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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-07-04
CRUEL KEHrNiEER.
The Father who shot bis Three
Children after Attempting
TO Poison Them,
Interview with the Prisoner
Boston Herald Letter. I

Nothing since the holocaust at the
French Catholic Church, three or four
years ago, has caused 30 much excite
ment in this section as a horrible trac
edy at Holyoke this afternoon John
kemmler, German at South Holyoke,
in the absence Of his wife, shot his
three little girls, aged respectively ff
teen months, four and six years The
details of the crime are too sickening
to seem possible, and even compass in
horror the recent Pocasset tragedy
All three were shot through the head
-Ludmilla. the eldest, and Emma,
the youngest, being apparently killed
instantly, while Anna, the little four
year old, was breathing At last accounts,
though unconscious and with DO posi-
ole chauee sf-#eeevery, ,---as laevaAralas
protruded from both sides of the head
Every one who has not seen Kemmler
says he must be insane, but, "If this
be madness, then there's method int. ;"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-07-04
General Ewing s-GeneraI Order
No. IL.

Oscar TURNER, Of Kentucky y
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
A Statement From Mr.. Murray.

Rev. w. III. II. Murray furnishes a
statement to the Boston papers insist
ing that his recent visit to San Francisco
was made openly and in the prOsecu-
ton of legitimate business arrangements,
and that there was no attempt to con-
ceal his whereabouts or identity. He
acted as any business man would act.
''NOr is there any doubt that l should
have accomplished all, had not the IN
wise and unjust acts of few of my
creditors in the East, and the SANDER
Gus lies of those, who, lacking virtue
themselves, credit all others with a
share in their own lOOseness, interrupt
ed me in my plans and labors with
their miserable outbreak" Complaining
of the attachment of his property,
which he says is now essentially in the
hands of his creditors, he declares his
intention, if the estate is not found
sufficient to pay all claims, to go to
work and pay every man his due. Mr..
Murray announces that it is his positive
says: 81 utterly decline to remain any
further where my motives are traduced,
my views grossly misrepresented and
my best benevOlence made the cause
and ground of scandalous attacks.
And now, leaving my property wholly
to my creditors and with my health
seriously threatened, l turn from a
manner of life have ever disliked to a
place and mode of life | have ever
loved. Henceforth l shall certainly es-
cape the envy, and, trust, the malice
of men,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05

will again capture the nomination. AS
a candidate, though, he will not be so
strong as he was in 1876. He has lost
the confidence of laFge class who vot-
ed for him then. His capital stock as
a reform candidate has been exhausted.
He does not inspire faith, to say moth
ing about enthusiasm. His only
strength is the Fraud" issue, and that
has been offset by recent events. Til
den belongs to the past as much as
though he were an Egyptian mummy
four thousand years Old.-BOston Her.
aid, former supporter of Iflden.
No amount of facts now given can
destroy the effect of the bad impression
made at the time of the Dixon tragedy.
The entire South has been intellectually
injured, aid the lesson of Yazoo is that
personal wrongs should be borne with
all possible patience by Southern men.
Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.)
No act of violence in the South has
ever caused so profound a sensation in
the North as the murder of Dixon. 1t
is regarded as political murder,
the result of a well organized and
well defined plan to maintain the mi
nority party in power by the assassina-
ton of the leaders of the majority party.
The vote in Yazoo county in 1876 was
Tilden, 1878; Hayes, 2. Of course
there was no bulldozing. The Demo-
cratic organs say there was no intimi-
dation, and they ought to know all
about it. At this distance from the
scene of action it scarcely seems neces-
sary to kill the candidate of a party of
two. But then there was the POSSIBLE
ty of Dixon seducing the Democratic
voters over to his side, and there was
no alternative but to kill him.-Mens-
phis Avalanche (Ind.)
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
Vermont's Stolen Electoral Vote.
A SENATE PAGE TELLS HOW 1T WAS RE
TURNED.


