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| BOSTON, March 4. Yesterday forenoon at 10 o'clock, John O'Halloran, a native of Ireland, was taken from the County Jail, in Leveret-street, and in conformity with his sentence and a warrant from the Governor of the Commonwealth was executed on the corner of a wharf, just without the precincts of the jail yard. He was accompanied from the jail by the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, the High Sheriff of the County and other officers of government, to the gallows, where, after prayer and consultation, the rope and cap were adjusted and the culprit launched into eternity at half past ten o'clock. No useless parade through the streets was made, and we understand it was the desire of the prisoner and his friends, as well as the wish of the high sheriff, that the execution should be conducted in as private a manner as a public execution could be. The concourse of spectators, notwithstanding the place of execution was not generally known, was very great.—The body of O'Halloran, we understood, was last evening delivered to his friends. It will doubtless be recollected that O'Halloran, was convicted for the murder of Jona Houghton, an aged watchman of this city and that the crime for which he has suffered an ignominious death was clearly proved against him—“The sword of justice falls heavily,” &c. |
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| Fires.—On Wednesday night a fire broke out in the third story of the building on Ann street, owned and occupied by Mr. Nath'l Faxon as a boot and shoe manufactory and leather store, which, save the brick walls, was entirely consumed. The adjoining buildings were protected from the flames by the energetic and well directed exertions of the enginemen. The stock of Mr. Faxon is estimated to have been worth $20,000, on which an insurance for $8,000 had been effected; $3,000 was insured on the building. The actual loss of Mr. Faxon is probably about $10,000. The fire broke out in that part of the building occupied as the work shop, but from what cause is not known; at nine in the evening there was no appearance of fire, and some four hours after the flames burst out.—The alarm of fire last Saturday morning, proceeded from the house in Washington-st. occupied by Messrs. Payson and Preston. The fire took place in the third story, and was extinguished without doing much injury to the house. —Patriot. |
LIME
50 CASKS LIME,
just received and for sale by
DANIEL SHATTUCK & Co. |
| Concord, March 11, 1826. |
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| Crimes, &c.—In Springfield. last Sunday evening, a Mr. John M. Moulthrop, about 24 years old, committed suicide by hanging himself with his handkerchief fastened to a clothes line.—The following affair took place in Warrenton, N. C. on the 15th ult. Thomas H. Christmass was wounded, while standing at his tavern door, by a Dr. Steven Davis; being faint from loss of blood, and believing he was dying, he made for his wife's apartment, when the Doctor, savage like, discharged the other barrel of the gun upon him. At first it was supposed that C., was killed; but contrary to all expectation, he is, in the opinion of his physicians, convalescent.—Jacob Slough, an old and respectable farmer of Norristown, Penn., lately shot himself. His grandson, a lad 8 years old, was with him at the time.—Drowned in Springfield, 25th ult. Mr. Reuben Sherman of Brimfield, by breaking through the ice, in attempting to pass from the paper manufactory to the village. He has left a wife and two children to mourn his sudden death. |
MARRIED. |
| In Boston, Mr. Charles A. Hamilton, of Worcester, to Miss Eliza A. Porter. |
| In Springfield, Mr. Henry Stearns to Miss Sophia Dwight. daughter of the late James S. Dwight, Esq. |
| In Northampton. Mr. Timothy Edwards to Miss Catherine Clapp.—Mr. Charles Edwards to Miss Esther White. |
| Healthy Marriage.—In Saratoga Springs, Mr. William Harmon to Miss Emeline Martin. |
DIED. |
| In Boston, Mrs. Eliza-Ann Hanscom, aged 28. She destroyed herself in a fit of jealousy.—Samuel Blagge, Esq. aged 64. |
| In Roxbury, Samuel Wait, Esq. aged 65. |
| In Boston, widow Mary Tidd.—Mr. Winslow B. Richardson, aged 20.—Mrs. Hannah Thayer, consort of the late Mr. Amos T. of Braintree, aged 84.—Mr. Christian Brown, aged 66. He was for seven years a cook in the family of President Washington. |
| In Chelmsford, Feb. 24, Cutin Bruce, aged 82. |
| In Bolton, on the 18th ult. Mrs. Achsa, wife of Mr. Thaddeus Pollard, aged 47. |
| In Boylston, on the 2d inst. Deac. Daniel Andrews, aged 74. |
| In Dunstable, N. H. Miss Eunice Shattuck, of Groton, aged 19. |
| In Washington, Henry Forrest, Esq. of the Treasury Department, aged 54. |
| In Philadelphia, Com. Richard Dale, in the 70th year of his age. The deceased was one of the most distinguished and capable officers of the American Navy. |
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