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VALUABL .TT PUBLIC 5.1-LE BY order of the Orphans' Court of Ad ams county, the subscriber, Admin istrator, with the will annexed, of Tuomts M'Kun, deceased, will expose to Public Sale on Saturttoy, the 17th of October next, at 10 o'clock, n. at., on the premises, the VALUABLE FARM of said deceased, situate in Liberty town ship, Adams county, Pa. adjoing lands of Henry Welty, the heirs of Abraham Krisc, Henry Netter, and others, containing- itoo Lon,zz more or less. The improvements on the Farm are valuable and in good order, in . nt• eluding a Two Stony • in s ; STONE DW ELLING. ea: I ith a one and one-hall story Log Building attached, a double Log Barn, Stone Sheds, WagOn Shed, and 'Corn House. .There is a good Orchard on the premises—also a Spring of lira-rate wa ter convenient to the dour. Upwards of, 200 Acres of this farm are - covered with Oak, Poplar, Chestnut, Locust and other lirSl-rate TIME The balance is cleared and in a good state of cultivation, with a sufficiency of good mradtiw—all iscll watered; Any person desiring to view the above proper tv can do so by calling upon the under signed, or Mr. Thomas F. M'kee,- resi ding on the premises. 'Penns.—One hall' the purchase money to be paid in hand on the Ist day oh April, 1817, and the residue in two equal annual payments, without interest. JA MES MO1)1? E, r. Aug. 21, 1816. is ZALZ. TiIE subscriber will °llia. at Public Sale, on Saturday the 17/h day of October next, at 1 `Wcluck, P. M., on the premises, the property now occupied by Mr. SAM ITEL IlnieKra, in Sfraban town ship, Adams county, ou die road leading front (lettyslmrrto Ilunterstown, and a bout I 1-2 miles from the former place, containing 10 ACRES of Patented Land. The improvements are a two-story Entine DWELLING HOUSE, a Frame Stable, and other out-buildings. There is a well of water convenient to the dour, and a number of young Fruit Trees on the premises. A portion of the land has been well limed, and the whole is laid out in four fields, one of them being in Meadow. Any person wishing to view the property can do so by calling on Mr. Bricker residing thereon. A good title will be made on the purchaser complying with the terms, which %rill be made known on the day of sale by October 2, IN-Ut PUBLIG SALE. TRY virtue of an Order of the Orphans' Court of Adams county, the subscri ber, Administrator of the Estate of FRED ERICK BERLIN, late of Hamilton town ship, Adams county, Pa., deceased, will expose to Public Sale, on .S'aturday the 17th o/' October next, on the premises, in said Township, a TRACT OF' LAND, late the astate of said deceased, containing ad diV2l32:1 9 more or less, of Patented Land, and ad joining lands of Sainuel Miller, Joshua L. Hoover, and others. The Improvements arc a good Two-STour r s- STONE HOUSE. yiTlxin • a S tone Kitchen, a Log Barn, with threshing Floor and Sheds, & There is a never-failing Spring near the house. About two Acres of the Tract arc in good Timber ; the balance is cleitred, with a sufficiency of gdod MEADOW. There is also upon the Farm a young OR CHARD; with a variety of choice Fruit. 01:7•Sale to commence at 1 o'clock, P. M., when attendance will be given and terms made known by JOHN Sli E ['FEB, .//dar. By the Court—Wm. S. ii.otivroN, Clerk. Sept. 25, 1816. is NOTICE TO BRIM; E-BUILDERS. THE Commissioners of Adams Coon . tv will receive Scaled Proposals at their office in Gettysburg until Tuesday the 20111 day of October next, for building A 11 D'G' E across-Jtoek Creek on the road leading from Gettysburg to Harrisburg. rua - --71'lans and specifications can he seen at the Cominissioners' oilier. . prrER DIEHL, JAMES CUNNINGHAM.? COlllars J(11.:1'11 Perfumery, Snap, Wr: A. III.II;FniEIZY. I':l\.('l'l':l\.('l' A liTiCl.l:;';. 1." 