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DREADFUL OCCURRENCF..
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We have never before had 50 painf,!l 4 tu-
tv to perform rs we are now entering upon
in the detail of an occurrence, which COM
lnenced at .,carboroush on Friday last, and
which closed at a neighboring village, at
tended by all the tragic horrors Of agonizcd
parental feelings, and by all the dreadful snf-
ftrings of four violent and premature dissc-
lutons.


A poor, but wcll-dispo8ed and industrious
woman of the name of Onthwaite, tho wife
of shoemaker, residing at the village of
Cloughtnn, near Scarborough, and the moth
er of four children. the youngest Of which is
but few months old, having business at the
latter place on Friday last, resolved to take
homc, for the use of herself and children. !.
small portion of an opening medicine. With
this view, she called at a druggists shop III
Scarborough, orderr the same, and said she
would Cali for it btfor, She left town. 1t was
accordingly weighed aud placed ready for the
poor woman. Ia the interim, however, q
farmer called at the same shop, and desired
one ounce of arsenic to be weighed, and he
would Call for it in a short time. The dan
gerous mineral was also got ready according
to order, and as proper prccaution, the
word "poison" was written on the paper
containing it; but, unfortunately, the two
were placed together. The poor woman
called the first for her metlicine-she re-
ceived the wrong packet-she could not read
she travelled home to her little family,
the innocent unsuspccting messenger OF
death.


| Soon after her return she gave some of the
arsenic to three of her hapless children, one
OF them years of age, the second 6, and the
other only four. The poor woman also
took large portion herself. Death now
commenced his havoc, and the dreadful ef
fects which always attend the taking of a
deadly poison were soon triumphant over the
tender frames Of the little innocents. No
medical assistance was near, and, still more
strange, no one was sent for Stupefaction
or distraction must have fixed upon the
wrctched parents.


Death, however, had not completed his
work. The mother was still left, with her
infant--her only surviving child.-laid upon
her lap. She felt the pangs of approaching
dissoluton-butd death had lost his terrors--
he had become welcome messenger-the
delight Of her eyes had departed. and OH
dreadful thought she had been the innocent
agent No medical adviser still was sent for
She struggled with the foul destroyer till
morning began to dawn, when about the
hour of FIVE, her, wounded spirit took its
fight to the eternal mansions, whittier her
children had departed, and where no casual