The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-11-14
MOST HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE.

We we're informed last evening, by gentle
man eff II most thrilling and brutal attempt at
murder, at Woodbury., Connecticut The facts
elected from our informant are simply these.
On Wednesday afternoon, person stopped at
one of the taverns at Woodbury., and asked the
landlord if he could accommodate him for the
night. The house being full, he was informed
it would be impossible to oblige him, and after a
few moments of unpleasant conversation, (he
stranger insisting on being accommodated-the
landlord holding out his inability to satisfy him,
in consequence of the large number of persons
then residing there,) the landlord Offering him a
shilling to pay his lodging atanother house which
he flung upon the counter, and at which the trav
eler took offencc-dreW dagger and stabbed
the landlord in the abdomen, so severely that the
enrails protruded from the wound.
There were no other persons in the bar room
at the time, and the landlord called for assistance
to some persons in an adjoining ROOM In the
mean time the fel ow had stationed himself in a
corner of the bar-room not far from which was
the door, through which assistance to come,
and threatened at the same time that if any per-
sons attempted to rescue him, he would kill them
Among those who to the assistance of
the unfortunate landlord were two females one
his mother, the other female boarder, who is
employed II teacher in an academy in that
town. The MOTHER in her anxiety TO assist her
son, needed not the threats of the villain, and
entering the barrooln was severely wound
ed in several places that all hopes of her re-
covery doubted. The other ady's life was
preserved by the dagger coming in contact
with her steel corset board. The villain find
ing his last attempt at murder was frutless one
directed another blow at the lady's face; this
succeeded-the instrument of death entering Just
below the cheek bone, cutting cash down to the
corner of the mouth. young man who had
fastened to their assistance was much injured
After few moments the whole town was in up
roar, 81 several hundred persons were on the spot
The monster only secured by strataeem
n hU oftl
inhabitants, was passed over the door near which
he was standing, and while his attention was
called off, passed over his head and thus secured
After in custody, and before they could wrcst
from his grasp the weapon Of death, he cut him
sefmost shockingy in one OF mere places
On being asked why he had perpetrated this
dreadful act, he replied that he had been nsulted
and being angry he had no command over his
passions-he said he had done wrong, and re-
quested the persons who were attending on him.
dressing his wounds &c.-to take his life
Our informant, who left this scene of blood
yesterday morning. says that case had then
terminated fatally; although little hope was en-
tertaned Of a favorable result.-.flbany Dai. .4dv
Vermont .4syIum for the I,sane.-The First
Annual Report of the Asylum is published. The
whole number of patients that have been admit
ted is 4S:-recent cases, of six months standing
or less, IA old cases, 81. Males 90 females
%. Of the old cases, 3 have been discharged
recovered, 5 improved, and unimproved | has
died remain at the Asylum recovered, l2 i'm
proved, and unimproved. OF the recent cases,
3 have been discharged recovered, and the others
remain,-3 recovered, 6 improved, and 2 uninl-
proved.-Chronicte.
HEALTH OF NATCHEz.-Natchez is still desc
lated by that scourge, the infections of which
have been so sorely and recently felt. The cpl
deinlc IN that city appears, from the weekly re-
ports, 10 augment in fatality the number OF
deaths for the past week forty five, the week
before presented list OF thirty one, and the one
preceding it twenty eight. The proportion of
morality in n population of $500 is enormous,
and is even in Il greater ratio to the number OF