You probably remember that there
were two sets of elect Jral returns from
Vermont, and that one of them was
stolen and found in Secretary GOrham's
room. | and another page were in the
room when it was determined to send
them back. We had dropped on the
gentlemen who had them in custody.
1t was not known whether they were
the legitimate returns or the false ones,
but the thieves weakened and hired us
to take them back. Before we eft the
secIetary's room we were both sworn
never to divulge the names of the men
we saw present. We VIE each pre-
scented with 5000 and covered with
promises that we would never want for
a position while they had any influence
at court or elsewhere. | was offered
$500 for that same envelope and its
contents, but we had contracted to de-
liver them on Representative Hewitt's
desk in the House, and we carried out
the contract. We both went to the
hall together, and my friend passed up
to Hewett's desk and laid down the
envelope. He was so nervous that he
deposited the envelope with the writ
ten side up. Hewitt's eagle eye fell on
the inscription so quickly that my part
neT had not time to run before the New
York dyspeptic was on his feet, shout
ing "Mr. Speaker, the last Vermont re-
turns have just been laid on my table
by page. Who was he? Where is
he 7" | skedaddled back to the Senate
chamber, but my brother in sin stopped
and gave himself up. He also gave the
Speaker my name, and the Sergeant-at-
arms soon marched me into the Speak
er's presence. We were placed under
arrest, but our confinement was short
and rosy. We said we would never
divulge anything that would give away
those who had trusted us. | suppose
there was too much influence behind
us, and probably too many hearts to
ache over what was only an abortive
theft.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
College Hazing.

The disgraceful practice of hazing il
some colleges, Dartmouth not excepted
gets no favor with President Bartlett
He has sound views in regard to thi:
business, and has written an article in
which he urged that if the young men
of colleges break the laws they must
suffer the penalty, like other offenders
that "hazing" must be broken up, and
those students unwilling to tell what
they know about such offences, when
they occur, must be expelled and that
college students must be trained to
habits of sub0rdination to authority,
and learn that they are not to be tOler-
ated in habits of intemperance, in horn
serenades, and insulting songs to faith
full teachers. He expresses the opinion
that the institution that secures these
results "unhinchingly and at whatever
cost" will win the confidence of judi
ciOus parents who wish to place their
sons where their physical, intellectual,
social and moral welfare will be safe
If Dartmouth carries out these ideas
the college will be more popular in the
future than it has been in the past.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05

| the institution should prove success,
and the idea on which it was based
THAT of a TRUE LIBERAL EDUCATION
FOR woMEN) should be accepted by the
community, other benefactors would
arise to carry out the work he beg y,
by endowing prOfessorships and schol-
arships, adding to the library and cabi-
nets, erecting new buildings as they
might be required, and otherwise aug
menting the resources OF the institu-
ton.
Matthew Vassar founded the college
in 1861, and endowed it in various ways
with over 100000. He intended, as
he himself expressed it, that all secta-
rian influences should be carefully ex-
cluded, but the training of our students
should never be entrusted to the skep-
tical, the irreligious or immoral. This
intention has never been altered by his
successor in management.
Vassar College, learned in a CONVEX
satio1 with Mr.. M. Vassar, Jr., is not
rich, though a report to the contrary
has spread abroad and though it is
commonly believed that it frequently
has heavy endowm ents. Not one dollar
has been given in the way of endow-
ment since the original donation by
Matthew Vassar, senior. 1t has not
like many institutions run in debt dur
ing the hard times, for its financial af
fairs have been wisely and ably man
aged. But it requires funds, and re-
Gently, when the Board of Trustees
decided that completely apo: 1ted
laboratory was a necessity, Messrs.
Lott IL.
Vassar, nephews of Matthew ST., and
formerly his partners in business, gave
the money, large sum, for the pur-
pose. By the way, 1 may state that the
Vassar brothers are again adding to
their good works by erecting siiome
for INDECENT old men in Poughkeepsie.
The community is mistaken in believ-
ing that the Messrs. Vassar will shout
der all the financial responsibility of the
institution. l believe they have done
now all they intend to do; they GER
tainly have done all that they can be
expected to do. Aid must come in fu-
ture from those who favor the educa-
ton of American women. Yale, Har-
ward and other colleges receive large
endowments, and why should not Vas
sar College be equally fortunate Not
withstanding the good already accom-
plished by Vassar, the first college
established in this country for women,
much more could have been done had
she received but small part of what
has already been given to other insti-
buttons. Many who have means could
easily spare enough to establish pro-
fessor's chair, or a scholarship, called
by their names, and the College with
its present equipment, and with fair
amount granted or endowed would be-
come a university.
The fame of Vassar has spread over
the world. This know, because the
Belgian Government has requested
through its Minister, plan of the Col
lege, and a New York architect, Mr..
James Wood, has made the necessary
copies for this purpose. In London,
Holloway, the pill manufactures, is now
building college for women on the
plan of Vassar, aud its course of study
will be similar to that of its American
prototype. RADIX.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
Public Opinion.

