Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-06
Interesting General News.
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, Jan. A.
One of the counterfeit fractional cur
rency swindling firms of New York who
have been sending out circulars by the
thousand to entice the unwary into pur-
chasing fac simile notes, came here yes
terday for the purpose of demanding the
delivery of large number of letters to
them that the Postmaster at New York
had forwarded to the dead letter Office in
accordance with the Postmaster Generals
orders. The parties engaged lawyer,
paid him a retainer of 800, and made a
formal demand ON the department for
their letters, and found they had been
returned to the writers, together with the
money they contained. So the sharpers
returned to New York, and the lawyer
pocketed a pretty large fee for ten min
utes' work. One of the parties, however,
admitted that the firm had sometimes
made $1,000 day on no outlay of capital
The Postmaster General has concluded
contracts for the transportation of the
IOEblRn UldtlS iiOJl I've" L YIN ANObWtbu-
standing the combination of the Cunard,
Inman and North German lines, which
seem to have beef the purpose and it was
the intention of these lines to control the
foreign mail service by refusing to carry
the mails at the old rates after the 1st
inst The arrangement of the Postmaster
General provides for carrying the French
mails by the Hamburg line to Cherbourg
every Tuesday. The Bremen steamer
carries the English mails via southampton
and the German mails every Saturday.
The Liverpool and Great Western line,
Williams & Guion agents, take the mails
to Queenstown every Wednesday, and
will soon add largely TO their forces.
Mails will be forwarded as heretofore by
the Canadian lines from Portland in the
winter aud Quebec in summer, and the
Bremen steamer from Baltimore will also
carry special mails. According to these
arrangements the foreign mail service will
be as frequent and nearly as expeditions
as heretofore.
The Triple Murder at TarrytOysn.
TARRYTowN, Jan. 4.
The triple murder in this place on Sat
urday, is still the all-absorbing topic.
Mr. Buckhout, the murderer, is a stalwart
man of about fifty years, and belongs to
the well-known family of that name re-
siding in Westchester and Putnam coun-
ties. He is a farmer, residing about 3
miles from Tarrytown, towards Sing Sing.
He has occupied the farm number of
years, and is we'll to do in the world. He
married about seven years ago in Sing
Sing, against the wishes of the friends of
lis intended, who visited her at her home
only during her husbands absence. He
is passionate man, addicted to drink,
but seemed fond of his wife, and she of
him. Mrs. Buckhout was pleasant and
affectionate woman, progressing in APP
pearance, accomplished in mind, and
about thirty-fve years of age, Alfred
Randall, another of the victims, came to
this country from England, and was
wine merchant in Pine street. He for
merly resided in Brooklyn, but in 1866
purchased a fine estate near the farm of
Mr. Buckhout, where he has since lived.
He was a fine looking man, Aorid and
stately, affable and pleasing in manner,
and gentleman in every sense of the
word. He was about ffty-fve years of
age, and leaves a wife and two daughters
His son Charles, another Of the slain, was
an exemplary young man of about twenty
five years. So far as the cause of this
terrible event is concerned, it is not be-
lieyed that the true reason OF it can be
"criminality."
The reputation of Mr.. Randall and |
Mrs. Buckhout forbids; it may have been
jealousy, and probably rum" but it is
not known that Buekhout had the slight |
est cause for making himself the "hero"
of such hideous massacre. The devel- |
opments of the murder show it to have
been fiendIshly planned and deliberately |
Mrs. Buckhout was shot through the
temple, Alfred Randall through the heart,
and Charles Randall in the side. Mrs
Buckhout and Charles Randall are dead.
Alfred Randall lies in dangerous con-
iition Buckhout gave himself up imme-
lately after the occurrence, and was
lodged in Jail at White Plains.