Rochester, Monroe, NY Rochester Republican June 14, 1849 SUICIDE - An old man by the name of David SWEET, aged 71 years, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a jack-knife on the road between Dansville and Alfred, Alleghany county, last week. The deceased had been living with his son in Ohio for the last three years. He has been deranged for a year or two past, from what cause cannot be divined. The Dansville Courier, from which we learn these facts, says: "His wife says he had always been a man of regular and steady habits, and considerable property, and had been rather fortunate and lost none, and had always lived on the happiest terms with his family. * ATTEMPT TO DROWN - On Wednesday night about 9 o'clock Catharine BURT, a cook on a canal boat attempted to drown herself. She jumped from the boat into the canal, but was immediately rescued. She states that she is from Hamilton, C. W., which place she left about two weeks ago. She was taken to the poor house, but she refused to partake of any food and says she is determined to destroy herself. * CONDIGN PUNISHMENT - We stated several days since that the ladies of Albany had petitioned the Common Council of that city, to prohibit street smoking. The subject was referred to a select committee who have, after mature deliberation, reported against taking any action on the subject, but recommend that the smokers "be left to the frowns of the ladies as their punishment." * RECOVERY OF THE BODY OF MISS AVERY - The Argus says a Telegraphic despatch announces the recovery of the body of Miss AVERY, who was among the passengers of the Empire. Miss A. was in company with the TODD family, on her way to Ohio. This makes 23 bodies already recovered from the wreck. Others are missing, among them, one of the TODD family. * ODD FELLOW'S CELEBRATION - The twenty-sixth anniversary of the Grand Lodge of this state, was celebrated in New York on Monday. More than one hundred Lodges marched in a grand procession, which is said to have been a mile and a half in length. In the evening the fraternity assembled at Castle Garden, where C. Edwards LESTER delivered an oration. * A decapitated Post Master in a neighboring town, placed on his door in large letters, the following notice: "P. O. REMOVED TO --------- BY ORDER OF ZACHARY." The new Post Master took the liberty of removing the latter part of the notice. * CASES OF DROWNING AT PALMYRA - A child named DeCLAIR, aged about six years, also a child of Mr. WHIPPLE, about the same age, were drowned in the Canal at Palmyra on Tuesday. * THE CHOLERA - It appears that the members of the Legislature of Virginia have come to the sage conclusion, that the law of self-preservation is of more consequence than the laws of the State; and have therefore left Richmond, and gone to the White Sulphur Springs, near the Blue Ridge chain of mountains, where they hope to escape the range of the Cholera. They have been considerably laughed at in consequence, but we don't think it is any body's business unless they charge mileage. Which they probably will, both ways. * The New Orleans Bee, of the 22d, contains the following: "We learn that on Sunday last a man who was walking bare-footed in the inundated portion of the First Municipality, was bitten on the leg, (probably by a moccasin sn ke,) and shortly afterwards expired. On the same evening a little lad was bitten either by a similar animal or a congre, and died soon afterwards from the effects." * ACCIDENT - An accident of a serious nature happened to James CLARK, second son of Calvin E. CLARKE of Dansville. While assisting at the raising of a house in that village some of the timbers fell, rolling and crushing him between. * Theodore PARKER, in a late discourse, said that as much matter was printed in Boston alone, in fourteen days, as was written in the whole world during the fourteen centuries before the art of printing was discovered. * HANGING FOR THEFT - A negro man at Piedmont has been sentenced to be hung for stealing bacon from a meat house. We did not know that such a barbarous law still prevailed in Virginia. — They are shocked to every feeling of humanity. * A Magistrate's Court in Knox county, Ohio, was stoned on the 17th ult., while in session, in the case of a criminal prosecution for retailing liquor contrary to law. * MARRIED On the 7th inst., by the Rev. V. R. HOTCHKISS, of Buffalo, Mr. Lewis ROBERTS, Esq., to Miss Harriet E., eldest daughter of G.W. BURBANK, Esq., of Rochester. At Aurora, Cayuga co., June 5th, by Rev. H. W. PARKER, Frederick DE LANO, Esq., of Rochester, to Miss Mary DOUGHERTY, of the former place. In Walworth, by Elder O. G. HOLMES, Mr. Lewis TIFFANY, of Narage, Chenango co., N. Y., to Miss Miranda MATHEWSON, of Walworth. In this city, on the 18th April, by Rev. Charles HA?SS, minister of the German Evangelical Protestant Church, Wilh PRODE(?) To Marie OX. By the same, May 10th, Karel PRORIG to Catharina EIRHNER. By the same, May 