Why should not Jefferson Davis
come to the United States Senate I? The
Contederacy is established in Congress
why not complete the animal by having
its official head ? This will be Jeffer-
son Davis vindicatiOn. And in what is
he worse than the Northern Democrats,
and the rest, who denied the right of
the government to coerce seeded
state, and refused to vote dollar or a
man for the public defense, and did all
they could to aid and comfort the
enemy? Is he not better than the
Northern Democratic doughfaces who
humbIy receive him as their leader
Let Davis come, for this is Democracy.
indianapolis Journal.
The Democratic party can stand a
great deal, but when the Dixon assassi-
nation is added to the record of the ex-
ira session and the revival of trade. it
has rather more burdens than any one
organization can hope to carry.-PhiLa-
delphia Press (Rep.)
On the Democratic side we will not
attempt to cast horoscope, lest we
might find that we are foreordained
from the last Presidential election to
accept a candidate forced upon us bv
the stern necessities of the times, and
under whose leadership we shall be led
like lambs to the slaughter. Richmond
State (Dems.)
Let us dismiss the delusion that New
York is Democratic state or a Repub-
lican state. 1t belongs to neither par
ty, but is holly contested battle
ground, where victory usually goes to
the party which makes the squarest and
most direct appeal to the average good
sense of the common people.-Ut
Observer (Dem.)
Mr.. Tilden's vitality and skill as a
politician are marvellous, if not admir-
able. He is cold and half paralvzed
There is no such thing as magnetism
about him. He has few friends. The
personal political friends of 1876 are
nearly all estranged from him. He
makes no concessions to secure person
al favOrs. He gives no man his full
confidence. Yet he is the most adroit
politician in his state, and probably in
his party, and the chances are that be
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
Vermont News.

The next annual State Convention of
the Y. M. c. A. is to be held in Burling-
ton on the 9Th 9th and 10th of October.
And now the Waterman tells of an
Improbable interview with the wan
dering PatagOnian lecturer, and pro-
nOunces him ''beat."
A man by the name of Simpson had
his hand cut off by the knife of a split
ting machine in the Grandy mill at
South Barton on the Odd. The thumb
was not injured but all the fingers were
cut clean off
Camp & Stewart of the Newport Ex-
press, have purchased the Walworth
property and lot, paying something
over $4,000 for it, and will proceed at
once to erect fine block for their bust
ness purposes. 1t will be 40 by 60 feet,
three stories in front, and four in the
rear.
Near the mouth of the Lamoille river
in Milton, Friday, Miss Parmalee of
Colchester BorO was drowned by the
capsizing of a boat in which she and her
grandmother were crossing. Her grand
father, hearing their cries, ran to the
rescue and saved his wife, but before
he got her ashore his granddaughter was
drowned. Miss .Parmalee was a very
promising young lady, school teacher,
and one who has just been the recipient
of much public sympathy in Milton on
account of suit against her for pun
ishing a scholar.
On Saturday afternoon, as Charles
Gray of Derby was crossing the west
bridge with load of spruce lumber,
one span of the bridge suddenly gave
way, letting the team into the lake.
The spruce being light, the wagon and
horses were held up by that and by the
bridge timber, until they could be
liberated from the harnesses, when they
swan ashore. During the forenoon the
Forepaugh menagerie with very heavy
wagons had passed across the same
bridge in safety. 1t was remarkable
that the accident occurred at the time
it did with neither loss of life or pro-
perty.
w. FL. Berry is held in $1,000 fol
threatening to shoot John Lawrence,
his father-in-lay, at Bennington.
E. c. Robinson's house, barn and
other building, at Island Pond, were
burned Saturday loss $500; partly
insured.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
Disgraceful Affair at Bath.

