The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-24


were made the special order for that day. :
ga DEED WITHOUT NAME."-Under. this
q. head correspondent of the Louisville journal
writing from Columbia, Adair Co., kentucky,
details the circumstances of most heart-rend-
ing murder and suicide. The facts, briefly
stated, are theses A Mr.. Jacob Burke, plain
and honest farmer, residingabout two miles from
Columbia, lost his wife about two years ago, for
whom he entertained more than ordinary fond
ness. After her death he became morbidly. SEN
sitiye on the subjectof his two little boys, IN
: their lone and snotherless condition One of
thesewas five years old at the time of his mo-
TIERS death and the other, seven. To add to his
misery he took to drink, and from this cause his
u mind was measurably destroyed In this CON
dition, he determined, it is supposed, to take his
own life, but unwilling to leave his children be-
: hind him, he first, with, an axe, while they were
asleep, nearly severed their heads from their
81 shoulders, and then went to the barn and hung
e himself
~ oHIo.-The Columbia Statesman contains
!. an abstract ofthe population Of Ohio, as shown
Q, by the late census, obtained from Mr. Patterson
81 Marshal. The following is summary of the
whole
: 80 Free White Males, 77e,7s9 :
ii Females, 1882
=. Z. Total White Population, Lass, 5gs
Free ColoFed Males, s, 68z
* ." |" Females, s,465 =
Total. --- HOP
!. Total Population of Stale, L5I5,es5 (.
2 The official returns of the votes for Cover
- nor of Ohio were counted BY the Legislature
on the 18th inst, and The result declared as fol-
p lows; .s s. j.
. For Thomas Corwin, I45,44l votes ,
ts.. Wilson Shannon, 1892 :"
Thomas Morris, ."
f = William SAWYER. I So
Isaac Station sz.77zl Ia.sG
r Josiah Spencer .sli- 5.c II
!. A bill passed the House of Representatives
of Ohio, on the I4t6 instant, providing. Tor a.
repeal ofso much,of the act ofIast session, as
prohibits the issuing and circulation Of notes
under five dollars. by The. banks of that State.
The course of action of the Senate, upon the
Dill, was deemed uncertain. e 81 G-
~ THE CENsUs5oF PENNsYITkNIA.-sTh re-
turns ofthe Marshais FROM thirty mine counties
show population oil, /, 1886, sos, The, poPula'
stion of the whole State ten years ago was l.
a34s, 1888. There are yet seventeen counties to
>, be heard from, which viii swell the population
! of the State to nearly 1900. 900 The Harris
. burg Reporter says. about ] $4,000 These
g returns, the SAND paper says. "will showsPenn-
sylyania entitled to nearly 'sher own at con-
Il gressiona ratio Of 10000, which. it ought to
q be, - ea ~ Z = E1- ~ : a1ssa.
81 f,be change az Administration in this coun-
u atry. commencing on thea4th of March next, is
already beginning to have beneficial effect up
: onsour foreign relations in anticipation of the
n event. A statement of the affairs Of the U. S.
, Bank. forwarded to England at the request of the
u Stockholders there and exhibiting surplus, Of
& over three millions of dollars, has given conf
dence 10 all those Interested American affairs,
which the las there consideredl election Of an
Admins lration favorable to 1t, has greatly con-
frmed The london Chronicle, Of 3Uth NO
syernber, adds the following, which indicates con
akdence in State saeuritiss ssssz.
d .<HMY. yNdBsterand Mr, Clay, who, il mob mem
bers of the new cabinet, viii at least form two
Of its leading and most influential supporters,
have on aft occasions advocated the binding OBJ
legations OF the various States for the repayment
tsoi the loans which they had contracted; and no
DO Doubt Is entertained that such alsowill be the
q nolicy of General Hafffson:'- Boston ATLAS
= - 80 = - : - II ASA
ON SwEDEs CHURCH -Messrs.
Editors. During recent excursion to Will
uaineton, Delaware, j visited the old Swedes'
Chn5ch, erectedin 169S, near the banks OF the