Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-14
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MURDERS &c, AT THE SouTH.-The
! details of crime in the shape of murders,
duels, lynching, &c., occurring at the
South, and South West, with which the
papers daily TEEN. are disgusting and
notwithstanding in the extreme. If dis
posed, we could fill columns of the Her
aid every week with such accounts.
/ We do not understand how it is, that in
That portion of the country. so extensive
~ blest with an institution, emphaticallv
denomlnated by southern member of
Congress, the balance wheel and corn
er-stone of our republic and by ministers
OF the gospel. as divine institution
we do not understand how it is. that a por-
ton OF the country, decidedly as moral
and religious as any other portion beside
being best, shielded and fortified by the
divine institutions should so abound in
personal rencontres, duels, suicides and
murders. One would naturally expect,
that exactly the opposite of these would
prevail. Will some Of our editorial
brethren at the South explain this for us
There murders have become so ire
quent, notwithstanding some of them are
of the most horrible character, that most
persons have ceased wondering at them.
and when they take up newspaper, to
see accounts of them as matter of course.
| Zioa'S Herald.
MURDER.-THE EFFECT OF Rum
The St. Louis Gazette of the 9th ult states
that fellow living at ST. Charles, named
Giles in fit of intoxication, beat his wife
odeath. The assault upon her must have
been abominably brutal, as the poor crea
ture, upon her body being opened after
death, was discovered to have had the ribs
and liver crushed together! Before her
death she was composed enough to relate
the circumstances after which she be-
came delirious till she died. During her
delirium she was entreating her husband,
supposing him still to be beating her, TO
desist. Her cries and piteous appeals
were most heart rending. Giles. the male
brute in this affair, has long been notorious
for his drunken habits and savage treat
ment of his wife. She was a virtuous,
hard working and worthy woman, and of
good family She had five children by
him, one ofthem now only few months
old. These, as sometimes her worthless
husband-were supported chiefly by the
labor of her hands.
OUTRAGE.-The people of Buffalo.
n. Y, were thrown, on goth ult.. into an
unparalleled excitement in consequence of
an outrage committed upon the person of
young girl, of about fifteen years of
age, on board of the Steamboat Constitu
ton, by Capt. Gilman Appleby, ON her
las. passage down the lake The Young
lady was put on board at Detroit, in COM
pany with an acquaintance, as a Storage
passenger; and Capt Appleby, under
pretence Of kindly affording her a more
comfortable berth, gave her the use of his
state room, on deck, locked her in, and,
during the night, went himself into the
state room, and twice violated her person
BY The most brutal force. Capt. Applebv
has been committed to Jail in Buffalo, to
answer for his crime.-Boston Press e.
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MIRACULOUS EscAPE-A CHILD RES
/ CUED FROM PANTHER.-Last Saturday
forenoon, Mr.. James Rannev and wife.
/ who live about 9 miles east of this vi.
lage, IN the town OF Watson, left home
on business, leaving their house in charge
OF their Oldest child, girl aged about II
years. Near noon the girl heard the in
liant, aged IA months, which had been
laid while asleep, on bed in an adioin-
ing bedroom, utter horrid schreech, up
on which she Immediately ran to its re-
lief, and imagine her feelings upon open
ing the door to see panther with the
babe IN Its mouth, leaping from an open
window Immediately over the bed But
she. like true heroine, sprang upon the
PED and then out of the window. scream.
ing at the height of her voice, and upon
being Joined by the other children about
the house, pursued the panther at her ut.
most speed. They followed it about for
ty rods to pair of bars which separated
the clearing from the forest, at which place
the girl states that she approached to with
/ IN l5 or 20 feet of the panther, when i
( relinquished its hold of the child, leap
the bars and made its way into the woods
The infant was picked up much stranglet
from its rapid movement through tn,
grass and sand which had filled its moutl
and eyes, but soon recovered and is nov
5 well.-LoussUslte Journal
Correspondence of the New-York Express
Albany, Aug. l., l839.-The Nationa
Anti-Slavery Convention, consisting G
upwards of 400 delegates from ever,
T State North of the Potomac, is now i
g session here.