Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-03-06
Texas Intelligence.


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Our exchanges all inform US that the planting
of tho country is either rapidly progressing en-
ished as far regards corn and vegetables. In
some instances we learn that corn 10 already up,
aud in another week we presume Ii will BIO up in
all tho lower and western counties. In the west
the ground has generally bcen too dry. while in
middle and eastern Texas our accounts nro that
| the ground has been In remarkably good oondi-
| tiun, aud has broken up earlier and deeper than
usual, and tho prospects aro highly favorable for
good crops.
Gov. Houston has parioned Mrs. Mary Monroe.
who WINS convicted Of tho murder of Mary Abb
gail lIeady, aud sentenced to the penitentiary for
six years. The evidence of the crime was alto.
| gether circumstnl.
On the 2lst Mr.. J. II. Parks. from Georgia. who
! had established n sheep rancho near San Antonh.
committed suicide in tho city Hotel. Lavaca, by
cutting his throat with u razor while laboring un-
| der The effects of strong drink.
A letter Of tho 10th from Williamson county 10
tho Galveston News gives the following particulars
Of the murder OF two mon by Indiana in the re-
cent blooiy foray upon tho Northwestern frontier:
| / have just returned home from tho burial Of
| two of my neghbors, who were killed last Sntur-
| day by Indians on tho head Of this crcek--tho
North San Gabriel. in Burnett county about sey-
| enteon miles above here. Tho names Of tho two
victims nre M. s. Skaggs and Mr.. Vanhook. The
| first, / intimately knew, for he has lived by me
| never had. The other man | only knew from char
| acter They have both left widows with large
families of children.
| Tho Indians, eleven in number, came out Of tho
ccdars and drove out lot OF horses In day light
-nbout 10 o'clock in the furenocn--und drove
them through tho cedar brake, whore two men
were making rails They heard them coming and
laid in some cedar tops until the Indians passed,
| and they declare that of thcm was q white
man, and from tho description given Of him by
them, we ARE fully satisfied that we know tho man.
or rather fcnd in human shape
| Mr.. Skaggs was out stock-hunting, unnrmed,
when, it appears, they discovered him, and he
made for cedar thicket. One, mounted on o
large powerful stallion that they had stolen the
day before from Parson Ainsworth. followed him
in, and it appears 1hat Skaggs' mare had run un-
der large cedar limb with him, and broke his
girt-s'raps loose and crippled him from tho brus-
cs saw on his limbs, aud consequently disabled
| him so that he could not get away and ut the
same timo his pursucr was unlorsed close to him,
! and MS appearances indicate, ran up to him. and
! Judging from tho wound. wo suppose he shot him
With 1t holster pistol loaded with large ball and
two slugs, rs part of the muscle of his left arm
was shot away. the balls entering tho side opposite
the left breast That Of itself was enough to cause
immediate death, but he also stabbed him in the
bnck to makesure work, and no doubt left satisfied
that dead men tell no tales"
| We then suppose that Mr.. yanhook. who was
IlkPNItc OUT Slotk.uuUiiDH, HHu Dpnru Tue sOOt-
Ing and noise, and probably started over to SEQ
what it was, and got within few hundred yards
of where Mr.. Skaggs was killed little thinking Of
the danger that br.et his PATH when he was like
wise killed. lie WAS shot with seven arrows some
Of them left sticking in his body, and doubt not
but his death wns likewise instantaneous They
took Mr.. Sknggs' boots nnd Mr.. Vanhook's shoes,
| mud did not scalp either, which gives us further
proof that they were part Of the Indians that we
have been feeding On our Texas Reserve for the
last five yenrs. The bodies were not found till
Monday forenoon, when they were brought down
to Mrs. Skaggs house. 1t was sorrowful sight,
| assure you. to see two widows, ono with ten and
the other with five children. mourning over the re-
mains Of thos" who, but short time before, made
their homes happy.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN AREANsAs--A Uoman
Conspires 10 kW Her Husband-Lynch Lap Im
IN Foyce.-We received information from the
Mound City, last evening, Of one of the nest hor-
rbe and attocions acts in the history Of crime
1t seems thht on Tuesday, night, the 2lst Of Feb
ruary man by the name Of Robinson was shot
dead in hs own house. by some outside firing
upon him through tho window. It was lnta in
the evening, and he was just preparing 20 retire
for the night, there being no ono present but his
wife. She Immediately gnye the alarm, but no
trace Of the perpetrator of the horrible deed could
be found, and for several days the affair remained
n mystery. His wife was however, shortly after
"h'uS auHPootcu VI huoWIHS VI thc uubI, anu uC-
cordngly arrested. Gu being examined closely,
and to clear herself Of completely in the matter,
she was induced 10 turn States evidence She
stated that two brotbcrs--whose names our inior
mant iniled to give committed the decd They
were Immediately arrested, and from them facts
were elected to the effect that the woman bad pro-
missed to marry one of tho brothers, providing her
husband could be got out Of the way, and offered
the sum of one hundred dollars to the one who
would shoot him. The one who had the promise
Of marriage not liking the task, induced his bro
ther for the stated sun, to d, the deed related
above. On hearing these statements, the infuriat-
ell people took the law into their own hands, and
carried the two men into the woods, near the st.
Francis river, Courtland county, and hung them
to o tree. This was on Thursday last, the 1st in
stant and the following day the woman was TAX
en- TO the same place. and hung-thus ending one
of the most atrocous' crimes have ever been
called upon to record Memphis Enquirer, Of So
turday.
The VANPYRE.-Captain Steadman, in his
Narrative of n Five Years Expedition against
the Revolted Negroes of Surnam," relates that,
on waking about four o'clock morning in his
hammock, he extremely alarmed at weltering
in concealed blood, aud without feeling any pain
whatever. "The mystery was, "continued Capt.
s., "that had been bitten by the Vampire or
Spectre Of Guiana, which is also called the Flying
Dog of New Spain, and by the Spaniards Rtys0r0-
iodor. This'is no other than q bat Of moustrous
size. that sucks the blood from men and> cottle
while they are fast asleep, eveh soesimes till thex
die; and as the manner ID which thsy proceed 6