New-York daily tribune., 1844-04-02
THE TRIBU N Z.

woux-On the 2lst instant, complain,
eoion eads before z. Wright, Esq, by Edwar"
was inaa nf rho firm of Hunten, Routh a. Hunten'
hoq.n, pn ~ Canada. against Robert Pain her, Jr.,
- .Isrl IN the said firm, for embezzle ment OF
.,anev and goods. a warrant was iss ueo' ana
L. defendant was arrested at tavern IN TINS
s;.r snd the sum of S3ll2 e3 In money was
Sornd in his possession. tie was examined.
nIeaded guilty to the charge, and was given over
to an officer to nc taken BACK 10 Nanaoa lot
rial The whole business was accomplished
within three hours time. Lotica 'aze'te.
SOMETHING SrRANGE.-The Wilmington, Del,
Gszette saws: 4 farmer from Chester County
brought his wife 10 our city day last week. anti
has since been unable TO find her. Her disappear
ance is somewha, mysterious. They drove INTO 'he
ward Of one of the public houses IN 'he lower par
of the city, and while he was unharnessing ms
horse his " rib sopeG off. Never having before
been in The city, the husband thought she had got
lost, and gone home, but TO his great surprise, ne
wa. mistaken here also; so he returned the ne%'
morning and started the Bellman Is search OF MS
lost wife" We have not as yet learned whether or
not she has been found.
HoRR1BLE CALAMITY.-On the 18th inst. Us fh
wife of Mr.. Griffin OF Lebanon, ~ H. was at WORK
boiling pitch in order TO make rosin, In attempting
10 remove the kettle she accidentally overturned H.
and the contents Immediately took lire and spread to
oil parts Of the floor Mrs. G. clothing took hre
but as she had three children in the room, the young
est but three months old, she dsregarded her own
suferings in order TO save them. Unable 10 open
the door she burst through the window, and her
screams soon brought her husband 10 her relei who
found her living on the snow in intense agony, her
clothes completely burnt of, but still with presence
of mind enough to tell him how TO save the children
in which he partially succeeded, TO the peril OF ms
own life. The poor but heroic woman died al nine
o'clock in the evening. One OF the Children IL II
feared, cannot survive.
m. A young man named Wasson, clerk oil z.
Whitaker, in Cleveland, had severe fight with
three robbers, who attempted to break into his EN-
ployer's premises, the night OF the 24th ult he
managed to wound two ofthem severely with q club,
when they speedily decamped, taking nothing but
their bruises with Them. Wasson was wounded in
the side with knife, but not dangerously
EA quarrel occurred between Michael Murphy
and Harry Mann, two Inshmen, at Highgate, Oh
Monday, when Murphy stabbed the other with
Jack knife no less than twelve times Mann was
alive the next morning.
MURDER IN New ORLEANs.-On the 2lst uit
Captain Auguste Moulin while passing along Pry-
tanea street, was struck on the head with piece OF
iron ore, by man who Immediately fed. The
wounded man was taken TO the walch-house by
some persons alarmed by his groans, but died on
the way A negro named Alfred was arrested next
day, charged with the murder
AyorHER FATAL AFFRAY-A man named Du
BreeBe, from Missouri, was killed few days since
at Warrenton, Miss, by Mr.. Keatirg. The Con-
stitutionast says that some dispute arose and high
words ensued when Du B. shotat Kearing and missed
him. The former ran, but his adversary fred twice
and the second shot proved mortal.
A lady remarked that carelessness was little
better than halfway house between accident
and design"