Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-08-06

A laborer on the Jersey Canal, at Bulls
Island, in the Delaware, opposite Lumber
Vile, named Burns, for long time past sus-
pected his wife Of infdelity. Unwilling to
act hastily in the matter, but being strongly
convinced that his suspicious were we'll foun-
d I'd, he resolved to take measures to ascer-
tain certainly the whole truth. To do this,
saws the Doylestown Democrat, from which:
paper we gain these particulars, lie gave out
that he was going from home and did not
expect to return soon. He however, came
home, sometime in the night, entered his
house, and proceeded to his room, where his
suspicious were confirmed by finding the de-
ceased there, and the marriage bed prosti-
tuted to the vilest passions. He Immediate
ly seized club and beat out the brains of the
seducer of his wife, and the destroyer of his
happiness, as he lay in the bed. This done,
with the same club he beat his abandoned
wife SO severely, that she died in IA few hours
after.
Burns Immediately gave himself up, and
was committed to prison, in Pennington. N.
/ j., where he now awaits his trial.. When the
decease of his wife was mentioned to him, he
OK pressed the highest satisfaction, stating it
was exactly what he desired.-PhH. Gag.
"a -
Hoar.-The Washington Telegraph
states that the article which is now go
ing the rounds Of the newspapers, relat-
ing the circumstances of a s'horrid con-
spiracy in the East Indies," is ''a hoar-
although detailing real transactio n
which took place some sixty years ago.
The hoaxer has Just altered the dates,
and the thing takes
Sea Sapent-Sloop Fame, of Man.
tucket, whaling for sea Serpents came
into Boston on Tuesday morning, from
an unsuccessful cruise. The Fame left
Nantucket on Saturday manned with
three boats crews, all old and experience
ed whalesmen, armed with whaling ap-
paratus ofevery variety. She is victualled
for months cruise.
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The Richmond Wing says:-"Many
= bets of small amount were made by a
gentleman of this city, that it would rain
upon the 25th ult. and the event justified
: his opinion. He says that it has never
: failed to do so for the last seventeen years.
A gentleman in the county of Gooclr-
land, has standing bet which has been
continued for twelve or fifteen years,
that it will rain the first Saturday in
: every August, all OF which he has won,
except in one instance"
t A gentleman of Baltimore, who has
e particularly observed the weather for
many years, has found that, without an
exception, we believe, rain has fallen here
n on the 10th, It'll or 18th Of May.
$ THE DELAWARE.-We learn from
s the Norfolk Herald, that the U. S. Ship
II OF the line, Delaaoare, Captain Ballard,
q sailed from Hampton Roads on Tuesday
II Morning, for New York, with fresh
y Southerly breeze, which will probably
& take her to that port in so hours. On
Is Monday, the President Of the United
A. States, and his suit paid visit to the
II Delaware, and were attended through
e. the ship by Capt. Ballard and his officer
The President expressed in warm terms
a his admiration Of the interior wonders
IS of this prodigious floating castle, its su.
IL perior style Of equipment, and high state
: of discipline observed in every depart
'e1 mcnt AT going on board, and leaving
'a the ship, he was complimenled, with q
50 salute Of "a guns-although he had signi
III fed his wish TO dispense with that cere
mony.
The Easton (Md.) Gazette of Saturday
says that the Jackson convention met in Cen
MT terville OH Thursday last to nominate a can
= didate for Congress for that congressional dis
trict-The Committee from Cecil did not at
tend. The old Democrats OF '98 and tn
a Jackson federalists, itappears, could not agre
jul on a candidate-the meeting was therefor
ny adjourned to Thursday the 9Th of August
when, it is presumed, more liberal feeling
n will he entertained with respect to the honest
ed and integrity of some of the leading men i
to the jackson ranks who were not Democra,
re- in '98.
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