01 . :" 4 . & v., for s:11( C. AV EA V Ell. lfi,Pi .10IIN MUSSER POETRY, 8E P EMUS R. She halli gone, the gorgeous s intoner ; Vet on path, and wootl, and hill, I'he traeu.; of lwr rosy feet Are lingering. brightly still; And, as the sunlight paling On evening. leaves its flush, In the shadowy arms of Autumn :Still we revel in her blush. . thou gone, oh ! lovely summer ! I am wandering. whirr: the trees, The grand high priests of nature, Swing their censers to the breeze ; Swing . perfumes on the hazy air, While through the arches hi m ('nines fitir, and sweet, and solemnly Their murmured, mystic hymn. am wandering through the forests, Through the summer 1..! Then droops anti sty;p•s a yellow Ihig, Amid the green beach bough ; ATI.I from the tuns of %valing fern Stu lug shafts of pals gold, And the lone grass, 'plaineth whisperingly When rising wind:: are bold. And the balm flowery the streamlet, The thistle-down that sails. A titiry craft o'er mourn . and mead, g Urged On by mimic ales. The golden rods bright glancing 'Where the cabi' and sunny light Palls trickling through the woven leaves These whisper of thy flight. alas! for summer gone, Alas w h en death his 'snow Shall heap upon her rosy lips And on her radiant brow ! Alas! alas ! for darker days When Nature. pale with dread. `hall stand, a stricken Niobe, .11one amid her dead. MISCELLANY. THE POWER OF INTEINIPERANCE. Potomac, the IVashington (tyro:To:Acta of the 13altimore Patriot, thus speaks of the late Felix O. r 1 Connell: ow that Ceperal M'Connell is dead and gone, the people begin to remember that there were sonic bright spots in his character. 1 knew him long, long ago in Alabama, and while he wasju Congress; and when sonic of the newspapers and let ter writers were handling him roughly. he would often conic to me, on account of our F old acquaintanceship, perhaps, and with I tears in his eyes, beg of me to intercede in his behalf, and try .to get the editors and letter writers aforesaid to.let hint 'alone.— He _would say that he asked it not for his own sake, but for the sake cif his excellent wile and children. On these occasions 1 more than once told him that he knew as well as he could he told, how he could put a stop to the abuse he complained of.— He would reply—' , l know it, 1 know it ; you would have me quit drinking and fret icking, and shut up this 'walking distillery !' But I can't do it. I have tried many times, but it is impossible. 1 can't stop, but must go on." 1 once asked him what his end would be? He replied seriously—for lie was sober—that he knew not. His wife lie said was a good Christian, and would go to Heaven. He hoped his children would ; but as for himself; lie could only say, that at one period ofhis life, he was for thirteen months a sincere exhorter in the church, and if the God above did not look back to that period of his life with a favor able eye, and save him, Why then lie would be lost, fot he could do nothing now toward saving himself—it was too late ? Poor Mac—peace be to his ashes." "To YOUNG MEN.----Therc•is no moral object so beautiful to me as a conscientious young man. I watch him as Ido a star in the heavens ; clouds may be before him, but we know that his light is behind them, and will beam again ; the blaze of others' popularity may outshine him, but we know " that though unseen Ii .1 t ninates his own true sphere. Ile esist temptations not without a struggle, for tat is not a virtue, but he does resist and conquer ; lie hears the sarcasms of the profligate, and it stings him, for that is the trial of virtue, but Ire heals the wound with his own pure touch. Ho heeds not the watchword of fashion, if it leads to. sin ; the atheist, who says not only with his heart, but with his lips, "there is no God," controls him not ; he sees the hand of a creating God, and rejoi ces ill it. Woman is sheltered by fond arms and loving counsel; old age is protected by ex perience, and manhood , by its strength ; but the young man stands atnid the tempt ations of the world, like a self-balanced tower ; happy he who seeks and gains the prop and shelter of morality. Onward, then, conscientious youth ! raise thy standard and nerve thyselifor goodness. 11' God has given thee, intellectual power, a waken it in that cause ; never let it be said of thee, he helped to swell the tide of sin by pouring his influence into its channels. If thou art feeble in mental strength, throw not . a drop in a polluted curent. A vake, arise, young man ! assume the beau tiful garb of virtue ! It is fearfully easy to sin : it is difficult to he pure and holy.— Put.on thy strength then ! let Truth be.the lady of thy love—defend her.—Southern Pose. Tim END or A MraornEr..