Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-06-21

REMARKABLE CASE OF FEcUNDITY-FoUR CHILDREr
AT A BIRTH.-Mrs. Moore, wife of David Moore, re
siding at No. 139 Washington Market Place, (Ship
pen Street, between Crab and Fifth. north side,) OF
Thursday, gave birth TO four children!
The children all near the same size as could
well be imagined weighing each about five pounds
Thus it will be perceived that they are rs big as thu
average run of children at ordinary single births
The three that are living exhibit every evidence o.
thriving and doing WELL The condition of the moth
is astonishngly favorable and her physician ant
nurse anticipate danger from the painful and pro
tracted parturon she has passed through. under cir
cumstances extraordinary.
On inquiry we find the TO be remarkable one
The mother is woman about % years of age, ma
tive Of Ireland. She has had 'wo husbands. He
first husba nd, whose Bell, was an lrshman
and middle aged man She married to hiu
about 10 years ago. Her present husband, to whom
she was married about nine months SINCE is young
man, only 81 years DID, He is carpenter by trade
but is engaged in botling, and keeps little sho
where he resides.
Mrs. Moore had six children by her former husband
Mt three births At the first birth she delivered
of two--a boy and girl. The boy is living. and i
now eight years of age. At the secondbi she wa
delivered of a single chid-a girl-which is living
AT the third birth she had triples-two boys and
girl The girl still survives and is five years of age
The surviving children hearty, and some Of then
have survived severe attacks of malignant disease.
Inc case Is du Interesting Ouc w biC phl oiO'oe
and the scientific and medical 1t has created
great sensation among the residents of the immediat
vicinity of its occurrence and the house of the pa
rents has all day been dowh with female visiters
while excited and curious crowds of have block
ed up the sidewalk in front of the door. As III
news spread, people from every part of Southwar
and the southern section of the city generally ocke
to the place to crafty their eager curiosity and mum
bers who doubted the story have been there to sats
themselves of its truth. There much danger O
both mother and children being killed by kindness
Nearly every one who came contributing som
mite for the comfort of the woman, or making som
present to the babies.
We can assure the readers of the Bulletin that ih
is which is peculiarly deserving of the inter
est and attention Of the benevolent. The family
very poor, and the mother. at her acconchment, wa
without the actual necessary comforts of proper nou
ishment and medicine, and there was no money j
the house to buy them. Several kind hearted ladie
in the neighborhood. though poor themselves, hav
been prompt, generous, and unremitling in their a
tentions to the sufferer. The woman is deserving
life pension, and we hope she may get ii. lie
young husband seemed perfectly overwhelmed at III
weight of his responsibilities after his matr
mOuial speculation. He appeared to bo cogitatin
seriously and mentally revolving upon his future fate
as thus: If l am blest with four children in min
months, what am to expect in the next few years
The only consolation can offer him is old Weller
advice to his hopeful son Sam let him beware here
after of the 'sVidders"- adelPhia Erening Bull
tin.