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HORRIBLE AFFAIR.-On Thursday afternoon
in Blockley township, above the city on the other
side of the Schhykil river, nearly opposite to the


Falls Bridge, man named Christopher Master.
ton, native of England, living in one of long
row of small stone houses, occupied chiefly by
Irish people, made an attempt while partially de-
ranged from liquor to murder his wife for some
trhng cause. In the struggle ne cut her llp, IN.
ficted long cash on her side and thigh, and
wounded her very badly in the neck and throat;
nothing saved her life, as the physician declared
upon examination, but the extraordinary dulness
of the small penknife, which was the weapon used.
After the lapse of short time, when reflection
had brought with it remorse, the man, not yet
perfectly sane, before he could be prevented,
swallowed, in glass of water, quantity OF poi
son. The physician, who was in the house dress
ing the wounds of the woman, Immediately gave
him powerful emetic, which caused him to
throw the poison of his stomach, and thus saved
his life. When we saw them, they were both
unable to rise, the man suffering from raging fe-
yer, and the woman stiff from her wounds. The
wife spoke in kind terms of her husband, who al
ways behaved as man ought to his family, ex-
cept when he got on spree, which was but
seldom, and then he became perfectly crazy!-
Phila. Ledger.