The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-12-04
Eastern News.


following of him: ain the year 1888
the body of young girl named Sarah
A. Cornell, of Fall River, Massachusetts,,
was found by the side of a hay stack, IN
a field remote from the highway, with in
dications of great struggle and atrocious
murder A Methodist minister of the
same place, the above named Ephraim
X. Avery, was suspected, arrested, and
tried in civil and ecclesiastical courts, as
the author of the atrocious homicide
Mr. Avery was very talented and pop
ular preacher, and the girl was member
of the church. The Ecclesiastical court
acquitted him, with full conviction OF his
innocence, and the civil court failed to
make case against him, and discharged
him. But that did not settle the ques-
ton of his innocence in the minds OF
great portion of the people thereabout,
and of the whole country, for the excite
ment on the subject was as intense IN
Ohio and other distant States, as IN Mas
sachusetts. Mr.. Avery resumed his oc-
cupation as preacher, In various local
ities, being settled for several years IN
Richmond, Massachusetts,, and other
places in that neighborhood. Hundreds
for great while went to see and hear
him, but it is evident that curiosity, more
than any thing else, tended to swell his
audiences and he could not outllve or
outgrow the suspicion that existed
against him. So he finally retired from
the ministry, and removed to distant
| country, to seek the quiet and freedom
from annoyance which he could not ex-
pect in Massachusetts,. For the last
twenty or thirty years Mr.. Avery has led
4 the life of quiet and industrious farmer
at Pittsfeld, Ohio, where he died on the
Esd ult, going to the grave with the
respect and regret of his neighbors and
acquaintance. His age was 70 years"
Mr.. Chas. H. Williams, of the First
National bank of Canton, has in his pos
session legal tender note No. l, class A
being the first five dollar greenback
ever printed.
M1ssoURI.-The st. Joseph Gazette
of the I'd says: j: ga gentleman who came
from ITiawatha yesterday furnishes us
with the particulars Of singular acci-
dent, for the truth of which he vouches.
On Saturday last, a team attached to a
wagon took fright in one of the streets,
and, despite the efforts of the driver, ran
out to the edge of the town, where the
wagon was overturned, and the occupant
dashed against a tree with such force
that his arm was driven completely into
the trunk of the tree, and had to be cut
out with an ak! The man also had three
ribs and one OF his legs broken. He was
attended by DR.. Collins, and at last ac-
counts was improving slowly. We have
heard of people having their heads and
legs dashed into trees in this way, but
this is the first instance in which we have
heard of an arm strong enough to un-
dergo the process"
MICuIGAN-At St. Clemens, on the
I'd, farmer living short distance from
the village, whose horse not going ex-
actly to suit him, commenced whip
ping the beast in most shameful man
ner The horse, made frantic by the
severe punishment he was receiving
dashed wildly to one side, and running
against wood team. plunged the tongue
of the wagon deeply into his breast. His
rider, unmindful of the terrible wound
the poor beast had received, still kept or
plying the lash, until the horse, after
going short distance, dropped dowr
dead.
TERRIToRIEs.-On Sunday morning
last party of three section men wen
over from Cooper Lake to the Blacl
} Hills hunting, and when there separated
, each taking different directions. Abou
two o'clock p. NJ. a party of about twenty
five or thirty Sioux or Arapahoe indians
came upon them. They were at thu
time about half mile apart. Two o
, them managed to get together, ant
, fought the Indians till dark. when the,
: made their way back, but the other man
named John Brown, was killed ant
+ scalped His horse also was killed.
, party Of about fifteen men went in searcl
, of him on Monday, and, after drivin'
t the Indians from the canyon, found tn
t body and brought it to the station.
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