Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-08
LOCAL MATTERs.

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LOCAL MATTERs.
We have had a local sensation, fur
nished by the tIial of Cal LOgstOn and his
accomplices for the murder, something
more than year ago, of the Galloway
family. On his first arraignment the
Judge learned that the feeling in the com
lnunity against the bloody wretch was so
intense that Judge Lynch was preparing
to take the case into his own hands, and
being jealous OF his prerogative, he
changed the venue TO Morgan county,
where the trial was duly held, and Logs
ton convicted. The Supreme Court of
the State found time amid the press of
five years arrearage of business to give
the fifty cent butcher a respite, by de-
claring the very precautiOn taken to give
him a fair trial an error, and the trial
itself nullity, and so sent him back here
for another trial.
The case came up last week before the
Circuit Court, Hon. Judge Goodpasture
presiding. The chief witness was little
Jimmy, lad of nine or ten years of age,
the youngest and only surviving member
of the family, and as he told how one of
the female fiends put herself at the door
as sentry, and the other came in and told
his granny that LOgston was coming
in to kill them all, but was not believed
to be in earnest; how Logston did come
in and demand, ''YOur money or your
life," and the grandmother plead with
him, Don't kill me, Cal, you know I've
always loved you, and then brought him
the trille of small change she had, which
he took and then crushed her gray head
with the ak then killed his mother, the
wool cards she had been using still in her
hand, and his older brother ia the same
way; while the woman partner in the
horror, TO do her share, felled him TO the
floor with the heavy fire shovel, even
the jury, so wooden tlat the defendants
counsel could not hope to find a more
stupid set, could not but feel that his
story was only the simple, vivid truth.
The woman's hand was weaker than her
will, and the blow which meant to make
sure work only stunned her victim, and
he recovered with every circumstance of
the tragedy impressed so deeply upon his
memory by that cruel blow that it was
impossible to doubt the literal correctness
of his account of it. The defense made an
attempt to show that he had been prompt
ed as to his evidence, which recoiled
damagingly upon their side. They asked:
elias anybody talked to you about the
evidence you were to give 2"
eyes.
EWho?n
''Mrs. Evans"
Here they wanted to stop, but the pro-
secution pressed the question further:
"What did she say to youl"
''She told me to tell the truth. ~
"And have you done so?"
eyes"
This ended the attempt to discrcdit the
child's testimony.
The two women, whose jealousy insti-
gated the murder, were tried separately,
but the web of proof that entangled their
hired butcher was not strong enough to
convict them, probably because they are
women.
POLITICAL
Matters are in a fermcnt Just now.
There are about ten or dozen candidates
in the field for each of the half dozen or
50 Oh county OLlCeS 10 NC Hilcu az the
coming election, and the postponement of
the election three weeks, in order that the
new Constitution may be voted on at the
same time, has caused confusion among
them. Caucus machinery seems not to
be in use, and each candidate goes di-
rcctly before the people upon his own ac-
count, and those who commenced can
wasting too soon find themselves and their
money exhausted, and the election still a
long way off.
A London medical journal reports q
number of cures in East Indian hospitals
by the application of petroleum in com
binatiOn with other materials, to form a
consistent ointment. Petroleum is found
to take the place of carbonic acid as To-
cal disinfectant. II has been successfully
used, also, by American physicians, and
has long been sold in this country as a
patent medicine" under various names.
The Japanese Government has ap-
pointed Myeda Roam, high officer of the
Court, to visit Europe snd America, to
inquire into the condition of the Japanese
subjects scattered there. With his suite,
he has already left Japan on his mission.