Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-30

ri DN' wi
in one of the ships of our Gnlf
Squadron, entered the navy at
Norfolk station. He was a youth
then, not much celebrated for his
even temperament, and before adj
mitted. was, OF course subjected to
an examination. 1t so happened
Mt that time. at that station, there
were several old and savage saw.
bones in The servic, who took par
ticular pains to worry and bate
youngsters, to tie very vcege of
christian entrance. n fortified him
himself with stout smasher of
brandy, and entred the presence of
his Judges. as he afterwards told
me with more real terror and dread
than if he was about to 90 into
lions den, or a burning magazine,
The professors went into him with
grape and canister, hot shot and
bomb-shells. They put wounded
sailors and mariners before his ter
rified Imagination, in all manner of
cuts, stabs. fractures, ana COM
pound fractures; hauled him over
cockpits full of broken limbs, and
shattered carcasses, yellow fevers,
small pox, and scourves, too tedi-
Gus to mention. All of which poor
N-sawed, bed, blistorcd out
of. At last the professors got on
10 sweats, had a marine dying by
inches with cold chills aud fcvers
he must be sweat Immediately.
N--proposed this.
"Wcll,supose that would not do?'
Then N--proposed the other.
WelI,if that failed,would not do?'
I'D steam him. said N
Very well, Ifthat failed you"
I'd pour pint of brandy an cay
enne pepper down hinl!'
= Very good. But if that had no
eAcct?' continued his tornentors.
.Efthat had no effect said N
in despair, the preparation rolling
from his brow, and having ex-
hausted all his remedies and lost
all patience; if that wouldn't
sweat him, | would bring him be-
fore you to be examined. and if
ron didn't stceat him, he might
die and be id.
ORIGIN OF THE CoRoNERs JnRY.-
The following paragraph, which
may convey some Information to
the unIearned public, we copy from
a recent number of the London
I'imes.-Ere Trans.
se~ "a lady in London having bur-
led six husbands, united herselfto
the seventh. For months the new
" married couple lived happily
together, the lady frequently de-
.clairing that at last she haze met
with good husband, all the for
MGR ones having disguised her with
their drunkenness: To ascertain
her real character, ner seventh
mate pretended drunkenness which
provoked repraches and menaces.
He returned home another evening
apparently very drunk, and, hav-
ing gone to bed, affected to be a
sleep. While re was in that state
the wife took from her gown sleeve
a piece of lead, which she melted.
and then approaching her husbann
attemted by means of a pipe. tn
pour it into his ear. He instantly
started up, seized, and accused her
with the crime, which she. could
not deny. The bodies of her six
husband were disinterred. when
it was discovered that they all
died by thh same means. She
was hung amidst the execrations of
the people. TO this wholesale ira
gedy we are indebted for the law
which ferbids the interment ola
body without a proper certificate
of the nature of the disease which
caused death. Until lately a per-
Vsonal inspection by searchers was
seyisite; and to this fact also is the
aorrigin Of coroners inquest attrib-
uted."
A TITLE PAGE.-If it were in
quired of any ingenious writer
what page of work had occasion
ed him most perplexity, he would
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