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'26. Bedford (PtHitsyloaii'uiJ. — 

 On Saturday, the '23i\ iust. at 

 Mr. Peter Smith, of Greenlield- 

 township, in this (.ounty, was 

 kindling a tire near where lie in- 

 tended to hew sled runncis, five 

 miles distant from any house, iii 

 the Alleghany-niountaiji, lie was 

 mortally wounded with two bullets, 

 fii-ed at him by George Dively 

 and John Lingenfelter, they mis- 

 taking him for a bear. One of 

 the said bullets penetrated his 

 body a little above the hip on the 

 left side, and went out at hib 

 right shouldei' ; the other entered 

 his back, and lodged in his body. 

 On the following day an inquest 

 was held, which, after examin- 

 ing witnesses, &c. gave it as their 

 opinion, " that said persons had 

 no intention whatever of injuring 

 or killing said deceaycd." — New 

 York Paper. 



31. At the fair of ralkiik, an 

 exhibition of wild beasts was 

 made in acara\an,in the market- 

 place, when a girl of aL>out 3 

 years of age, in the charge of her 

 sister, who is about 1? years of 

 age, while A^itnessing it, was 

 seized by a leopard, w hieh (though 

 every means that the cireum- 

 gtances of the case afforded were 

 used to save the child) lacerated 

 the right ann to that degree that 

 amputation from tiie shoulder 

 was found neccijsary. It is ex- 

 pected, however, that the child 

 will live. As the auiniid was pro- 

 perly secured by a close iron grat- 

 ing, it apjxjars that the accident 

 happened wholly from what may 

 be considered an inattention on 

 the part of the girl, for the pur- 

 pose of gratifying the curiosity of 

 her little sister, by suffering her 

 to put her hand forth unobserved. 



DECEMBLU. 



1. In the case of the King 

 versus the Chief Baron of the 

 Coiut of Kxehequer, recently 

 tried in the Court of King's 

 Bench, Dublin, and in which the 

 verdict vmis in favour of the 

 Crown, Judges Day and Daly 

 delivered their opinions to the 

 Jury in fa\ our of the Crown, and 

 Mr.' Justice Osborne in favour of 

 the Chief Baron. The oflicc of 

 Clerk of the Picas, ihc appoint- 

 ment to which formed the subject 

 of the issue, now estimated at 

 !^0,000l. a year, liad an annual 

 salary of fi\e marks attached to it, 

 31. 16s. bd. and was actually sold 

 i!i reversion, in the year 159G, 

 by the then occupant, a Richard 

 Kowe, to a gentleman of the 

 name of C'arroU, a citi^'.Mi of 

 Dublin, for 80l. 



On Sunday evening between 

 six and seven o'clock, the Ikjusc 

 of xMr. Ilowaid, a farmer, 90 

 years of age, at Yewslcy, near 

 Drayton, in the parish of Ililliug- 

 don, Jliddlescx, was entered by a 

 gang of robbers, supposed to be 

 four, in a disguised state, and 

 robbed of considerable property, 

 150l. in cash and notes at least. 

 A man and boy, who lived in the 

 house, went out about six O'clock, 

 when they left the aged man and 

 his housekeeper, 7-5 years of age, 

 in the kitchen. On their return 

 to the house they found that it 

 had been robbed of the valuable 

 property, and the aged people 

 lay on the floor, presenting a 

 most horrid spectacle from the 

 wounds and bruises which they 

 had received. Their heads were 

 cut in several places : they were 

 insensible. It wtjs discovered 



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