Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 38, Vincennes, Knox County, 26 August 1809 — Page 4

POETICAL ASYLUM, r n Imitation of the German THE SUICIDE. Oh ! youth, from what I now relate, While get: tie tears bedew your eyes, Lament the lover's haplefs fate, And learn what woes from love arife A youth of exemplary worth, The comf'ii t of his aged fire, Whole virtues, early Ihining forth,

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By beauty's potent charms fubdu'd, For Chloe felt a tender pain ; Her rqiul love with ardor fued, And found his fond entreaties vain. While at her feet he pleads his flame, The cruel Chloe bids him fly : Yes! cried he, yes, infulting dame You never more fliall hear me figh. Then on his fword his hand he lays, While wild defpair his geftures breathe, Draws it -the deadly roint lurvcys, And thrults it back into the sheath.

ANECDOTES

A duel was lately fought between two country fquires, on the plan of the f.uirical rencontre in 4 Folly as it Flies, and after exchanging flints like Cursitor and Post Obit one ferond propofed their finking hands, on which the other qbferved, there is no occafi n, their hands have been shaking all the time. In a new raifed corps, a foldier lately obferved to his comrade, who was an Irifliman

that a corporal w.s to be difmitTed the regimrnt. Fith and indeed (replied the Irifhnuu) I hope it is the corporal who is fo troubl-fome in our company What is his name ? errpured the other. Why corparal Punishment to be furc my honey. The prt-fiJent Wither fpoon was a man of confidctiihle humour, as well as of learning and piety, and pi.tfcfied ahppy tdent of in'lrucling in his own prculi tr way. Aifem'ilin l pupils on a crtain d;iy, he addrtfTrdthem in his Scouifh dialect, alu-r the if Uowin; jiMin-r. il Yruni iT.tlTr.rn. it is probable that jn the CfUi fr of v.,ur lvrc, y ; will of; en be Called u fp..K in pu1 li, loine from the pulpit, fw.r nt the b,ir. It therefore heiurr.'S ::y hi'.y toc;ir y a f w woici.;, Ly wnycl advu on that i.npm tai I fu'u c. I fiiIl tompriz- the wl.olt- ot r.y diltouilc Undet two I t us and (hll be vtiy brief Upon b' lh. In the plm e, lA.r ta-r thut ye ne'er !;rjin to tpr..k till ye I. a' f..methirg to f-v ; and tVtoruily, be lure to leave eft ts ' vc I. a done."

Ml- I)!Ci'K. LocLi! jrVJ Kor the hciK'fit of i..;ud ind. cnfCpniuk iU willies to ( ;ommunic;Uc d.c foilou uu; ii.urativc to tin- public: lint 1' nc y p. ;U, IjKT.iiiw; uneven, itu; v. tth a im ul, . very lefpeetahle tn:i!- r ,r a ihip a man of i clit ini'injKitifni, ,lt (piireil I.v i e.Jhi'o ant viiitu iu i-y diikrcnt

countries, the convcrHitJon hap

pened to turn upon that dreadful malady, the locked jaw, when he obferved, that fometime before, he had been on a voyage to the illand of Sf Euftatia, and while there, became acquainted with a phyficianofthefirlt emminence, on that ifland, and that he heard him obferve, in company upon the fubie6l of tlic locked jaw, which was introduced in the courfe of converfation, by a pcrfon prefent, that he had, during his practice, many cafes, and that he had never loft a

patient with it. This after tlon furprifed the captain, and lecihim to enquire of the phyiician, his particular mode of treatment, in which he had been fo fucccfsful, to which he readily replied that he directed an application of warm ley, made of allies as llrong as poflible ; if the foot, or hand, was wounded, the fame to be dipped repeatedly into the Icy and if any part of the body which could not be immerfed in it, then in that cafe the partaifecled to be bathed with flannels wrung out from the warm ley. In confequence of the like remark being recolledted to have been heard by a lady, who lived in the captain's iamily, the following fas are now communicated to the public, with a pleafing hope, that they may prove beneficial to fomc unhappy objei at a future day . Captain Charles Gorton, of this town, mailer of a veflel, aged 30 years, active and enterprinng, being bufied about his veffel on the 25th day of July, 1807, the weather warm, on fomc occalion, jumped, with great agility, from her fide which was high above the wharlf where fhe lay, very unfortunately upon a very heavy plank, from which projecled a rufty fpike fix inches in length, and with a f craggy point, with fuch force, that the fpike pierced through the foal of a pair of boots he then had on, almoft new, and would have gone quite through his foot, had not the

upper leather of his boot prevent

ed ; every exertion of his own to extricate himfeif from the plank, to which he was thus pinned fall, failing, two flout men, who were,

on the wharf, being called to his allillance, with great difficulty relieved him. In the molt excruciating toiturc he was afliited in getting home, a phyiician was called in, and adminillered, but without ciTeel, when the aforementioned lady, hearing of the accident, very humanely repaired to captain (Jor- . ton's houfc and recommended a ; trial of the lev, which was immediately procured from a leech, which had been luckily fet in the family a few days before; his wounded' foot was put into the ley, previously warmed, and furpriling I was the e fie el ; within fifteen mi'nuttsthc anguiiii was entirely taj ken out ; he went to bed, and lie pi quietly. The next, and for ten d.ivs, morning c evening, the appheation oi the ley was made ; no j mi or imeafy fenf.tion returned b:it what i incident to a common lore: and on the eleventh day, captain Gorton walked a-broavl.

