The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-11 00:00:00

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN THE SOUTH

A Cincinatel paper relates the followhig tragic story :
Ott the 20th if November last a citizen of Fen•ress
Comity, on visiting the house of old Mrs. Garow.y
found tie out lady, her dauAter, and two grand
cluldren lying upon the floor wi.h their heads spli
Open with an axe, and the for delnzed with blood and
,rains. One tA the children showed big,ie f ife, alqi
was removed to a neighbour's house. Two tia)s after-
wards he showed signs of conscioumese, and was
who had done it ; his reply was CaL" This informa-
tion. connected with other eircuanst Inca!, directed
-nspici..n to Calvin Logan!), who at about that time
fled to his home on Green River in Kentucky. He woo
pursued and captured, and brought back to Fattre.
Ceunry, by which time the little boy, who seemed to
have been preserved by a special Providence, was
so nearly recovered as to give a correct account of
the whole hlondy tale. From his testimony it appears
that L•gston came to the house rith two V.llitt-13,
smite narnea 13-own, and demanded if Grit ny her
money, with threats of a preeented pistol. and seivoi
on axe he fund in the house and struck the old lads
or, the head, and then served the yonng woman and a
Sr uld boy in the same manner. Out of the
w, men then s-ized a shovel and dealt the little wituas
a blow, witch is the last he recollects Upon the re
-nro of the prisouer hi, Fetal,. County, the citizens
erected an imps .1.11141.1 gaDows tor his sc,oruniodati.a.
tine by the efforts of Judge Houk, Jo gm Lyggh
lded his jurisdiction. Fsiting to get s jury in that.
comity the verue was chsnged to Scott County,
where, after h long and likbolllol.lll trial, the veribc. has
just beeit rendered of guilty of murder in the first da.
gee, gOthoUc any invtgeting eircoinst.encem,
seut• nee of death has been .rot onuced by Judge Houk
to take effect on the 18,h Chgo,or.

A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
The New Turk Timm • the 20th ult., has the following
In a recent number of a well known magazine an
PCCOIllit was given of several men who., 11•111Cli were
once familiar to society, and who were suiloeuly and
incompreheneirly mimed trim their cutinimary resorts.
In most instances no trace of them was left behitid,
and the inquiries of the police or the tireless quest ot
friends alike liii. d to throw Any light upon the mystery.
Occurrences of this kind are common everywhere. 'I he
story I .f the Chancellor Lansing. amen once well known
in this State. and Atli remembered by a few survivors,
is so far Mid root trim me. Speke's, that no ex plaration
iif it has ever yet been published. The magazine
writer truly says that he left a New York hotel, one
atiernisin hirty years lig, to take a boat for Albany,
where he resided. The porter who handed him his hag
was the hist remelt known to have seen him alive. He
never reached the Albany boat, slid he was never
heard of agaiii. Natoral,y his disappearance created a
profound *emotion, for tie held a high positi ~,,, and
was ''• man tull of years and honour.' The writer to
whim we have referreil rays :—''Fits pis :e on earth had
lwen trade vacant; hut there is not, and can never lie,
any record id how, ir when, or where. He may have
I lied that day; he way have lived for years afterwards,"
In the byis theiia tints put. forward the writer, in com-
mon w.th the general body if the public, is mistaken.
‘Ve speak under withieiry when we say that elm ry in-
I ideut connected with the disappearance of Chaecelinr
Lansing is well known to a gentleman now living. The
secret was mmfided to him by a distinguished citizen of
this State, sow deceased, who.. name SIWNNI, com-
manded and does still command respect. The snr-
vivor was enjoined to publish all the circumstances
when certa,n pertains specified were dead. This con-
dition has been Nib led. and it is pribible that a
narr dive calculated to startle the public will yet he
given to the world. Then., will then no longer be
roiim left for a single &Wit in referewle to Chancellor
Lansing's fate. We do not fewl onrselvee at liberty to
hint at the nature of the revelation to be made, but
this we may say, that it will be ant hentiosied, and that
will form one of the 'met remarkald« lutig" in ton
history of the public Tool of this is it try

FASHIONABLE MAKKIAOa. -- The marriage of
Henry Denis loe Merchant, Ken, eldent son .4 Sir
Denis Le Merchant, Bert, to the Hon. S. phi. S'outt
o.ldest daughter of L in Belowr, was isolumnieed nil
Tuesday woth cediroidera It V 7164. at the pariah church
of Kingeton, near Deny. The villagers, with whom
Lord Helper's &nolo are fay.outiten, erected triumphal
arches at the gate Alf Kugston Hall and in the village
street, in honour of the bride. They have also given
her some preeents of contiderable value. The newly-
, married pair are to spend tire hon. yrrionn at Chobhani
I Place, the house of the bridegroom's. father.
DE&TH or Gr.MaRAL THOMPSON.— We have 10
record the death of Lieutensot•General Thomas
Perronet Thompson, F. 11.5., which took place on
Monday, at Bleckhestli. A. few t rain ago the an-
nounco nient w. •al,l have u ,'e ,aoue nenrati n, for
oluring a certain portion of his career General Thomp-
son was one oof the most prominent of piddle men. He
was born at Hull in 1783, and was first educated at
the Grammar School there, which wan at the time
conducted by Joseph Milner, Ilenn Church hietornau.
tie afterwards went to Can.bridge. After serving
about hour 3e111,' in the navy be beeanne a soldier.
and Saw a good deal of active service. On his return
To England he began t o take a area interest in politios, 1
etet in connection with the Anti-Corn Law League
Ink a V. rt aCiVe part ii, the promotion of Free To et,
H • wee 5.4 re t u ue.l to Parlivonent in 1835. for Hull.
General Thomismfl was fo r many years the editor ano
pr..' rotor of the Westminster Bering, and a very in-
dustrious political economist and scientific writer. In
thin review appeared the Corn Law Catechirm so effec-
tive in that Meenssion. In his social circle he was one
, of the most semi% cemiderste, and kind of men.