Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-23
ALEXAGAzETTE VIRGINIA ADVERTISED
4 HUNCHBACk'S REVENGE.
Rome Correspondence of the Loudou Times |

HUNCHBACk'S > REV ENGE.
Rome Correspondence of the Loudou Times.
10 August last great alarm was created in
the village of lncisa, near Florence, by the
mysterious disappearance of TWO chlldrcn-a
boy, nine years old, on the morning Of the Dist,
aud another Of eight the following evening" 1t
was supposed that they might have fallen iuto
the stream, where they went to fish and bathe,
but DO traces Of them or their clothes could be
found All kinds of exaggerated ideas got ahoat
In The village, more particularly as these were
not the first chidreo who had suddenly disap
peared, and it was asserted that there were
children killers 10 the adjoining wood. On the
29;h, while one of the women of the village
was arranging her hair at the back window of
her room, she heard frig htful shrieks, aud re-
cognized them ascomiog from Amerigo Turcbi,
boy nine years DID, and that they proceeded
from the workshop Of one Carlo Graodi, cart
carpenter. She ran down into the street and
alarmed the neighbors, who made fer the work
shop which they found closed, the boy crying
Tor help from within After vain attempts to
get Grandl 70 admit them, they burst open the
door, and found him struggling to force the
boy into hole. He had cut the child fearfullV
about the head, and from bis mouth blood was
flowing, caused, as the boy afterwards narrated,
by wedge Grandi had tried to force iuto his
mouth TO gag him.
Alter the man was secured it was observed
that some of the bricks of the flooring were
loose, and on these being removed the first
thing seen was child's hand. The place was
quickly dug up, and the mutilated bodies of
the two boys VINO bad disappeared ten days
before we're discovered; and on the hole into
winch Grandl was trying to force Amerigo
lurchl being examined, number of other
CT tldren' 5 bones we're found at the bottom. No
so)ner was the thing known than the village
became scene of the widest excitement, and
the authorities had to send off 10 hot baste for
whatever military and police there were iu the
vicinity, and sufficient force arrived Just 10
time to save the wretch from being torn to
pieces by the populace.
It seems that the murderer, Grandi, was a
dtformed man of duiuutive stature, high
ROUNDED shoulders, very large head, upon
which there was not scrap of hair, and re-
pulS!Ve features. As is TOO often the case in
Italy, such unfortunate creatures become the
OBJECT OF open public ridicue. The boys Of
lnclsa had been in the habit of teasing aud
tormenting Grandi and playing all kinds of
practical jokes on him, and it was n revenge
Tor this that he had. as opportunity offered, en-
uced now one and then another of the ring
leaders nto his workshop, and there murdered
them ourylng them uoder the floor. Amerigo
lurchl said that Grandi had invited him into
his workshop under the pretext of having
some fun with the other boys; that to accom-
pish this he was to hide 10 the hole Grapdi
uncovered, but that Immediately be entered it
urandl attempted to strange him.
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY AND
THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. W ash
rngton College, now WASHINGTON and Lee Uni.
Verslty. was established as an academy in the
Year ii6, under the name of Liberty Hall, by
the Ha0over Presbytery, (then embraciog the
whole of the Presbyterian Church OF Virginia.
II received It's charter from he State 10 1882,
still retaining the name of an academy although
lis charter authorized it to confer literary de-
Erees, to appoint professors, as well as masters
acd tutors, and, 10 short, to perform all the
acts Winch properly belong to college. Iu the
year '96, 1t received its first regular endowment
from the hands OF Gen. Washington. TO per-
pe'uate the memory Of this noble act, the uame
Of the institution was, by tie unanimous vote of
me trustees, changed to Washington Academy;
d, 10 the year 1912, by 40 act of the Legisla
lure, still further changed to Washington Col
ege. Subsequently, John Bobinson, esq,
soldier OF Washington, beqneathed his whole
estate to this College, and afterwards, the Gin
cihnau Society of Virginia having accomplish
ea th2 patriotic purpose tof Whicn it Was es-
taoIlShcd, bequeathed the residue of its
lunis to the the College, on condition that
provision should be made for military
instruction in the institution. The late
war wal produced in General Lee a second
Washington, under whose auspices and name
Inc College has become University, and en-:
j'yS vs. high degree OF popularity.
The celebrated Virginia Military Institute
Was established in connection with Washing
ton College by an act of the Legislature, passed
during the session Of 1888 80. Formerly,
guard of soldiers was maintained at the expense
OF the State, to protect the arms deposited in
Tia OF Western Virginia About the year 1886,
some Jealous friends of education, among them
'ov. James Mcdowell, thinking that the ar
seue might be converted into an educational
institution, without any increase of expense to
'he State, and affording at the same time equal
security to the public arms, applied to the Leg
iSa'ure TO make the necessary change This
resulted 10 the establishment u 1889 of this
famous school, which furnished the Confede.
itScy q host OF able officers 10 the late war. Gen.
'aGcis Il. Smith, its first eminent aud distin-
sulshed President, is still at its head. =
y. LIE CHALDEANs.-The M tional Order Of
, Inadeaus organized 10 this city last Wednes-
u,r usy hight a Grand Lodge, with the following
IUIaceTs Heory Newman, G. L.; W. H. But
C''T ". "; VIM; Lee, q. G.; Buckuer Roberts,
@ ~, T.; = George Fraokliu, G. O.; B. Washing
I Iu' ": NJ; Arthur Lomax, o. 5. g.; James
III" Ivus; & |. ,. G.; NJ: ). Henson, G. R. s. After
mo,; elec1ion the othcers were installed, and, on
nsmed ,O1 Cl u the Graod Leader. the Lodge was
Virginia ''' 1'0' D u ALEXANDRIA,