INSANE. - John Fischer was examined by the Commissioners of Lunacy yesterday,
and sent to Stockton. His lunacy ws the result of grief and religious enthusiasm
combined. Sorrow for the death of his mother and brother-in-law wore upon his
mind until he was half crazed and then in his enfeebled condition, he wrestled
with abstruse doctrinal points and they threw him. Well, he is as well off now
as he was before, perhaps - unconscious madness must be better than conscious
mental distress.
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