Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-12

that any such lying paper ought to die
Weightman asked him what he alluded
to, when Aubrey replied and said: LAS
fall you asked me for information abouf
my trip. which 1 gave you, and yor
afterwards abused me- Weightman re,
piled that it was not so, whereupon Au.
brey brought his fist down upon the
counter with considerable force, and
repeated, 81 say it is So" Weightmau
then got of the counter, and took in
his right hand tumbler, about one
third full of liquor and water, which
was standing by him. and pitched the
contents into the face of Mr.. Aubrey;
he (Weightman) } then put the tumbler
back upon the counter, stepped back a
pace or two. and placed his hand upon
his belt. When Aubrey received the
contents of the glass in his face, he i'm
mediately drew FIVE shooter from his
left side, and as he broughtlt 1t up in front
of him, one barrel premsturely dis
charged (supposed while he was cooking
NJ before it was upon level with
Welghtnan's person, and the bullet
went into the ceiling. When Weight
man saw Aubrey draw his pistol, he
drew bowie-knife he wore in his belt;
they clinched, and before Aubrey had
time to bring his pistol down and fire a
second time, Weightman stabbed him in
the abdomen. Near the same time that
the parties came together, two of the
bystanders seized hold of them, but it
was too late to prevent the mischief, it
had already been done. Mr.. Aubrey
was caught in the armSof friend, and
died in about ten minutes. DR.. De
Leon, surgeon .. S. A, was called in,
but no skill could save him. Major
Weightman went to his quarters, and
when the marshal came to arrest him,
delivered himself voluntarily into Gus
tody. The case was heard the next
day, before Judge Davenport, and he
was bound over to answer in the sum CT
two thousand dollars.
This affair naturally caused much ex-
citement, and. as is always the case, the
friends of the respective parties dis
agree: those of Major Weightman con-
tending that the stabbing was done in
self-defense, while Aubrey's friends take
the contrary side. As. we were the
prosecuting officer before the examining
court, we have no opinion of our own
to express in reference to the matter;
but will state, in addition to what we
have already written, that there was no
evidence given upon the examination
that Major Weightman drew, or at
tempted to draw his knife, before Mr..
Aubrey drew his pistol. Whether the
homicide was justifable in self-defense
or not, we deplore it as being melan-
choly and unfortunate affair, and no one
regrets the occurrence more than we do.
We had never seen Mr.. Aubrey, but
always heard him spoken of as a pleas
ant and agreeable man; Major Weight
man we have known nearly year, and
in our personal intercourse, he has al
ways treated us in gentlemanly man
ner. Mr.. Aubrey was buried Saturday
afternoon in the Parroquial Church, and
was followed to the grave by a large
concourse of friends who mourn his loss.
Projection OF WHEAT AGAINST WEE
vIL.-The letter which we publish below
will be read by wheat-growers with in
terest. 1t is not difficult TO test the ef-
fcacy of this plan of preventing wheat
from being injured by weevil, and, if it
prove successful, the farmer who adopts
it will be more than compensated for all
the money he has paid in subscriptions
to this and all other newspapers:-Lou.
Jour.
To the Editors Of the Louisville Journal;
HoPK1NsvILLE, Sept. 18, 1854.
GENTLEMEN: l find that the destruc-
ton of wheat by the red or flying wee
vii is becoming quite alarming in many
parts Of our country, and various reme-
dies have been proposed.
/ was for many years largely engaged
in the manufacture of -four in Mason
county. For a series Of years almost
the entire wheat crop was destroyed by
weevil. If left in stacks or cleaned and
put in granaries, the result was the same
total destruction. Some of our farm
srs had heard that in the Southern
States, in order to guard against this
pest, they threshed their wheat from
The shock and put it away in the chaff.
This method they adopted, and with the
most perfect success. Wheat perfectly
dried in the shock, threshed from the
shock, and put away in the chat, in
perfectly y"dry pens or granaries, will
keep any length of time. l have never
known it to fail in single instance. |
ISAAC LEWIS.