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The second term of the PJutnvill Academy com we need on the 18th AugustDEATH OF A STRANGE U.Died, on the morning of the 15t 1 inst.. in this pi.ice a man who was an entire stranger. He came out from (la! na, on the day previous, in company with 3r.r. Edward Mitchell; soon after his arriva here, he asked permission to lie down in t.) e haymow, stating that he had just land) d off a boat and was very fatigued Theprivilege was granted and .somethin, in the evening, he was discovered to be in . fit.— Ho was immediately removed to a house, and medical aid procured, but all el ortB to restore him were unavailing. He 1 ngered till 4 o’clock the next morning and 1 iod--1There were no papers about him fron which his name could be ascertained. He stated to Mr. Mitchell as they came from t nlena ; that he had just come up the Missis ippi— that he had formerly lived at Azta an, 28 miles east of Madison and that he hat worked for J. Morrison ; that his wife die* about the 10th of May, 1844; that sine j that event, he had traveled considerably a id that he had worked for George ft tun tv. an* Samuel t)g!e, of St. Clair county, ill. These arc the only particulars recollected, t mding to give information as to his 1 istory His death being sa sudden and the circu nstan- {t ces so peculiar, at the request -of t! e citi- [ t zens, a coroner’s inquest waa held o rer his body and their verdict waa that he c one to has end by a lit of Apoplexy. He r as decently interred by the citizens He was a man adout the middle size, rather dar t com-plection, dark hair, and to all appec ranee, about 40 years of age. *Editors in Madison and Galena, by publishing or noticing the above, may at sist us in conveying the intelligence to his reS .tives.tThe citizens of Plattevillo were bc dressed, on Wednesday evening, by Messrs Martin and Collins, rivals for the Deleg. cy.—-We heard but little, but that II .tie cc ivinc-ed us that (printer as we are) our 1* t had been cast in pleasant places. Aft* r the candidates had concluded, some t? our speechifying citizens took the stum » and ^ occupied it with as much ability aetl e two no nda r tfi* ngreat men of the Territory.Orders have been received by Major Ringgold, at Fort McHenry, to keep his t oop of Flying Artillery in readires to maichfor Texas at a moment’s warning. A £ milar order is said to have been forwarded to all the various military stations on th seaboard, and as it had remained on the bolie-tin boards, at Baltimore, all day w tkout denial, believed to be correct. Ii »iay therefore be anticipated that Gover cmenfc1hPo[•P1eiaifaaidt
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Independent American and General Advertiser
Platteville, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Aug 22, 1845
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