—Wesky Havel, the individual who WaS Convicted of shooting his niece two years ago, in Philablphia,,and pardoned by GoV. P r ter, on co: i 'on that he would leave the country, d( • fl flight or stairs at his residenee, vhile in pursuit of something to hill fe, on' Sift:Ll:iv nidit the 2tlth tilt..:url :licit a .7..hort time :iCier. Ile Was under the italuence of liquor at the tithe. GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16 1516. sTointiNOOF ►STONY POINT. A ROMAN C E. The night had already settled down gloomy and forboding on the evening of the 15th of July, 1779, when the advan cing column of a little army, , whose uni form betokened it to be American, emerg ed from a thick tvood on the shore of the Hudson, and in an 'instant the whole dim and shadowy prospect, disclosed to them along the bank of the river, opened to the sight. Far away lays Verplank's Point now buried in a mass of shadow, while on the other side of the river, dark, gloomy and frowning, rose up the craggy heights of Stony Point. Washed on three sides by the lindson, and protected on the other, except along a narrow road, by a morass, the fort was deemed one of the most im pregnable upon the river ; and its capture regarded as almost impossible. Yet to achieve that gallant purpose, this _little ar my was now upon its march. A turn in the road soon hid them from the river and after a silent march for some minutes duration, they arrived within a mile and a half of the enemy's lines, and halting at the command of their officer, formed columns for the attack. {leo-in ning again their march they soon reached the marshy ground at tic Imse, of the hill. "II ist !" said the low voiee of the Gen eral, from the front, "we are uiihi enough, 110 W 11.11.1 The orderlms passed in a tv-liisper down the line, and the column paused on thr morass. It was a imminent of suspense and peril. Every man felt that in a few minutes the fate of their hazardous enter prise would he determined, and that they would either he cold in death, or the Amer ican Flag waving in triumph over the dark pywnontory ahead, now scarcely discerna ble through the thick gloom of midnight. Vet not a lip quivered, not a cheek blanch ed in that crisis. About twenty - paces in front of the column, had halted the forlorn hope of one hundred and fifty men, with unloaded-pleces and bayonets fixed, while further on, a small group of shadowy forms could be seen through-the obscurity, .accoutered _with axes to emit through the abattis. Each man had a piece of white paper in his hat to distinguish him from the foe in the approching melee. The pause, however, which afforded the pros pect was but momentary. The General had already reconnoitered the .approaches to the still silent promontory, and waving his sword on high he gave the order. In another instant the dark Massive column was moving steadily to the attack. It was a thrilling moment, during which that devoted band crossed rapidly over the marsh. As vet the enemy had not discov ered them. Even the hearts of the eldest veterans trembled with the eagernes of that moment of suspense. Already had the formost pioneers . reached the abattis —and the quick, rapid blbw of their axes rung upon the night, when suddenly a shout of alarm broke from the fort, the gun of a sentry flashed through the gloom, and in an instant all was uproar and confusion within the astonished fortification. Not a moment was to be lost. "Advance ! advance !" shouted Wayne, as he passed rapidly on towatil,s the abattis, followed in death-like silence 6y his indom itable troops. I "To arms !" came borne on the night breeze from the fort—"to arms—to arms !" and then followed the' quick roll of the drum. In an instant the enemy were at their posts, and as the gallant con tinentals still .maintained their silent but steady march, a fire, such as only despera tion could produce, burst from every em brume of the fort. The incessant rat tle of the musketry, the roar of the artillery, the crashing of grape shot, and the lurid light flung over the scene by the explosion of the shells, and the stream of fire pour ing from the fort, formed a picture which no pen can describe. - Yet, ;unitl it all, the daring assailants steadily advanced, though not a trigger had been pulled in their ranks. Faithful to the command of their general, though trembling in every limb with eager ness, they kept . up their silent march, amid the fiery