The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-07-28

around her neck, my hand over her mouth,
and with my knife cut her throat, bold.
ing my knife in my right hand. ! then
dragged her TO behind the water. closet,
laying her head furthermost up the place,
and put some stones and some ashes on
the body. | took the ashes from box
in the cellar. | sent a boy to Hoyt Il
Lawrence's store near by and bought the
knife, week before, for 25 cents. The
knife was taken from me when [ was
arrested. When | was in the cellar
heard my brother at the inside door,
which | had locked after thc girl had
come in, ran up stairs and found him
going toward the cellar in Michell's part,
He came back. Two girls worked in the
shop for mother. They usually got there
abont 9 o'clock, mother como later My
brother Charles and I tool, turns 10 open.
ing the store until about April My
mother and brother never knew anything
about the affair. | forgot to tell you that
| washed my hands and knife, whsh were
bloody, at the watsr.pipe.
The NEw Colon LINE X SourulRy
PoLITIcs.-Nothing can be more regret.
table in southern politics than tue ncoes.
sity which has arisen for political sirug.
gle between the whites and blacks. Ia
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar.
kansas, the issue is becoming more and
more painfully clear and distinct. We
hear Of "whitc mems" parties forming in
those states with an oarnestness which
BODIES gloomily for the immediate future.
All questions or iealty to this or that
party are ignored political PRINCIPLES
are subordinated to this one monontous,
overshadowipg issue There is 10 caio.
saying the fact that the whole movement
in the states named is fraught with trou.
bic. But We cannot see what other al.
Tentative is left to the whites there. if
they would escape the unhappy fate of
South Carolina. White scoundres in
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas have too long been permitted
to use the negroes to the injury of the
whites and the inpOverishmcns of those
states. Since the negroes cannot be
warned frcm an alliance which is distroy-
ing them. as well as running the superior
race, the whites connot be blamed for
making an issue on color 1t is an al.
formative to be deplorcd it is one which
ought not to be accepted until there is no
possibility OF any other presenting itself.
But once adopted, we advise our friends
there to proceed theoretically aud vigor.
ously to work Mobile (Ala) Register.
AFFAIRS IN CUBA.-Gov. Gen. Concba
has issued n decree, to take effect, Au.
gust lst' providing that duties be paid,
90 per cent in specie, % per cent ip
Spanish bank bills with 100 per cent
added, and tho remaining % per cent
in bank bills at their nominal value On
and after the lst proximo, land taxes are
to be pailjn bank bills. with an addition
of 100 per cent. The decree Of june 18th,
authorizing the Spanish bank to sell
specie on account Of the treasury, to be
used in the payment Of duties, j. annu-
led.
The planters aud merchants Of the diff
iereut branches OF trade are holding meet.
ings and appointing committees to devise
the best and speediest way ofraying the
tax on capital.
Senior Enrique Hampauero, formerly
editor Of the republican Journal FL CAIRO
Frijio, has been released from prison.
An army order has been issued that 10
leaves will be granted to officers 10 return
to Spain, except in cases Of well aulhcu.
ticated physical inability TO perform duty.
Chicago expects another religious sem
sation, because the Rev Dr. SwaZey,
Presbyterian, preached last Sunday, that
the virtuous heather will be saved, The
Tribune says it is doctrine which most
of the uneducated Presbyterian laymen
OF the city have ANONYMOUSLY held for
long time. 1t was so in respect to Sa.
belllanism, for preaching which Prof.
Swing was denounced and prosecuted by
DR.. Patton. The lay men when they
heard the doctrin explained found that
they were hereiics with Swing, though
they never knew it, and did not even
know the name Of the doctrine or Of its
founder From which it appears that
the true way TO support orthodoxy is 10
attach an odious name 10 II dissenting
opinion and call it heresy. low it must
shock good, pious people, On hearing an
obnoxious teaching explained, to find that
they have been heretics all their lives,
though trying to serve God in all honesty
and with pure conscience.
BIDs FOR THE NEW FIVE PER CrNTs.
- Washington, Thursday, July 23.-I
over 40 bids were reeiyed, to.
day, for the balance Of the per cent
funded loans, The names and amounts
nave not been officially announced Iii
understood the aggregate amount Of the
formal bids is over $4,000, coo, and
less than Sl00,000,000, part Of which
includes an option of six months for the
Shole Sl79,000,000. Besides the for
nal bids the secretary Of the treasury
received large number Of applications
Tor direct purchase Of new bonds at par,
he purchasers to pay the gold and take
he bonds at once. To these applications
he secretary has replied that, under the
existing law, he is not authorized to make
uch sales for tho reason that he is for
hidden by the act to increase the bonded
iebt, and he cannot call in the per
'ent bonds without giving three months
'ublic notice.
TERRIBLE TRAGEBirs IN EASTERN Ken
lucky -LonisrWe, by, July odd
The Eastern Kentucky mails tonight
ring accounts Of several terrible rasedi.
e. In Montgomery County, last Sun.
lay, Mrs. Stevens met woman named
3veline Hubbard, in the field, aud at
acked her with Ratchet, splitting her
kull, and killing her Instantly Mrs.
stevens suspected Eveline Hubbard, with
90 great intimacy with her husband. 10
3reathitt County recently, Jerry Little
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