The independent. (Harrisonburg, La.) 1853-18??, 1858-11-24
A REMARKABLE CRIMINAL TRIAL.

The Clayton (Ala.) Banner has report Of
remarkable criminal trial, just concluded
| in Henry county Alabama. More than four
teen years ago, in February, 1874, in Bar
bour county, John, slave; of DR.. Alexander
P. Crawford, was most brutaly whipped to
death. The prisoner, who was then DR..
Crawford's overseer, being Immediately af-
ter the whipping, and while John was yet
alive, charged with it, and threatened with
prosecution, fled from the neighborhood.
Two years after he was arrested by Mr..
Thomas Cargile in the city of Montgomery,
passing under the name of Boyd; and being
brought back to Barbour county, the Grand
Jury at the Spring Term, 1876, found true
bill against him for murder. The venue was
soon changed to Henry county, where the
prisoner had formerly lived, and where he
had some relatives and many friends; and a
trial being had at the Spring Term, ls49,
before the Hon. Samuel Chapman, he was
found guilty of murder, and sentenced to the
Penitentiarv for ten years-the jury however,
omitted in their verdict to ascertain the de-
gree Of the murder. On account of this
omission, the judgment was reversed by the
Supreme Court, and the prisoner rewauded
for another trial. Various continuances were
had sometimes at the instance of the State
and sometimes at that Of the prisoner. In
the meantime the defendant, having obtain
ed bail, married in respectable family, and
had several children. The protracted ordeal
through which he had passed, the interest
felt in the family to whose fate he had sin
gularly linked his own, and the influence oil
a prudent and correct department on his
part, excited sympathy in his behalf SO
strong as apparently to Set at defiance, and,
in the opinion of every body, to PUT a con-
vlction out of the question. The inevitable |
hour at length, however, rolled around, and
on Tuesday morning, in the presence of an
immense crowd, the trial commenced. The
jury about 4 o'clock on Saturday evening,
retired, and having deliberated about 81
hoars, returned a verdict of manslaughter in
the first degree, with unanimous recon-
of the prisoner to mercy.
CURE FOR CoNsUMpTIoN.-The French
physicians are at present much interested in
a new treatment for consumption, introduced
by Dr. J. F. Churchill, an American physi-
zion in Paris. DR.. Churchill's theory of con-
is that it is owing to an undue
waste or an insufficient supply CT phosphorus
n the system.
To supply this want he administers the
,ypophosphates of lime and soda, in doses ,
If from five to twenty grains daily in small
quantity Of sweetened water. In a paper
cad by him before the Academy of medicine =
1t Paris he gave an account of forty-one
,ases treated in this way with success. He
insisted that the cure of consumption in the
econd and third stages Eat period conse-
lueuty when there can be obtained in all
:ases by this treatment, except when tine ex-
sting lesion Of the lungs is of itself sufficient
o produce death. He also says that these
INSTANCES have not only curative effect, =
,ut will, if used whenever there exists a sus-
'icion of the disease, prevent its develop
nent, and thus act as a preservative with re- !,
rard to consumption. just as vaccination !,
oes with regard to small pox. F.,