17th, Takob PRAUN to Verena DUBELBEISS. By the same, May 17th, Johana S. KUMMER to Anna MARGARWIOH. By the same, June 3d, Johann G. C. WOLFRUM to Marie FRIED WEIDINGER. By the same, June 5th, Andreas KLETT to Anna Maria KLETT. In Dansville, on Tuesday morning last, by Rev. Mr. POWELL, Mr. Charles S. KNAPP to Miss Eliza M. IMSON. In Bethany, on the 27th ult., Mr. F. S. BIGELOW, of Pavilion, to Miss Emeline M. WAIT, daughter of Judge Ira WAIT, of Bethany. In Batavia, on the 21st ult., Mr. Horace KINGSBURY, of Lockport, to Miss Eliza BRACE, of Shelby, Orleans co. In Erwin Centre, Steuben co., on the 29th ult., Wm. M'CALL, M. D., of Rushford, Allegany Co., to Miss Rebecca M. SMITH, daughter of the Hon.. A. C. SMITH, of the former place. In Buffalo, on the 6th inst., at the residence of Isaac WOODHAMS, by Rev. S. SEAGER, Prof. W. B. RODGERS, of Philadelphia, to Miss Phebe A. WILLSON, of Troy. In Mt. Morris, on the 3d ult., Mr. John STEVENS, to Miss Lovina EDWARDS, both of Sparta. On the 5th ult., Mr. Luther SHUMWAY, of Pavilion, Genesee County, to Miss Melissa BALDWIN, of Ridgeway, Orleans co. At Holley, Mr. Joseph W. BREWER, of Wabash, Ia., to Mrs. Rebecca J. LANE, daughter of Mr. James PATTISEN, of Holley. In Tyrone, Steuben county, on the 6th inst., by Rev. B. RUSSELL, Mr. Henry T. STRAWN, of Ogden, to Miss Amanda E. PHILLIPS, of the former place. At Canandaigua, on the 27th ult., by Rev. L. WHITNEY, Mr. Archibald BLAKE to Miss Elizabeth CLARK, all of that place. On the 30th ult., by Rev. J. T. ARNOLD, Mr. Jeremiah RECTOR to Miss Artamissa SHAW, both of Benton, Yates co. In Trinity Church, Geneva, on the 5th of June, Henry G. HUGHES, of Brooklyn, L. I., to Susan M., daughter of the late Capt. Samuel ANGUS, U. S. N. In Lyons, on the 6th inst., Mr. A. B. WOOD, of Geneva, to Miss Anna Adelia BURNETT, of the former place. In Geneva, on the 7th inst., Mr. Sylvenus J. FOWLER, of Penn Yan, to Miss Sarah A. NEWMAN, of Geneva. In this city, Tuesday morning, the 12th inst., by Rev. M. J. HICKOK, John H. BREWSTER, Esq., of the firm of S. L, & J. H. BREWSTER, to Miss Emily, youngest daughter of Preston SMITH, Esq., of this city. On the 12th inst., by the Rev. M. J. HICKOK, in the Washington Street Church, Mr. Christian SCRIBER, of Akron, Ohio, to Miss Jane Ann SKUTT of this city. In Henrietta, June 5th, by Rev. James B. MURRAY, Mr. Lemuel H. PEETS, of Pittsford, to Miss Adelia WEBSTER, of Henrietta. ** DIED In Batavia, on the 31st ult., Corintha HEACOX, aged 17 years. In Buffalo, on the 3d instant, Mr. Aldrich WELLS, said to be the first-born male child in Buffalo, aged 46 years. In Castile, Wyoming co., N. Y., on the 29th of May last, of Erysipelas, Eliza D., consort of Gen. J. D. LANDON, aged 45 years. In Walworth, Anna WOOD, aged 73 years. In the same place, of consumption, Edger SMITH, aged 25 years. In this city, on the 7th inst., Miss Mary BUCKLEY "Well may we weep, though long unused to tears. Our bosoms heave with unaffected grief; For that glad smile, oft seen, no more appears, The hand that gave, no longer gives relief." In York, the 2d ult., of fever, Mr. Baxter BOWMAN, aged about 60 years. In West Almond, on the 2d ult., Mr. Caleb CORNWELL, aged about 24 years. In Greece, Monroe co., N. Y., on the 8th inst., Mrs. Allice BEATY, wife of Mr. James BEATY, after a protracted illness of two years and four months, which she bore with every mark of christian fortitude and resignation, aged 60 years. -Seldom has society to lament the loss of a more amiable woman than the deceased, or a family to deplore a greater bereavement. She indeed was benevolent and kind, industrious and econominal, a model of good house-wifery, and exemplary in attention to her religious duties. May she rest in peace. In Caledonia, on the 7th inst., Mrs. Catharine CAMERON, relict of John CAMERON, aged 71 years. - Mrs. C. was widely known and greatly respected. She leaves a large circle of friends to mourn her loss. She was a native of Scotland, and came to Caledonia with her husband in one of the first years of the present century. Mr. C., was one of the earliest merchants in that place, where he died in 1840. He was greatly esteemed during his life, and his memory is still warmly cherished in the place where he resided. In Canandaigua, on the 24th ult., Mr. Isaac MORSE, aged 93 years; a Revolutionary soldier, and early settler of that town. In Naples, on the 20th ult., after a lingering illness of five months, John W. HINCKLEY, aged 56 years. In Portage, Livingston co., on Thursday last, Sanford HUNT, father of Washington HUNT, the present Comptroller in the State, aged 72 years. ** -- Glenda Whitaker Subyak Monroe Co. & N. Y. State News Coordinator Find your Ancestors at: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html Assistant Coordinator for Pike Co. ILGenWeb site http://PikeCoILGenWeb.org Please visit my Web Page & sign my Guestbook http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~glendasubyak