BATH, N. H., Sept. l. A serious dis
turbance took place here Sunday eve
ming. Alvah Davis and wife were call
ing on Katy Waters, maiden lady
over so years of age, when dispute
arose between Mrs. Davis and Miss
Waters, and the latter told Mrs. Davis
to leave the house. She refused and
clinehed Miss Waters, when a scuff1e
ensued and Alvah interfered, seizing
Miss Waters and throwing her violently
down, breaking her hip, spraining her
wrist and otherwise bruising her. DR..
Child was Immediately called and thinks
the injury will prove fatal. A warrant
for the arrest of Davis on a charge of
aggravated assault has already been
executed. Davis works on the railroad.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
The Outlook in Maine,
ST. JoHNsBURY, Aug. q

ST. JoHNSBURY, Aug. u.
Mr.. Editor stopping here for a day
or two to rest up from a somewhat ex-
tensive tour down in Maine, 1 thought
| would give the readers of the CaledO-
MAN, the result of my observations on
the result of the political contest now
raging there. 1 have travelled partly
with a view of seeing the state, and
partly to ascertain the probable result
of the coming election. During the
tour, have met and conversed with
men from all sections of the state,
whose means of ascertaining the true
state of political affairs was ample, and
whose judgment was not likely to be
warped by political considerations.
Prior to 1873, the state was consider
ed sue for the Republicans-as true
and reliable as the good old state of
Vermont. In the dark days of the war
she stood by US, giving "Old Abe" over
10000 majority, and filled with joy the
hearts of her sons, who were giving the
death blow to the rebellion. In 1874,
when Massachusetts, Ohio, and other
reliable Republican states went heavily
Democratic, for the first time in years,
Maine did not falter. Last year, how
ever, due to the Greenback craze, and
to considerable disaffection in the agri-
cultural sections, an opposition Gov
ernor,-Dr. GarcelOn of Lewiston,-was
chosen, for the first time since 1866, on
a vote large beyond precedent. Coun-
ties like PenObscOt, in which Bangor is
situated, and which was never known
to go less than 5000 Republican, went
$500 Greenback. The rout was com.
plete; the Republicans found them.
selves buried under 1900 majority
and the only thing saved from wreck
was the Senate, the vote in that bod,
being 20 to IL, in their favor.
Nothing daunted by the unexpected
defeat, our friends are determined I,
redeem the state and crush out all hon,
OF the Democratic leaders, of placing
Names vote in the Presidential cleo
ton next year, with that of the soil,
South. Can they do it3 This is til,
question am going to try and answer
Now there is no use in Disgusting th
fact that the Greenbackers are well or
gained, numerous, and determined t
hold the ground they won last year
The burden of their strength lies in th
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
The Chisholm Murder Trial.

ScooBA, Miss, Sept. 1. The Septem-
Der term of the Circuit Court of KEN
per county commenced at De Kalb, the
county seat, to-day, Judge Hamm, an
able and impartial judge, presiding.
The State docket is set for tomorrow
when the trial of the cases of State v,
Henry j. Gully, Virgil Gully, Houston
Gully and SlOcumb Gully, indicted fol
the murder of w. w. Chisholm, Miss
Chenilia Chisholm and j. P. Gilmore
April %, 1877, will commence. The
prosecution will be conducted by Dis
trict Attorney Thomas S. Ford, assisted
by Stewart L. Woodford of New York
ex-Attorney General Morris of Vicks.
burg, and ex-Chancellor Ware of Jack.
son, Miss. Over 500 persons, mostly
whites, are in attendance, and while
there is no excitement, great interest il
felt in the trial. w. III. Gully, one O
the defendants, has died since he wa
indicted.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05

