The native American., 1838-07-07
ATRoCIous MURDER.

ATROCIOUS MURDER
A most atrocious murder was recently perpe-
trated In Louisa county, Va. The unhappy VIC
tim was a gentleman of high responsibility, by
the name of Thornley,, who was murdered by his
own slave, boy about l9 years of age. The
circumstances were briefly as follows: The boy
and his mother were saving off some blocks
with cross-cut saw, when the. deceased came to
them, and observing that the boy did not saw to
please him, took the saw for the purpose of in
structing him, at the same time telling him if
he did not do better he should correct him; as
soon as his master took the saw, he seized an
axe, and with one well-directed blow buried il in
the head Of the unsuspecting victim; and thus, by
one fell swoop, young and affectionate wife is
deprived Of a kind and devoted husband. and an
infant Of him, who, in after years, would have
been its protector. The assassin Instantly at
tempted to make his escape, but was arrested and
brought back to the place where his murdered
master was, with his hands still clenched by the
last expiring grasp of nature to the handle Of the
saw i'll the position in which he had first fallen,
and here presented itself sufficient to sof-
ten the most adamantine heart. The wife in
frantic screams caressing the lifeless corpse of
her husband, as if to fan into fame again, the
spark that had but SO lately been exinguished but
som of the demon with the spirit ofa end he called
upon those who had him in custody 10 let him
have the axe, that he might chop his master in
pieces, saying that he wished to chop up his very
shoes!! But justice has overtaken the monster:
he was tried by the County Court Of Louisa at
its last session. and convicted of murder in the
first degree by the testimony Of his mother The
Court sentenced him TO be hung on the lth Of
this month (July. )-CharlottesuiN Republican.
n A MINERAL NosE.-Dr Harwood of this ci-
tty, has made an artificial nose for young man
belonging to Spencer, in Worcester county,
which the Boston Medical and Surgical journal
conducted by DR.. J. v. G.. Smith-tells us can
hardly be distinguished, Oh pretty close exam-
nation, from genuine nasal organ. When the
patient was six weeks old, while lying upon his
back in the cradle spark from the fire ignted the
cloth spread over his face, which was so horribly
burned, that the entire nose, even TO the bridge
bone above the cartilage, sloughed off level with
the cheeks The expression of this unfortunate
being, now perhaps twenty years of age, was dis
agreeable in the extreme.
He came to Boston for the purpose Of under
going the 'Faliacotian operations: but the breadth
Of surface between the eyebrows and hair being
rather small, DIR. Lewis, who was consulted, was
convinced that the chance of success was a limit
ed one, and he therefore recommended him to al
low DR.. Harwood to attempt plan, altogether
new in this country, Of constructing an artificial
nose, Of a mineral substance commonly used in
dental surgery for artificial gums. The ingenuity
Of this gentleman has surpassed the expectations
of those who have watched his benevolent exer-
tons. The new nose is superior in appearance
to those usually constructed by the Taiacotian
method. But separately from this consideration,
the patient has been saved from series of pro-
tracted suferings under the knife. In order 10
keep the new facial apparatus always snugly in
place, pair ofspectacles are indispensable accom-
animents.-Nonhern Statesman.