Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-06-07

The Governor of New York has grahteo
reprieve of one month 10 Wilbur, who was scn-
fenced to have been executed on the 23d inst,
for the murder of Barber. This is done for the
purpose of enabling his counsel to apply to the
Supreme Court for new trial on the ground that
the Jury in this case had two bottles OF rum IN
their room while celebrating on verdict.
HoMlclDE.-Ont the Ith inst. an alteration
took place near Huntsville between Mr.. Mann
and Mr.. Livermau, in which the latter was shot
down dead. Mann has been committed toJaii.
FRArRrc1DE few days since, two brolh,r'
in Lincoln county, Mo. of the name of Plummcr
got excited in family Tuarrel, and in an unguar.
ded moment one ofthem struck the other dead
with ptchfork. Both of fthena had wives, who
were spectators of this bloody tragedy.
A SHE SAlLoR.-Brig, William. O'is cleared
at Boston November oath for uayanna!, and
proceeded thence to New Orleans, where she ar.
rived February 18th. The bolrding officer at
New Orleans, in m liking his return Of the crew,
stated that they were the same that had left 's-
ton in the b,g, but adds, "Chatles Lord proves
to be woman in disguise"
The Hartford Review gives an account Of two
Lilputians n .!:.t place, who are from 46to So
inches i'll height. They are brothers; the eldest
is 50 years of age, is married, and has a family
Of six children. The youngest IS about 90
Both smart and active, and have the appearance
Of couple Of old boys
There is factory ofnails and biads IN Lincoln
county N. C.
At the hanging ofa man lately in Warren
county N. c. tor numbering his nephew the' rope
broke, and it became necessary to procure an
other A pull at the sherif's neck would make
him furnish better rope next time.
Gen. Lenor, of Wilkes county N. c. is dead.
James Mack, deaf mute is about to publish a
volume Of poems in Now York.
SKETCHES OF u S. SESAroRs.-W. M. Morri-
son Of Washington, has published a small volume
under the above title, containing sketches Clay,
Webster, Calhoun, Wright, Rlves, and most OF
| the distinguished Senators. The ske ches are
all eulogistlc and natural, and may be read with
! interest.
Foul Murdsr.-We learn from the Athens
Republican, that MIR. John P. White, citizen
of Miss. on bis way to North Caro- ina, w.s
! murdered and robbie | near that place on the 9th
INST. He was apparently shot through the
back in the public highway, and hauled some
distance into the wood and rif1ed OF his mon
ey-S5OO, however, concealed in the lining o.
his 'nexpressibles, was not found.
A late Dublin paper contains the account o
an awful fire in which not less than six human
beings were burnt alive. 1t occurred in
chambers establishment IN Mary street, at tht
midnight hour: the flames originated in the
boiling over of cauldron fiat.
The original name Of the Mississippi, accord
ing to DAM Coke, who wrote book on tn
Sou'h- " est in 1722, was Meschacebe cebt
meaning rich, and Mescha great.
The editor of .:he Philadelphia Saturday
Evening Post has lately paid visit to large
field of Morus Multicaul's, and thus writes U
the plants: "They have been Under groun'
but about two weeks, and are already up 81
inches"
The question of the concurrence of kentuck
in the Bill to incorporate the South. .Wester
Rail Road Bank, is beginning to excite grea
interest in that State. 1t will probably ope
rate materially in the coming election for mem
bers Of The Legislature.
Ithas been decided in the Assembly Of Con
necticut l46 20 46 that the credit OF the stat
will not be loanedto railroad companies.
Along Lins.@Cn the 11th inst, there wa
lying between Little Falls and HerkImel
New York awaiting the repair of abreach Il
the rrie Canal line of canal boats ten mile
in length. 1t is supposed it would require
fortnight to get them through the locks.