rural sections of the state in the large
cities-with the possible exception OF
Bangor-but few of them are found,
comparatively speaking. The great
numbering districts in the northern part
of Somerset, Penobscot, Franklin and
AroOstOOk counties, are strongly infect
ed by the initiation heresy. Consider
ing the cities and large towns as safe,
the Republican State Central Commit
tee have flooded the numbering and
agricultural sections, with sound dOcu-
ments and able speakers, the result be-
ing that those parts are aroused as they
have not been since 1860, and red hot
with excitement. Many Republicans
who were led by the sophistical argu-
ment of Scion Chase and his ieuten-
ants into voting for the Greenback
ticket last year, have announced de-
termination to vote for Corporal Davis
and hard money, this year.
The recent session of Congress, dem
onstrating as it did the determination
of the ex-confederates to obtain control
of the Government, nullify national
laws, and obtain by the ballot what
four years of fighting failed to accom-
plish, has been the means of bringing
other prodigals back to the fold. This
is noticeably the case in the sea-beard
counties of York, Cumberland, Knox,
Washington, in the towns around Port
land, Biddeford, Eastport, Rockland.
But the hardest county for converts is
AroOstOok, in area as large as the state
of Connecticut, containing a voting
population of 5000. A large percent
age of these are foreign born, and have
previously voted Republican, yet SO
firm hold have the Greenbackers got
on them, that thus far all attempts to
regain them have proved abortive.
The same can be said of towns in two
OF three other counties. To win the
election, 5000 Republicans who voted
for Smith last year, have got to be con-
verted. The chances for doing this are
good, though l can assure the readers
of the CaLedOnian that the vote will be
far closer than it has been since the
formation of the Republican party.
Defeated next month, the Greenbackers
will scarcely feel like making another
big effort next year. Their party friends
in other states, seeing the cause in the
Pine Tree State declining, will in all
probability, be discouraged and make
but an Indifferent canvass. A Repub-
lican victory will tend to restore har-
mony in the party ranks, and enable a
solid front to be presented to our oppo-
nents, in the Presidential election next
year. Yours, THos. j. STANYAN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
Mysterious Shooting Affair.

BATH, N. H., Sept. l. A mysterious
shooting affair occurred about 2 o'clock
this morning. Stephen H. Hastings, a
blacksmith here, having been up with
his baby, had just laid down in bed,
when he heard single team coming
down the hill, driven very rapidly. AS
the team got opposite Hastings's win
dow two shots we're fired in rapid sue
cession from the team through the
window, one grazing Hastings's thigh
slightly. The team then drove on
through the village toward Lisbon, the
horse gallOping. Had the bullet been
two inches lower it would have inflict-
ed serious injury. Hastings has nc
suspicion of the perpetrators of the at
tempted murder. A reward has been
offered, however, and they will proba-
bly, be discovered.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05

DR.. Luke Blackburn, the new demo-
cratic gOvernor-elect of Kentucky, does
not deny that he is the fellow who
originated a scheme during the war to
introduce yellow fever into the North
by means of infected clothing. That is
to say he refuses to say anything about
it, but there is attributed to him an
apologize expression, year or two
ago, to the effect that ga physician, by
his knowledge of disease and medicine,
has the same right to STAY an enemy as
a general has with his army and am
munitiOn.n The fact that such a scheme
was contemplated was brought out in
testimony before some military COM
mission near the close of the war, when
it was attributed to a DR.. Luke P.
Blackburn, who had been met at Mas
sau and in Canada. This is the Black
burn to whom it has been tagged ever
since, and if it had been n case of mis-
taken identity, the natural way to meet
it would be TO say so, and not to fire up
about cd northern Iies.n If Gov.
Blackburn finds the spot of infamy out
living all his honors, he has himself to
thank.-Springtfeld Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05

~ The London Times of Tuesday
says that the fine weather of the past
fortnight has materially improved the
crop prospects in Great Britain, but it
still estimates a loss of 25 per cent be-
low an average-which is a gloomy
prospect indeed for great nation whose
material industry is already so de-
pressed that starvation is not an I'M
common occurrence in some parts OF
the kingdom. The short crops abroad
will make a market for our superb
bundant harvest, and we believe our
people may expect rather sitter prices
than have ruled of late.