THE JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT SEC...
The Times, 1824-11-22T00:00:00

Tu} JoearTMA SOUTpsCOTT SvCT AT AsIrTOx UNDER- LIseE.-A few weeks ago a fanatic of this sect told her husband, an industrious artisan, that se haa dreamt that o0l Johanna wvould send her a white ass, on which she wvas to ride to Jerusalem. This dream mnade such an imrreRsion on her mind, that she neglected her household affairs, and lier family and her husband had nieither comn- fort nor peace. Th& poor fellow eommunicated to his neighbours the folly and deluslon of his wife, and they hit oR the followring ex- petdient to cure her of her delirium; they procured her an ass. which they covered with white calico, and at the dcad of the night two lriends of. the family repaired to the habitation or her husband. Having arrived there, they caused the animal to bray. The noise was celestial music ro the ears of the deluded woman, whg took an affectionate leave of her hasband, previously to her setting out on her journey. Het attendants were fantastically attired, and she viewed them wi,h awe, conceiving they had been sent from the other world, as her heavenly guides, by old Joan. Don Quixote never set out on a more ridiculous etpetlition, anti off she trotted for the Holy Land. Her guides having previously fixed on thejourney she should take, led her through a copse, throughl briars and brambles. of vbich she soon found the powerlul effects. Thuis only heightened Iher zeal, as she occasionally ejaculated that the path to Paradise was filled with thorns, still expressing her gratitude to old Joan for appointing her one of the elect. Thie punctares of thorns she con- sidered is so many blessingr; bust at length, after a devious course, slhe was led back to the husband's heuse. On stopping, sheobserved, " This an't surely Jerusalem, for it is like my husband's cottage ;" and so it wns, where he had assembled several of his neighbours to witness her folly. '1his fact was a strok;e of ridicule nore effectual than expestulation, or argsting with her on her absurditr, and ber believing in old Joan and Shilob and after becominX the ridicule oS the village, she has abandoned the sect, and now conducts her- self as a rational being and a good luousevife.-Chaeter Chronicle. T1{E ~tuR tN *Fsesv-svaEv.-Saturday morning, a little before elaylight, the flames broke forth afresh from one of the houses in the rear, that was consumned on Sunday. The engines were prompt in their attendance, and the damnage was confined to the site df the late conflagration. The house wherein it happened, at the back adjoined DIr. Carlile7s premises, and Mrs. Carlile, and one of her children, imlade their escape,-in an alarm, by a ladder from the front window of the second story. -y.1 AT KEMP-TOWuN, NIEAR BRIGIITON.-Oli Tlturs- day evening, abeut'a quarter-past eight o'clock. one of the unfinish- .ed houses at the extreme western end of Kemp-town was disco. vfred to be on fire. The alarm was given by some blockade-nien on duty near the spot, and in the coarse of a short time the town engines were at the scene of darger. The fire which was supposed. to have originated from tbe inaitentioti of the worknen ertployed or the building. quickly reduced every thing the interior presented of a combustible nature to a heap of ruins, leaving only tne bare blackened walls as testimonialsof its furv. At onse time, the ut- I most apprehensions were felt for the safety of the adjoining buildings, which were partially ignited by the heat and tithing sparks: fortu- nately, however, they escaped. The house burnt was the third in the western wing of. th'e Cieseznei, and was ia greater state of forward- nets thas either of the others in:tbe wing; and in which the men were hreiasing the slshes, sash-framen, &e., designed for the ad- joining ialldsngse these, together with a quantity of deals. anid some valuable chests7 of. crpenters' tools, were totally burnt andl destroy- ed. About mridnight. whiel the fire was nearly extinguished, a por- 'tibn of the 144ns paftt-wall of ons of the adjoining houscs (which vwas nearly ted hot) gave wl F. b ad this happened earlier, in all probabilitv-the fire would haveextended ta> the othe- bhlldings, The only accident we have heard of is, that one .ofthe uwatcllmt fell iatO a hole', dug oat. for the foundation of a 1touse, and disloaated hiu, hip..bone; but w,hich was. shortly after reduced. 'The high-comnittslf, and several othtr persona, had simiilar falls, but without sug aipinsrinay seilQushijury. 'I'h-house, we believe, belonged to'AIt .ln,&L.dew; *The propetiy was insnreez-~BrigAton. ANOTH*ERI T i;aeoT BtY A~ SPRIN~-iw GUN !-On Mon- day an accidenthappened at Gate Wlood, near Cantley. In theab. ,sence of thegamekeeper, an assistant wrasleft to feed the pheasants,; when, unfortunately treading on the wire attached to a spring-gun, it went-of', and thd peoar man received the contents in his lCgs andl tbighs. Though sieverely. wounded, we understand he-is, ita fair way pf tecoverg..DOneasIer paper. 'In' ourreportN of tlie' ,eatse tf (' Davis v. Davis.wve have eroncpuslY stated the slit t6 hasve,len insiitute4 by the w/ifeagainat itebssb7Laxid f6s adulterj iY waS is wraye for altmony 'on the part sof thie wsfcs 40. wl<iili tlie husbusud 'Iail put in-a plea sf the wife's~ 'aeTUitery? O)ne of the oadinF gcoaches-that which leaves Friday- s*fre M noon-on paL g iink thbrugb jlammerssiith, had nearly taken 'ii ..hprisunately'the'Aanger-was discovered in goed. tinfe,; th iriabVing of the1siuider *heel -wvs Eterieived just as the coach arrived .oppositot. Mr. Cloud's coach.yard, in Htanimersmith. Tlhe wkieell W~istai78igniat6y taken off, wet itab applied to ihe'box and. t e, coutteewit'vWate C04Cadt'.yoDured;ontlhem':.but th4ev were, so decidedly warrnied.that it w isfnmc ithpd before the heat chald be iat,A -the frictiolibetween tbf. bdx-ea,d'-the a.Xletteee'had producedI suie6violwrt heikt*' ',fliseoach 'was hi&vilE'lIfden, especially with luggagte. NKeixlyh.snMiotu dF?c:s~y. *&aig o&siesed' by this coing opermtion, lautit was an effectualone. . ' ': : i " A-,-oing-a-go g.-agoir,g !"..said a respectablp auc l ' tiQfiter9 a 'few diva since to,i - getteel c4mpany,Xshilst selliuig in a .rqr. 'if Castle:1 dui'ghmuniywhen, just s he.' had pronoan'ced thi last' wdrd,thc floor kunkL Thutpestle and mortar, which.were at iht,momcnt the objects of coropeLition, the auctiouseer, and his comn- rere ini tin instani tlirown together, and beeame 3 ot suN-, dras.. Providentially .soitu Ilasge casks becneath received tile princi- pal timbers, and the flaD! was thts arted in its descent. Tbc ,I}dtes shrieked-d e gentlemen were, some of them, alarmed-but the futii-8 of the,stinvo front belowr soon revived all; and there were r thwe present with reflected uposthie advant-agc which had occutrred if they had descended a little lower,. s a to hvc becttwithin reach o6f. the te,p.-Ckflm:ford .ehroldcte.