lac -Was not the lockjaw

prevented, and his life, in all human probability, faved by the application of the ley ? He has not the leaft doubt of it himfeif, and is ready to attell to the truth of the abovc narration. Ne wport SIcr. From the Lynchburg Press. INTER KSTi NO TO EAKMKUS. It is now fufiiciently certain that the horfe botts, or grubs, by which fo many horfes arc annually deftroyed, are produced from eggs or

nits, which are depolited chiefly on the infide of the knee, and bacTk part of the fhoukler of the horfe, by a certain fpecies of fly, which is called Oestrus tquu 1 hefe eggs or nits become ripe in the courfe of four or five days. When thus ripened the flighted application of warmth and moillure is fufficient to bring forth, in an inllant the la tent larva, that is the infedl in the for-m. At this time if the tongue of the horfe touch the eggs, its little door (opercurum') is thrown open, and a fmali active worm is produced, which readily adheres to the moift furface of the tongue, and is from thence conveyed with food into the ftomach. Any perfon w ho choTes may reduce it to experiment for himfeif In the feafon for it let a few hairs be clipped off, having the lb adhering to them moiften the intide of the hand by the application of a little fpittle, and clofe it upon the nits and he will find them hatched in afewr fecouds.

It is therefore recommended to

be careful to remove thefe eggs by fcraping them oft with a knife, or wafhing them off with an infufion of tobacco every third day of the feafon in which they are depofited.

If this be done there is no doubt but the deftrucTion which is made by this hateful infect, may be completely prevented. LONG FATTY. There died in February, 1805, at Gloves, near Athenry, in Ireland, of a Ihort illncfs, Dennis Coo robec, of Ballaudangin, aged 11 7 years. The life of this man w as remarkable not only for its duration, but for its exemption from moll of the evils of humanity. lit retained his inenhu and corporeal faculties in-full vigor to the Lift. Three weeks before his death, he walked out and home 20 miles in one day, and read the fmnllefl print without glaftes, as ddtmcUy and eaiily as a boy of fix teen. Two days before his death, he ne ver remembered to have had ar.v complaint or fickneis whatever, tooth, ache only excepted. The fir ft .-,6 years of his life p.dibd entirely Pee even from tooth-aclie ; having enjoyed, till then, found teeth. Af

ter that period, hi?, teeth began to decay ; but in the courfe of iittetu years, a new let appeared of w hit ! lie continued in pollllkoa till his death. Of fiis moral characicr, it is only recorded, that he was fh.df .!!! an honell man; fobcr, reguLr a::d peifeclJy upri'sht in his d p rN HK'iit. His mind was :;;.:ur ..y ihong ai;d acute, not difeiphed by liteiary cducalion, but tiirlcli-.J

by obfervntion and crrpcricncc. He fpent his life in the cultivation

of the same farm, the property of which he had acquired early in life and bent his attention chiefly to agriculture, in which he was zealously allowed to be eminently proficient. He was one of the earliest who introduced & propagated the potatoe, which he cultivated for the last seven years. He was seven times married. He was first married at the age of 21. With his last wife, who survived him, he lived longer than with any of his previous ones, that is 24 years, having married her when 93 years old. In general they were short lived, and were young women of his immediate neighborhood. The years of his widowhood, taken together, amounted to eleven. All the children born to him were forty eight which is on an avarage, one for every 2 years since the first day of his marriage. He had three sets of twins, and his third wife bore him eleven children in 12 years. His grand children were in number two hundred and thirty six, which is a little more that five to each child. His great grand children amounted to nine hundred & forty four, which is more proportionally, that six to each child. He had twenty five great, great grand chiidren, the eldest of whom is now four years old. Of one thousand two hundred and fiftythree descendants of his body, four hundred and eighty survived him. By his last wife, he had six sons, the youngest of whom is a fine lad of eighteen. These facts are extracted from

a register kept by the old man, of the names, births, marriages, deaths, and general situation of his wives and descendants being scattered far and wide over the earth, he took great pains to make the: catalogue exact and complete. It is to be hoped, that somc curious person may rescue this document from oblivion, by commiting it to the press. It must certainly lead to some very valuable inferences, as to the conslitution of human bodies, and of human society.

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