Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-09


man he killed thsinerlopsr, shot the
woman in the arm, aud, sopposing he
had Terminated bar existeucs, btew out
his own brains The woman has reccv-
ered, and it is mslicio0sly intimatsd she
il locking cut for another spouse. 81
a new hotel, to. accommodate 1000
guests, is to be Constructed at Saratoga,
costing $400,o COO, It is to be upon the
site Of the old United States Hotel, re-
Gently burned. s.esf 1890 -sr
The Oil City Nesrs gives the number
of oil companies At last with total
capital Of ss69, So, 600. iis ss-st a4I
The citizens Of Youngstown, Ohio,
have decided to erect monument in
the public square of that place 10 henor
Of the soldiers who fell in the late war.
Ex-Gov; Tod Is warmly enlisted in the
movement -f ~ ...s-.-.s
The latest adviees from tbs Gable are
that two hundred miles bad bean laid
Signals we're good, and al WAS going on
we'll Cyrus W. Field photographed that
they expected to reach Yalentia on the
5th inst, bat this time had not been
made. ae
Mr. NJ ]. SoFord, geologiss, has re-
ported fsvorably on 9 new lead vein in
Kentucky. It crosses tbs Kentucky riv-
er mile below the town of Yea.ing, and
is q well worked one. It varies from
less than q foot to tuo feet 10 thickness,
and the ore will yield as 70 so per cent. Of
lead lis supposed that it increases
in thickness as the distance downward
increases cdf aan ssa ~
The PhiIadslphia .Ansericaa and Ca
Sstfe says that proposition has been
made to the Southern planters By Eng
lish capitalists 70 supply the Southern
people with goods, giving credit until
the crops should be gathered, add taking
produce in payment The British still
cling 10 the brethren IN the South, and
now that the war is over, they would do
as much IS possible 70 diminish the de-
pendencs Of the South upon the North,
and prevent ths speedy reunion Of our
people in sentiment aud interest
A DoUBLE MURDER-Ths village Of
Darrtown, situated about nine miles
from Hamilton, in Butler county, Ohio,
was the scene, on Saturday, OF ona oil
the most fearful tragediea We. have ever
recorded. The following statement Of
the affair, made by Sir. J. j. Longfellow,
justice Of the peace before whom the
preliminary examination Of the party
arrested took place, presents the facts
50 far as known.
About noon on Saturday, Sylvester
Irwin, q single man about thirty years
old, living with his father John Irwin,
near Darrtown, came III from blowing.
In passing about the house, some girls,
from an upper story window, spit down
upon him. This excited his anger, and
be demanded Of his father, At the barn,
whether or not be countenaneed sneh
actionA Hard words followed. when
the step,mothar, Jane Irwin, ran out Of
her house aud down to the barn with q
carving knife, and Tusned toward Syl-
vestsr, who drew pistol The father,
John Irwin, seized . Ratchet and step
ped in between his wife and son, sSi-
IDENTIFY to protect both, being proverbiAl
for bis peaceable disposition. The son
then fred at the father, the bah entering
the forehead, and causing instant death.
he then cred At Mrs. Irwin, the ball en-
tering the right breast, Sylvester then,
noticing that bis last shot had not per.
formed its mission OF instant death,
seized knife and cut her throat from
ear to ear, and with club beat her
head. She only lived twenty minutes.
Sylvester then fed, and was arrested in
Hamiltou, BY Constable VIM. Howard,
as he Was making Tor the train. He
had on his person revolver and sew
enty dollars in money Dariag The pro.
liminary trial before Justice Longfellow,
there was an intense excitement among
the citizens Of Hamilton, who knew
John Irwin and highly respected him.
The excited crowd we're loud in their
dsnunciations Of Sylvester Irwin, The
murderer, and cried out TO hang him.
The prisoner was conveyed through the
back door, and safely secured Ia the
county jail His trial has been set for
Tuesday morning, the Sth, at 9 o'clock
The coroner Of Butler County was en-
gagged last evening in holding sn inquest
upon the dead bodies Of Mr. and Mrs.
Irwin Cincinnati Gazette, Tth.