The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-09-03

Mosr SINGULAR Su1cIDE....A man named
LYONS committed suicide at Litchfeld, N. H.
last week, after going through the following
very singular prelminaries: lie purchased a
coffin and grave clothes some arsenic and laud
anum, (which he mixed,) and proceeded with
them to spot which he chose for his burial
Having dug his own grave, and placed the cof-
in beside it, and passed the lowering ropes
underneath it, all ready for the sexton to lower
him in to the habitation h. had prepared,
there is every evidenc" to believe that he then
took off his worldly garments, dressed himself
in his grave clothes, took the poison, and de-
liberately aud quietly laid himself in his coffin,
where he probably remained during tn" night;
but waking up in the morning, and finding him.
self not gone to that bourne whence no trav-
Ter was ever known to return, he proceeded to
hang himslf by the neck TO the bough of tree
near by. In this he was fully successful. He
had, in order to render his plans perfect, prcvi
ously enclosed a dollar in letter to the sexton
stating where his body would he found, and de-
sired him to come and perfom the burial SER
vice. 1t was through this means, therefore,
that he was found hanging to the tree We
understand there were evident marks of his hav
ing laid himself in his coffin. 1t is sal that he
was man of responsibility, and we learn Of no
reason for bis act of suicide.
DISTRESSING DEATH FROM HYDRoPHoRIA.-
We learn from the Natchez Free Trader, that
Miss Sarah Fulton, lovely and interesting
young lady of nineteen years, belonging to
Franklin county, Miss, came to her death on
Sunday, the 4th instant, from the bite Of mad
dog about four weeks previous. The Free Ira
der says:
Miss Fulton, on Saturday morning. felt shoot.
ing pains from the place where she had been
bitten in the arm, ascending towards her neck
and throat but was weh enough to ride some
distance to attend Temperance barbecue
The day being hot, much water was drank !;
and while attempting to drink, the poor girl felt
an unaccountable spasm, or chill, pervade her
frame, which prevented her from drinking. AS
she rode home she grew worse, and told the
gentleman who accompanied her that she would
die of canine madness. The paroxysms soon
became dreadful; her mouth constantly filling
with saliva, and throwing out foam, which had
to be wiped away constantly. Her distressed
and coarse breathing could he heard for many
hundred yards. Nature sunk under the awful
struggle in about twenty -four hours, and death
came to her relief on Sunday evening, the day
after she was taken ILL., What is most uwful,
and fills the community. far and near, with
pcrvadng gloom, is the fact that Mrs. Fulton,
widow, and the mother of Miss Sarah, was bit
ten much worse than her daughter, by the same
dog; negro, belonging to them, was also bit
ten; neither Of whom, as yet, has felt the symp-
toms of the disease.
A TIT BIr.--The editor of the Van Buren,
Ark) Intelgencer rejoices over tit bit pre-.
sented to him, which (hesays) would make the
mouth of an epicure water.
1t was the paw of bear-.-a great delcacy
when roasted in the ashes. 1t measured 10
inches in length, in width, IL Id in circum
ference Of the ankles.--very mnch the shape
and size of wild nesro's foot twas taken
from critter killed by Colonel Payro's boy
Dan, which weighed 700 los.