Richmond Enquirer

A caution to hunters.—On Saturday evening, 19th ult. Isaac Hillard, of Parkertown ship, went to watch for Deer, at a Lick, in the neighbourhood; having went rather early in the evening, he sat down in the bushes convenient to the Lick, and had fallen asleep: he awoke about dusk, and was creeping through the bushes to the lick: his brother Elisha, had come to the same lick on the same errand, and hearing the noise in the bushes and seeing as he supposed, a deer, Isaac having on a red jacket, fired his rifle; his feelings and astonishment can be more easily conceived than described, to find that instead of a deer, he had shot his brother. The bullet passed through his shoulder and is supposed to have lodged on one of his ribs. Some hopes are entertained of his recovery. [Penn paper.