tempest, as if impelled by some godlike power. On—on—on they pressed. The whirlwind lire from the fort ceased not ; yet-stilllhey dashed along, charging at the point of the bayonet, over abattis and bulwark, until the enemy, surprised by their impetuous onset, quailed betbre them. The works were forced. Then, and not till then, was the death-like silence broken. A sound rung out from the victorious troops over all the battle. It was the watch-word of success. It was heard by the head of the column behind, it was passed down the line, was caught by the rear, and a wild shout, making the _verb• welkin tremble, rung out as they dashed to the attack. The contest was short but terrific. O ver bulwark, battery, and, prostrate foes, the gallant continentals, headed by Wayne, passed on, and driving all before them, met the. colum4; of .their little army with an enthusiastic cheer in the very centre of the enemy's works. Li another mcnuent, the starry that; of America waved triumphantly over the 17aulements. The enthusiasm of the victors cannot be described. But though the eon tet: t had been SO bloody, not a man of the enemy fell, after resistance ceased. 'Flipris9n yrs were disarmed, a guard .placed tiler them, and sentrie- posted on all the rtunL mandiapr position it round the ‘vorks.— The morning sun anouniied to the Briii,h !Lei ill thc t . 1 .7 tvcit F It '.ESS AN IY R 1: F. WASH INGTON ' S PSAI.M.—The Rev. Mr. waido, mi old revolntionary veteran from Connecticut, who attended the celebration ,at 'Westfield, Mass., on the , lth of July, made himself quite interesting at the din ner table. Ile is now nearly ninety years old, bill is in the vigor of a green old are, and was able to pideaeli two sermons last Sabbath. In his remarks lie referred to the allusion made by the orator to Washington. and ob served that he never heard even the name of that glorious chieftain and good man, "without feeling the cold chills through his ‘vhole system." Ile remarked that there was a single in cident that came within his personal knowledge, which he believed was not gen erally known. It was that Washington, on the day that he assumed the command of the American army at Cambridge, read and caused to be sting the 101st psalm, a portion of ‘vhich we publish : 111 ant raised to hear the sword, I'll take my counsel from thy word Thy justice and thy heavenly grace Shall be the Pattern of my ways. 'No sons of slander, rage and strife, Shall he companions of toy life; The haughty look. the heart of pride Within Ivey ducere , , shall ne'er abide. I ii Fearch the land and rai,p the just To posts, u: I,ollos wealth and trust; The men that \yolk thy holy will, 'hall be my triends and favorites still In vain shill sinners hope to rise By flattering or malicious lies• Nor nhile,the innocent I guatil. Shall hold oflimders e'er be spared. .s• The impious erew,.(that factious band.) Shall hide their loads or quit the I and, And all that break tlw public mg, Where 1 have power, shalrbe suppressed This psalm the reverend worthy deacon read off. to the comp:my in true primitis;e style, a line at a time, which was sung to the tune of "Old Hundred," that tune be ing as the old veteran said, "just the thing for it." - Modern improvements in psalmody have , almost . obliterated the good old psalms and hymns, with Many of the tunes, that -the lathers sang with so much spirit and tin:- derstanding. Such a psalm as the one quoted above would be deemed a- political one now-a-days, and sorry are we to say it, very many ministers would hardly deem it a proper one to be sung on public occa , slims. • BEAuTiFuL LITTLE ALLEGuitv.—A burp ming bird met a butterfly, and being pleas: od with . die beauty of its person, and the glory of its wings, wade an offer of perpet.: ual friendship. "I cannot think of it," was the Teply,"as you once spurned me, and called me a drawling dolt." "Impossible," exclaimed the huniming bird; "I always entertained the highest re spect for such beautiful persons as you." "Perhaps you do now," said the other, "but when you insulted me I was a catter tio let me give yOu a piece of ad vice ; never insult the humble, as they may one day become your superiors." THE WIT OF A GERMAN LAWYER.