The hornet., 1843-08-01


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fias.--On the night Of tbs g5lb uIt, at 2
O'clock IN the morning, a flame IT ERE and
smoke was seen 70 ISSUE from building on
the west side Of the public square, formerly
occupied by u. G. Russell, merchant tailor.
II was soon enveloped IN flames and speedily
communicated to the buildings Of Moi. Jane.
Money, burning them TO the earth. All efforts
10 stay tho progrc" Of the flames proved ol
no avail, and II was not until after the des.
truciion Of the entire square, that the rnvagcs
Of the fire ceased. Several buildings on OPP.
poste sides were threatened with destruction,
but by the greatest activity on the part of our
estimabe citizens they were luckily saved
Had a brisk breeze struck up, our little village
would have been a heap Of ruins. The build.
ing which first took fire, had been closed and
unoccupied for two or three months. The
midnight fend applied the torch through the
opening Of an outside window. It's the duty
ol every good citizen TO assist in the detec-
tion of the rerpetrntor Of this blacklist of all
crimes. htson, crime which IS punishable
with death, and among the highest misdemea-
nors known to the laws Of our State has been
committed, and we could willingly stand by
and see the halter drawn around the neck of
the guilty person.
The principal losers are Maj. James Money,
MAJ q. f. NeII, James Blanks and a Mr..
Keel The full loss we have not ascertained
+. 5. Since the above was in type, we
have conversed with Mr.. Samuel Moore. Tax
Collector of this county, and ascertained that
MS tax books, receipts, notes and sundry 9TH
er papers, together with an amount of county
claims were lost on the night of the fire. He
had also in the trunk about $40 in specie,
which has been burrowed out but mostly all
was melted to ore. Mr.. Moore was boarding
with Maj Money at the time of the fire, and
had all of his official papers there.
Maj. James Money, County Treasurer. has
also lost every paper connected with his office.
This is certainly great loss to the officers and
to the county. What course will be pursued,
to get matters again satisfactorily arranged in
these two offices, and to render full Justice to
these unfortunate men, is something that we
are altogether unacquainted with. They are
greatly injured by the dreadful calamity.
Il
A BLUE VTsITER.-A real simon-pure loco il
TOGO called at our Office the other day and ask. b
ed tor number of the Hornet. His rounda- y
bout struck middleways between the shoul. "
1eTs and the longest end of the tail was low. II
eTed two or three inches below the lower part Ii
81 the neck--hiS pants looked as if he had got es
Up IN hurry and run his leg too far through, ST
or they reSembled the garment of a boy in Ia
uck-poddle time, and took him about an inch F
'elow the knees. To take him all in all he 81
vas an odd blue streak of old Adams race :,
lie looked as if he had spent the greater Dor 60
ion OF his life in some swamp of ponds, and lin
ON the grating harmony of his voice, we tv
'ere soon brought to the belief that he had an
armed while there 10 croak with a Ginning ed
elody IN unison with the sleek toads of the TT
wilderness. He said he was re.
dfnznaicra and no mistake-and further sta 90,
that he had not read paper before in five Co.
iars. We are sorry to say that this fellow s;o
a "horse in a cane brake" with the democ- D,
cy-a real militia captain and leader among or
I'm. a.:
We expect next week 10 crop monkey of cor
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