We learned, last evening, that the family of Mr. Ward were poisoned. The family consists of nine persons—viz: Mr Ward, wife, mother, and six others, all took dinner together yesterday, at their residence on Elizabeth street; a short time afterwards four of them were seized with vomiting, and, in the course of the afternoon the other five were, also, taken sick. 

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