Om!-We I'm.
derstand, that an individual has been committed to
Jail in Fayetteville, charged with having murdered
MIR Monroe, who found dead near that place last
winter, and whose death attributed, at the time
to his having fallen from his horse in state of intox-
icaton. The person in prison, was arrested in
consequence of certain disclosures which were made
by a white woman, who having attended Camp
Meeting, became so much affected by the exercises,
that she could obtain of mind, until she I'M
burthened her conscience. She confessed to one of
the Preachers that the deceased, Monroe, was muir
dered at her house, and that Williamson, (now in