Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-05-23
VOLUME III.

when SOME disturbance took place, which caused
their separation. Six months ago, the husband MED
net;,on for divorce setting forth various causes, de-
clnrino that he was young and inexperienced when
ne married her. and was not acquainted with ner true
character; that her conduct, during the time Trey
lived together was disappearance ana py MN could
not be endured She answered that they were raised
in the same ne.ghoorhood, and had KIN wn each other
from their infancy up: that ne knew her character
and circumstances in lie perfectly well when he mar,
red her, and had taken her with his eyes open TO all
her franes; she positively denied ever having been
guilty of any misconduct during the time they lived
egeher, but that she acted towards HIM the part OF
an affectlonae wife. She further asserted thal WHEN
he was about leave her, hemade no charges against
her. but gave as his for separation that ne dld
not had he ever loved her; that his trends had
induced him to marry her merely for her property and
that he had asccrtaned he could not ENJOY LIE win
woman he did not love.
Al the last court an Issue was made up and submit
ted to q Jury The petition and answer having been
read evidence was then introduced which proved de-
cidedly in favor Of the petitioner On the part 81 the
plaintiff the cause submitted without any argu-
ment: but the counsellor the defendant resisted the
divorce by long and feeling speech, In which he al
luded to the solcmnity OF the marriage vow-the nu-
tual duties it imposed the parties and the want OF
sufficient in that to dissolve the bonds OF
matrmony. !,
During this Investigation the parties were both IN
court. The husband was apparently young and sim
pe and in fact mere boy, and there was nothing In
in theleast prepossesslng in his appearance The we
seemed something older, and altogether the superior
eyes, and very expressive faces she manifested great
interest in the trial.
The Jury after retiring few minutes, returned
verdict for the plaintiff The parties were st IL IN Their
seats behind the bar, six eight feet distant
fronaeach Others the wife asked gentleman by whom
she sitting for his knife if to trina her finger
nails she felt of the edge rose to her feet paused
mement turned pale her eyes flashed fire, and then
suddenly sprang forward with the drawn knife, ard
aimed az her husband deadly blow. But, fortunate
w. lady who was standing by her get the knife,
ad fran harc putf tenn cp
ditaing something of desperate character, watched
her until she the blow aimed at the throat OF the
unsuspecting husband, and instantly seized the aria
ofthe infuriacd wife, and diverted the weapon from
the object at which it aimed; but, determined on
her hellsh purpose she threw the knife with great
violence at her husband and turning, made most
furious attack on her whose hand had arrested the
blew, and thwarted the wicked design The court
ordered her into custody she arrested and borne
out of the court making the most wild and frannc
ordinations calling on her husband in the most
tender and passionate language and seemed 10 De en-
trely deranged.
Her conduct was strange and unaccountabe, but
all who witnessed the agree that she must have
loved her husband. She had listened attentvely TO
the investigation Of the whole matter, heard the pa
thetc speech of her counsel and then the verdict OF
the iury pronouncing their final separation she felt
that she loved him above all others and the idea that
me was tfion at liberty marry again flor that was
said be bis obec was more than she could endure
Her heart was devoted to him, and sooner than
him pledged to anothe, she would see INN die, and
that too by sher own hand, in the presence of the
court and the multitude that surrounded her. OF the
consequencesto herself she never thought, nor for
them cared they could not have been grf a'er than
DEATH and ne doubt she felt, at that moment that
she would gladly take refuge in the Of DEATH
She remained 10 Jail until the next morning. when
she was brought before the court and, after being
severely reprmanded was sentenced to fve days i'm,
prisoRment for contempt of the court and required
to give bond and security for nor good behavior for
the next twelve msnhs.-RaMe1erd Gazette.
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ING ORe sSIzsp BEIxes.-The recent experiments Of
Mr.. Cross, Mr. Farriday, and other scientific men,
in which .he vital prnclple appears 10 have been
called into action by the electro galsanc process,
have naturally excited tie public cariosty in a very
high degree and have oecasioned variety of theore
teal speculation. The experiments, in some of oar
public Journals were announced under the head
hFormation of Animaculw,' an assumption to which
we take leave TO object convDced as we are that there
is no creation in the case; although the symptoms
Of vitality might never have been manifested without
the electric gayanlc principle.
There il no one thing of which we are so fully as
sured as that man cannot produce life which ema-
mates from God alone; and it is, in our opinion as
absurd TO call the results question creation as
it would be TO maintain that the Egyptians, who hatch
the eggs of fowls In ovens, produce the chicken.
Oar belief is that in the recent experiments Of Dir.
Cross and others, the electric gavanc fluid, per-
forms the Office towards the slex as the heat
of the oven does the egg, namely, stimulates or
quckens the vital spark which was latent until called
into action by appropriate means as the fire lies dor
mant in the flint until elected by collision with the
steel The germ was there before the philosopher |
commenced his operations. Omnis animal or ore
we believe to be general rule, which admits OF no
exception.
These reflections were suggested by reading In lne
Mechanics Magasne for the present month, letter ,
on the production Of lie 5y gaivanism, addressed to
the editor by Mr.. f. Maceo ni in which Is asserted
that a horse har became animated by the galvanic
process. On reading this letter il Immediately &C. |
CURED TO us that we had in our early reading with
an account OF horse hairs been metamorphosed into |
cells; and upon consulting that absurd but amusing |
farago of miracles, Baptisa Portals "Nstaral Ma |
gc" ascertaned that our distant recollection had
not heen reacherous as we there find il gravey as
serted that the hairs OF horse name laid in water
will \come serpents," and that the carcass of n |
-sft4ons IN standing pools produces eelsn Wehaye
always classed this story with that of the ancient
gossip Pliny, who, with equal gravity asserts that
Hif any part of mans body be touched with n white
matter or milk that a salamander vomits out of ts
mouth, the hairs will fall off and what's touched will
be changed into the leprosy" The works ofthis same
author and Of Baptista Porta abound with similar
phenomena and the alleged conversion Of the hairs of
the horse into serpans is one Oft the least wonderful
of the idle tales which have been recorded by these
crcdulous philosophers
With this preface shall proceed with extract
from the letter addressed by Mr. Maceroni the editor
of the Mechanics Magazine, respecting which we |
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