Daily National Intelligencer

To the Editor of the N. C. Recorder.

SIR--In your paper of the 31st May last, I read an article headed a caution to youth, referring to the sudden death of a boy, which happened in Hillsboro', in this state by eating Hemlock for Angelica. A case of the same nature happened on my plantation, on the 10th of May last, in the afternoon; which circumstance my friends advise me to publish, not only as another caution to youth, but to let the public know the remedy I applied to the young man who was so indiscreet as to chew it, and who came so near being the victim of its effects.

The father and the son were obliged to cross a river to come to my house. Walking along its banks, the father, I have been told, led the son into error by shewing him Hemlock for Angelica. The young man chewed or ate it. A monkey I have kept for many years attracted his attention--he went to him and gave him of the same root; but the youth walking back again to the house, fell in the middle of my yard, like a man taken with a fit of the epilepsy. I took it at first for such, until the father told me he never had been subject to it. I filled up a half a wine glass of Cologne water, with as much of spring water, and poured part of it in his mouth then full of froth, the eyes being fixed. Its volatile spirit re-animated his vital spirits, and he began to give some sign of life. I raised him up and made him swallow the remainder.--In a short time after the young man vomited the poison--by intervals sweet oil was administered, so that he was able to go home. But the poor monkey was found dead the next morning, whose life I might have saved, if I had known before dark that he had eaten of it.

A SUBSCRIBER.
Bladen county, N. C. June 10.