Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-08-16
LTrcHFELD (coNHy THURSDAY AUGUST IS rs4e

| The NEWARK PoIsoYtNG CAsE.'--
Considerable excitement has been cause,
at Newark, by the following circumstan
ceS - -
On the 9th of July, brush maker, re
siding IN Cherry street, named Thomas J
Porter, died after thirty hours illness, anG
was inferred in Mount Pleasant Cemete
ry, certificate being given by DR.. Bald
win, that he died Of cholera. A repor
having been circulated that he had beer
poisoned, the body was exhumed on tn,
cd inst, and portions of the stomach ant
viscera having been Analysed by Doctor.
Doughtery and King, and other portion.
by Professor Reid, of this city, the pre-!
sence Of arsenic in liberal quantities was
detected. Of course coroner's inquest
was summoned. and the circumstances
attending his death underwent thorough
examination.
Several friends and acquaintance, and
the wife Of the deceased, testified before
the coroner, but they entirely failed to
throw any light Upon the main facts as
to where or how, Or by whom the arsenic
was administered. The medical adviser
seems to have really mistaken Porter
illness for cholera. The social condition
of the deceased appears to have been pc
culiarly unfortunate, he being Of very
passionate and jealous disposition. He
had been married but seven months, his
wife having at first rejected him after
continued addresses; he then threatened
suicide, and said the guilt would fall up
on her. From these induceIh rents she ac-
cepted him, and the connection is report.
ed to have been of most unhappy cha
racter, and she alleges that she had con-
templated leaving him in consequence of
his gross treatment.
When he was taken i'll, she treated it
as trivial matter, it beng customary
with him to complain, but he Continued
to grow worse, and began vomiting, when
she sent for several physicians; though
he refused to have them. DR.. Baldwin
\ answered the ta1l, but the deceased con-
| tinued vomiting until his death, The CO.
roner's inquest returned the following
verdict:
That Thomas J. Porter came to his
death in the city of Newark, on the 9th
day Of July last, from the effects of ar
senic received by him IN some way un-
known to the jury. ...
Subsequently, Tire fury published the
following certificate. which is, in our OPT
Mon, quite justified by all the evidence.
IN. Y. Com.
We, iurymen Of the inquest respecting
the death Of Thomas ]. Porter, IN Justice
to his widow, against whom insindatlons
have been made, do hereby certify our
belief, from the evidence before u.s.. that
there is nothing to justify any suspicion
Of Mrs. Porter having in any manner been
privy to the cause Of her husbands death.
EXPLORATION OF THE Nue. Black.
woods Magazine, in Review of Werne's
I Narrative of Voyage up the Nile, fur
nislles the following description of some
of the strange scenes passed through.
I'VE can conceive few things more ex-
citing than such voyage as Mr.. Verne
has accomplished and recorded. Start
ing from the outposts of civilization, he
sailed into the very heart Of Africa, up
stream whose upper waters then for the
first time were 'furrowed by vessels larg-
er than savage's canoe-,-a stream of
such gigantic proportions THAT its width
at thousand miles from the sea, gave it
the aspect of alake rather than Of RI
yer. The brute creation were m proper
ton with the magnitude of the water
course. The hippopotamus reared his
huge snout above the surface, waAowed
in the gullies that on either hand run
down tie stream; enormous crocodiles
gaped along the shore; elephants play
ed in herds upon the pastures /; the tall
giraffe stalked among the lofty palms !;
snakes thick as trees lay coiled in The .sli-
my swamps, and ant hills, ten feet high
towering above the rushes. Along the
thickly peopled banks. hordes Of savages
showed themselves, gazing in wonder at
the strange ships, and making ambiguous
gestures variously construed by the ad.
venturers as signs of friendship or hosti-
lily. Alternately sailing and towing. as
the wind served or not; constantly in
sight of natives, but rarely communica-
ting with them; often cut off for days
from land by interminable fields of tam
gled weeds, the expedition pursued its
course through innumerable periis. guar
ded from most of them by the liquid ram
part on which It aoated. Lions looked
hungry, and savages shook their spears,
but neither showed a disposition to swim
on board the fotil1a.'
SHOCKING OccURRENcE.-This morning
FRIDAY, July 2o.3 Mr.: Michael Daei, a re
srectable citizen Of Alburgh. was killed by
bis wife, by striking him while in sitting
posture, three blows with an axe, and clea-
wing NE skuIl In a terrible manner! The