Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-08-03
SONIC Bladensburg Young women.

some Badensburg young women.
Sheppard was examined before Justice
Walter on Friday, and Judge Purcell was
ON the stand almost the whole of the ses-
sion, giving modified version of the
affair in question, as far as the wranging
between himself and counsel, on Que side,
and defendant and counsel on the other,
to the great amusement of the audience,
permitted. His testimony left the facts
of the ducking and mudding as reported,
but, of course, they were undeserved.
The proprietor and managing editor were
then put upon the stand to prove Mr..
Sheppard the author of said report but
neither of them knew, and the copy by,
which the handwriting might have been
identified, had been destroyed, as all copy
was after use. At Judge Purcells sug-
gestion, the examination, at this point,
was continued to next Friaday and he
intimated, in reply to coaxing appeal
to his good nature of which he has a
fund--by the defendant, that he might
decide to abandon the prosecution.
The ia nous-somc would say, infam-
ous-Canterbury Hall was burned down
on Friday morning. IL was built Tor
theatre, the first in Washington, about
1920, ran for nearly 20 years as the
american Theatre" aud then subsidized,
under the competition of new candidate,
into "Washington Assembly Rooms" for
balls, &c., down to the II bellion, when it
broke out negro mnistrelsy, can-can, &C.,
to catch the soldiers, and the name was
changed to Canterbury Hail. 1t is sup
posed to have been set on fire to rid the
neighborhood Of that broad class of per-
fornianees, j. NJ. Young, the owner Of
the building, and of stock Of carriages
III it, is reported loser Of $40, 600 less
$4,000 insurance. No other heavy loser
Minnie Gaines, the colorcd woman, ac-
quilted here, on the ground of insanity,
of the murder Of the white man lngle,
has been admitted into the United States
Insane Asylum, upon the order of Secre.
Cox Of the Interior Department.
Judge Fisher charged, in this case,
that the prisoner should be given the
benefit Of any reasonable doubt the jury
had of her sanity, the same as Of guilt
in any criminal case. Evidently, a mod
fled view is being taken of insanity, by
the leading intelligence of the world. The
judicial meaning is approaching nearer to
the literal meaning, which is simply uh-
soundness of mind, whether for year,
day, or an instant. 1t seems to be pay
ing more regard, also, to the share Of
responsibility properly resting upon socie-
ty for the condition of its individual men,
bers Hence there is apparently greater
reluctance, in all doubtful cases, to de-
eide that the unsounduess, however tram
silent, did not pass the prisoner beyond
the pale of personal responsibility; and
mort. disposition to save, If possible, as a
sacred trak, hitherto badly kept, than to
inAict vnai9iye puushmonts.
Geo. b. Vashon (colored), graduate
of O5erlin, and subsequently professor
in Allegheny 6el4ege, Pa, was admitted
to the Bar ofahis District, Saturday, on
motion of A. X. Browne.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has just returned to his office and labors
after an absence Of three weeks in the
West. j. Il.
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