- There are many stratagems in war, as many it may well be said in love and law. We hear oftentimes how the stratagems of love have outwitted parental vigilance, but ' we never heard of a case where law so ef fectually aided Hymen as is related in a Bavarian journal. The translation may not be so good as Dr. Kraitzer might give, but it runs to the effect that a young man of Nuremberg who had no fortune, reques ted :t lawyer, a friend of his, to recommend him to a family where he was a daily visi tor, and where there was a handsome (laughter who was to have a large fortune. The lawyer agreed; but the father of . the vouno• lady, who loved money, immediate ly asked what property the young man had.' The lawyer said he did not exactly but he would inquire. The next time he saw his Young friend he asked him if he hadany property at all. "No," I replied he. “Well," said the lawyer, "would you suffer any one to cut off your nose if he would give you twenty thousand dollars for it ?" "Not for all the world!" ""l'is well," replied the lawyer, "I had a reason for asking." The next time he saw the girl's father, he said, "I have in quired about this young man's circumstan ces. Ile has indeed, no ready money, but he has a jewel for which, to my knowl edge, he has been offered and refused twen ty thousand dollars." • This induced the old father to consent to the marriage, which accordingly took place; though it is said that in the sequel he often shook his head when he thought of the jewel.—Bos lon Transcript. PRESENbI: OF admirable in stance. of presence of mind was shown hr a Highland lad, who, with a lowland far mer, was crossing a mountain strewn, in a glen, at the upper end of Which a water spout had fallen. The Highlander had reached the opposite bank, but the farmer was lobking about, and loitering on the stones over which he was stepping, 'won dering at a sudden noise he Iteard, when the Highlander cried out, "Help! help ! or am a dead man," and fell to the ground. The fallacy sprung to his ass.iStance,' and had hardly reached him when the torrent _value down sweeping over the stones with a fury which no human force could bare witlitood. The 1:n1 hattheard the roaring of the :treatn behind the ro s, which in- It from the Ihr cm, and frar hps be panic:struck if w told Into (if hi , dan L er, extiedivat to ave Li!lh m A PitorANE Swran ER NoNrhussco.— i In Behoharie County - there lives a nuns whose addiction to profimity is such that hitt name has become a by-word and a re proach; but by some internal thermometer he so - graduates his oaths as to make them apply- to the peculiar case in hand ; the greater the - mishitp or cause liar anger the stronger and Nom frequent his adjurations. lis business is that of a•gatherer ()lashes, which he collects in small quantities and transports in an ox cart. Upon a recent occasion, having by dint of great labor suc i ceeded in filling his vehicle, he started for the ashery, which stands upon the brow of a steep hill ; and it was not until he reach ; ed the door that he noticed, winding its tor! tuous ro rse down the long declivity, a line of white ashes, while somethin g short of a peck remained in the cart. 'The dwellers by the wayside and they that tarried there' had :isenibled in great force, expecting an unusual anathonardisplay. "Punting how ever to the crowd the unfortunate man heaved a sigh, and simply remarked ; 'Neighbors, it's no use ; 1 can't do justice to the subject ickerbocker. JUDICIAL DIGNITY .—The following con versation is said to have passed between a Alterable old lads' and a certain presiding judge in The learned functionary : was supported on his right and left by his worthy associates, when Mrs. I'. was call ed to give evidence. "'fake off your bonnet, madam." "1 had rather not, sir." • "Zounds and brimstone, madam, take off Vollr bonnet, I say.' "In public assemblies, sir, women,gen crally cover. their bends. Such, lam sure is the custom elsewhere, and therefore I will not take off my . bonnet." "Do you hear that, gentlemen? She pretends to know -more about these mat ters than the judge himself! Had you not better, madam, come and-take a seat on-the bench?" "No, - sir, I thank you, tin. I really think there are old women enough there already." Euttortmc Or'eniissioN.