Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-08-10
prof A B. Palmer of Michigan, offered |


like opium, arsenic and quinine, may
have its uses in medicine-that consi-
dering the evils of intemperance they
earnestly request the profession to care
fully reconsider this whole matter-that
they would take into view the remote
consequences and the moral and social
effects Of their practice-that the essay
just read was an able paper, and we
recommend that it be published.
Prof. Palmer spoke at length, and in
the course of his remarks laid down
plan for permanent national organiza-
ton which should partake largely OF u
scientific character, in which provision
should be made for essays on chemistry,
| lin which connection he took occasion
to say there was good deal Of 6osh
about authorizations Of whisky the
poison of whisky, said he, is alcohol.
Strychnine is not put into whisky; on
the drinking habits of communities
whisky rations for officers and private
soldiers; on the national finances. on
politics; on morality and religion.
DR.. Thrall of Illinois said he did not
propose to go over the ground taken by
DIR. Jewett and DR.. Palmer, but he
pledged himself to show that alcoholic
liquors do not produce the beneficial eff
fects which had been allowed to them.
Mr.. Joy of Western New York and
Mr.. Meredith of Cohoes, expressed i'm
patience at such a slow and tardy pro-
cess as that recommended by Drs. Je-
welt and Palmer. We want to know
what we can do no,O, said Mr.. Meredith,
(who is an ardent young Methodist min
ister) out Of 800 soldiers lately returned
to our village, have seen $50 stagger'
ing with drunkenness, and can't stop
for scientific lectures. I'm burning up,
and shall utterly consume If cannot
do something Immediately to save those
young men.
DR.. Jewett remarked that we did not
propose to give up total abstinence, but
to bring new agencies into requisition
We must not be in too big hurry. We
need a more perfect organization. This
headlong con to Richmond" movement
does not prove to be the most success.
full.
Mr.. Dutton then came forward and
the President, Gov. Buckingham, took
occasion to say that Judge Dutton was
governor in 1854 when the prohibitory
law was passed, and no man had done
more than he in enforcing that law il
Connecticut. Judge Button maintained
that this law had not been failure
and that it was the only thing that
would reach a certain class Of men, His
remarks were truly eloquent, and sug
gestive. NIB.
The Foul Murder in Connecticut
The Hartford Times furnishes the an.
nexed detailed account of the fearful
tragedy enacted in the town of Man
chester, CT, Tueseay, Of which the tele
graph has Siyou IA brief notice
1.-THE quiet village of Oxford, Man
] SuScbSAI oOoub CaSb vi tuls
city, was aroused this morning by the
news of the most fearful crime ever per
petrated in this vicinity. At the early
hour OF four o'clock, or little sooner,
Mrs. Benjamin Starkweather, sister-in.
law of Nathan Starkweather of this city
aged is, and her daughter Harriet Ella
aged ID years, were both foully muir
dered while sleeping together in theil
house. They were killed with an axe
but they were also stabbed in various
places with butcher knife.
We saw the bodies after they hac
been laid out, and hope never to see an
other such sight. The mothers face
was cut in two with powerful blow
from the ak, which divided the nosC
cross wise, and cut open the face entirely
across, cutting through the bones of TIKI
upper jaw and cheek. Over the RICH
eye was another cash from the ak, sink
ing through the skull and into the brain
and there was another which cut oper
the side and back Of the head, and also
great cash near the temple. Besides
these wounds there were others made By
a butcher-kiie-one through the lower
part of the chin, the blade penetrating
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right breast; and another deep one in
the left breast.
Ella, the daughter, presented still
more shocking sight. Her right eye
was entirely gone. The AK had cut o
terrible cash across the brow, eye and
cheek, evidently at one blow, letting out
all of the eye, breaking In the skull and
cleaving down TO the cheek bone
Above the right eye, near the top of the
forehead, was another fearful cash from
the ak, sinking into the brain and she
was stabbed through the bosom with the
butcher-knife.
| The first information of the murders
was given by the son, Albert Stark
weather, at o'clock. He came to MIR.
Horace Whites, a neighbor, rafting, or
rather falling heavily against the back
door, and arousing the inmates with
this call:
Get up get up! Come over to our
house: don't know but our folks are
all killed, and the house is on fire.