New-York daily tribune., 1843-02-02
The Wild Woman.


1t viii perhaps be recollec,ed that about year
and helf ago, the St. Louis papers gave an ac-
count of woman who had been discovered in the
woods near that city, almost naked and apparently
quite wild It appears that she had lived II tlls
manner until lately, when the severity OF the wiz
ter drove her to human habtation, and there, be-
lag much exhausted for want OF food and badly
frost-bittep, she expired.
Previous To her death she became quite rational,
and gave the following account OF hersstt, which
we condense from the St. Louis Organ:
She was born in New-Jersey, whence with her
parents she had removed to Cincinnati, where they
lived until she grew up to womanhood young
| man whom her father did not ike paid his address
ses to her and they eloped for St. Louis AT Lou
isvile he persuaded her to take Lodgings with him
us his wife, promising to go with her to clergy
man and get married in the morning. lie iett her
in the morning TO go for minister and never re-
turned. All day she remained almost distracted
with fear for the safety of her lover, whom she
could not think had abandoned her, but finally she
learned that he had taken boat going down the
river in the morning. Tue shock TO her feelings
was so great tha; she tainted and fell nthe street
She was taken up by some kiadly disposed person
who. es soon ss she recovered, paid her passage
back TO Cincinnati.
Her heart ulmos, failed her she approached
her home. She could see her fathers resiaence
as the boat passed along uH the river, and 1t was
her intention to go directly home, and throw her
self upon the mercy of her father and mother, and
tell them how she had been deceived. On sp-
preaching the door of the dwelling, there appeared
to be an unusual hustle in the house, and on en-
tering she saw her father lying dead upon the floor.
The old man bad heard which way she had gone,
owl 81, tha
Alo,ele, which blew up at Cincinnati, and being
one of the unfortunate sufferers, the body had jas,
been recovered and brought home. As soon as
the mother saw her, There" said she, there
is your murdered father y She ran from the
house. but not before her mothers curse was upon
her. She saws it rang in her ears tor many long
day and night as she wandered through the woods.
II was then summer, and az times severe hunger
would induce her 20 go near the habitauons OF the
people as she wandered along through the coun'
,rv; and at one time she slipped in and took the
hoecake from the FIRE, while the farmers wife was
gene to the spring at other times she caught the
fowls from the fence, and devoured them raw
Hsw she lived 50 long, she Is unable to tell but
berries, auts, fruit and such game as she was en-
a5led to catch, have been her food; and for two
winters she lived in an old deserted cabin on the
banks of the Missouri She filed it nearly full OF
dried leaves in the fall, and would creep into them
in cold weather Somebody burnt down the CABIN
last fall with some lirtr stores of nuts and dried
fruit she had laid up for winter since which time
she has been sleeping in large hollow tree.
She says" My clothing being almost entirely
gone, the cold was very severe, and | thought
would come to house and get them to bury me.
How have suffered no human tongue can tell,
but had made up my mind die in the wild
woods, and never again to suffer human being to
speak to me; but my resolution failed, and l am
ius ebted to the kindness of this poor family for
what little comfort they could afford me en- my
death.bed Pittsburgh Chronicle.
Remember that the villain who by perfdy
wruugh, all this ruin-the murderer of father and
dau ghter-is shielded from ell punishment, and is,
in the eye of the Law, an innocent and honorable
man Who make such laws and resist thei. alter
ationi Ir7bune.l
ST. PAuL's Clock, LoNDos.-A writer in the
Hartford Courant thus describes the clock works
in the tower Of this calhedral:-
The pendulum is fourteen feet long, and the
weight at the end is one cwt; the dials on the
outside are regulated by smaller one within;
the length of the minute hands on the exterior
dals is eight feet, and the weight OF each seventy
FIVE pounds the length of the hour hands is five
feet Eve inches, and The weight forty.four pounds
each; the diameter Of the dials is eighteen feet
ten inches, and the length OF the hour figures two
feet two and half inches. The tine-toned bell,
which strikes the hours, is clearly distingushabe
from every other bell in the metropolis, and has
been distinctly heard al the distance OF twenty
miles. 1t is about ten feet in diameter, and Is
said 10 weigh four and half tsns. This bell IS
tslled on tho death of any member OF the royal
family, of the lord mayor, bishop of London, or
dean Of the cathedral.
The whole expense of building the cathedral
was about million and a half pounds sterling
in the United States currency about SIX and two
thirds mion1 of dollars.
CAurlos.-Yesterday fine little boy, named
Franklin Messerole, aged about three years, whose
parents reside in Madison street, while playing in
the kitchen, fell into tub of hot water, which had
been left on the floor by some of the domest:cs
who were engaged in washing at the time. The
esld is SO dreadfully scalded that he cannot sur
vive. Com. Adv
FIgg-We regret TO learn that the alarm Of FIRE
which occurred at about / | o'clock Saturday
night was caused by the bursing of the othce OF
the Georgetown Advocate, which, we are told,
was entirely destroyed together with all the print
ing materials belonging Is the establishment. We
are truly sorry that such q calamity should have
befalen our eighbors of the Advocate, and trust
that they may be enabled at an early day to re-
sumo their labors. Nat Int.
FATAL CAsUALrY-JosePh Norton, aged about
IS years, was killed near Charlestown, Md on
Thursday night last, by his horse stumbling and
falling On him.