—Rev. Dr. Kurtz, the -intelligent editor of the Lutheran Observer, in his last letter Born Europe,says: - "No intelligent citizen of the U. States can travel through the petty Principalities and huge Monarchies of Europe, without feeling the utmost indignation at the num:- berless restrictions and oppressions prac tised on the people and especially on the peasantry and laboring portion of the com munity, while a numerous and bloated aristocracy, and thousands of sprigs of roy alty and nobility, are reveling in luxury, and flaunting about in the gorgeous trap pings of overgrown privileged wealth, the product of the sweat and blood of the much abused peasant and oppressed mechanic. Blessed lie God, there is at least one Re public in the world, one country in which rational liberty has a home, where the Peo ple are the , S'ov'ereign, and enjoy, all the rights to which they are entitled. It is al most impossible properly to appreciate the blessings of our own free and happy land without travelling in Europe; we may in deed read and hear about kings, and prin ces, and nobles, and think we know-all a bout it; but our estimate will always fall short, until we become eye-witnesses of princely despotism, or are practically brought under its iron and unrelenting in fluence." VALUABLE DISCOVERV.—The Boston Transcript notices the discovery of a new preparation by Pr. Morton, which is in tended to alleviate the sufferings of those who are forced to undergo t)ainful opera tions in surgery and dentistry, as well as to facilitate the work of operators. The effect of this new discovery is to throw the patient into a state of insensibility, and while unconscious any operation can be performed without occasioning pain. A gentleman of the highest respectability witnessed an experiment of the use of this extraordinary discovery at the rooms •of Dr. Morton. An ulcerated tooth was ex tracted from the mouth of an individual without giving him the slightest pain. He was put into a kind of sleep, by inhaling a portion of this preparation, the effects of which lasted for about three quart rs of 'a minute, just long enough to extract the tooth. This discovery is destined to make a &eat revolution in the arts of surgery and surgical dentistry. • A GOOD Worm': AND AN Excr:r.r.ta•r ANswt•:rt.—The following riddle is attribu ted to Mr. Macauley, the essayist : Cut off' my head—and singular 1 am, . Cut off my tail—rind plural 1 appear; Cut oil' both head and tail, and strange to tell, Although iny middle's left there's nothing there! What is my head, cut orff A sounding sea. What is my tail, cut ofFt A roaring river, Within whose eddying deeps I peaceful play, A parent of soft sounds, though mute forever. A correspondent of the Boston Adverti ser furnishes the following answer : Ece.(l! I've guessed it! 'Tis a Con: Cut off his head, liWa very on: Cut off his tail you have a Co, And that is "plural,' all men know. Cut ofthis head and tail, you leave A niiddle nothing (It), you perceive. What is his head ? A sounding' C. What is his tail ? 'The river•h. And where's the Epicure but cries "Od Zounds, - • 1 know the cod produces most sweet SOUNUR," The. d..epest Artesian well in Europe. is in, the Dnehy of LAxentherg. Its pre sent depth;ii: 2;139 feet nearly 984 foot more than that of renelle, near Paris. It is .said that this immense work has been undertaken for workitur a lary stratum of POCK :.tit TERMS-TWO DOLLARS rEn -nNrcrm.] 11VIJOLE N 0,593. 110(18 It is good policy to commence fattening pretty early, for •pork can he made at less COSt in mild weather thaw in winter. At tl►is season weeds from "tl►e garden and fields will aid a little, the sweet apples that have fallen will do more service in a hog pen than under the tree, where the worms that are in them would make their appear ance next spring in the form of insects. Ilogs are fond of variety, and in August and Beptember they can be gratified at small cost. Parslain, that now covers the ground in many gardens is greedily devour ed by hogs, and who knows but this weed has as much power to fatten as the tops of s have ? Charcoal should be occasion ally thrown into the pen ; brimstone should be mixed in the liquid food, and a little meal improves sour milk and whey.