The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-08-05

that it may be considered that the European
G. e. Spitzbergen and White Sea) and Amer
lean Arctic Greenland and Newfoundland
seal fishery cannot be worth much less than
three hundred thousand pounds sterling an
nualy. The fine fur seals come as ii has al
ready been said, mostly from the South Seas
and the North Pacific; but in both regions,
the former especially, they are getting rapidly
exterminatcd. [English Paper.
BRUTAL MURDER At CALAIS. The Calais
Advertiser of the 9th ult. gives the fol-
lowing details Of a dastardly murder which
took place there on Saturday night last,
about midnight, by a crowd Of young villains
who have infested the city for some time and
whose outrages have been numerous:
"a sailor named John Lockwood of Dover.
| New HAMPSHIRE aged about As, a steward
on board the Alexander Millken of Boston,
| lying at Wat is wharf, was most brutally
murdered by number of young roughs, be-
tween the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock.
1t seem there were a number of them con-
gregated on the bridge near Browns Corner,
and as this man came along some OF them
spoke to him. when he in friendly manner,
stepped up to one Of them and held out his
hand to shake hands with him, and one of the
crowd struck him in the face; several others
struck at him. The man then turned and run
down the wharf to his vessel, the crowd pur-
suing like a pack of hounds on a trail, and
thirsting for his blood. He got aboard his
vessel out of their reach. The crowd then re-
turned up the wharfto their place of rendcz-
vous and lay in wait for another victim, but
finding none came, they sent two of their gang
to decoy this man up the wharf again. They
assured him that they were his friends and no
one should modest him. He then returned up
the wharf, one Of these pretended friends on
either side him. As he approached the main
! body of the crowd-tor part Of them had Sc
crctcd themselves behind Waite's horse she'd,
between the railroad track and Depot street
and was nearly in front of Gilbert Drugan'S
house and about half way up the hill. they
sang out, Here he comes. and instantly the
whole gang rushed upon him from behind
and before. Finding himself thus surrounded
he drew, his knife and acted on the defensive.
His COWardly assassins, seeing he was armed.
lodged behind piles Of lumber and the corners
of houses, and did not dare to approach him.
At last one of them picked up a stone, stole
up behind him and struck him on the back of
the head with it and folled him to the ground
Then the whole gang fell upon the PROSTATE
man and pounded and kicked him in the most
brutal and outrageous manner imaginable.
The whole nasal bone was smashed ill., and
cut by some sharp instrument was made near
the left eye over an inch deep--and his face
was otherwise shocllngly bruised and dis
| figured. The cut on the back of his head.
which the doctors in their post mortcm exam
| nation say was the cause Of his death, was
over an inch and Il quarter deep. The people
living in the houses around and near the scene
heard the mans cries Of murder, and GOT out
of their beds, opened their windows and
looked ont and could see and hear the crowd
kicking the man. One Of them said he had
got enough, and to let him alone, turned him
over so as to Get to his face gave him another
kick and said he ought to be n---beforc
this. Some of the people called police = from
their windows, and the crowd fled in different
directions on hearing the footsteps of The DO
lice coming on the sidewalk, leaving the man
lying on the road. The man made out, by
| some means to get aboard his vessel and fell
down on the deck, where he lay grooming.
The captain got up and sent for a doctor.
DR.. Seymour went to him and examined and
dressed his wounds and left him. Next
morning he called again and dressed his
wounds and left him in a comfortable state.
Shortly after he tainted, and the captain, by
again, but finding he was very weak and cvi-
IDENTITY sinking, he sent for q doctor again,
but before he got there the man died. A cor
oner's Jury was summoned to investigate the
matter.
The body presented a most shocking APP
pearancc The medical evidence, after eN-
animation of the brain, was that death was
caused by hemorrhage, from the effects Of
blows bya blunt instrument or stone.
David Rutherford and Patrick and Jerry
Hickey were arrested and are in the lookup.
Witnesses prove that q crowd OF twenty or
thirty attacked Lockwood. Some saw doz-
en- men kicking and beating him at once, yet
no one inertcrcd to save him. The parties
concerned are 4 very bad set ol roughS. and
the determination is that justice will be done
in THEN case