Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-04-20
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TWENTY YEARS SENTENCE OF A WOMAN.
.Huldah Morrison, the wretch who set
fire to the Ashtabula County Infirmary,
by the burning of which seven persons
lost their lives, plead guilty to the :ndict-
mant, and was sentenced by Judge Wilder
to the Penitentiary for twenty years. The
"Sentinel" says:
This miserable creature is one of the
most degraded and hardened of her sex.
A few years since, she was married as
second wife to an Irishman in Ashtabula,
named Morrison, countryman of hers,
with whom she led life of torment through
several years, at the end of which he was
relieved by death. She then opened
grog-shop, which was broken up as an in
tolerable nuisance, after which she went to
the poor-house, where she behaved as badly
as she well could, till she managed to set
it on fire, and caused the death of seven of
the inmates. She has since attempted to
fire the Jail, and now pleads guilty with
all the bravado she can muster Her sem
tence, of course, is for full term under
the law. ~. .7...
ASSASSINATION IN MACON COUNTY
We learn that on last Saturday night, Mr..
Jethro Walker, while sitting in a portico
in front of his house, received wound
from gun in the hands of some unknown
person, from which he died instantly
The gun was loaded with small shot, all
Of which entered his face. Only one,
however, penetrated the skull. We are
sorry to say that his own son is suspected
oc .tfoJ Ia GnnI,ob hr1t
we hope that subsequent disclosures may
prove his innocence. He is a crack
Drained sort of fellow, and if guilty
doubtless committed the deed in a fit of
insanity.-1uskeqge (-Ala.) Republican.
EYJames T. Brady, the disting uished
lawyer, gave lecture in New York, on
Thursday evening, on the legal disabilities
of women. He advocated relaxation of
the divorce law, an increase of the privi-
leges, personal and pecuniary, of married
women, and an extension of the right OF
suffrage to single women. Why not mar
ried women also? Would Mr.. Brady ofel
a premium on old maids?
ES-It is stated that the largest room
that was ever constructed is that in which
the tobacco stores are kept at the London
Docks. The room is said tn. cover nearly
six acres, being of course, under one roof
1t is curious circumstance that this enor-
nous apartment should be devoted to an
article of mere luxury.
GYThe Richmond "South," in an ar.
ticle on the vagaries of the printers devil
says that the following clause is to be
found in the code of Virginia of 1818:-
"Every person duly convicted of murder
in the first degree, his or her aiders, abet.
tors and counsellors, shall suffer death by
hanging by the neck. Every person duly
convincted of the crime of murder in the
second degree, shall be sentenced to un.
dergo similar confinement for period
not less than five nor more than eighteen
years!''
~r"The editor of ''Journal" was al
prayers Monday morning. ."-Dispotch.
That's SO, and he has been to prayer;
several mornings since, and would bt
pleased to see the editor of the "Dispatch'
cut loose from his dissolute companions
and instead of hunting on Sunday devote
the day to divine worship. We are Ger
tain his conscience, if he has any, would
rest much easier by pursuing this course
of life Ga1lipolis Journal.
MARIETTA, April 6.
The 10th anniversary of the settlement
of Ohio was celebrated to-day. Hon
Thomas Ewing delivered the address
The only survivor of the party of forty.
seven who arrived here in seventeen eighty
seven, was present. Also several whC
were born in the first block house built a
Marietta and Belpre, three of the oldes
living white natives of Ohio, and large
number of defendants of revolutionar,
soldiers. Speeches were made by Gen
Goddard and others. =.
F-Ex-President Roberts writes from
Monrovia, that the settlers were likely t
be drawn into trouble with the natives
owing to the French system of collectin;
emigrants on the coast for the West Indi
colonies. The chiefs had commenced
kidnapping and waging war on each other
in order to obtain supply of hands fo
export.
ETM Mr.. Thompson, of Washingto
county, Ohio, has little daughter, who a
the age of four years, weighed one hun
dred and fifty pounds. She is now fou
years and five months old, and weighs, a
her parents suppose, one hundred and sev
enty pounds!
ETIt is.predicted by the London col
respondent of the New York "Commercis
Advertiser" that France and England wi
be at war in less than six months
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