Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-08-18
AN EYE WITNESS.

HoRRID MURpEa.-The Ohio Star, printed
at RavenDa, Aug 8, states that the McKiss-
ons, charged with the murder Of the wife of a
son OF one Of them, and brother of the other,
were examined IN Mortified, before the coro-
nor, the day before. The circumstances atten-
ding this foul murder are as follows: Mrs
Robert McKisson, her daughter, a girl about
IL years of age, and hired man, occupied
small log house in Mortified. Early in the
evening of the 24th ult, the family retired 20
rest, the hired man occupying a bed in the
chamber and Mrs McKisson and her daughter
separate beds in the room below. The head
ofthe daughters bed was near the outside
door. Some time after the family had retired,
the girl was awakened by a person opening
the door and coming into the room, who, she
discovered by the light of a few burning brands
upon the hearth, had an axe ia his hand I'm
mediately upon his entering the room, and be-
fore the girl could give any alarm, he struck
her senseless with the axe, inhicting a severe
blow with the edge of il upon the upper part
or back part Of her head. When the girl re-
covered, she saw her mother living upon her
face upon the floor, and the murderer. infiicting
blow with the axe upon her shoui1er. The
girl then screamed and awakened the man in
the chamber, and the murderer fed, not with
out inhicting. however, second and slighter
blow upon the head of the girl with the axe,
US tic pdSStu ny HcI Out Ot tue TOOTH. IN con-
sequence Of the agitation Of the hired man and
some unavoidable delay in procuring LIGHTS,
nearly half an hour elapsed before the neigh
borhood was alarmed. When the neighbors
arrived il was nscertained that Mrs McKisson
had received three wounds, two upon the head
and one back of the shoulder. Both of the
wounds upon the head penetrated to the brain,
and the one back Of the shoulder penetrated the
cavity of the chest. Mrs McKisson lived a.
bout ten hours, during which time she was a.
BILE to converse with those about her, and she
declared the father Of her husband to be her
murderer.
There are two young ladies (ssters) now
residing in Hebron, Ohio-the weight of the
youngest, fifteen years old being f,co hundred
and eighty pounds, and the other, seventeen
years old, three hundred and tscenty pounds.
Duellists and squashes plenty in New Or
leans, say the prerequisites supposed to
have the most brains.
Temperance puts wood upon the fire, -four
in the barrel, meat in the tub, vigor in the body,
intelligence in the BRAIN and spirit in the whole
composition.
Req. Joshua Leauiff, late editor of the New
York Evangelist, has become the editor of the
Emancipator, published in New York.
SUBLIME DE,rH.-A nest hunter at the
Barra Islands, (Scotland,) driven to this peril
Gus vocation from the distress that pervades all
classes, lost his hold and fell 600 feet into the
sea? What would Sam Patch have seidi
.dnti,.abolifion weapon.-Bowie knives are
for sale in New York, having on the blade the
murderous inscription, Death 10 .aboiition.'--
ID Young 4 Co. Corner of Broadway and
Chambers street, are the monsters who retail
them. What new proofs do our enemies mean
TO furnish the world that our cause is of God I?
Liberafor.