Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-10-11
AWFUL MORTALITY.


AWFUL MORTALITY.
II becomes Our duty this day TO make i
most ppaliing record of deaths Doin,s
10 our neighborhoo1. The dpsolating maIa5,|
'shIch has swept bar country, has no wle,.
been more laial in is career, than Of Han
town, four miles east of this place. 81, II
Sunday the 23d hlt. Htge has been siut,e1
tEetshs dy Choterp, in population not exceed
ing 100 souls In the family of Mai Perm
ITS ravages have been heart rendipg Five al
his ho'isehold' have heel, cut off: His ss,ss
Miss ELIZABETH PifEH, bis son Tt,om,sN
ana three OF has servents Seldom has il "a,
len 10 the lot OF one man 10 drink so deenle
at a single draught, Of the cup of afflct;o5n' |
10 Tuesday morning, he left his beloved
sister and son 10 their usual health, and wbilel
m CtaFsestotTn received the news of the,rI
slar'ning illness Medical aid was pronptlyI
obtained, but the work ofieath was too sIre.I
! Planned In five hours the fatal sha(tsI
"cfc sped And yesterday, he accompanied
them beth to The totnL'
Mir DANIEL ArLsraDf, Young man of
30 was among The viciems, and the other.I
were principally wofkmen on the road Sc |
sctai oil the Citizens are yet down with ths i
disease, but are convalesceht
We question whether a eirni,.r insfaneeI
% mortality, IN SO small a population, ha. |
get been recorded. All the workmen on the |
road, except or 10. have fled from this "a. l
vorte resting place of the Destroying Angelo
pUgh..a Free Pressl
Since Our last publication, I've have had ns|
domestic case of Cholera in this place. A la.I
borer from Hatown came 10 town sick on|
Thursday evening, with symptoms of CbolersI
and his case proved TO he q violent one. Hell
is now in fair wa, OF recovering.
The general health of Charlestown continl
Ties good; but Heaven only knows how soonI
se shall have the scourge, in all lis desoIatl
ing power.-fbid
Useit DISCOVERY by Lady-H is stated i,sI
the Rerc"no Oh3oj Courier, that an in.ponnaA
d'scoteyy tcaS mate ut Copiey, Medina countuJ
By lazy. .Mr tdil has soh and another per
sou, acre digging cecil. aftd the son harind
gone doom first, atGs Frustrated on breathiagI
horio',s famps tc'oSs His fa,her dccendcd ID
ms rftGf. c'sd The Atri stariea tor a pIgsiciaad
! IN The meantime secelM Indies assembled at hd
place, ard one ttrcyc dorm pail Of ,caicrl
faost q 'ci,ch Je0 on The ,fsce Of M T., ,chd
caught breath, rose AMI seized The se,,seicss DO
dy q h's Son, gqt into tie iub, and ,cna
6"t'n 'fb by Tie hiies. jrrter ,cas imniedit
osefy applied to the young nun; rchich in
~ a.'' ' r., F'?t'''e@ symptoms Of retaining
We. .ur N q feW hours. attained I'D
ust'at Fca(th and stftagth and he i,ovng mai
bg medical aId, had so far recoreyrd as n
be abte 10 ,edl6 about the succeeding dagJ
he experiment ef ie,,tag do,cn a lighted can
dte tcds made schtch tccnt om al The distance
q s'1 Jeet from Tie Top IF the vet; a lie ehickl
en- ,'as otso lei dozen, and al Lte depth If STAT
jet animation became susptyuie,i; 6ut bg po,uI
u1g do'cH scater upon it, onination ,eas ind
meatatety restored From these IL appcars thaA
on 'udtias this gas, lite is oniy suspended
an" that The application Of ,cater ,ciH res'ors
II: iotehcr By conCeniag atmospheric air con4
tanned I" the ,cater, 10 Tie sufferer or tromF
some other cause.
"a .Hnreltous Lusus Naiw6. About lhd
beginning of the 10th century there was 4
Iiiairel seen in Scotland A BARN was bornI
reckoned to be man child, but from ibid
waist up was two fair persons, with all mend
bsfs pertaining 10 two bodies: to wit: twol
heads, well cared, and well handed Thd
two hotties, the ones bach was fast 10 the .
TIERS, but from the waist down they wer l.
n'it one parsonage, and it could not be ast
ceftatned from which Of the bodies the legs /,
Sc. proceeded. The King caused great card
to he taken in bringing them up, and ba,f
tiiem taught to sing and play on iastrumentI
OF muse, and in short time they becomd
very ingenious and cunning in the art OF nl''1
SIC, whereby they could sing and play parisi
The one the treble, and the other the tcuor}
which very dulco. and lnelo,ious 10 hcarf
ihey spoke suhdry languages, viz: Latni
french, ita!lth. Spanish, Dutch and English
The two bodies discovered different tasted
aud aPpft'tes; they frequently disagreed and
quarreHeH, and sometimes would coasalq
tath ether, ana concert measures for thd
so6'l 81 both, when any hurt was done ~
The lower parts each upper body felt pairt'
but when the injury was above The JunciIod
The one body oaly was Effected lhls mont
ster Ived y years, bni died wreichcdly, ond
1tin2 sotnciiine before the other.
HIS Was a wider departure from The ordl1
nary course Of Nature than the Siamtsf
TWINS who have lately been exhibitedlu thi1
country.