Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-06-20


any day, for my MISTRESS, but never my leg
For should have feared repenting it the rest OF
my life. In fact, had done so. each moment
would find me saving to myself, Thevenet thou
art fool!'
II have the honor to be. &c.
IL. THEyENET."
Shakspeare's tragedy of Othelo, or something
like it, has been enacted at Exeter in the granite
state. The Newburyport Herald gives the fol-
lowing account of the affair:
ATTEMPTED Murder and SWcide!-We hear
from Exeter, n. II. that young Whhe woman
named Sarah Moor, was shot on Sunday night
last, bv Black man named Charles lash. The
particulars as we heard them related are, that
lash had hcsn in tae habit of visiting the young
woman, and that on Sunday night he tarrled TILL
about II O'clock, when her mother desired her
to 90 to bed. Just as she was ascending the
chamber stairs. fash spoke to her., aud on her
turning round he discharged horse pistol at her
loaded with two bals;-One ball passed through
her side above the hip. the other into her abdo-
men. He then attempted to shoot himself with
another pistol, by putting the muzzel to his
breast, but it took a different direction, the
ball grazing across his breast, passed through
the left arm. Mrs. Moore gave the alarm of muir
der, when the neighbors assembled. and found
Sarah, supported by her mother, in the agonles
of death, and fash on the floor weltering IN his
blood. On being questioned as to this horrid
act he said his intention was to have killed both
Sarah and hinself; and was only surry that he
had not effected his purpose. He was immedi-
a,ely s. cured, and was to have undergone IN
examination before a magistrate, yesterday fore
noon. The young woman was living when our
informant left, but the physicians had pronounc-
ed her wounds mortal.
fash had always sustained a reputable char
acter lie was brought up in the family OF Col.
". Gilman, and had accumulated a handsome
property. He was engaged as steward OF one of
our public ships, and was to have gone to Boston
Yesterday, there to embark for the South Seas.
The cause assigned for this dreadful deed
was his having been iorbdden 10y the mother to
visit her daughter. 1t is added that fash had
several times before attempted to destroy him
self.
The Exeter News Letter says, there is no
hope OF the Young woman's recovery lash was
examir ed on Monday before Justice Chadwick,
and held TO bail in the sum of $4,000, and two
suretes to the amount of $500 each aud for
want thereof, was committed to prison.
-ssseae5es.-
hngratitude to Larger. the last ses-
sions, in Albany, a man was tried for petit lar
ceny, Second offence) in taking from a person
who was drunk, his pocket book with three del
lars. The man was acquitted by the ingenious
management of his lawyer, in destroy ing the evil
dence of the person from whom the money was
taken, though there was no doabt OF the guilt Of
the aecnsest, But raaRkind is urgrateful, d
uncertain Indeed s it what will be our reward for
doing a Kindness On Friday last, this same
accused person stole a silver spoon from this
same lawyer, who may now have another oppor-
tunity of using his skill in again saving his for
mer client from punishment. -Albany ID. .Adv.
--saE9ss
The Polype. This wonderful creature is but
lately discovered, and the account Of it is so
trerney surprising, that many people for time
were doubtful Of their truth, and with great diff
Guilty give credit to them.
1t is "A small insect, found in bitches or watery
places; its bony is kind of hollow tube or
trunk, at the interior end of which is placed Sc
veral arms. with which it sozes its prey. 1t &C.
morally fastens at the posterior end to some plant
or Leaf, from which it depends, and contracts or
extends its bods and arms at pleasure. They are
voraclons, and swallow worm twice or thrice
their own length. 1.-THE worm comes end ways,
it is swallowed in that manner, otherwise 1t goes
down double, add makes several foldinss in the
stomach, which disteuds wonderfully for its re-
cepton. The worm soon dies there, and after
it has been squeezed or sucked, is voided by the
mouth. They produce their young by kind OF
vegetation from the exterior parts Of their bodies;
it is common 10 see five or SIX growing at time,
and when one drops off. another comes in its
place. The most surprising part of the history
Of this insect is, that, cut 1t into what parts you
please. each part becomes Poype; i! you cut
ii in two. the tail part produces head and arms,
sometimes 10 thu space of twenty-four hours, it
the weatheris wssm, but generally in two or three
days. If cut in three, the head and tail parts
produce as before and the middle produces both
a head and a tae Ifyou cut lonsways, through
the head, stomarl and body, each part is half a
pipe, witt, half nead, half mouth. and some Of
the arms; the et!ses of these half pipes gradually
round themselves and unite. beginsing at the tail
end, and the ha '.outh and stomach of each be-
comes complete. and in few hours they will de-
vour worm as long as themselves. II you will
take PoIype aud turn it inside out as you would