Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-08-09

'This whole subject has been fully discussed BY Mr..
Sparks In his Appendix TO WAshinslon's PSpets. The
volume aud page cannot point out, not hSylpgte work
at hand A 4eR4s.r
The News,
The tragedy at Brooklyn, on Wednesday, when
Mr. ]. N. II. Tucker, killed his child by cutting
lis throa, excites much attention, Mrs Tucker
who was so feulishly attacked by her husband OF
Tie same time, will recover from her wounds An
inquest was held on thechiid anda veldctlenler-
ed according. The mother of Mrs. Il. resides in
MICHIGAN and she has brollet in Buffalo.
OnThursday morning Tucker was visited in his
cell 10y some Of his friends. He complained OF
,liarrlea and pains in his back. He appeals TO he
totally unconscious Of the terrible deed he hsd per.
netriled, though he had previously admitted he
had been drinking TO excess. He Is 4S years Of
age, has been married. three times, md has SIX
cLIlren three Of whom reside at CanandOiyuu, N.
Y and three al Brooklyn. The Daily freeman,
Of Brooklyn, of which hewas lately editor having
been employed oil The Recommendation Of several
eroI respectable men, says;
Some fifteen or twenty years ago lie commenced
life a Baptist ministeT-a man of good henri, pow
erlul impulses, and excellent abilities. The lem
peaTence aud anti.s!aveTy excite met him at The
outset. He engoged in them with all his strength
aud was moi little distinguished among tho active
agents OF those enterprises. Some ten years since,
we are informed, he connected himself with an
anlislayety newspaper al Syracuse, us It's editor.
Soon thereafter, ms friends discovered occasional
evidences Of his use Of llquor-neyertheleSs from
his talents und address, lie maintained the cont
dence OF very many u his friends continued 10
Preach though independent OF The Baptist conhec-
ton, and was appointed clerk OF the Senate,
which Office, we believe, he held two or three
yeATs.
We learn (allhovgh The fact was entirely I'M
known to us al The time he came 70 our olce,)that
OF late he had become sadly vioiimEed 10 inlem.
peTate habits. His pecunaIy embarrassment, and
the necessities oil his young and interesting family
had restraint upon his indulgence, and he occa
Sionay shook OF the tiger, strongly resolving 10
he himself. II was under the influence OF such
good resolutions that he made our acquaintance
We hoped TO lie benefited by his address, learning
and abilities. But The demon had a firm grasp
upon his strong frame, and on "Wednesday night
lrew him with murdeEOus weapons upon his limo.
cent wife and Children.
The New York Times slates that lie removed TO
Bt0oklynlroln Vincent, Pa. The Times also Estates
that The pistol which Tucker had OH The night Of
The murder. he borrowed on Sunday, from Mr.. De
Nyse, to take with him 10 street preaching as q
disturbance WINS applehended. twas then loaded
with buck.sl OF. Mrs. Tucker states that lie sat
np every night since the Sunday with the pistol in
lis hand, threatening 10 shoot her ii she moved.
A dreadful accident occutrsd Thursday morning
on The 0hio and Mississippi RAILROAD, near Balace
three miles from the Cincinnati depot. A laborer
named Michael Hammer attempted 10 cross the road
Near BaCiact 10 pick up shovel. Just ns lie
stepped on 10 tile track the locomotive or thegrovel
tram struck him. Hammer I'll, and waS dragged
Ivy the GOV catcher several yards before thee To-.
connective was stopped His left leg below the
knee was dteOdiully mongled; the right leg Just
above the knee also badly fractured and bruisedj
aud The LEFT arm above the elbow was also very
much torn. The man was taken fron,under the
locomotive aud brought to the Hospital, where his
two legs aud lsft arm were umputated by Rrnf. r.
Wood. II is the opinion Of physicians that lie
cannot possibly recover.
a singular will case is now before the Judge Of
Probate Of Essex county, Mass. Dr. Manning, all
old physician VI IpSwitch, when dying, lefla will,
bebueaIhing the bulk OF lis property, about $40,
600, TO found high school, in that town. lie hnd
but one child, q son. aud 10 him, in case he did
not marry certain female relation be left Ell 900
year il lie did, then but 5000 per annudl, Some
of the requests rather odd and altogether there
is ample room for the skill and ingenuity Of counsel
in arguing The sanity or insanity Of The testaor,Os
it is these grounds that the will is defended and
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