Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-12-27

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] dad, p a so5riglset which he never lost.
! Mr. Hamilton was a very active and
/ useful member OF the community in
which he lived, cheerfuIIy lending the
assistance Of his strong win, practical
sense and great energy to every enter
/ prise which concerned the welfare and
/ prosperity of his town and county. Be
sides that silent effort and influence by
which every good citizen does most for
the we'll being Of society. he has filled
/ several positions Of conspicuous and
honorable usefulness. He served with
credit in the last Ohio Constitutional
/ Convention, a position which he never
sought, but which was spontaneously
and unexpectedly offered him, though
then quite young man. In 1S56-57 he
was a member OF the Ohio Senate and
was member of q joint committee ap-
! pointed to investigate certain supposed
/ frauds in the management by Iessees of
/ the Ohio Public Works. He was ap-
/ pointed 1--WE believe by President Lin
/ eoIu) an Assessor of Internal Revenue
/ for this District but was removed by
/ President Johnson. In 1866 he was
4 elected Representative from this Dis
/ triet in the FOrtieth Congress and served
very creditably in the extra sessions Of
/ that body last Spring and Summer. His
brief career in his high station promis-
/ ed, had his life been spared, to reflect
/ honor upon his constituents as the man
1 of their choice and upon himself as an
honest, patriotic and practical public
/ officer. To use the language of a Wash
ingt0n dispatch regarding his death,
she was highly esteemed by all who
/ knew him, and recognized as a faithful
and thoroughly incorruptible public
servant His whole heart and soul
were enlisted in the great work of re-
/ building our shattered country upon
the enduring foundations of loyalty and
/ justice, and we devoutly pray that who
soever shall succeed to his mantle may
/ be equally devoted to this noble cause.
/ Mr.. Hamilton belonged to a family
having constitutional tendencies to pull
monary disease, and within brief
period in the recollection Of the writer,
/ a brother and sister stricken down by
this fell destroyer, have preceded him
to ''that bourne whence no traveller re-
/ turns" The first, our cIassmate in col
! Iege and afterward au Assistant Sur
/ geon in the army, we accidently met for
the last time in the midst Of the fight
ing at Resaca where deaths face was
too familiar to be repulsive and his
hand beckoned too often to be regarded.
The other, beautiful in her life and ear
/ Iy in death passed away when her rare
qylslities Of mind and heart had just be-
gun to shed their precious influence on
the world. Both were just at the
! threshold of great usefulness, and now
they are Joined by the third whose
ripened powers the world needs so much
and viii miss SO sadly. But the Infinite
is wiser than the finite and
"Right's battle fails not though men die,
The hosts of wrong are driven,
/ And earth shall yet with victor souls
Be pOpulOus as Heaven"
TIE MURDER or mn. H4AIILTON
] The following letter from DIarysville,
dated the 23d inst, to the Ohio State
Journal, gives the particulars Of this
/ dreadful tragedy:
This village and community are en-
/ ShrOuded IN mantle of gloom by one
/ OF the most hOrrifyiDg tragedies known
in the annals Of crime, by the death of
lion. Cornelius s. hamilton, mem Der
! Of Congress from the Sth Congressional
/ District of Ohio, by the hand of his eld-
! est son, Thomas @. Hamilton, a youth
/ Of about eighteen. The facts in short
/ are about as follows: The son Thomas,
/ was considered and was a remarkably
good and steady boy. About three
weeks ago ne became uneasy about him
self, and wished bis father to come
/ home. Ills mother also being concern
ed about him, wrote Mr.. 81. to come
nome. he came home, and on Satur-
/ day last instituted proceedings in the
Probate Court to send the boy to the
Insane Asylum, but did not get the pa
pers IN time 90 take him on Saturday.
Sunday morning, at about 9 O'Clock,
NTH said to his two oldest boys, ThOm-
as and John, that they would 90 out
and feed. The three went out, the faith
er carrying some corn fodder, distance
Of 10 OF 10 yards, and throwing it over
in the barn lot; the younger (John)
going over and distributing il to the
stock as the father directed. Mr.. H. /
then bade John go ami prepare for Sun /
day School. He did so, leaving the
father and Thomas picking up and scat
t6r1ng corn and stocks. He testifies
that he looked back when part way to |
the mouse and that Thomas was watch
ing him. He had got to tie house and /
partly prepared to go to Sunday School, /
when the mother went out on the porch l
a1d saw Thomas coming TO tile house 1
alone.
She enquired, where was father? He
picked up an ak and made for the moth
er. John, seeing this demonstration.
screamed and diverted Thomas from
the mother to himself. He ran into the 4
house, nrst into the dining-rOOln then
to the hall, then into the sitting-rOOm.
fnFn fHhnU7ac
ran past him, and slipped and fell
about the time he reached the door.
Thomas making blow at him which
took effect in the left shoulder and par
italy stunned him, but he crawIed out
OF the house. Thomas then made pur-
SUIT OF the mother, who fled across the
street to Mr.. John Guthrie's a distance |
af about 200 yards. Here he was met
by Mr.. G-'s family, and Mr.. T. Wood,
superintendent of the public schools OIL
this place, who bid him put down the
az-he carrying it ia an elevated and /
menacing attitude. He assumed amore
Threatening manner, and made at Mr..
Wood, who retreatcd in the house.
Thomas followed TO the door with the
uplifted ak.
He then returned to the street, where
he was met by NJ. @. Lawrence. ESQ.
who inquired of him. fFWhere is vonr
father ~ suspecting foul play. He
with the upifted ak, then made for Efr
street, Thomas following. He (Thomas)
then crossed over the fence, and maxi
ing in the direction of the wounded bov.
who had gone back to the house ami
carried two small sisters a distance of
one hundred yards or more, and was
calling to Mr.. J. G. Botkin, who had
been attracted by the cry of distress,
Save my two little sisters p MIR. Bot
kin reached the two small sisters and I
took them up, but Thomas was coming !
in and cut OFF his retreat SO he took
them back to where they were bv
wood-pile. Taking a stick Of wood, s
which, to him, seemed too unwieIdIv, {
he dropped it as Thomas was coming I
on to him with the up1ifted ak clenched
in both bands. Botkin, with great
presence of mind, seized the only alter
native left him by jumping into him =
head first striking him in the breast
while his arms were uplifted to fell him
with the AK. Thus he was captured. I