Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-01-11

baek of his neck, and severing the jugular vein.
He continued to cut and stab In manner too bru'
tai toY description, till the knife was wrested from
him Inv unsbrouck of fell from his hand accden-
,nlv. Ilasbrouck seized the knife, and, as Is sup
nosed stabbed his assailan in the breast lnilictng
n severe though not mortal wound. Inc iatter
then seized chair and struck the other win u
onece or twice; but finding that he could NOT ac-
compish his fiendsh purpose with 1t, ne 'nfew
il aside, and went out doors ana op'alheu pinet
ofwood. ,,, :. H.,
,,,on lart the house and Hasbrouck expired almost
Immediately having barely time to call his la'nl,
To- around him and hid them adieu. lie was %
,eors of aye; connected with the most respectable
and influential families of this and Ulster county
and has held mary offices OF trust anu hohor'
lie resented this county, few years slnce
in the Legislature of this State, and was the dem
ocrotic candidute for Congress in this district two
vears aro. 1t is said that he wns the most veal
Inv nerson in the county, lie has been cut off in
the midst of life Of usefulness, by one who was
connected with him 10y the ties of cons0nguinity,
and for the paltry consideration OF lew dollars ;
the sum in dispute being less than SlOo'
Dreadful accident. On the 2let ult. an aged
,ybo hnh been resident Of our town for Il MUM
her ofvears. while engaged in drawing water from
u we'll sixty-our feet deep, slipped upon the ice
on the boards and was precirltated headlong INTO
the well The alarm was immediately gwen ny
her neice, who was witness to The scene; nut
the body was not recovered until about an hour
nGer the catastrophe. 1t was considerably man
ged. having struck several times against the wall
In its descent The deceased was upwards OF
seventy years ofage.- HdgerStoton Nd Iorchhgh.
Duel in Florida. The correspondent OF the
Savannah Georgian, in writing from Fort Holmes,
r. F.. under date of the 10Th inst. nys; at IS re-
ported that Wild Cav (Co-a-coo 'chee) and Tiger
Tail have had fight and that Wild Cat was XII
led in the affray."
From the .Ne,rark Daily .4dreriiser.
An extraordinary act of Lynching has, it seems,
been perpretrated at The Obern Theological lnsli-
tute, in Ohio under the forms OF religion II APP
pears by the recent investigation OF the Huron
Preshytery, tina: young member OF the Institute,
named Norton, being suspected OF being the au
thor of certain discrediIable letters to young ladies'
of the Institute, was aniully enlrnpped, through
anonymous replies from one oil the females, by IL.
. C. TAYLOR, centiate of the Prcshytery, and ed
itor of the Oberlih Evangelist, and eleven asseci-
aes.
Having secured his person, gagged and blind
folded him. the party consulted for some time, and
sorry are we to say, pr0ycrluIly, on the punish
ment they should inAict upon him.-They ad-
Judged him to be gully of writing the letters nu'
,led to- and of attempting to mislead several young
women in the place, and that he should be pun
- ished by receiving on his naked back % stripes
with raw hide.
The proceedings of the Presbytery say
The whole transaction was not completed until
after the Sabbath had commenced. The young
man was directed, before his release, to leave the
town forthwith without even going to his room
MIR. Taylor freely admitted that. as editor of the
Oberlin Evangelist he had fully dscounenanced
Il resort to Lynch law. His apology for engaging
in this luwess violence is that moral purity of tie
community at Oberlin required that such meas
ures should he adopted, as the only etfecual rem
edy in case that the civil law did not reach tina
there are many things in the Providence of Coo
indicating it as course of duty, and that ;he
general plan of operations was submitted to one
of the professors in the theological department o
the institution, and was assented to by him. While
MIR Taylor regards the inhictng ofSri oeS rs wrong
and asks forgiveness Of the Presbytery and of God
he still thinks, as his mature, deliberate, ant
prayerfu opinion, that, under the circumstances
all the other proceedings in the case were RICH
and proper
We hardly need add, says the, Hartford Obser-
Yer, that in view of all the facts in the case, the
Presby,ery hnyye re-caled the licence of H. Tay
Ior; who is what Is termed new hgn', or periec
zionist
Murder, and Summary Justice. Thomas e
Clark Of Crttenden county, Arkansas, was muir
dered, short time since, by two of his slaves
rluaways, in the attempt to arrest them in tht
woods The citizens Of Crttenden county, OF
learning the facts above narrated Immediately
turned out and apprehended the negroes, and hung
them upon the nearest tree. Clark was natv,
of New York State, and has left wife and infan
to mourn his loss.
farming, a family poisoned! The Washington
pa Examiner OF Saturday, states that the famil,
of Mr. John Marshman, of Canton township were
with the exception of Mrs NJ. poisoned few day
since, by eating appe-buter which had been KEEP
in newly made earlen crooks. The acid of np
ple-sauco or pickles unes with the lead, which il
used to glaze earthenware, and forms an actv,
poison. Use stone wooden ware for such pur
poses.
Homicide. In quarrel between David Glass o
Nottingham, N. H., and man named Langley, OIL
the 9Th ult, the former was killed.