— When your sweet corn is full . the corn may be cut up at the roots, and the whole may be cut fine with an axe. The cob will be eaten with the corn, and the whole will prove economical food. Well fed hogs will make butter manurethan half fed animalS ; and now, your harvest hurry is over you have time to add loam that will make the pen smell sweeter than some kitchens that you pass by. PESERVATION Or APPLEEL—AppIes in tended to be preserved for winter and spring use, should remain _upon the -trees until quite Tipe, which usually takes place at the coming of the first heavy frosts: They should then be plucked from the trees by hand, in a fair-day, and packed up immedi ately in casks, in alternate layers of dry sand and plaster, chaff, saw-dust or bran, and conveyed to a cool, dry place, as . sdon as possible. The sand or saw-dust inay be dried in the heat of summer, or may be. baked in an oven at the time required to be used. The peculiar advantages arising from packing apples in sand are explained and commented upon as follows, by the late Mr. Webster, author of the "American Dictionary of the English Language." Ist. The sand keeps the . apples from the air, which is essential to their preservation ; 2d. The-sand checks the evaporation of perspiration of the apples, thus preserving in then their full flavor—the apples are kept...dry, and all mustiness is prevented. My pipins, in May and June, areas fresh as when first picked. Even the ends of the stems look as if justseparatcd from the twigs. 3d. The sand is equallf a prevent ative from frost, rats, &c. But after the extreme heat .June takes : ap- : ples speedily loose their flavor and become insipid. DIUS/1/PUL OCCURRANCE.-Rum at the, hot tom.—A most painful and heart-rending calamity occurred in Warsaw, Kentucky, on Friday, 25th tilt. which resulted in the deatli,of a young min, 18 years of age, by the hand of his father. The facts, as far as we learn them from the correspond ence of the Cincinnati Couurtereial, aro as fol lows: A. man by the name of Edes, a brother in-law to Mr. Green, was in the habit of drinking to intoxication, and, while in this beastly, debased state, of whipping his wife. On the night above mentioned, Edes got into one of his savage ways, and com menced abusing and illy treating his fami ly, upon which, his wife sent a messenger to Mr. Green to come and protect her.:-- Mr. Green sent his son, a youth of 18, to try and pacify his uncle, but he failed,. and another messenger was dispatched for Mr. G. upon which, he in company with several men, started for Mr. Edes. Upon reaching the yard fence, Mr. Green was met by some one, and told that Epes was armed, and if he went in the house, he would kill him. Green then asked . for a club, and some one near handed him an axe, when he started to the house and ask ed Edes what he was abusing his family for. Edes in answer, made threats and started out of the door, at which time some one called to Green to be on his gnard, that Edes was coming, and at this time his own son (Green's) ran towards his father, to get out of - the way of his uncle, when Green mistook his son for Edes, and made a stroke at him, which proved fatal to him in a few seconds. - The blade of the axe cut ott the lower portion of the scapula, cutting through two or three of his ribs, and passing through his heart. TUE GRAND SECRET.-A journal, speak ing of the advantage of the advertising sys tem in business, very- appropriately says: “In trade and commercial enterprises the advertisement is the telegraph of socie ty, and one of the most indispensable Com forts and necessities of industrious na tions." It saves time, establishes inter course, and ministers to the wants of the consumer aswell as the producer. Rlou•rs OF MARRIED WOIIIM--TIICY. York ConStitutional Convention has dopted the following section for the new constitution : "All propertAf the wife 'owned by het. at the time of her marriage, and not acqui red by her afterwards by gift, devise or de scent or otherwise than from tier husband, shall be her separate propprtY. LaWit shall be passed providing tbr tho the tek ister of the wife's separate "property,' and more clearly defining her righto ; theteto,:ifs well as to property held by her with . her husband." Sixori.nn Jas. Trwin,'_ cif Pendleton, Niagara county, N. J., dielfa few days since, as is supposed, from ,breath ing the dust ofsome whedt which 0.61 bad ly rusted, Nthile eugagedin thrashik
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