The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-08-04

address. Resolutions were passed, such !
as might be expected from true patriots
like these, and altogether, the meeting
was exceedingly pleasant and interesting
We see in the Messenger Of July
slst, notices Of Camp Meetings to be held
as follows; In 81. Jehnsbury, commenc.
ing Sept. ] ). at Essex Junction, Aug. rs,
Highgate s ept. 10, Woloo.t, Sept. Is, and
Barre, Sep. ID.
"a Iriahman has died at Burlington
o infection contracted in a boil on
r, -, while dissecting COW that had
dic1 I lurrain.
Tile Woodstock Age says, that ON
Y'oau7Fday Of last week. most terrific
hail-storm visited part of Pomfret. 1--WE
visited good portion of its field of ops-
rations, on Thursday, and there is no such
thing as giving description of the de.
struction to crops it caused corn, pota-
toes, English grain, in fact everything that
the farmer raises were completely cut
down and destroyed. Mr.. Fuller who had
some thirty acres Of crops in most prom
Using condition, is left without as much as
the shadow of ghost for harvest. His
loss must be severe"
The following piece Of interesting
news was in type for last weeks paper,but
was inadvertently left out, in making up
Another week has thrown no light upon
the motives for the act The prisoner is
in the Burlington Jail, whore he has been
visited by members of the press, but shows
no disposition to talk.
A DOUBLE MURDERER Atrial Martin,
a young man but 1S years Of age, was
brought from Montpelier, on Monday,
and committed to Jail in Burlington,
charged with the deliberate murder Of Mr..
Jenison L. Wheelock and Mr. Lucius
Ainsworth, both respectable citizens of
Calais, in Washington Co. The homi-
oides were committed on Friday last, un-
der circumstances. apparently, of willful
wickedness, and atrocity. One of the
murdered men was waylaid, and shot
through the heart, causing immediate
death; the, other was shot through the
back, and fingered in great agony till Sat-
urday, when he also died. Both we're
young men, good members of the commu-
nifty. and both were Gaar1ed within the
past two years. @IS5s
We can learn Of no circumstances con-
nected with this shocking tragedy, by
which it is attempted to DO explained or
accounted for. No story Of collision, Or
quarreling, or hot-blsod, or seated revenge,
il told. We emily have the bloody deed.
and the imprisoned murderer, and this ia
all, thus far, that seems to be known
But more ,ciN be known, and We may be
able to contribute, in some degree, to elu.
cidate the present mystery. We, howev.
or, withheld, for the present, certain facts
communicated to US, and which were cor.
roborated by himself, when we visited the
miserable prisoner, in his cell, yesterday
in company with DR.. Thayer and j
French, Esq. At the proper time they
will be made known Burlington Times
In relation to the above, the Free Pres.
adds: martin, the homicide, became,s
while since, it seems, convert to "Spir
itualism." He was much under the inAu
ence of Mrs. Dodge, of Calais, whose
intellect, always weak. was quite shat
tered by an attempt Of her insane hus
band upon her life, several years since
terrible affair in which the man after
beating out a portion Of the womani
brains. took his own life by stabbing him
self in various parts Of the body, Sh,
barely recovered and has since supposed
herself to be a medium and prophecies o
high order. Acting under orders from
the "spirits," young Martin took tn
lives Of his victims and was intending. a
he avowed, to shoot four more persons
living in the vicinity. The affair causes
great excitement in that region.
The Moses Taylor arrived on Tues
day of last week, bringing California mail
to July 9th. The news of most interss
is the excitement in relation to the new
gold discoveries in the Frazer River couu
try. The summing up of accounts from
thoae who have had the most experience
makes it probable that much suffering an
disappointment is before these emigrant'
The Sunday question has been before tn
courts in San Francisco, and the law, pre-
} hibiting labor on the Sabbath, pronounce'
unconstitutional.
Mr.. Douglas is earnestly engaged il
canvassing his State for reelection t
the Senate. He has probably got hare
road 10 travel
The Old Log CABIN" the residenc
of Gen. Harrison. made % famous by
thousand songs in the Campaign Of ls40
was burned, on the 20 ult.
Paul Morphy, the great America
chess-player, is now 10 London, where h
gives a polite challenge to any man iiv
ing" for match of twenty-one games 70
one hundred To one thousand pounds.