Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-08
The Camden Murder.

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The Camden Murder.
Benjamin Hunter, charged with the murder
of j Ohm NJ. Armstrong 10 Camden, for the pur'
pose of getting the insurance on bis life, has,
says the Philadelphia Record, changed wonder.
fully of late. lie does not desire company any
more, but requests to be left alone. His MAD
ner has changed from its jovial character, and
he is 10th now to crack jokes, but sits by tho
hour with his feet on the bars Of his cage. his
face buried in his hauds. as if contemplating
| what is to occur. His facs depicts great anx
iety, and the gray hairs are creeping slowly
| but surely among the dark ones. Graham. on
| the contrary, maintains the same air which
| characterized him when he was first incarcerat'
ed. lie is hopeful that he will escape the gal
lows, and the best fate he sees before him Is to
! spend the remainder of his days in prison. lie
is gaining in fash and will depart from the
Camden jail either to have his neck broken or
else 20 to Trenton about fifteen pounds heavier
than whom he took up quarters there. dra
ham has aided tho prosecution greatly 10 tho
case, and by his directions many links 10 the
chain Of evidence which seemed lost wero 70
stored. He is 10 tho cell which Hunter oocu
pied WHOM first taken to Camden What the
defence Of Hunter will be only his counSd
know It is said they still adhere to the tact
that an alibi can be proved in the case OF their
client.
Since the arrest of Mr.. Hunter. ono OF bis
daughters, who is teacher in the public school
at Sixteenth and Wharton streets, has been con
siderably annoyed by some OF the Ill bred Chill
dren attending the school, who call alter hor 90
thestreets, and otherwise make her position lik.
some Miss Hunters first inclination was to re.
sign, but she was persuaded out OF this by Mr..
Jacob Moore, who appointed the young lady.
The matter was brought to the attention OF the
Board of Directors the Twenty sixth Section,
By MIR. Pau! Cavans, at one OF the meetings.
when it was agreed that if complaints should
be made against any of the children for this
| they should be Immediately expelled from tho
school, and not be reinstated under aoy cir
cumstances. There is much sympathy telt tor
the lady. and the directors took this summary
| action 81 az to prevent her from being nsultod.
She has not been teaching regularly sInce inc
incarceration of her father, her place being
| supplied by substitute. "She will be allowed
| to resume her place at any timo, and rotaln /:
30 long as the rules of the Board are complied
| with" said MIR. William McAvoy, one OF the
directors. "hliss Hunter still! retains her po'
sition, and the stories relating to her are entire
| II untrue. The Board are inclined to ba very
| lenient with her in the face of this family
misfortune"
"When | was over 10 Camden, the other
| dsy, 10 sec my poor SOD, said Mrs. Graham,
the mother of Thomas Graham, II went uP
| to Hunters cage TO see tho map. l could uot
say ANYTHING to him. lilo looked at me, aod
| then put his hands behind him and began to
walk around the cage as fast as be could move
| Ho was yory nervous. | could not stay there
moro than minute, ADD when l came out
nearly fainlod. All | could say, as passed
out, was You wretch" Hunter appeared
greatly frightened VIE he saw nae, because
| he has known me for years.
| The Grand Jury has found true bills against
both Hunter aud Graham, and Hunters triad
will commence next Monday.
RUINED BY A ER.-Splders crawling
more abundantly and oonspicuously than usual
upon tho in door walls of our houses foretell
the near approach Of raio; but tho following
snecdote intimatos that somo oil their habits
arc the equally certain indication of frost being
at hand. Quarermaster Disjouval, seeking to
bepuiIc the tedium OF bis prison hours at
Utrecht, had studied attentiveIy the habits OF
the spider; and eight years OF imprisonment
had givou him leisure to be we'll yersod in lts
ways. 10 December Of l794.t tho French army,
on whose SUCCESS his restoration to liberty &c:
pended, was in Holland, and victory seemed
certain, if the frost, then OF unprecedented Sc
verify, continued. The Dutch onvoyS had lsi'
III onI n.
spsirng when the frost suddenly broke. The
Dutch We're now exulting. aud the French gen.
erals prepared to retreat; but the spider fore
warned Dsionyal that tho thsW would be OF
short duration, and ho know that this weather
monitor never deceived. He oontrVed to com.
municate with the army of his oountrymen, and
it's generals, who duly estimated his character.
relied upon his assurance that within o few
days The waters would again bo passable by
troops. They delayed their retreat; within II
dsvs the frost had returned-the French army
triumphed- -Dijonval was liberated, and 9
spider had brought down ruin on tho Dutch
, nation.
SAVED FOR GREATNESS. de Main
tenon, who became the wife Of Louis XIV o
France, and for the last thirty years Of bis llt'
exercised controlling influence over bis opln
ions and policy, bad narrow escape from pre-
mature burial in childhood. Her parents MI
: grated from France to the Isle OF Msrtlnlqu
when she was ten years OLD: On the Vo9ag
aha % vas taken iii. and the Sickness ended in ap
narent death. The funeral rites were over; tn
n lat Look taken of the body about to be droppc
into into the sea; cannon was loaded to be fire.
: over the corpse; when the mother, ordlnarll
unloyiug, insisted on seeing her child once moro
TO her surprise she found the heart still beat
} ipg and in delirum Of Joy, declared the chill
: was was not not dead, but would recover. The hope
born Of rapture, proved true prophecy, an p
r the little GIRL so nearly given to burial in tn
u ocean, was spared to become one OF the mos
distinguished women iu French history